A handsome soldier with a 'medical bill': how romance scammers make you fall in love with them
- Written by Natalie Gately, Criminology Courses Coordinator, Edith Cowan University
Maria Exposto, a Sydney grandmother who fell victim to a romance scam and became an unwitting drug mule, couldn’t have known what was before her when she left Australia to sign documents for her fiancé so he could retire and marry her.
At 50-years-old, Exposto had fallen for a widowed special forces soldier doing his bit for his...