Marriage fraud
A marriage swindler is a deceiver who offers his victim a future together in a marriage in order to gain material advantages.
According to German law according to § 263 StGB ( fraud ) he faces up to 10 years imprisonment. The term marriage fraud is not a legal term . However, courts used this term to refer to such scammers. However, today, not least due to social change, the promise of an actual marriage no longer plays a role, but it is often about the pretended prospect of a love relationship in general.
A new type of marriage swindler who usually does not meet his victims, but only communicates with them via the Internet, is the romance scammer .
In addition to material damage, the victims of the marriage impostors may suffer severe irreversible emotional damage. The marriage fraudsters speculate that their victims do not report the deeds (out of shame), so that the prosecution of these fraudsters is significantly impeded.
The marriage swindler is to be distinguished from the Romeo agent who enters into a physical relationship (and not a love relationship) in order to obtain secret information.
See also
Web links
- Marriage swindler >> Here are the stitches. How to spot marriage fraud
- Lousy Cheating With Love: How to Spot a Marriage Fool
- 10 signs of marriage scammers - how to spot scammers on the web
- Modern marriage swindlers: "Romance Scammers" rip off good faithful women on the Internet - Medien - Tagesspiegel
- Marriage fraud? Recognize methods of marriage fraudsters