After Vicki Barkley met Christopher Schlitz last year on Match.com, a personal ad Internet site for single people, love bloomed.
But 15 months later, Barkley alleges in a lawsuit that Schlitz flimflammed her out of nearly $70,000.
A woman's civil fraud complaint, filed this week in a Florida court, claims that her former lover, who she met on the dating Web site Match.com, was a "con artist" who saw her as a vulnerable mark and devised a plan to exploit her "kindness and resources" to the tune of almost $70,000. A law professor who's not involved in the case said such suits have a good chance of success, explaining, "It's a transaction of a sort. ... The fact that she might have behaved foolishly is merely a footnote."
June 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
After Vicki Barkley met Christopher Schlitz last year on Match.com, a personal ad Internet site for single people, love bloomed.
But 15 months later, Barkley alleges in a lawsuit that Schlitz flimflammed her out of nearly $70,000.
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