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  2. 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. Fraudulent acts may involve access to the victim's money, bank accounts, credit ...

  3. Bride scam - Wikipedia

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    Bride scam. 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 ...

  4. Anna Sorokin - Wikipedia

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    Anna Sorokin ( Russian: Анна Сорокина; born January 23, 1991), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. Born to working-class parents in the Soviet Union (now Russia ), Sorokin emigrated from Russia to Germany with ...

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

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    It's one that bears repeating: In 2021 alone, according to the FTC, the median individual reported loss due to romance scams was around $2,400, with a total reported loss of $547 million from ...

  6. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Don't use internet search engines to find AOL contact info, as they may lead you to malicious websites and support scams. Always go directly to AOL Help Central for legitimate AOL customer support. • Never click suspicious-looking links. Hover over hyperlinks with your cursor to preview the destination URL.

  7. AnastasiaDate - Wikipedia

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    AnastasiaDate was founded in 1993. [5] In the early 1990s when the company first launched, it used catalogs to introduce men to Russian women. The company launched its first website in January 1997 and expanded its business in more cities throughout Russia and Ukraine. [5] By 2003, it experienced global growth beyond northern Asia.

  8. Online Dating Scams: A Multimillion Dollar Industry

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    "I do not know how to express the conflicting emotions that have surged like a storm through my heart all night long. You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving ...

  9. Online Reseller Scams: How Buying Stolen Goods Could Get You ...

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    Depending on the value of the stolen merchandise, you could be charged for a misdemeanor or felony. For example, depending on where you are and how an item was purchased, if it is valued at over ...