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She was 69. He Was Young, Hunky—and a Fraud.
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Love scams hit a record high last year, with fraudsters fooling lonely hearts into sending their life savings in hard-to-recover cryptocurrency.
Kate Briquelet
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Emily Shugerman
Senior Reporter
Published
Aug. 20 2022
9:00PM EDT
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty
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