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Dating Fraud, AAA Games and Air Fryers

Criminals are now creating fake online banks as part of an elaborate dating fraud that dupes victims - who think they've found love - into losing almost everything.

Typically, romance scammers trick their victims into sending them money by inventing a fictitious crisis. Now, they're creating fake banking websites, and sending their login details to victims. They ask their lovers to sign in as them, to transfer money that seems to belong to the person they're dating, in order to pay urgent bills. It works a few times, stops and things then get more serious and sinister.

We hear how fraudsters cruelly manipulated one Yorkshire woman's trust this way, to convince her to part with £80,000. She tells us the devastating impact it's had on her and why she feels let down by her own bank's response. Experts tell us this is one of the most sophisticated cons they've ever seen.

Also in the programme, “AAA” titles are video gaming’s equivalent to cinema blockbusters. The budgets and hype associated with these games often exceed anything coming out of Hollywood. Now gamers are being told many of this year's most anticipated releases won't come out until 2025 at the earliest. We find out why, and how fans feel about this.

A decade ago, few of us knew what an air fryer was. Even fewer actually had one. Now, research suggests more than half us own one. While the worst of the energy crisis has faded into the rear view mirror for many, sales show no sign of cooling down. Why is this happening and have they changed cooking forever? We find out from one of the first British journalists to take them seriously and two owners who bought them for very different reasons.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Julian Paszkiewicz

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53 minutes

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  • Wed 21 Aug 2024 12:04

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