Published: Oct 26, 2017 / 12:06 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 26, 2017 / 12:06 PM EDT

(WFLA) – an online dating sites scam is distributing around the world, bilking victims away from thousands of bucks.

The scam works since it is advanced with several levels of deceit. It convinces victims which they broke the statutory legislation, face arrest and that their reputations could possibly be ruined.

Victims are told the latest love interest they came across on a dating internet site is in fact an underage woman. The entire thing is a scam.

It simply happened to a Tampa Bay area man who looked to Better Call Behnken to alert other people.

He does not desire their name provided for obvious reasons, so we’re calling him Rusty.

“This literally probably took years off my entire life, ” he said. More