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Romance Scams Embroil Elders in Smuggling  Trafficking Schemes


Author:  Dana Shilling, J. D.


Source: Volume 19, Number 01, Summer 2016 , pp.1-4(4)




Victimization of the Elderly and Disabled

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Abstract: 

This article depicts the growing problem of a fraud that “starts like a lottery scam or a romance scam and then morphs into something entirely different.” Includes two personal accounts of scamming, reporting information for possible scams, a sidebar

Keywords: Imprisonment for Drug Smuggling; frequent pattern of victimization, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tip line; suicide;

Affiliations:  1: Co-Editor.

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