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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

Bruno Mars and swindled a woman who believed she was dating the pop star out of $100,000 (£72,312) has been charged.Chinwendu Azuonwu, 39, is believed to have impersonated the singer on Instagram and to have taken advantage of a woman who was searching for companionship.ABC30 reports via court documents that the 63-year-old woman alleges she was contacted by Azuonwu on the platform in 2018. It’s claimed that Azuonwu sent her photos of Mars on tour, and later asked her for $10,000 (£7,222) for a “friend of the band” for “tour expenses”.The purported victim claimed that Azuonwu asked her for $90,000 (£66,332) two days later, to which she obliged.

A Texas woman has been scammed out of $100,000 for falling victim to a catfisher posing as singer Bruno Mars. A man named Chinwendu Azuonwu has been charged with money laundering, a third-degree felony, for pretending to be the Grammy-nominated artist, according to reports.