The $30k Friend Request
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Dating Detectives, Scarlet shares how a Facebook friend request spiraled into a whirlwind romance and a too-good-to-be-true “PI” boyfriend. As Scarlet’s health mysteriously declined, he tightened control, tracked her movements, and used her own accounts to fund the fantasy. When she finally cut ties, the real truth came out. And stay tuned for the end, when Mackenzie reveals the shocking truth she was able to uncover.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.8 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.2 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic |
| 0:25.6 | Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support. |
| 0:40.2 | Happy dating Detectors Monday. |
| 0:40.8 | Hi, Hannah. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello. |
| 0:43.1 | How are you? |
| 0:44.0 | Good. |
| 0:45.5 | You are looking beautiful, as always. |
| 0:52.0 | So today we have an interesting episode because I actually got to do a little bit of digging and a little investigation. |
| 0:55.9 | At the end, we get some info on the dogfish. |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, this guy sucks. |
| 1:01.6 | There's some financial abuse. |
| 1:04.5 | Some physical abuse does come up in the story. |
| 1:08.6 | And, yeah, he sucks. |
| 1:10.6 | But our guest is great. |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah, she's really amazing and she's so beautiful and she really was very, I know that she was nervous, but you couldn't tell. And so I'm so glad that she shared this story because I guarantee so many of you are going to relate to her story and be like, no way. |
| 1:25.9 | The same thing happened to me. |
| 1:27.4 | And so I'm like so ready for you guys to to her story and be like, no way. The same thing happened to me. And so |
| 1:27.7 | I'm like so ready for you guys to hear her story. Well, it's just one of those crazy ones where |
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