Heartless romance fraudsters have swindled nearly €1million in the past year from people who are searching for love.
Garda statistics, which were released yesterday, revealed over €812,000 was stolen by these kind of scams in the first five months of 2022.
Each of the 31 victims – 23 women and eight men – live in Ireland but the money they were conned out of was transferred out of the country to different accounts or to Bitcoin wallets.
