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It is easy to be tricked by someone online when they sound so convincing – but you must check who you are really dealing with He seems like a nice, genuine guy – click on his picture to see if he’s really after your heart or the contents of your wallet close friends or relatives.

Scammers also often use someone else’s image online, so it may be worth doing an internet search to see if the photo actually belongs to someone else – open the picture in Google Chrome, right click and select ‘search Google for this image’.