Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages. Arguably the most hurtful and damaging of these scams is romance scams, where the perpetrator spends weeks or months seducing a victim and earning their trust before conning them out of as much money as they can get. While people are getting better at spotting these scams, scammers are constantly advancing, too. So what's it really like when you fall for one? WIRED Senior Editor, Security & Investigations Andrew Couts goes in depth with a real victim of a romance scam and shows us what warning signs to look out for.
Director: Efrat Kashai
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: J.Y. Chun; Brady Jackson
Host: Andrew Couts
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Camera Operator: Mar Alfonso
Gaffer: Niklas Moller
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Malaia Simms
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Rachel Kim
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Special Thanks: Evelyn
