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How digital grifters are bilking the lonely out of $1.3 billion a year
Kate Kleinert was home by herself one day in summer 2020 when she received a friend request from an attractive stranger on Facebook. He introduced himself as Tony, a Norwegian physician stationed in Iraq.
Kate, who is 69, often received friend requests from single men. They usually fell in the same category...