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When Romance Is a Scam

January 1, 2021 by wp_admin

Lyndon French for The New York Times

Ellen Floren was not looking for love.

The criminals who lured her into an online scam last summer approached her not on a dating site, where she might have been wary, but through the neighborhood hub called Nextdoor.

A man who said his name was James Gibson said he’d noticed her profile on the site. He also lived in her Chicago neighborhood, he told her, specifying a street. Could they have a conversation?

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