Looking for love can end up leaving you penniless, but possibly not for the reasons you might think. How big are dating scams, and what are the common factors?
It’s all too easy to be fooled online, with scams aplenty that seemingly never stop. One of the worst types affects anyone looking for love.
Dating and romance scams managed to take near an estimated $150 million from Australian wallets last year, out of a staggering over two billion dollars lost to scams on the whole.
What’s going on, and are there commonalities that make it easy to work out when someone is trying to pull a scam over you? Find out when Pickr’s Leigh Stark joins ABC’s Spence Denny on ABC Adelaide Evenings, also known as SA & NT Evenings, running on the May 11 broadcast at the 2 hour 35 minute mark (2.35.03).
