Claim About Dating Fraudsters and Their Ex-Girlfriends Mostly False
“Never feel comfortable in the circle of fraudster. Their life have been compromised in advance. Your association with them can jeopardize your entire life. Hold your ears too, ANY woman who has dated a fraudster has been condemned, damaged and finished. You cannot revive her with love or Penising. She is gone no matter how she pretends. Avoid fraudsters and their ex girlfriends with everything in you. Copied ©️Kogi Rebel”
Summary
While research shows that romance scammers can cause significant emotional, financial, and psychological harm to their victims, the claim that every woman who dates a fraudster is irrevocably “condemned, damaged and finished” is not supported. Victims may experience distress and loss, but many recover and rebuild their lives, and association with a fraudster does not automatically jeopardize an entire life. The statement exaggerates the effects beyond what the evidence indicates.
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- Emotional and financial costs of online dating scam: A phenomenological narrative of the experiences of victims of Nigerian romance fraudsters - ScienceDirect
These themes highlighted the uniqueness of the experiences of victims of online dating scams and the depth of emotional loss suffered after their victimization. Findings suggested that offenders target middle-aged women with troubled marriages or widows with inherited wealth, engage in lengthy pre-dating friendships with their targets, and deploy different forms of emotional blackmail to exploit their victims.
- The personal_relationship frame in love fraud - ScienceDirect
(2024), love fraud victims are prone to suffer great psychological pain (shame, anxiety, depression, or even suicidal ideation) (Buchanan and Whitty, 2014; Cross and Lee, 2022; Whitty, 2018).
- A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States - ScienceDirect
The qualitative research study examined the lived experiences of Online Romance Scam (ORS) victims in the United States (U.S.). Supported by interpret…
- What To Know About Romance Scams | Consumer Advice
Romance scammers create fake profiles on dating sites and apps or contact you through popular social media sites like Instagram or Facebook. The scammers strike up a relationship with you to build up trust, sometimes talking or chatting several times a day. Then, they make up a story and ask ...
- Protect Yourself Against Romance Scams | ICE
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- Online Romance Scams: Relational Dynamics and Psychological Characteristics of the Victims and Scammers. A Scoping Review - PMC
There are two notable features: on the one hand, the double trauma of losing money and a relationship, on the other, the victim's shame upon discovery of the scam, an aspect that might lead to underestimation of the number of cases. This paper presents a scoping review of the quantitative and qualitative evidence on this issue, focusing on epidemiological aspects, relational dynamics, and the psychological characteristics of victims and scammers.
- Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims - PMC
Although little is known about whether gender predicts likelihood of becoming scammed, in a study on the number of reports of being scammed in an Australian population it has been found that women are more likely to be scammed compared to men.1 It is therefore hypothesized that women are more ...
- Romance scammers’ favorite lies exposed | Federal Trade Commission
You may have heard about romance scammers who tell you they’re sick, hurt, or in jail – or give you another fake reason to send them money. But did you know that many romance scammers operate by offering to do you a favor? They may claim to be a successful cryptocurrency investor who’ll teach you how it’s done.
- A romance fraudster ruined my life – how I survived two years with a psychopath | Relationships | The Guardian
In another case, Cieran McNamara was sentenced to seven years in 2024 for swindling more than £300,000 from four women. According to Rowe, most of the methods used for in-person and online romance frauds are the same. “We see the same patterns every time,” says Rowe. “It’s the grooming, the absolute love bombing, where the fraudster finds out everything about you and mirrors it back to create that perfect soul mate,” she says.
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