{"id":55684,"date":"2024-01-12T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=55684"},"modified":"2024-01-12T07:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:36:27","slug":"he-ruined-my-life-in-many-ways-but-for-three-months-i-felt-like-the-most-loved-person-in-the-world-as-romance-fraud-costs-victims-82million-in-a-single-year-astonishing-book-recounts-the-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/12\/he-ruined-my-life-in-many-ways-but-for-three-months-i-felt-like-the-most-loved-person-in-the-world-as-romance-fraud-costs-victims-82million-in-a-single-year-astonishing-book-recounts-the-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He ruined my life in many ways, but for three months I felt like the most loved person in the world&#8217;: As romance fraud costs victims \u00a382million in a single year, astonishing book recounts the tales of women who&#8217;ve lost up to \u00a3100,000 to foreign scammers"},"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><div id=\"attachment_52101\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52101\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52101\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam-300x177.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam-300x177.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam-770x453.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam-1024x603.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam-360x212.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-52101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heart symbol on computer key<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like many women who become the victims of romance scammers operating overseas, Sammie, 41, was going through a challenging time when she met a man who said he was a 45-year-old civil engineer called Rob.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12953721\/He-ruined-life-ways-three-months-felt-like-loved-person-world-romance-fraud-costs-victims-82million-single-year-astonishing-book-recounts-tales-women-whove-lost-100-000-foreign-scammers.html\">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; 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