Back in October, I found out my ex was involved with someone online who he got catfished not once, but twice by the same person. First time, he handed over his checking account info willingly. Then a few weeks later, they told him that if he gave them his debit card #, they'd put the money back, but all they did was wipe him out again. And he lied to my face about all of this for over a month. That was the end of us. He moved into a studio apartment across town (that I had to loan him the money for...).
In January, his new "girlfriend" got into our old shared account, which he was not supposed to have access to anymore, and kept putting in and taking out money. I was a week away from closing the account, just waiting for the mortgage to withdraw so I could close it. But this woman tried to link another bank account to it, took money out via Zelle under one name, put it back under another (my ex said sometimes she uses a pseudonym - I said, do you mean an ALIAS?!). Then again took it out, and then right as I closed the account, put money in so I was left with $1000 that now I needed to return.
My ex then asked me to link my personal account to his bank so I could transfer the money back to them. I told him to fuck off. Then he asked me to write a check. No way I was giving them my account number on the check, so I went to the bank and got a cashier's check. I also filed a police report with a copy of all of the transactions and names used. My ex insisted the whole string of events was just an innocent mistake by his girlfriend, who was sorry.
Now suddenly he is retiring at 62 (he is 8yrs older than me) when he always said he'd retire at 67. And the kicker: he is moving to Florida with this woman. He says that before they met, a relative died and left her a house there. He says he went to Florida and saw the house, and the girlfriend has been down there for a month now, cleaning it out. I asked him for the address, because I will likely need to update the court documents for when the divorce decree goes out so he can get an official copy. Plus, I suspected this wasn't legit.
The address he gave me does not exist on Google Maps. He gave me a house # that just isn't there. When I look it up on USPS zip code finder, it doesn't say it's not legit, but when I use Smarty, it says "Primary number (house number) is invalid according to USPS". I asked my ex if he was sure about the address because that house # didn't exist on that street, and he said, "Maybe it's blocked or something. That's the address." That doesn't make any sense.
So my question is... what now? He got so defensive back in October when I first confronted him about being scammed even though he SAW that he got scammed TWICE! He was still insisting that the woman who scammed him was real and it was a mistake. I don't think this is the same woman, since he has obviously met her and went to FL with her once already. But when I look up the house it doesn't exist.