The Tinder Swindler had us all gripped by the story of one such scammer and his youthful, glamorous victims, wowed by private jets and his playboy lifestyle.
Yet dig deeper into the data, and even more troubling patterns emerge.In fact, those most at risk from romance fraud in the UK fall into a very different age bracket: 50 to 59.
In the US, romance scams are now the most common type of fraud reported to the Federal Trade Commission by those aged 60 to 79; losses incurred by this group rose to $139 million in 2020, up from $84 million in 2019.Bower was not easily fooled.
She did not fall for this first scam. In fact, she says, ‘As soon as I started engaging properly with the site, I identified loads of scammers, and I batted them all off.
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