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Courtesy of the BBC...
Stephen Day, from Ipswich, handed over sums of money totalling £12,000 to someone he met online. The woman he thought he was emailing and sending money to for flights and other expenses turned out to be a Nigerian man.
"It is not easy to admit that you have been subject to this sort of scam. It is almost something that you feel ashamed of.
"It was totally unprepared to be drawn into what was quite extensive international financial fraud from an internet dating site."
Parag Bhargava, a founding member of the Association of British Introduction Agencies, called for more stringent checks of dating sites.
"What we would like is some kind of legislation that suggests that if a person is joining such a site that some sort of verification checks are made about the actual individual."
"It is not easy to admit that you have been subject to this sort of scam. It is almost something that you feel ashamed of.
"It was totally unprepared to be drawn into what was quite extensive international financial fraud from an internet dating site."
Parag Bhargava, a founding member of the Association of British Introduction Agencies, called for more stringent checks of dating sites.
"What we would like is some kind of legislation that suggests that if a person is joining such a site that some sort of verification checks are made about the actual individual."
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