Laura Kowal (left), 57, had been in a relationship with a man she meet on Match.com called Frank Borg (right) when he scammed her out of $1.5 million and she drowned in the Mississippi River.
Officials say the story of a woman found dead, her savings drained, after meeting a con artist on an online dating site is part of a national crisis unfolding largely in secret.
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