Comments by "Rants Of A Grumpy Old Lady" (@grumpyoldlady_rants) on "Woman loses $100k after falling victim to online dating scam | Banfield" video.

  1. You can be intelligent but still lack critical thinking skills and even basic common sense.
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  2. I think these scammers are catching on to the reverse image search and mining photos from social media that don’t match up on image search. Every time I get a notice on Instagram that a man that’s started following me, I run their photo through an image search. Only once have I pulled up the real person. But, I always block them anyway because I only use Instagram to follow friends and family. I actually caught a fake Go Fund Me once by using reverse image search so it’s still a useful tool.
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  3. You have to be pretty desperate and gullible to give someone you barely know a pile of money. I get “Hi, please friend be” comments and PMs on a regular basis. I don’t respond and block them. Another scam is people replying to comments as if they are a famous person. You have to be pretty ignorant to fall for it. It seems to me that once he “borrowed”some money and didn’t pay her back, that should have been a huge clue.
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