Trust your gut instinct when it comes to falling in love online.
That’s the message from Griffith University criminologist Dr Jacqueline Drew who’s leading a campaign to warn people about the dangers of romance scams.
With the explosion of dating websites in the past decade, the cringe factor of finding love on the internet has long since passed and it’s become commonplace to meet partners online.
But with this new way of dating also comes the danger of being scammed and, according to Dr Drew (pictured below), a senior lecturer with the Griffith Criminology Institute who conducts research in collaboration with the Queensland Police Service, anyone can be tricked.
“We’re all vulnerable,’’ she warns. “None of us should feel safe from being tricked with a scam or a fraud.”
“We have highly educated people who fall victim to romance scams.
“Many of our romance victims who have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars say they had
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