The Grift

Loving a Lie


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Maria talks with the Atlantic’s Emily Yoffe about the most common grift of them all: the sweetheart scam. It’s a catfishing bait and switch where the person you fall in love with isn’t the person you thought. It has likely happened to someone you know. Someone intelligent, nice, attractive.  Someone like you. Because where are we more vulnerable than in matters of the heart?

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