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        <title><![CDATA[Scammer impersonates Rolling Stone Ron Wood for online romance grift]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A sticky-fingered scammer impersonated Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood, duped a woman into a romance — and then tried to con her out of more than $8,000.</p><p>Now, Stones lover Mary Downey tells Page Six she was left terrified by the ordeal.</p><p>Downey — a casting director who worked on “Star Search” — tells us that back in June she left a message on Wood’s official Facebook page to wish him a happy birthday.</p><p>A different profile, apparently also belonging to the rock god, answered beneath her reply, asking her to send “him” a private message.</p><p>“Being in show business, I talk to celebrities a lot, and thought nothing of it,” she tells us. After exchanging messages, Downey says, the scammer asked her to video chat, but “we would never connect … He was very clever.”</p><p>“[The relationship] was romantic, but it never got sexual,” she says. “It was [him saying] how much he loves me.”</p><p>Two weeks in, the fake Woods — who would casually drop things like, “I just came back from lunch with Mick [Jagger],” into conversation — told her he was getting a divorce and moving to Miami. And he needed her to loan him $8,400 because he needed to pay real estate fees, but was afraid the bank would tip off the press about the split if he went through the normal channels.</p><p>Downey says that when he pushed for her bank account information, she knew something was up.</p><p>“I knew it was a con,” she told us. “At night, it scared me because I didn’t know if there was someone outside my house. It really began to affect my health,” she says.</p><p>Downey says her Instagram was hacked and she went to the FBI, but was told nothing could be done because no money was exchanged.</p><p>She is worried other women might fall for the scam, saying she wants to “bring attention to this epidemic of fraudulent activity sweeping the world.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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