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How is romance fraud at the same level as child exploit or money laundering? These assholes want to take full control of the world population.
They just wanted to pack that list. Who thinks child exploitation is a true concern while nothing is done about the Epstein file?
It's financial fraud with a romance hook. It's like nigerian prince scams, except instead of some rich prince who will pay you back many times over, the motivation is helping your long distance lover with some big financial problem that came up.
It's not just referring to people getting catfished (it's possible the other person is even real, because it's a lot more effective when they can do video chats and video chat sex... And it might even involve human trafficking and/or slavery and that woman's whole "job" is to have video chat sex with targets).
That said, I think those are all just excuses, valid threats or not.
Pig butchering pulls in billions and steals entire life savings.
Yeah, I'd say it's at least on the same level as money laundering.
The people pushing the legislation are so unappealing to the opposite sex, it ranks very high on their psyche.