Scammer posing as WWE superstar tricks 73-year-old man out of $1,000,000

An imposter posing arsenic WWE superstar Alexa Bliss swindled an aged antheral retired of astir $1 million.

The 73-year-old antheral believed helium and the 33-year-old wrestler were successful a romanticist relationship, and mislaid his status savings arsenic good arsenic a chunk of his granddaughter’s assemblage money to the fraudster.

His lad Chris Mancinelli has opened up astir the devastating situation, explaining that his dada – who died past twelvemonth – had a past of ‘opening his heart’ to scammers.

An relationship posing arsenic the erstwhile women’s champion conned him retired of a heartbreaking magnitude of money, arsenic helium mislaid astir $770,000 during the pandemic.

His status savings plummeted from astir $900,000 to $130,000, with astir of that believed to beryllium going to the fake Bliss, who helium ne'er spoke to via phone oregon video.

As reported by the New York Times, the imposter – utilizing the sanction ‘Lexi’ – told their unfortunate fictional stories astir the wrestler’s beingness down the scenes.

At 1 point, they claimed ‘Bliss’ had been hospitalised with menstrual periods, earlier asking for assistance with expenses.

Chris tried to assistance his begetter by transferring the remaining $100,000 into a abstracted account, but helium was sued by his dada and ordered to instrumentality the money, which vanished months later.

He told the outlet: ‘There was thing we could bash to person him.’

Alfred died successful 2023 pursuing a cervix cognition aft a fall, but his lad thinks his father’s correspondence with ‘Lexi’ would person continued.

‘If helium didn’t pass, helium would person kept going,’ helium added.

Bliss – who is married to vocalist Ryan Cabrera – has previously warned fans astir fake societal media profiles set up to scam them retired of money.

In a video connected X, she said: ‘I hatred that I person to support saying this, but I volition accidental it implicit and implicit again. Y’all, I person 1 TikTok, 1 twitter and 1 Instagram and they are each the ones with the checkmarks connected them.

‘I don’t person “personal pages”, and I don’t person “messaging apps”. So, anyone that thinks they are talking to maine connected immoderate of those, I committedness you 1 1000 percent, you are not.’

She pointed retired she’d ne'er inquire her fans for cash, and noted immoderate radical person adjacent been convinced they are ‘dating’ Alexa aft chatting to a scammer.

Bliss has besides been forced to woody with vile societal media abuse over the years, and she urged radical to beryllium much mindful of the ‘person down the character’.

She exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘I consciousness similar a batch of radical don’t truly recognize – 9 times retired of 10 erstwhile you spot america performing, we are going connected nary sleep, we are going connected bushed up bodies due to the fact that we bash question four, five, six days a week.

‘We are emotionally exhausted, we are mentally exhausted, we are physically exhausted but we are doing it to entertain everyone else.’

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