Jessie St. Christopher of Cleveland thought she may have met 'Mr. Right,' while using the Plenty of Fish dating website, but her hopes quickly crashed after she discovered her date was trying to turn her into a romance scam victim
CLEVELAND — Jessie St. Christopher of Cleveland thought she may have met"Mr. Right," while using the Plenty of Fish dating website, but her hopes quickly crashed after she discovered her date was trying to turn her into a romance scam victim.
Fortunately, St. Christopher didn't give out any of her hard earned money and blocked"Steve" from communicating with her any further. David McClellan, CEO and Founder of SocialCatfish.com, which has provided online dating safety and identity verification for the past eight years, said the fastest growing group of victims are millennials.
“Scammers really pray on emotion, and who is more emotional than someone who is looking for love?" Hamerstone said. “The scammer will often try to get you off the original platform as quickly as possible because these large dating sites will often times have a lot of protections...
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