A Nevada woman used online dating sites to lure mostly older men into a “romance scam on steroids” that netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars and is linked to at least one death, federal officials said on Friday.
Aurora Phelps, 43, of Las Vegas, is charged with wire fraud, identity theft, and kidnapping resulting in death among other offenses, according to a 21-count superseding indictment from 2023 that’s been revealed by the Justice Department.
