An Ontario man says he will probably have to sell his house after being scammed out $106,000 of his retirement money.

Sylvester, who did not want to provide his surname but lives near Toronto , said he is devastated and left completely lost after realizing he had been conned out of his savings.

"I just met this girl online, and I started to talk to her, and she said she's making some money in cryptocurrencies and said I could too," Sylvester, from Oshawa, said.

Sylvester said in October 2021, he was on a Facebook dating website when he met the woman, who claimed to be named Joanna and said she was visiting Canada from Korea.