Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million $138 million last year, according to the latest police figures. That works out to roughly £280,000 $379,000 a day, the City of London Police said Tuesday. The average victim loses around £9,500 $12,866 per scam, though individual cases have reached £1 million $1.35 million. The figures come from Report Fraud, a City of London Police service that logged 10,784 romance scam reports...
