Because the scammers look nothing like the photos they send to the victims, the scammers rarely meet the victims face to face or even in a video call. They deceive their intended victims by making plausible-sounding excuses about their unwillingness to show their faces, such as by saying that they cannot meet yet because they are temporarily traveling or have a broken web camera.
Scammers are very adept at knowing how to “play” their victims – sending love poems, sex games in emails, building up a “loving relationship” with many promises of “one day we will be married”.
Communications are exchanged between the scammer and victim over a period of time until the scammer feels they have connected with the victim enough to ask for money. Scammers prey on the victim’s false sense of a relationship to lure them into sending money.
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