Law enforcement officials believe that Solomon Jesus Nasser, from Greenburgh, NY, successfully used a series of online dating scams to steal $140,000 from women.<\/p>\n
Nasser would target professional women on internet dating sites like Match.com as well as social networks with fraudulent personal stories about him being a multimillionaire; a CIA agent; a Department of Defense official; a personal friend of President George W. Bush and a high-level military commander.<\/p>\n
After gaining their trust with his lies, Nasser managed to convince some of the women to \u201cloan\u201d him close to $140,000, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Nasser was arraigned on 1\/28\/2010 on a five count indictment that includes multiple felonies.<\/p>\n
According to Westchester, NY District Attorney Janet DiFiore – \u201cSoon after meeting the women, he would explain to them that he was currently in a dire financial state and that he and his ex-wife were in a contentious battle over child support or he had been sued\u201d and that \u201ceither way, the court had frozen all his assets and he did not have money to live day-to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nasser allegedly ran his dating scam during a three year period that ran from July 2005 to March 2008.<\/p>\n
Nasser used dating sites, including Match.com and Plentyoffish.com to find potential victims for his scam.<\/p>\n
According to reports, Nasser scammed over $114,000 from one victim alone. He also scammed as much as $24,764 from a second woman.<\/p>\n
Fraud investigators from DiFiore\u2019s department started an investigation into Nasser’s dating scam in April 2010 due to a complaint against him.<\/p>\n
New York’s Department of Taxation and Finance assisted in the investigation, and discoverd that Nasser had avoided paying taxes with interest and penalties totaling $17,400.<\/p>\n
Nasser has been charged with second and third-degree grand larceny, first-degree scheme to defraud and filing false tax returns, which are all felonies. He has also been charged with fifth-degree criminal tax fraud, a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n
Nasser faces five to 15 years in jail for the top charge.<\/p>\n
After his arraignment, Nasser was sent to Westchester County jail without bail.<\/p>\n