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What particularly strikes me is the importance of examining manipulation as an interaction: trust, intimacy & credibility are not simply established once, but continually negotiated through language.

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Scammers may build attractive identities, establish intimacy & trust, manufacture crises & gradually introduce financial requests, adapting their communication according to how the other person responds.

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This fascinating research from Fangzhou Wang, Ph.D. examines romance scams as carefully constructed processes of social engineering and deceptive communication.

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