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Consumer series focusing on online dating scams that every day see unsuspecting victims conned out of tens of thousands of pounds.

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For Love or Money: Series 1: Episode 5

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How technology enables people to be caught out by elaborate online romance fraud.

Kym Marsh and Ashley John-Baptiste unpick how technology enables people to be caught out by elaborate online romance fraud.

Kym Marsh and Ashley John-Baptiste hunt down the culprits behind online romance fraud to hold those responsible to account. As they get to the bottom of a particularly elaborate scam, they discover ingenious ways that criminals use technology to make their demands for cash seem plausible. As one woman reveals how she was tricked into parting with £35,000, a man whose image has been used to scam a string of different women explains the impact it has had on him. Plus how a Hollywood star's identity was used to hoodwink one of his biggest fans.

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