The digital world has revolutionised crime, anonymising criminals, enabling access to multiple targets, and increasing the speed at which opportunities are exploited. This is no more apparent than in the lucrative business of romance fraud, where technological capability blends with the more prosaic crimes of abuse and grifting.

• How social media enables the predator to dupe the victim.
• Trust and gullibility online: the victim's view
• What are we doing as a society to protect the vulnerable?