Romance scammer duped 17k from me with deepfakes

Dr Shepherd said online scammers often claim to be in a location where meeting face-to-face or even a live video call are not possible. "Oil rigs is one of the common ones - in the military on base, a doctor overseas - and then typically they build up that relationship and then say'there has been an emergency, I need some money for travel'." Nikki said she sent around 17,000 in total to the scammers. Her bank and PayPal have been able to get around 7,000 of that money back, but she was persuaded by the scammers to send some of the money as personal payments - through the friends and family function on PayPal. This has not been recovered.