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Gianna Abel-Venezia is accused of scamming someone she met on a dating app out of $2000 by claiming to be a victim of domestic violence. Courtesy of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
OCALA, Fla. – Deputies in Florida<\/a> are searching for additional victims of an accused scammer who was recently arrested for swindling a man she met on a dating app out of money while pretending to be a victim of domestic violence.<\/p>\n Marion County fraud arrest <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Gianna Abel-Venezia met the victim on Facebook Dating and they started talking on the phone.<\/p>\n She reportedly told him that she was trapped in a domestic violence relationship, needed money to escape and even sent photos appearing to show injuries.<\/p>\n The victim said he felt bad for her and ended up sending her more than $2,000.<\/p>\n Deputies said when the victim confronted Abel-Venezia, who allegedly said she was only talking to him for money and because he was disabled.<\/p>\n She also told him that she had been doing this to people since 2025 and “there ain\u2019t nun that can happen”.<\/p>\n During an interview with a detective, Abel-Venezia said that if someone is “dumb enough” to send money, that\u2019s on them.<\/p>\n The detective said Abel-Venezia admitted that she knew what she was doing was wrong and even asked him to apologize to the victim.<\/p>\n Search for additional victims <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Authorities do not know how many other people may have been scammed by Abel-Venezia. Based on statements she made during her interview, the detective believes there are likely additional victims who fell for her domestic violence or sex trafficking stories.<\/p>\n Law enforcement personnel are currently working to determine the full identity and location of any other individuals who sent her money.<\/p>\n Reporting dating app scams <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Anyone who was scammed by Abel-Venezia and lives in Marion County is asked to contact Detective Bradish at 352-402-6022. Possible victims who live outside the county are asked to contact the local law enforcement agency and let them know the case number is MCSO26OFF9638.<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this story was gathered from reports and interview notes provided by the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office, which explained how a detective interviewed Gianna Abel-Venezia regarding the Facebook Dating fraud investigation.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Gianna Abel-Venezia is accused of scamming someone she met on a dating app out of $2000 by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-278509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}