How online romance scams turn victims into accomplices

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30 days. We've overcome a lot of ups and downs, joy and tears, THE GREAT RECOVERYs, amazing game plans, slapping scammers, a total of $14 million recovered, and here we are - the end of the journey. It was fun while it lasted, but every series has an ending. Hope STRONG WIDGET reach 10 mil subs soon for your hard work!..

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I'm going to get real and blunt. How naive/desperate/outright dumb do you have to be to believe what some man says online? If you are a "wealthy, handsome, successful, professional" whatever, you don't need a dating site. It's basic, basic, basic.

The fact the Strongwidget was facing adventures to help the people was so kind. Mad respect to you man. Appreciate all you do to help others. You are setting a great example for the community Strongwidget.

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That black woman is innocent ❤

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their naivety is mind blowing

Thanks to the daughter for sharing about her mom.

My brother in law was gonna go down the same route when he fell in love with supposedly a Vietnamese lady living in Africa. The lady had a thick Nigerian accent but she was able to speak Vietnameseto. She talked to him about building a clinic in the USA (she’s a doctor) and she wanted him to be her business partner but currently she’s stuck in Africa. He started giving her money, borrowing from everyone and even wanted to take a loan out of his mom’s home 🤦‍♀️. My husband stopped him from doing that but then he started to say he wanted to go to Africa to meet her; she invited him over saying she needed him to help transport some business equipment for the clinic. OMG, my husband stopped him again saying if he ends up becoming a drug mule or gets kidnapped in Africa, the family will not help him. He still owes money to family, friends and still talks to the lady sometimes

How do someone opens businesses, bank accounts and other operations that are obviously suspicious but still don't think something is wrong.?

Her involvement was not small. That cannot be denied.

Banks have to profile clients who could be susceptible to fraud and scams. Create an alert system, clients should physically walk into bank to wire the funds.

Come on ladies. Get with it.

So you are telling me that a woman goes on a dating site and some guy, woman, bot or whatever it is convinces her to do illegal things and that don't know what they are doing? Sorry to say but either they knew and enjoyed the rush of 'dating' a bad boy or they don't have the mental capacity to be handling their own finances and internet activity.

Sad 😢

So the women were warned that what they were doing was illegal?