Reports :

Downey contacted me on the dating site POF on 2017. He said he was a architect and was getting ready to leave to go to Africa to do a job there. He told me he would be back by Valentine's Day so we could meet. He first asked me for money when he got to Africa claiming he needed it to get a motel room. I didn't send him any and didn't hear from him several days after I refused. He then got in touch with me several days before Valentine's Day, told me that he needed money to get his flight ticket to come home to see me. He claimed he would not get his pay until he had completed the job and the job was not finished. When I told him I didn't have any money then he ask how much could I come up with to help him.