Victims of romance scams often find themselves in a seemingly never-ending cycle of scams. This is for a few reasons. One of these reasons is that scammers retarget people who have sent them money in the past. The other reason has to do with the addiction that seemingly forms to the fantasies created by romance scammers. In this week’s story, we show you the struggles of a man caught in the cycle of romance fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Denez is a young Florida man who has been struggling with romance scams in recent years. He fell victim to his first romance scam back in 2018 when he met a woman named Charlie in the Philippines. When they first met they began to talk every day. They even video chatted a couple of times. Everything seemed to be going great until Denez bought Charlie a present for valentines day. Once h bought it and shipped it to her, she disappeared… and he never heard from her again. Denez was shocked. After over a year of talking to her, Denez was getting his passport in the process of meeting her in person, but now she was gone and he had no means of getting back in touch with her. Over the course of the relationship, Denez sent Sharie over $8,000. But he still insists that she was real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This interaction drove Denez to search for more love online. This is when he met his next online girlfriend, Julietine a dating app called tagged. One day while scrolling through youtube, Denez found a Scamfish video Featuring Juliet’s photos, when he saw this, he instantly knew that she was fake. So he confronted her. Before he found out that he was lied to, he had already sent her over $10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But even after this, Denez would not give up. he met yet another woman online named Angila, She had model good looks, and once they started talking, she started asking for money almost immediately, He says as soon as he got paid, she would know, and she would ask for money. Despite this, he felt that the relationship was going well. But he started to have doubts when she kept blowing off plans to meet. One day they set up a date to meet, Denez sent her the greyhound bus ticket, and she was on her way to the station with a friend. This is when Angela claimed that she was robbed at gunpoint. Denez knew that something wasn’t right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He ran a reverse image search and found out that she was in fact, not who she claimed to be. When he confronted her about it, she confessed that it was all a lie, and she sent him her “real photos”. Denez could not say for sure if he believed her, so he reach out to socialcatfish.com to find out the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have also had a return guest who was talking to a scammer using the same photos. He is also in a relationship with the person who scammed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All in all, we had the real woman in the photos on Scamfish to warn Denez of the dangers of online dating, telling him that she has had her photos stolen since she was 15 years old and that she would warn against online dating altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Denez’s story is not unique. Many victims fall into this pattern of being romantically scammed over and over again, and they continue online dating while completely ignoring the signs that they are in danger of falling for yet another romance scam. Once someone has given up money in a romance scam, the scammer puts these victims on a VIP list, where they can retarget them with a different account to get form money out of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite being trapped in this cycle, Denez did 3 things write. First, he went on Youtube and discovered that the woman he was talking to was a fake. Next, he reached out to social. catfish for answers, and finally, he found out the truth by running a reverse image search. A reverse image search is a powerful tool that can save you tens of thousands of dollars. Run a reverse image search before you get in too deep. Use the search bar below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n