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Journalist goes undercover to investigate 'romance scams'

Romance scams, where scammers create fake profiles on dating apps or social media to gain a victim’s trust and affection before eliciting money from them, have rapidly become a billion-dollar industry in the U.S.

National Geographic’s Mariana Van Zeller went undercover as an unassuming victim to investigate how these scams operate and what makes them so successful.

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