Police are seeking the public’s help in finding additional victims of a man they say courted women on dating apps before scamming them.
Wilson Edward Jackson, 37, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing dozens of women’s identities and credit cards, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The scam extends across the state and country, but the most recent victims were single women in Woodland Hills, police said.Jackson would meet the women online — on dating apps or social media — and was a master at making them fall in love with him, authorities say.
When they became closer, Jackson would ask the women to buy him a plane ticket or lend him money, promising to repay them in cash, police said. He gave different excuses for needing the money: He was having issues with his bank, his wallet was stolen, or his car was impounded with his wallet inside, authorities said.
LAPD investigators contacted several women who visited Jackson’s Woodland Hills apartment. The women told investigators similar stories. He then used the money to buy clothes and pay personal bills, police said. After the thefts, Jackson would make travel plans to find more victims, detectives said.
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