Woman out $100K after believing she was in romance with Bruno Mars

[TaylorSwift 162,281]

A Houston man appeared in court overnight accused of posing as recording artist Bruno Mars on Instagram to strike up a romance with a woman and coax her out of $100,000.

Chinwendu Azuonwu was charged with third-degree felony money laundering last month but was taken into custody this week.

According to his charging documents, Azuonwu is connected to a scheme that happened between September and October 2018 involving a 63-year-old north Texas woman who told police she created an Instagram profile in search of companionship.

She told investigators a person pretending to be Bruno Mars reached out to her and made her believe that he was interested in pursuing a meaningful relationship.

Documents state the woman fell in love with Bruno Mars account and at the time, she believed him to be the real singer because he had sent her multiple texts and photos of the artist while he was on tour. She also told investigators that he wanted to quit the tour to be with her.

The Mars account then began asking the woman for money. She was asked to make out a $10,000 check to a "friend of the band" for "tour expenses," and then, two days later, draw out more funds, this time amounting to $90,000.

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[dynamite 66,556]

Oh my god poor woman but ****ing stupid woman. If it was Bruno Mars WHY WOULD HE NEED MONEY

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

This is what happens when you don't use your brain.

[Defmix100 7,046]

I feel bad for her especially when she was looking for companionship,

but what is it with all of these scams I hear where it's such large amounts of money? Anything over $20 with someone you've never met should seem sketchy but somehow $100,000 is no problem?

[Mindblown 6,744]

3 minutes ago, 777777777777777777 said:

She also told investigators that he wanted to quit the tour to be with her.

I'd never love anyone enough to cancel my tour for them, ugh straight people. 

[TaylorSwift 162,281]

2 minutes ago, dynamite said:

If it was Bruno Mars WHY WOULD HE NEED MONEY

even the biggest stars need sometimes money

[Quartz 12,762]

That's sad. You can tell that she was REALLY lonely. It's sick how people take advantage of people's loneliness like that. I hope she gets the money back. Wishing she finds a good companion in the future!

[DirrtyPony 1,330]

This is just one of those situations...

I feel bad for the woman, I hate to see people being taken advantage of. But at the same time... come on 

[Bonkers 30,860]

That's almost as much as some of you have given me after I convinced you I was Lady Gaga.  I guess I better get more so you can't afford lawyers.  

To those of you who have sent me money, don't worry I am lady gaga.  

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Clown

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

I thought this was going to be about Dogecoin. But reading this is soooo much better. 

Poor lady tho. 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

If Bruno Mars needs to ask you for $100,000...

[REALITY 80,159]

People who get catfish like this are doing it to themselves. I don't feel sorry for them at all.

[RAMROD 116,990]

Something worse than Hell is waiting for people who playing on other people's genuine feeling. Hope she get back all the money she lost one ir the other way, even if she turned out to be wealthy or something like that.

[rasclautmangos 2,746]

I'm assuming this lady was either super loney and just happend to be well off, or she had some kind of disability and really didn't know any better. 

Scamming isn't as difficult as you think. Many on here even got caught up in one thanks to a certain member....