It is no secret that men can be easily manipulated. Intelligence agencies have known and exploited this for centuries.
That is for sure-a couple of pretty good movies made on that subject in the last few years, too.
A couple of years ago, one of my neighbors got conned that way by a much-younger broad he met online-he went to visit her in Florida, saying it was a business trip-which wasn’t unusual. But his wife of some 36 years thought something was hinky, got into his e-mail and social media online and found plenty of s*** like how much money he was taking to this con artist for sex and 2 days of company-so she was loaded for bear when hubby came through the gate and down the driveway.
Within 15 minutes the shouting of profanities and death threats started, she had lighted a huge fire in the barbecue pit and thrown all the clothes in his suitcase on it, he pushed her, she punched him and a knock down/drag out started, somebody fired a gun and a neighbor called the sheriff-this is the middle of nowhere but everyone on this road saw the smoke, heard the yelling, sirens, etc-both of them were fined and arrested-they are still together-go figure...