- Text or email
- Dating apps
- Social media posts
- Discussion forums
- The scammers will to get you all swept up in the emotions
- They will have , webcam or Zoom
- They from the dating app onto an end-to-end encryption messaging platform such as WhatsApp
- Images that are too perfect and flawless
- They , often with an emotional reason why, such as a personal, financial or medical emergency, for example, a sick relative
- They and invest in a fake scheme they say is real
- They ask you to and
- If you don't send money right away, their messages and calls becomes desperate or persistent
- Being asked to accept a money transfer and then transfer those funds to another account