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Sunday, 09 February 2020 23:14

Australians lose more than $28.6 million to online romance scams

Scammers are using new online platforms to take advantage of their victims, with dating and romance scams making up one fifth of losses amounting to millions of dollars, across all scams reported to the ACCC’s Scamwatch service in 2019.

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