CROSSVILLE WOMAN BILKED OUT OF MORE THAN $136,000 IN ONLINE DATING SCAM

A Crossville woman is the victim of an elaborate online dating scam.  Police say that the woman had been talking to man identified to her as Andy Harrison on an online dating site.  Harrison claimed he was a civil engineer and asked her to send him cash while he was building a mall.  Unfortunately the woman did send him money…to the tune of $136,677 in separate installments. The victim was notified recently by South Africa police they had apprehended two men suspected in an online scam and asked her to submit a report to the police for the investigation.