A 63-year-old woman from Los Angeles learned the hard way that love—and online celebrity romances—can be deceiving. Guadalupe Cepeda, a devoted fan of Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias, believed she had found true love when “he” messaged her out of the blue.
The online relationship lasted two years, during which Cepeda became convinced she and Iglesias were meant to be together. The only problem? She was already married. But that didn’t matter—she was prepared to leave her husband for the Grammy-winning heartthrob.
There was just one tiny catch. Before they could be together, the singer asked for financial help.
Over time, Cepeda wired several thousand dollars to the man she believed to be Iglesias. When she told him she was out of money, he urged her to steal from her husband or find another way to get cash.
Her husband, suspecting something was off, eventually discovered the messages. But rather than confront her with anger, he tried reasoning with her. He explained she wasn’t chatting with Enrique Iglesias but with a scammer posing as the star. Even after tracing the messages to Nigeria, Cepeda refused to believe it.
Determined to wake her up, her husband convinced her to appear on Univisión’s Primer Impacto program to share her “romantic” story. The segment went viral. But even after public exposure, Cepeda still isn’t convinced that the man she’s been texting for two years isn’t the real Enrique Iglesias.
She even made a direct plea to the singer, saying:
“What I feel is sincere. My marriage is ending because I’m in love with you.”
Iglesias, while not responding directly, posted on Instagram, warning fans to beware of scammers and only trust his official pages.
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This isn’t even the first case of its kind. Recently, a 63-year-old French woman sent nearly $800,000 to a scammer pretending to be Brad Pitt.
Apparently, some romance scams are so outrageous, they could almost be a love song.
