Romance Scam Warning Signs For Tweens

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A Romance Scam Is A Confidence Trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to meet the scammer under false pretenses. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

FTC reported that Romance Dating Scams are reaching record-highs and include young people as well as adults.

Technological innovations have shaped the ways we connect with each other. And the recent adoption of dating apps and social media have fundamentally transformed how teens spend their time, portray themselves, and communicate.

Did you know? 1 in 5 tweens knows a victim of dating violence. Approximately 1 in 3 adolescent girls in the U.S. is a victim of physical, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

Did you know? Young people aged 12 to 19 experience the highest rates of sexual assault. Teenagers age 18 and 19 experience the highest rates of stalking. Over 75% said they meet the person online. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

Did you know? Almost 15% of teen girls said they were forced to have sex, an increase of 27 % over two years and the first increase since the CDC began tracking it.

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The problem is that the girls’ higher social media use affects them more strongly than boys. The more time they spend on dating apps and social media the more they will probably experience depression, low selfesteem, poor body image, worse sleep and other mental health problems. Jelena Kecmanovic Washington Post

Youth who experience dating violence are more likely to: • experience symptoms of depression and anxiety; • engage in unhealthy behaviors like using tobacco, drugs • alcohol think about suicide.

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Preventing dating violence requires a comprehensive community-driven strategy to stop violence before it starts.

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Youth who experience dating violence in adolescence are at increased risk of partner violence in adulthood.

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During the middle-school years, research has found that girls generally start to care much more than boys about how they fit into the world and what their peers think of them.

A JAMA Network* study published this year, with 84,011 participants between ages 10 and 80, found that the relationship between social media use and life satisfaction is most negative among young adolescent girls.

This finding suggests the tween years might be a critical period during which girls should stay off social media as much as possible.

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*Journal Of American Medical Association

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In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children’s Hospital Association together declared ‘a national emergency’ in children’s mental health. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

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“If you think about every

10 teen girls that you know, at least 1 and possibly more has been sexually assaulted, and that is the highest level we’ve ever seen”

Kathleen Ethier, Director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health

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A CATFISH SCAM occurs when you’ve been hooked by a romantic partner who isn’t the person they claim to be by using someone else’s photo and pretending it is theirs. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

Teenagers use the Internet daily, which mean they are more vulnerable to threats.

“Catfishing” is one such danger, wreaking havoc on unsuspecting user which may become victims. Catfishing is often associated with dating apps like Tinder and Grindr. Catfishing is common on social media like Facebook, Bumble, Grindr, TikTok, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat.

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romance scams may be a combination of types of scams

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Intimate Activity Scams Scammer connects with the victim on multiple dating and social media websites.

Once they become closer, the scammer convinces the victim to undress and then threatens them with the recordings. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

Code Verification Scams

• Scammers will send a fake verification code through email or text, posing to be a dating app or website. • Once the victim clicks on it, it will ask for their personal information, including address, school, or to meet at an unsafe location. ©2023 James Feldman Associates, Inc.

Malware Scams: In this case, victims interact with a scammer that sends them a website that looks legitimate; however, it’s a page that includes malware.

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LGBTQQIP2SAA Users Are Twice as likely to use a Dating App according to Pew Research 55% of LGBTQQIP2SAA Adults said they had used a dating app, compared to 28% of Binary Adults.

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The exact number of minors who secretly make profiles is hard to quantify, but estimations exist. According to a Northwestern University study more than 50 percent of sexually active gay and bisexual underage boys have had sex with people they met on apps such as Grindr.

US Dating App Market Share 2021%

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