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Exhibit 08 · The flattery

Copy-paste love letters

The emotional messages in romance scams are stored in shared documents and pasted to many targets. Read examples from a leaked compound file.

Exhibit 08 · Original fileAPPRECATATIONS.docx
“Where have you been all this time? I’ve been looking for someone like you for ages. And now here you are, like the missing puzzle piece I never knew I was missing.”“Age does not determine everything, even the elderly will have more knowledge.”

Many victims say the messages felt too personal to be fake. The leaked files show why they feel that way: they were written by people skilled at it, then saved in shared documents for workers to paste. There are ready-made texts for praise, for age differences, for loneliness, for bad days and for good news.

The “age topic” file, for example, prepares workers to reassure older targets that age does not matter, because older people often have more savings.

Your defence

  • Paste a suspicious message into our scam checker. Script text often lights up.
  • Search a distinctive sentence from the message in quotes. Copied texts sometimes appear online.
  • Fast, intense affection from someone you have never met is a warning sign, not a compliment.

Questions people ask

How can I tell if romance messages are copied?

Look for intense, generic praise that could apply to anyone, and search a distinctive sentence in quotes. Leaked scripts show these messages are reused across many targets.

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