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2. Romance Scams: 7 Warning Signs and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   Always report romance scams to the FTC, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and the dating app or social media site where you came across the scammer. FTC: You can report a scam to the FTC ...

3. How to keep yourself safe from romance scams this ... - AOL

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   Last year, the Federal Trade Commission received over 64,000 romance scams reports that translated into $1.14 billion in reported losses. When Kate Kleinart fell victim of a romance scam, what ...

4. Watch your wallet: from romance scams to AI schemes ... - AOL

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   According to the National Council on Aging, five million older Americans are victimized yearly with an annual loss of $36.5 billion.While the most common financial scams include government ...

5. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...

6. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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   Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Email fraud can take the form of a confidence ...

8. Victims of online dating scams speak out on what they’ve ...

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   Romance scams — a type of con in which online fraudsters lead a person on with talk of romance (typically in the form of manipulative love-bombing) before eventually swindling them out of hard ...

9. Bride scam - Wikipedia

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   A bride scam is a form of romance scam - a confidence trick that aims to defraud potential grooms with the offer of a foreign bride. The basis of the confidence trick is to seek men from the western world who would like to marry a foreign woman and pretend to be willing to marry them. The woman (scammer) asks the man to send money, for example ...