Of course that won’t really help. The vast majority of scams are “romance” scams... | Hacker News

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		rhaway84773 on Dec 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian... Of course that won’t really help. The vast majority of scams are “romance” scams. These are people who don’t have accents but good job prejudicing your father against a whole group of people while not actually protecting him from scams.

silisili on Dec 27, 2022 | [–]

It's right in the article, at the bottom, that romance scams only account for 1/10th of the total money taken in 2022.

happyopossum on Dec 27, 2022 | [–]

> The vast majority of scams are “romance” scams.

do you have any sort of citation for that?

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