Luxury Goods Dealers
Luxury Goods dealers are one of the rarer formats used by scammers but nonetheless they are there. Here are some of the favourite examples that they use:
- The criminal may tell you that they are buy and sell exclusive jewellery, including watches.
- Luxury cars. Buying and selling high worth cars and delivering them abroad.
- Vintage wine and other exclusive alcohol.
- Diamonds and rare gems.
- Gold and other rare metals.
- Property/real estate dealers.
- Essential oils.
The victim will be manipulated in the same way as other romance fraud scenarios. You can read about this here. Once the trust has been secured, the criminal will disclose that they have a contract that needs fulfilling, or there may be the offer of investment in the business or the chance to trade in diamonds or gold.
Other financial exploitations may happen in this format depending on the criminals in question. You can find other ways these fraudsters exploit money here.