POULSBO — The price of finding love was $200, but the deal was too good to be true for a Poulsbo man.

The 55-year-old called a Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputy Friday after realizing that the money he wired to a North Carolina woman whom he met through an online dating service wasn’t going to fund a cross-country road trip, according to reports.

The woman had asked him to send money to a Food Lion in Lenoir with the understanding she would use the money to pay for half the gas to meet him.

The man told the deputy he did question the woman’s idea of driving alone across the continent.

The woman “replied that she was not scared and, ‘I like adventure,'” the report said, adding,”she would possibly move here if he was good to her.”

After sending the money the woman stopped taking his calls or responding to text messages. The man “began to think he had been scammed and decided to call the police.”

The deputy called the woman, who said she did not believe he was an actual law enforcement officer. The woman then, “started to swear and call me names.”

She kept repeating, “bring it,” and that the deputy was harassing her.

“I hung up as she continued her verbal assault of name calling and foul language,” the deputy wrote.

A report was forwarded to prosecutors for review.