Of all the things to think about before you decide to get married, who would have thought that running a background check might be something you want to consider.
A con man was sentenced to 18 months in jail and ordered to repay nearly $170,000 after scamming his fiancées family. Here’s the sticky thing, I don’t know where fiancées is plural or possessive because there were multiple women involved.
It appears to be one fiancée and a few lovers.
Apparently he pretended to be some big shot with big connections and promised people great deals on trips in exchange for their financial information. In some cases he said that the people wouldn’t be charged, he just needed the credit card information to secure flights.
This is very wedding relevant as this man also spent the $17,000 that was meant for his wedding. Two weeks before the wedding, which was to be in 2003, the brides family got a call from the fake grooms mother. She said that she never received and invitation and told them that the wedding was probably a farce.
Gee whiz, you have to be low down and dirty for your own mother to know and admit you are running scams.
My question is, do you think that people should run background checks on people they date and hope to marry, or is trusting intuition enough?
Is listening carefully, trusting intuition, and connecting the dots enough? Or are people way too sneaky for that?
