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She knew he wasn’t real. She was in love with him anyway. One woman’s story of a romance scam
One rainy afternoon in August, Jean Booth scurried up the stairs of a nondescript Thai restaurant tucked into a strip mall off the highway, shook out her blue, shoulder-length hair and took out her phone. She bit her lip; no messages. Her boyfriend, Donnie, was due to arrive at the airport in a matter of […]
Four days to make victims fall in love: How global scammers use US tech to fleece people
The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella. On a typical shift, he said, he chatted with more than 100 people […]