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<\/p>\nAbdul Rashid Ibraham, 27, allegedly posed as a woman named “Lara Lafayette” on the Widows dating app to scam the victim, according to police.<\/p>\n
YORK, Pa. \u2014 Police in York County have charged a New York man with posing as a woman on a dating app to scam a York man out of more than $47,000.<\/p>\n
Northern York County Regional Police began investigating the case in May, when a local M&T Bank employee contacted authorities on behalf of a customer.<\/p>\n
According to police, the investigation determined Abdul Rashid Ibraham, 27, of the Bronx, NY, was allegedly posing as a woman named “Lara Lafayette” on a dating app called Widows when he began emailing the victim earlier this year.<\/p>\n
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During their correspondence, “Lafayette” told the victim her father had left her $950,000 in an account, but she needed money to access and unlock it.<\/p>\n
“Lafayette” asked the victim to front her the money, promising she would paid back once she got access to her inheritance. “She” sent the victim fraudulent documents listing her as next-of-kin and the victim as her fiance. The victim also received a certificate of deposit for a bank in the Cayman Islands that showed a deposit of $950,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A closer examination of the documents showed numerous spelling and grammar errors that generally indicate they were fake, police said in charging documents.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the victim electronically sent “Lafayette” two checks for more than $47,000 on March 26 and April 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Lafayette” asked the victim to make the checks out to Frank Corbin III, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The checks were cashed at a TD Bank in Morris Park, NY, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators obtained a search warrant to obtain surveillance video from the TD Bank and documents attached to Corbin’s account. The documents indicated the account was opened on Oct. 27, 2025. Corbin used a Ghana passport and driver’s license as identification to open the account, according to police.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from the bank showed a man wearing a dark gray beanie with a tribal print graphic depositing the checks.<\/p>\n
Investigators later determined the actual Frank Corbin III was a victim of identity theft, fraud, and financial exploitation, according to police.<\/p>\n
Authorities identified Ibraham as the suspect by tracing two Bronx addresses listed in the bank account, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with theft by deception, financial exploitation of an older adult and criminal use of a communication facility, all third-degree felonies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abdul Rashid Ibraham, 27, allegedly posed as a woman named “Lara Lafayette” on the Widows dating app to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-321940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}