{"id":109744,"date":"2017-08-03T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T02:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109744"},"modified":"2017-08-03T22:49:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T02:49:19","slug":"police-searching-for-man-who-allegedly-stole-1-million-in-romance-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/03\/police-searching-for-man-who-allegedly-stole-1-million-in-romance-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for man who allegedly stole $1 million in romance scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109747\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/639px-Smartphone_dating_app_illustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109747\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/639px-Smartphone_dating_app_illustration-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Since the 2010s, Internet dating has become more popular with smartphones. (Photo By Santeri Viinam\u00e4ki, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/639px-Smartphone_dating_app_illustration-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/639px-Smartphone_dating_app_illustration.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53288892\">Since the 2010s, Internet dating has become more popular with smartphones. (Photo By Santeri Viinam\u00e4ki, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto police are hunting for an alleged romance scammer accused of swindling three women out of over $1 million U.S. in just six months.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the 46-year-old Markham man, who may have fled to the Philippines, contacted his victims over dating websites from September 2016 to last February.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he tricked the three women into thinking that he was a wealthy man who&#8217;d fallen victim to unforseen complications abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims then wired over $1 million to a business account used by the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph Aquino is wanted for laundering proceeds of crime and possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police are hunting for an alleged romance scammer accused of swindling three women out of over $1 million U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,17],"tags":[20399],"class_list":["post-109744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-news-w","tag-romance-scammer","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}