A fraudulent romance is a trust trick that involves pretending romantic intentions toward the victim, getting their affection, and then using good faith to commit fraud. Fraud can involve access to the victim's money, bank account, credit card, passport, e-mail account, or national identification number or by asking victims to commit financial fraud on their behalf. In many instances, Mail-order bride scams will also lure victims into serious crimes to form citizenship for the attackers.
Video Romance scam
Images stolen
Scammers post profiles, use photos stolen from interesting people, ask others to contact them. This is often known as catfishing. The letters are exchanged between scammers and victims until the scammers feel they have prepared enough victims to ask for money. It may be for requests for gas money or bus tickets and airplanes to travel to visit victims, medical expenses, tuition fees, etc. There is usually a promise that a fictional character will one day join the victim in the victim country. Fraud usually ends when the victim realizes that they were cheated or stopped sending money. Victims can be very traumatized by this and often very embarrassed and embarrassed when they find out that they have been the victim of fraud and that romance is a joke.
In some cases, online dating services themselves engage in misstatements, display profiles that have been created, that use personal information from users who have not agreed to be depicted on the site or by presenting a profile that is out of date or out of current and local areas.
Maps Romance scam
Internet
Scammers post profiles on dating websites, social accounts, secret sites, and even forums to dress new victims. After finding the victim, the scammer lured them to a more personal means of communication, (such as providing an e-mail address) to allow for fraud. Fraud usually involves fraudsters acting as if they have quickly fallen victimized so that when they have a chance to ask for money, victims at that point have become too emotionally involved, and will have a deep guilt feelings if they refuse money requests from scammers.
In 2016, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation received a report of more than US $ 220 million lost by victims of relationship fraud. It's about seven times what's stolen through phishing scams and nearly 100 times the reported loss from ransomware attacks.
General variations
The narrative used to take money from the victims of romantic fraud is as follows:
- The fraudsters say their boss pays them in a postal money order. The scammer wants the victim to cash the money order, and then transfer the money to the fraudsters. Orders of counterfeit money leave the bank to incur debt to the victim.
- Fraudsters say they need victims to send money to pay for passports.
- Scammers say they need money for flights to victimized countries for being left there by stepparents, or spouses, or because they are just tired of living in their country and somehow never coming, or saying that they are being held on the wish them by the immigration authorities, who demanded a bribe.
- Scammers say they have gold bars or other valuables that are confiscated by customs and need to pay taxes before they can recover them before joining the victim in their country
- Fraudsters meet victims on online dating sites, live in a foreign country, fall in love, but need money to join the victim in his country
- Incognito says they are being held on their behalf not to pay bills or need money for hospital bills.
- Fraudsters say they need money to pay phone bills in order to continue communicating with victims.
- Fraudsters say they need money for medical care to urge their parents.
- Scammers say they need money to pass before they can visit the victim.
- Scammers offer jobs, often to people in poor countries, by paying registration fees. This is very common on African dating sites.
- Fraudsters are actually employed directly or indirectly by the website, with members of the victim's portion or usage fees passed on to fraudsters.
Extortion
Some fraudsters are looking for a niche of various amulets where they will find an unclear amulet and they will make victims think that if they pay for a scammer plane ticket, they will be able to live their sexual fantasies by having fraudsters come to them to have sex. The scammer also likes to lure victims to perform sexual acts on webcam. They then recorded their victims, replayed the recorded images or videos to them and then extorted money to prevent them from sending recordings to friends, family, employers, often found through social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Pro-daters
The pro-dater is different from other scams in the method of operation; face-to-face encounters actually take place in a scammer country but solely intended to manipulate the victim to spend as much money as possible in relatively little time, with little or no reward. These schemes usually involve accomplices, such as translators and taxi drivers, all of which are to be paid by the victim at an inflated price. Everything is prearranged so rich rich people pay huge amounts of money for accommodation, not taken to regular public cafes but to the most expensive restaurants (usually some off-street places that cost far above what the locals will do ever pay) , and manipulated to make expensive purchases, including gifts like electronics and fur coats.
Vendors are usually part of the scheme. The victim died alone but was poorer at the end of the journey. Merchandise returned to vendors, pro-dater and various henchmen take their respective pieces. Because the pro-dater desires to date again, the next date is set up with the next rich stranger.
Expected relationships do not continue, except to overwhelm the victims with more money demand after they return home. Unlike gold diggers, who are married to earn money, the pro-dater does not have to be singular or available in real life.
419 fraud
Another variation is that fraudsters insist they need to get married to inherit the millions of dollars of gold left by father, uncle, or grandfather. The young woman will contact a victim and tell them about their fate for not being able to extract gold from their country for being unable to pay taxes on duty or marriage. The woman will not be able to inherit wealth until she marries, marriage becomes prequiste from father, uncle or grandfather's will. Scammers make victims believe they are sincere, until they are able to build enough relationships to ask thousands of dollars to help bring gold to the victim country. Scammers will offer to fly to victimized countries to prove they are real people. The victim will send money for the flight. However, when the victim went to meet the scammer, they never showed up. The victim contacted the fraudsters to ask what happened. Scammers will give reasons such as not being able to get an exit visa, or a disease of their own or a family member. Scammers are very adept at knowing how to "play" their victims - sending love poems, sex games in emails, building a "love affair" with many promises "someday we'll get married". Often photos of unknown African actresses will be used to entice victims to believe they are talking to the person. Victims may be invited to travel to a scammers country; in some cases victims come by asking for prize money for family members or bribes for corrupt officials, and then they are beaten and robbed or killed.
Impersonation of military personnel
A rapidly developing technique fraudsters use is to imitate American military personnel. Scammers prefer to use pictures, names and profiles of soldiers as this usually inspires trust, trust and admiration for their female victims. Also because military publicists often post information about soldiers without mentioning their family or personal life, images are stolen from these websites by organized internet crime gangs that often operate out of Nigeria or Ghana. They told the victims that they were lonely, supporting the orphanage with their own money, needing financial help because they could not access their own money in the combat zone, etc. Money is always sent to a third party to be collected for a scammer. Sometimes the third party is real, sometimes fictional. Funds sent by Western Union and MoneyGram should not be claimed by anyone showing identification if the sender sent money using sentences and secret responses, and can be taken anywhere in the world. Some scammers may also use Bitcoin as an alternative payment method.
Who is most likely to be a victim
Sensitive people are more susceptible to online dating scams, according to a study conducted by the British Psychological Society. According to their results, sensitive and less emotionally intelligent people are more likely to be vulnerable to online dating scams. This is a study finding by Dr Martin Graff of the University of South Wales presented on Tuesday April 26, 2016, at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Nottingham, England. Dr Graff said: "The actors of dating frauds only make fake profiles on dating sites with the sole purpose of removing money from their victims.The first male victim deceiver by expressing their love before deciphering the desperate situation they then try to solicit money from the victims Our study focuses on why some people are more likely to be victims of this fraud than others. "
SCAMwatch
SCAMwatch, a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), provides information on how to recognize, avoid and report fraud.
In 2005 the ACCC and other agencies established the Australasian Consumer Fraud Task Force (ACFT). This site provides info about current fraud, warning signs, and remains secure.
Cultural reference
The Swedish film Raskenstam (1983; alternative title, Casanova from Sweden ) is a fictional romantic comedy based on the true story of Swedish businessman Gustaf Raskenstam, who seduced more than 100 women and convince many people to support their projects financially. He usually uses newspaper contact ads, often with the title "Sun and spring", which has become an idiomatic expression in Sweden. The film was directed by Gunnar Hellstrom, written by Hellstrom and Birgitta Stemberg, and executives produced by Hellstrom and Brian Wikstrom. Some films and television episodes depict the story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the American serial killer couple known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers", which is believed to have killed as many as 20 women during their assassination between 1947 and 1949. The couple met unsuspecting victims through lonely heart advertising.- Honeymoon Killer (movie 1969)
- Deep Crimson (film 1996)
- Lonely Hearts (movie 2006)
- Cold Case : "Lonely Hearts" (season 4, episode 9), airdate November 19, 2006
- Alleluia (movie 2014)
Common location trends
Many of the romantic fraud, money payments, fraud of Nigeria's expense, extortion, and extortion fraud occurred on the sites of West Africa, Russia, Ukraine, America and Trinidad and Tobago that claimed vulnerable Westerners in 2012 to 2016 according to Ukrainian authorities FBI.
See also
- Advanced cost fraud
- 419 scams
- Catfishing
References
External links
- Phishing on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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