A perfect story with a request that cannot wait.
Romance scam
A romance scam is a relationship built through messages by someone who never meets in person and who, once attached, asks for money for an emergency.
Timeline
Idea
Use loneliness as the door
The scammer looks for profiles that show a wish for company and invests weeks of conversation.
Fast interest and constant attention.
Plan
Build the character
Someone else's photos, an international career and a routine that prevents meetings.
Always travelling or on a mission.
Objective
Create emotional dependency
Intense declarations and future plans before any real meeting.
A promise to move countries.
Execution
Introduce the emergency
Surgery, customs, debt: something urgent that only your money can solve.
A small request first, then a growing one.
Outcome
Disappear
After the larger amount, the profile blocks you, vanishes or returns with a new story.
Silence after the transfer.
Other cases
- See how the scam works
The profit shows on screen; the withdrawal never does.
Cryptocurrency fraud
Cryptocurrency fraud uses wallets, tokens or yield bots to collect deposits in digital assets and block any withdrawal.
- See how the scam works
The e-mail from your bank that was not from your bank.
Phishing and fake messages
Phishing is a message that imitates a bank, store or public body to lure the victim into handing over passwords, codes or card details on a fake site.