I’m watching the docuseries Love Rats on Netflix, a series about people who have been scammed out of thousands of pounds by their partners / friends etc. It’s a UK series, if it’s not available elsewhere think of it like Tinder Swindler – mostly women meeting men via online dating who then aren’t who they say they are and manage to scam them out of a significant amount of money.
A lot of these people have lost so much, £50,000-£200,000, and none of them are able to get any back even if the person committing fraud against them has been arrested and charged – why is that?
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Generally it’s because the person who scammed them doesn’t have the money to give them.
And then you have things like the person who scammed them is from a different country, and that makes things really hard. Especially if the country they’re from isn’t friendly with the country the person that got scammed is from..
Or if that country doesn’t really see anything as being wrong.
For example, if i convinced you to give me money because i know if a “sure deal,” and i just spent the money and gave you nothing back. Without some type of legal document outlining the deal, it’s pretty much a “sucks to be you” situation.
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