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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Romance fraud is at an all time high, low-hanging fruit in the growing world of online scams. But what are the methods? Who falls for it? And are there ways we can all avoid it?
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Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Edith Rousselot.
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
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0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
0:37.2 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
0:44.8 | I've dealt with victims of scans, hundreds of them. I've been doing this for a couple of decades now. |
0:52.5 | And romance scams are the ones that always leave me broken at the end of an interview. |
0:59.9 | Online fraud is on the rise. |
1:02.4 | 6.6 million of us lost money to one last year. |
1:05.7 | But it's the ones that tug on your heartstrings, which prey on on loneliness that seem the most vicious. |
1:12.3 | They really destroy the fabric of your humanity. So one of the last ones was a lady called |
1:19.5 | Ava. She lost about £67,000. It was all the money she had after her husband had passed away. |
1:28.4 | And she was a really intelligent woman. |
1:31.3 | She had a bubbly, lovely personality. |
1:34.5 | She had family. |
1:35.9 | But she was lonely. |
1:37.1 | We went to visit her and it was a lovely house, but it was an empty house. |
1:41.7 | She had no one to talk to. |
1:43.3 | And as entertaining as daytime TV can be, people need company. |
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