Ontario man out $106,000 after being blindsided by twist of two scams

An Ontario man says he will likely be forced to sell his house because he was scammed out of his retirement savings.

Sylvester, who did not want to provide his surname, said he is devastated and left completely lost after realizing he had been conned out of his savings. 

"I just met this girl online, and I started to talk to her, and she said she's making some money in cryptocurrencies and said I could too," Sylvester, from Oshawa, said.

Sylvester said in October 2021, he was on a Facebook dating website when he met the woman, who claimed to be named Joanna and said she was visiting Canada from Korea.