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How to Spot the Signs of a Romance Scammer and Report Online Dating Scams

Romance scammers are smooth operators and can take their time to set their traps. Scammers take advantage of people looking for romantic partners, often via dating websites, apps or social media, by pretending to be prospective companions. They play on emotional triggers to get you to provide money, gifts or personal details. Public Advisories. The person quickly wants to leave the dating website and communicate with you through email or instant messaging. They lavish you with attention and often overwhelm prospective marks with texts, emails and phone calls to draw them in. They repeatedly promise to meet you in person but always seems to come up with an excuse to cancel. DO'S Do take it slowly. Ask your potential partner many questions, and watch for inconsistencies that might reveal an impostor. Do check the photo using Google's "search by image" feature.

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Thanks to online dating scams, each year thousands of Americans who are searching for love end up with nothing but a broken heart and an empty wallet. While online dating and social media sites have become increasingly popular tools to find love and friendship, they've unfortunately also become popular tools for fraudsters known as romance scammers. These con artists create fake profiles to lure in victims, establish romantic relationships and eventually, extort money. Older users, in particular, are more often targeted by this type of scam — and most don't realize they are a victim until it is too late. We also have information about how to report a dating scammer if you or someone you love has fallen victim to one. Romance scammers are experts in social manipulation and can sound very convincing. Many of the signs of a romance scammer are subtle and insidious because the scammer is trying to build trust before they exploit you.

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Bukola Adebayo. Staflex pictured by his laptop in Accra, Ghana on June 14,

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Sakawa Boys: Meet Ghana's online romance scammers

A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim. Fraudulent acts may involve access to the victim's money, bank accounts, credit cards, passports, Cash App [2] , e-mail accounts, or national identification numbers ; or forcing the victims to commit financial fraud on their behalf. These scams are often perpetrated by organized criminal gangs, who work together to take money from multiple victims at a time.

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