With love scamming, scammers pretend to be interested in a romantic relationship. The online fraud cost one woman 100,000 euros.
People should pay attention on dating sites if the conversation quickly turns to a shared future and transferring money. If a person on a dating site seems too perfect to you and tells you about true love after a few messages, you should be careful. A Baltic Sea resident also fell for a perfidious scam. The perpetrator behind the fake profile would first have to be identified. The police also say that this is extremely difficult. The woman has not yet lost hope of getting the money back. The victim has filed a report with the police and is still waiting for her money to be reimbursed. A woman reported on her experiences with love scammer via the LinkedIn network. She wrote to the alleged cocoa dealer over a longer period of time. She didn't think it was a scam because her contact regularly sent pictures from business trips. He stated that there had been problems on one of his trips and that she urgently needed to transfer money for him.