Online dating scammers bilk more money each year. A bipartisan bill seeks to stop them at the source. [Video]

A 66-year-old single woman CBS News is calling “Sue” had saved more than $2 million for her retirement and hoped to travel the world — but she wasn’t done looking for love.

“It’s like, man, I really would do better if I had a male companion,” Sue said.

So she turned to the dating app Match.com and quickly connected with a man who used stolen photos, claiming to be a private equity investor in the United Kingdom and called himself Santos.

After weeks of nonstop romance, Santos said he needed help renewing a professional license and asked Sue for $40,000 dollars.

“I was in a position, I could help a person. Why not? I never thought he was stealing or scamming. There was no reason,” Sue said.

But from then on, Sue says, it was full-speed into an elaborate and relentless stream of lies, deception and emotional abuse that drained her of the $2 million she had …