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Author: v-harvy

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 Ok sure lets see what happens. Some nice plesentaties are exchanged. Also they send a photo of "themselves", an attractive young asian woman.
 
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-She expalins she is an owner of a business and clearly even more inviting.
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+She explains she is an owner of a business and clearly even more inviting.
 The aim here seems to be just introduce casual conversation and work out their target.
 
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 At this point they are working out if they can try a romance scam, again this may seem normal for someone to ask these questions. They also check my age, I guess to see how much money I could have or maybe they have some morals around the young or elderly.
 
 ### The handoff
 
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 Then seemingly they need to switch up phones as they have business phone.
 This seems like a triage system where they hand over to another person to carry on with the scam.
 
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 On the new number and immediately get a sad story of abuse and even some disturbing images. At this point I know something is up and try to look for the name in the x-rays and research who this woman is. I find a facebook page and instagram, so some backstory but the facebook page was created a month before and then soon after it was made private.
 
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 I then follow up to see what they can say with their trip to France. They post a picture which doesn't appear in search engines. Some conversation here but the continuity is lacking. No mention of the tourist attraction I recommended ever again.
 
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 I then surprisingly get a video of a meeting, which seems pretty strange but fits the narrative where this person was learning some financial training as part of being a franchisee? or something. 
 
 ### The turning point
 
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 I then ask about that training but then get a screenshot of some app or website that doesn't seem to be real. There are no images that match the app and the screenshot doesn't look like it's taken on a phone screen. I ignore it as it just meant nothing to me.
 
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