'They get you when you're vulnerable.' 9News
man has been swindled out of hundreds of thousands of dollars after he was targeted in a sophisticated romance scam.
Paul Reed's ordeal started with an innocent request to his LinkedIn and soon he found himself out of nearly $300,000."And when they find out what you've got, they'll try take and everything, every single dollar.""I had a bad feeling pretty much straight away," Reed said.
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