Single & penniless: FBI warns of $475M lost to romance scams

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Single & penniless: FBI warns of $475M lost to romance scams
August 28, 2020
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning of online romance scams, an ongoing online fraud trend that can lead to large financial losses, as well as devastating emotional scars.

The scammers behind this type of fraud are using fake online identities to gain their victims' trust on social media and dating websites.
$475 million lost to romance scams in 2019
The 2019 Internet Crime Report published by FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that romance scams (also known as confidence fraud) are behind higher financial damages when compared to other reported online crimes.

"In 2019, almost 20,000 complaints categorized as romance scams were reported to IC3 (about 1,000 more than the previous year), and the losses associated with those complaints exceeded $475 million," the FBI said.
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Even though the actors behind romance scams are experts at social engineering and at making sure that they don't fail to reach their goal, there are signs you can watch for to identify such scam attempts.
If you have fallen victim to a romance scam, the FBI recommends stopping all contact immediately and filing a complaint with the IC3 at www.ic3.gov.
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