Marianne loses €120,000 to her ‘dream man’ from Bordeaux: ‘Scammers know exactly how to brainwash you’
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- Marianne says she lost €120,000 after lending the money to a man she met online and believed was her great love.
Marianne thought she had found her dream man in Bordeaux. Instead, the online relationship led her to lend him €120,000, leaving her the victim of romance fraud.
“Now that I tell the whole story, I wonder how I could ever have fallen for it,” Marianne says. “But at the time, everything seemed so logical.”
If I tell the whole story now, I wonder how I could ever have fallen for it. But at the time, everything seemed so logical.
She shares her story on WinWin on VRT1. The consumer program examines how scammers manipulate their victims and exposes their methods. Marianne says, “Scammers know exactly how to brainwash you.”
Scammers know exactly how to brainwash you.
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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