A Lancaster woman was sentenced to 3 years of probation by Dauphin County Judge Andrew H. Dowling this week after pleading guilty to scamming a 62-year-old East Shore man she met on a social networking site.
The charges of identity theft, forgery, access device fraud and theft by deception filed against Oleita Sims, 63, resulted from a probe by Lower Paxton Township police, Deputy District Attorney David Wilson said.
Wilson called the case “a cautionary tale about meeting people you know only through the internet.”
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According to investigators, Sims met the victim on tagged.com, began traveling to his home to meet with him and they became romantically involved. Sims stole the routing number to the man’s bank account and tried to use it to pay a $744 utility bill for a relative, police said, and she took his credit card and used it to buy pizza and other food several times.
The victim told Dowling that Sims claimed she was a wealthy psychiatrist, according to the district attorney’s office.
