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The video explains, in question and answer form, how the digital fraud known as the romance scam works, from the approach on dating apps and social media through to requests for money on the pretext of taxes and funds held abroad. The forensic expert describes how trust is built from the victim's public information, the countries most used in the fictitious stories, and the use of recorded video to simulate live calls. He closes with guidance on filing a police report and preserving evidence, with screen recording of the conversations and identification of the accounts and numbers used.

The interview is in Portuguese. The summary above is in English.

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