I conned the romance scammers (with hilarious results) | #datingscams | #lovescams

Becky Holmes originally joined Twitter (which she refuses to call X ― “No one’s calling it that, are they?”) because she was lonely and bored during Covid, and, “Immediately, I started getting these messages, these DMs [direct messages, sent privately on social media platforms] from all these guys who are so good-looking! Buff military types, pilots, oil riggers…”

Too good to be true types?

“Yeah! Straight away, I recognised what it was these people were. I don’t mean exactly what. I’d heard of ‘romance fraud’, read about it in the papers, where, in the comments underneath, everyone says, ‘What a silly cow,’ you know. I don’t think I knew it was that. I think I thought it was a dick pic thing. They were going