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09-27-2011, 11:49 PM
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The Guardian (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFi4UQPkOsDB4jpawdvXWqDFcauWA&url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/28/online-dating-scams-study?newsfeed%3Dtrue)


'200000' suffer dating site fraud (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGjvgmR4mWOGobiRAcHl9f61OwJGw&url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5inPQ6JfiiIGSIQVnaXRfEolNGt8g?docId%3DN061838 1317125649507A)
The Press Association
Dating site fraud is vastly under-reported and may have claimed more than 200000 victims in the UK, research suggests. The "online romance scams" typically involve criminals setting up fake identities using stolen photos of attractive individuals, ...
Online dating scams dupe 200000, study finds (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFi4UQPkOsDB4jpawdvXWqDFcauWA&url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/28/online-dating-scams-study?newsfeed%3Dtrue)The Guardian
The rom-con men: Fraudsters target 'lonely hearts' on dating websites (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH_AU6xJSpfkhN-T2MpkSQHBgOCZA&url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042633/The-rom-men-Fraudsters-target-lonely-hearts-dating-websites.html?ito%3Dfeeds-newsxml)Daily Mail
Romance scams online hit hundreds of thousands of victims (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFzQo8AC7nLwTJZ6T_eHiCqg-D6AQ&url=http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-romance-scams-online-hundreds-thousands.html)PhysOrg.com

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