Unlit Candles: How a Fake Lover Stole a Birthday-and $9,000
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Unlit Candles: How a Fake Lover Stole a Birthday-and $9,000
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The chill of a sweet, unfamiliar smell, twenty-three unlit candles standing upright on an untouched cake, and a woman who left to meet a man who did not exist - this episode opens on a quiet detail that signals something far more calculated. How did a pattern of daily calls, a stolen photograph, and precise lies culminate in $9,000 leaving one account and a birthday that never happened?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led Cheryl Stevens to trust a fake profile and send money, how the scam used a real civil engineer’s photo and daily phone intimacy to gain credibility, and how one unanswered video call and a knock in a motel unraveled five months of work - what exactly broke the scheme?
Person: Cheryl Stevens
Date: April 8-9 (Cheryl's 23rd birthday and the morning the apartment door was found open)
Location: Unit seven, Pinecrest Garden Apartments on Brauer Avenue
Case: Romance scam involving a fake profile named Glenn Russo and organizer Troy Bassett
Amount: $9,000 total requested (including $4,000 deposit and $2,200 customs fee)
- Cheryl matched with a Pairing profile named Glenn Russo in early November and exchanged phone numbers by the following Tuesday.
- Glenn’s profile photo was actually of David Kwan, a civil engineer in Sacramento who did not consent to its use.
- Cheryl wired $4,000 in January for a supposed subcontractor deposit and later $2,200 for a claimed customs fee.
- Troy Bassett, a 38-year-old shift supervisor at Meridian Outreach Solutions in Denfield, managed call routing and watched Cheryl’s calendar.
- Twenty-three candles were found unlit on Cheryl’s birthday cake in her kitchen when her neighbor discovered the open apartment door at 6:20 a.m, on April 9.
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