‘Romance Scammers’ Using Scrabble Go App To Target Women

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An 83-year-old woman was duped out of more than £20,000 by a romance scammer she met while playing Scrabble online, police have said. The victim from Oldham fell

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Numerous female Scrabble Go players have complained about „creepy men“ sending them messages in-game. As reported by the BBC, men contact various women after

Lloyds bank issues urgent scam warning after woman, 83, loses £20,000 in 18 months The 83-year-old thought she had fallen in love with a man she met via an online

An 83-year-old woman was duped out of more than £20,000 by a romance scammer she met while playing Scrabble online, police said (Michael Melia/Alamy/PA) Kim

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Scammers practice their grift in the chat rooms of popular games like Words With Friends and Scrabble Go. They look to start “relationships” with lonely prey, and the endgame

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An 83-year-old woman was duped out of more than £20,000 by a romance scammer she met while playing Scrabble online, police said.

Woman, 83, conned out of £20,000 by online Scrabble romance scammer

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An 83-year-old woman was duped out of more than £20,000 by a romance scammer she met while playing Scrabble online, police said.

Men are usually targeted by fake profiles of women, often using stolen pictures of models and porn stars. Games apps like Scrabble, Words with Friends, etc are not dating

A romance scammer conned an elderly pensioner out of more than £20,000 after contacting her while playing the word game Scrabble online. The 83-year-old widow, from Oldham, fell for the fraudster

An Oldham woman in her 80s sent more than £20,000 to a scammer who she had fallen in love with over an online Scrabble game

An 83-year-old woman was duped out of more than £20,000 by a romance scammer she met while playing Scrabble online, police said.

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Recent reports reveal that scammers are increasingly using Scrabble Go to target victims through the in-game chat feature.

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The online game Scrabble Go has been the target of ‘creepy men’ that use the platform to defraud women. The game’s developer Scopely says that the

A romance scammer conned an elderly pensioner out of more than £20,000 after contacting her while playing the word game Scrabble online.

He promised to pay her back with interest. But as their digital relationship grew, his emergencies — and pleas for funds — kept coming. Over eight or nine months she parted with

Romance scammers have been using the Scrabble Go platform to attempt to defraud innocent women. Game developer Scopely says it “does not tolerate any harassment

An 83 year old woman was tricked out of more than £20,000 by a scammer she met while playing Scrabble online. The fraudster pretended to be a 60 year old American

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The developers of a popular Scrabble game are concerned that the platform has become inundated with romance scammers, after a number of female users issued complaints.

Men, believed to be romance scammers, are approaching women via the chat function of the game.

At least in Australia, consumer protection officials noted that they have received multiple complaints of romance scammers approaching them via Scrabble Go. One woman in the UK

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Numerous female Scrabble Go players have complained about creepy men sending them messages in-game.

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