The modus operandi of the crypto scammers lies on a broad spectrum. Victims are 'pig butchered', a form of love scam, very common on dating apps.

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Machinations, hollowneſſe, treacherie, and all ruinous diſorders follow vs diſquietly to our Graues.

His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].