Married man continued affair and misled woman he met online and dated for two months into believing he was a medical student, swindling her over $800
- Fabio Siqueira was arrested Friday by police in Goiás, Brazil, on charges of embezzlement and released from prison
- The 39-year-old married man cheated on a 35-year-old woman he met through an online dating app and dated for two years in 2022
- Siqueira lied to woman that she was studying medicine and got her to give him money to cover false COVID-19 and thrombosis diagnosis
A Brazilian married man with children is under arrest for tricking a woman into believing he was a medical student and tricking her into giving more than $800.
Fabio Siqueira was taken into custody on Friday and charged with embezzlement, Goiás Civil Police said. He was released from prison.
The 35-year-old woman, who has not been named, told authorities she met Siqueira through an online dating app and dated him for two months before discovering he had lied.
Civil police chief Yasser Yassine said that Siqueira lied about her medical studies at the University of Brasilia and even invited her to the graduation.
Police in Brazil arrested Fabio Siqueira on charges of embezzlement on Friday before he was briefly released. The 39-year-old was accused by a 35-year-old woman of tricking her into believing he was a medical student and not giving her any more money
Fabio Siqueira is actually married with children and lied to a woman he met through an online dating app in Brazil that he studied medicine at the University of Brasilia and even went so far as to invite her to his fake graduation
The woman allegedly spent $240 to buy three dresses to attend Siqueira’s false graduation, a mass, and a dinner, and gifted him about $400.
Siqueira once sent the victim pictures of children he claimed were sick and received donations to cover their medical costs.
There was also the time when he lied about being infected with COVID-19 and being diagnosed with thrombosis.
The woman felt sorry for Siqueira’s well-being and took out a loan to help him with medical expenses.
It took her some time to rethink the relationship after Siqueira started subjecting her to a lot of psychological pressure.
After doing some background research on him, she was able to discover that he was married with children and filed a police report in the federal district town of Formosa.
Authorities believe other women have been scammed by Siqueira and hope that anyone who has also been cheated by him will come forward.
The incident comes on the heels of a 37-year-old Pennsylvania woman who revealed she was conned out of $450,000 by a man posing as a French wine merchant after meeting him on Hinge, an online dating app.
Sheyra Datta, who recently divorced, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the person named Ancel Mali used an image of a German fitness influencer on his profile and talked to her for several months before convincing her to put her savings into a fake investment app .
She never met him in person and only talked to him via video twice, but she fell in love with him anyway.
“I was in a trance,” she said. “It’s like my psychology has been hacked.”