"Are you "caught in a bad romance" with a romance scammer? Well, such a romance can be by definition "Ra-ra, ah-ah-ah" bad because a romance scammer is a con artist who pretends to care for you when all he or she really cares about is your money, shelter, status, connections, career support, or whatever else you may have to offer."
"You may be thinking that this could never happen to you. But the heart of the challenge is that such dating scammers use your own heart against you. They can be skilled at getting you to develop feelings for them to cloud your judgment so that you don't really see them fooling you. They can be particularly adept at finding people who are trusting at heart-which is a fabulous quality to have for normal, healthy, long-term relationships."
Romance scammers are con artists who feign care to obtain money, shelter, status, connections, or career support. They exploit emotional openness by cultivating feelings to cloud victims' judgment and target trusting people. Common warning signs include reluctance to meet in person, intense early affection or love-bombing, efforts to separate victims from friends and family, and providing limited personal information. Scammers avoid face-to-face encounters because in-person meetings can expose their fraud. Maintaining skepticism about rapid emotional escalation, insisting on in-person meetings, keeping relationships connected to trusted others, and reporting suspected scams can reduce vulnerability.
Read at Psychology Today
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