Romance scams

Plenty of those scams here too.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/garda-issue-warning-over-online-32117145

In romance, people often do not use their full logical brain.

Yes, preying on people at a vulnerable time in their life. Mocking them makes it harder for victims to come forward, and easier for the scammers to get away with it.

Romance itself is a scam.

Just ask Melania and her with all me money.

Because you are not in their mental state so it looks too obvious to fall for it. However, for some people, the loss of a family member, depression, stress at work and someone comes in your life, saying the right things and you miss all the flags.

When you're horny or desperate for "romance", you're using the primitive part of your brain and not thinking rationally. Any man who has gone more than 2 hours since his most recent w@nk is liable to make a poor decision. Women also make poor decisions e.g. many women are attracted to and date men known for violent thuggery - then the women are somehow shocked when the violent thuggery is used on them.

I've never given a single dime to anyone woman, and never will.

I had to tell this man I was gay because he believed he was in a relationship with me. For ten years. I did seek legal advice and spent years in therapy and counselling but most people see him as the victim, in a real baby reindeer kind of way. A harmless gorm.

No no, I would have encouraged him to go out and meet people, and to try dating sites but obviously he had prior experience with working girls. I think he genuinely believes that it's ok for women to be bought for certain purposes. I know it is a bit sad but there's a bit of a culture around it in his circles. It's hard to feel sorry for that though.

That's most peoples feelings anyway.

I was a bit sceptical because the only singing he ever did was on the terraces. Imagine ten bottles and the wail of ynwa at full time. Can't for the life of me imagine how his rendition of the ballad went down.

Take a look round your locality. Romance scams happening everywhere. I have friends that chose absolute weapons when they were young and stuck it out. Others were afraid of being left on the shelf and panicked. Theres 1 that babysits the kids every weekend while the partner hits the drink and nose bag Thursday thru Tuesday. Divorce is threatened roughly every 6 months but it'll never happen. If that's not a scam I don't know what is.

Yes, and those scams are far more damaging and difficult to recover from than a more straightforward scam where someone asks for money and then disappears.