{"id":20503,"date":"2022-09-28T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:32:35","slug":"military-romance-scam-targets-widowed-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/military-romance-scam-targets-widowed-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Romance Scam Targets Widowed Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristy was devastated, her husband was suddenly diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. and within a few months, he passed.  Kristy was crushed, and for 10 months after his passing, she was all alone. So she decided to try dating apps. She had never tried it before, but the loneliness was just too much to bear. And within just a few days, She had a match!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her name was Andrea, and she was in the military stationed overseas. Kristy was excited. She had always liked women, but her husband was her soulmate. But now that his time had passed, she had the chance to reinvent herself.  Andrea&#8217;s opening message was what got Andrea interested. She said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not into hookups or one-night stands&#8221;. After that, Kristy knew that Andrea was someone to take seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristy was with her husband for 20 years. She says that after her husband died, the walls of her heart were let down. So when Andrea messaged her for the first time, she was halfway towards being head over heels for her. After three months, they were already talking about getting a house and starting a life together. They both had the goal of getting married and starting a family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They talked every day, but when Andrea started to ask for her social security number, Kristy began to see a problem. Since Kristy was also in the military, she started to ask questions about why she needed her to send money, and why on earth she would need her social security number. It has been many years since she signed up for the military in the late 80s, so she believed Andrea when she told her that everything changed since then, she almost had no choice but to believe her&#8230; But something wasn&#8217;t quite right&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristy did her own research on Andrea to see if she was real. When she found multiple dating profiles using Andrea&#8217;s photos, her heart dropped. so she decided to confront Andrea about it. First Andrea was shocked. Then she laughed. She said that it wasn&#8217;t even her in the photos, but someone who looked like her. Kristy was relieved, but she wasn&#8217;t totally convinced. That&#8217;s when she turned to socialcatfish.com for answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When looking into Kristy&#8217;s case, we were able to confirm what Andrea told her. The fake profiles were in fact, not her. It was a completely different person. However, that did not mean that she was really who she said she was. The Social Catfish team found dozens of fake accounts using her photos. We also looked into the &#8220;official documents&#8221; that she sent, and it became obvious that it was forged. And finally, we tracked her location, and it traced her location to Nigeria. After this, it became obvious that she was a scammer. <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-run-a-reverse-image-search\">How to Run a Reverse Image Search<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running a reverse image search is a simple way of finding out whether or not someone is real. 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