Episode 74 – The Romance Scam

True Crime Island

Cambo

True Crime

4.6 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Scammers are all over the internet costing billions of dollars each year, tonight I go over some typical scams to watch out for and go into one case of a victim that lost everything.

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0:00.0	When you're, when, when, when, you're, when,
0:07.0	when you're, when, when,
0:10.0	when,
0:11.0	Scammers are all over the internet costing billions of dollars each year.
0:18.0	Tonight I go over some typical scams to watch out for and go into one case of a victim that lost everything in what
0:26.0	you could say was a romance scam.
0:30.9	When. When you're, when.
0:37.0	When.
0:40.0	When.
0:41.0	Hi, I'm your host Cambo.
0:42.0	Grab a beer and pull up a debt chair.
0:44.0	This is True Crime Island, another True Crime Podcast. When you're, when.
0:55.0	when.
0:57.0	When.
0:58.0	When.
1:00.0	When. When you're, when. Hi Islanders so as you may well know I have been on well still am on holidays over this tight new year and
1:26.9	Easter break in Thailand visiting the lovely Kate. So I've had a bit of time off to recharge and now I'm back ready to go again.
1:34.8	Thank you everyone for your kind posts and let's get into it.
1:38.8	Well, I was approached by one of the islanders about being scammed, and they asked if I could do a story on it,
1:46.7	or at least read out the story that they wrote. But before I get into that story, I want to go over some of the typical scams that are out there
1:55.3	Now the story I will bring you is probably the lowest type of scam a romance scam as I, I want to go into a bit of background before I get into that
2:06.4	actual case, and as like stalking, there's a wide spectrum of the types of scams out there.
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