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The study was conducted by The Social Catfish, a reverse search technology company.
Findings reveal Americans lost a record $1.3 billion to romance scams in 2022, an increase of more than 130% in one year alone.
FOX31 spoke to one victim who explains why many elderly women fall for the schemes.
“I was just tired of being alone and I needed somebody,” she said.
One former scammer from Nigeria is embarking on a press tour in an effort to warn potential victims after seeing his own mother targeted.
“Let me tell you this, I used to do a scam, I used to talk to a woman, I would call her from 12 a.m. midnight until five in the morning,” he said.
Colorado ranks 16th in the nation for romance scam cases with 362 victims losing $14.1 billion in 2022 mostly through bank wires and by sending gift cards.
Losses in New Mexico jumped nearly 300% in one year, with each victim losing an average of more than $55,000.
The top scams of 2022 were listed as celebrity impersonation schemes on social media where the scammer asks for money to launch a new film or music project, crooks pretending to be military o...
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