Scam victim guilty of counterfeit banknotes

By Caroline Tang, Court Reporter
Updated July 31 2015 - 7:50am, first published July 30 2015 - 11:03pm

THE financially ruined victim of an elaborate and sophisticated online romance scam, who lost about $300,000 in the belief that he was helping a troubled woman overseas, has been found guilty of having possessed and used counterfeit US banknotes posted to him in Launceston.

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