Lonely Hearts Club Warnings
Romance Scammers Targeting Older People Are Getting Craftier
Beware Facebook, X, and Dating Site users
My friend reached out to me recently about a man she’d been talking to via text. She thought she might be falling in love. Her husband recently died. They had been married for decades. She knew nothing about dating. She was lonely and vulnerable.
Wisely, she hadn’t been looking to date yet. She wasn’t on any dating sites. She was simply doing her usual routine. Keeping up with friends and family on Facebook after her husband’s death. She changed her relationship status there to Widowed.
She received a friend request from a man she didn’t know. Assuming he knew her or of her from somewhere, she accepted the request. They began messaging on Facebook Messenger.
Very soon, he began telling her he was in love with her. He told her how amazing she is — which she definitely is. He flattered and admired her. She felt validated and she was able to put her grief in a box on a shelf for short periods of time while communicating with this man.
She is the second person in a month who has asked my advice in these types of situations. Both are older women.
