#606 – FFAF: How online “romance scams” work

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this free-for-all-Friday Trent talks about how people are duped by online romance scams.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.4	Love is in the air.
0:12.1	Everywhere I look around, it's actually a romance scam.
0:15.3	They just want your money.
0:17.3	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:19.2	It is free for all Friday.
0:20.9	Monday and Wednesday we talk about apologetics and theology all about the Catholic faith.
0:25.5	But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.
0:28.7	How kinds of interesting topics?
0:31.2	And today I want to talk about romance scams.
0:34.4	And what I mean is just people that are straight up out for money.
0:39.7	I am not saying she is a gold digger, but she is not romantically interested in people who
0:45.8	only make a menial wage.
0:47.4	This one way that you could put it.
0:49.6	These are romance scams.
0:51.3	And one reason I thought about this is that a few months ago, Laura and I were watching
0:57.4	on Netflix, that big documentary, The Tindler Swindler.
1:00.6	I was about this Israeli guy.
1:02.6	And it was an amazing scam.
1:04.1	It was kind of like a romantic Ponzi scheme.
1:06.3	He would find these women on Tinder.
1:08.5	And he was this Israeli guy, but he had a particular type.
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