Author exposing internet romance scams joins chamber of commerce | #youtubescams | #lovescams | #datingscams

Author Shelby Wagner was welcomed recently into Coldwater Area Chamber of Commerce with a ribbon-cutting. 

Her most-recent book is “Learning to Dance in the Rain II – Surviving Grief, Internet Dating and Romance Scams.”

Getting the word out to beware of romance scams is her passion. Wagner lives in Sturgis and her business is writing, but writers also must be marketers, she said. No one buys books they know nothing about.

Recently, she was surprised when a stranger asked, “How’s your book doing? I see it’s all over the internet.” 

Also “all over the internet” are romance scams, Wagner said.

“They are spreading like wildfire across America leaving in their wake broken hearts and emptied bank accounts,” she said. 

Romance scams are an epidemic that gets little attention, but in 2019 became the costliest of all scams ever reported to FBI/FTC, she said — almost a half-billion dollars.