A Florida woman who claimed to be waiting on a $1 billion inheritance scammed her own family friends out of more than $46,000. Click below to find out more.
Morgan Johnson, 24, of Fort Myers, Fla. was arrested Friday after she allegedly conned a family she met through her grandmother into letting her borrow tens of thousands of dollars, The News-Press reports.
The young mom hatched an elaborate plan over eight months to get her victims to fork over the cash, promising she would soon be receiving an inheritance of six or seven businesses, valued at about $1 billion, as well as a $20 million aircraft, according to the newspaper.
Johnson even created fake bank documents and letters from financial advisers to show the friends.
She devised fake emergencies, including an unsettled debt with a former landlord, repossession of her truck and a child custody dispute, so she could ask the friends for loans.
The victims told cops they originally worried Johnson was the one being scammed — by a bank. But as the loan requests grew, and the family began to run out of money, they became suspicious and called local police.
