{"id":50498,"date":"2023-10-03T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50498"},"modified":"2023-10-03T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:43:21","slug":"the-rise-of-the-romeo-conmen-more-than-92million-was-lost-to-romance-fraudsters-across-britain-in-the-past-year-with-nearly-two-thirds-of-those-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/the-rise-of-the-romeo-conmen-more-than-92million-was-lost-to-romance-fraudsters-across-britain-in-the-past-year-with-nearly-two-thirds-of-those-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the &#8216;Romeo conmen&#8217;: More than \u00a392million was lost to romance fraudsters across Britain in the past year, with nearly two-thirds of those targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28297\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grooming.jpg 1408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than \u00a392million was lost to romance fraudsters across Britain in the last financial year, figures reveal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/the-rise-of-the-romeo-conmen-more-than-92million-was-lost-to-romance-fraudsters-across-britain-in-the-past-year-with-nearly-two-thirds-of-those-targeted-women-and-older-victims-likely-to-suffer-larger-losses\/ar-AA1hAbwi?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=1c37a02c65404ef7a02ef8382f5e565a&amp;ei=86\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than \u00a392million was lost to romance fraudsters across Britain in the last financial year, figures reveal.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/relationship.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50499,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50498\/revisions\/50499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}