60 Minutes Australia investigates the death of 67 year old widow Jette Jacobs from Wagin who was identified as a romance fraud victim by the Western Australia Police and Consumer Protection anti-fraud initiative Project Sunbird BUT had already gone to South Africa to meet a Nigerian man she'd fallen in love with online. 60 Minutes reporter Allison Langdon and crew take Jette's son to Johannesburg, where his mum died. *Names have been changed to protect identities En español She wrote him first. In the summer, when the trees leafed out, you couldn't even see the road or the neighbors. She'd grown up here, in a conservative pocket of Virginia. When it came to meeting new people, however, her choices were limited. The holidays were coming, and she didn't want to face them alone. A short message sent on a Thursday evening in early December 2013, under the subject line: Match? She signed up for a six-month subscription to Match.com, the largest and one of the oldest dating services on the Web. Scammers steal photos of REAL military service members, then use then name on the uniform to claim they are on active duty and need money to get home. Move on and find someone that will talk on the phone and you can meet face to face IN MINUTES, not months. Strange military photos-- Obvious photoshops, name-tapes not matching, blurry/indistinguishable photos from far away, stock military photos, photos of CAC cards, questionable/inconsistent/high ranks (Generals don't typically troll FB looking for lady friends) 2. Many of us have had our pictures stolen and used for these scams-- DO NOT believe someone just because they have military photos. Juicy details about their roles in the military/mission/AO Just because they have someone's military photos DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE US MILITARY.
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