Does anyone have experience with romance scams?

@V00doo thanks, I'll go take a look.

@Dolimyte This is a growing scam that began taking off during COVID (when loneliness and helpessness feelings started going on the rise) called “pig butchering”. It’s largely run out of southeast Asian countries like Cambodia, Laos, etc. The basic premise is the scammers “fatten” the pig (the target) by getting them to fall in love with them, pretending to be some friend or persona that they would recognize or relate to, and talking to them constantly via channels like What’sApp, Facebook Messenger, text, etc. Then once they have gained that level of trust, they proceed to “butcher” the pig by convincing them to give all their money over to some supposed crypto investment platform that they swear will make them loads of money, but in reality the scammers just steal the money. They can drag it on for months at months and months to keep draining them. Once they have fully drained them, the scammers typically mock them for being so stupid to believe such a thing, and then just disappear with all the money.

The scammers are usually victims of human trafficking, forced to work in these organized southeast Asian sweatshops.