{"id":1010,"date":"2012-04-17T06:11:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:56:24","slug":"online-dating-scammers-need-funds-not-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/online-dating-scammers-need-funds-not-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Online dating scammers need funds, not love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incidence of online romance <a title=\"scams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/\"><strong>scams<\/strong><\/a> is increasing by the day &amp; has already victimized an estimated 230,000 people in Britain alone, costing them $60 billion a year, a study reveals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Online dating <a title=\"scammers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/scammers-list.php\"><strong>scammers<\/strong><\/a> pretend to initiate a romantic relationship through online dating services and then defraud their victims of giant sums of money over a period of months or longer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1013\" title=\"love scam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/love-scam2.jpg\" alt=\"love scam\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"middle\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/love-scam2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/love-scam2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They report the devastating financial and emotional losses the victims suffer. Online romance <a title=\"love scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/lovescam.php\"><strong>love scam<\/strong><\/a> is a comparatively new kind of fraud that became apparent in about 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This crime is very serious &amp; regrettably often overlooked. The costs to the victim are both hidden (emotional) &amp; more visible (financial)&#8221;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/greenroom-oc.com\/cheap-phentermine-375-online\/\">Phentermine<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incidence of online romance scams is increasing by the day &amp; has already victimized an estimated 230,000 people in Britain alone, costing them $60 billion a year, a study reveals. Online dating scammers pretend to initiate a romantic relationship through online dating services and then defraud their victims of giant sums of money over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}