Love can make you vulnerable, and scammers know this. Romance scams involve creating fake online profiles on dating apps or social media platforms to. Scammers will start establishing emotional connections with you by having a warm personality who seems to understand and care for you so much. Once the person gains your trust, he/she will create a false plot, and ask for financial assistance from you. Some will lure you into investing in cryptocurrencies.
Detect Signs
+ attempt to develop a romantic relationship quickly and gain your interest and trust with loving/caring words.
+ pretend to have a good personality or even share some traumatic experiences to gain your empathy and affection.
+ always have excused not to do video calls and keep making excuses not to meeting in person or cancel the appointment last minute.
+ claims to be investment expert and ask you to invest with a small sum initially.
How to stay safe
+ perform an identity check on the person and insist on video calls
+ tell someone you trust that you are seeing someone, and ask them to help to screen the person
+ do not put money in unknown source, and don’t believe screenshots that you see from the investments deposit or return as the scammers can easily type them out from a page to show you.