Romance scams online hit hundreds of thousands of victims, UK study finds

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 19:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New online research reveals that over 200,000 people living in Britain may have fallen victim to online romance scams -- far more than had been previously estimated. The study is believed to be the first formal academic analysis to measure the scale of this growing problem.

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