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Fake Bruno Mars account scammed woman out of £72k after she 'fell in love'
Instagram and Google Hangouts.The account allegedly sent her innumerable photos from Mars’s US tour “proving” he was the Grammy-winning artist and convinced her that he could abandon the rest of the shows and come to meet her if she would just send him cash for “tour expenses”.According to investigators, the victim was asked to make out a $10,000 cheque to a "friend of the band" and then, two days later, send more, this time amounting to $90,000.The bank accounts which the fake Bruno claimed belonged to a "friend of the band” in fact belonged to Houston resident Chinwendu Azuonwu and his alleged accomplice, Basil Amadi.Keith Houston, a Harris County Assistant District Attorney with the Cyber Crimes Division told Click 2 Houston that online