Every year, thousands of people get sucked into romance scams on social media, a burgeoning problem that the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center calculates cost American victims more than $475 million in losses in 2019 alone.
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Every year, thousands of people get sucked into romance scams on social media, a burgeoning problem that the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center calculates cost American victims more than $475 million in losses in 2019 alone.
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