What might be extra heartbreaking than being the sufferer of a romantic rip-off? You are misled into believing that you simply discovered the love of your life, your soul mate, solely to search out that whoever you are speaking to and giving cash to will not be what they appear to be. You are not alone.
You might ask your self, How may I’ve been so silly? You are not. In actual fact, a brand new ballot of three,047 romance rip-off victims performed by social catfish, which is the most important ever performed, discovered that 75% are faculty educated and 13% have graduate levels exhibiting scammers have grown more and more savvy.
That is simply one other factor it’s a must to take care of as you attempt to discover love.
New Jersey is the sixth most scammed state with 12,817 victims shedding $206,982,032, which is similar quantity as Pennsylvania. Solely the Keystone state had 17,262 victims.
New York got here in third with 29,065 victims for a whopping $559,965,598 misplaced.
California was truly the worst for romantic scams with 67,095 victims and $1,227,989,139 misplaced. To see each state click on right here.
Social Catfish is an organization that verifies on-line identities with reverse searches. They launched the outcomes as a part of their examine on the State of Web Scams 2022 utilizing information from the FBI IC3 and the FTC.
Among the many findings, ladies, middle-and lower-income People, and younger individuals of colour are more and more being focused.
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Amongst their Key Ballot Outcomes from their press launch:
“84% of Victims are Center or Decrease Class: 44% of victims make lower than $100,000 and an extra 40% make lower than $40,000 per 12 months.
Younger Individuals of Colour Hit Laborious: White victims are largely middle-aged and aged, however 13% of victims of colour have been below the age of 40, in comparison with simply 4% of white victims.
78% of victims are feminine.
35% stated their rip-off originated on a relationship app and 27% stated it began on Fb.
10% of victims misplaced greater than $100,000 and 4% misplaced greater than $200,000.”
So what are you able to do to keep away from being scammed romantically?
They are saying:
“By no means give cash or private info to anybody you haven’t met in particular person and carry out a reverse search to confirm on-line identities.”
Opinions expressed within the put up above are these of New Jersey 101.5 discuss present host Steve Trevelise solely. Comply with him on Twitter @realstevetrev.
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These are one of the best mountain climbing spots in New Jersey
A visit to New Jersey would not must be all in regards to the seaside. Our state has some unbelievable trails, waterfalls, and lakes to get pleasure from.
From the Pine Barrens to the Appalachian Path to the hidden gems of New Jersey, you may have loads of choices for an ideal hike. Mountaineering is such a good way to spend time outside and revel in nature, plus it is an ideal exercise.
Earlier than you exit on the paths and discover a few of our listeners’ recommendations, I’ve some recommendations on mountain climbing etiquette from the American Mountaineering Society.
If you’re going downhill and run into an uphill hiker, step to the aspect and provides the uphill hiker area. A hiker going uphill has the precise of manner until they cease to catch their breath.
At all times keep on the path, you might even see aspect paths, until they’re marked as an official path, avoid them. By going off-trail you could trigger injury to the ecosystems across the path, the crops, and wildlife that reside there.
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You additionally don’t wish to disturb the wildlife you encounter, simply preserve your distance from the wildlife and proceed mountain climbing.
Bicyclists ought to yield to hikers and horses. Hikers must also yield to horses, however Iâm undecided what number of horses you’ll encounter on the paths in New Jersey.
If you’re considering of bringing your canine in your hike, they need to be leashed, and ensure to wash up all pet waste.
Lastly, be conscious of the climate, if the path is just too muddy, it is most likely greatest to avoid wasting your hike for an additional day.
IÂ requested our listeners for his or her recommendations of one of the best mountain climbing spots in New Jersey, try their recommendations:
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John Marino expects hockey fans to have a lot of questions about Utahâs new NHL team.
âYou donât really know what to expect. Location wise,â the Massachusetts-born defenseman said, âIâm sure some people donât know where it is.â
But the five-year veteran looks forward to putting Utah Hockey Club on the NHL map.
Marino, who has made the playoffs in four of his five seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins and New Jersey Devils, will be tasked with bringing experience and establishing a winning culture in Salt Lake City after being traded to Utah late last month.
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âI think it starts with the older guys instilling that in the younger guys and teaching them the ropes,â Marino said this week.
The 27-year-old racked up 25 points (four goals, 21 assists) last season in New Jersey. Along with Mikhail Sergachev, who Utah acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay, Marino hopes to be part of an improved defensive unit in Utah.
âI think theyâre sending a message for sure doing what they did in the offseason that they want to be a competitive hockey team,â Marino said. âThey have such a dangerous forward group up front, playing fast, transitional hockey. I think itâs going to be exciting. I think itâs only going to be improvement from here and who knows where itâs going to go.â
Marino followed the teamâs move from Arizona to Utah closely earlier this year.
âWatching the video of all the other guys coming out on stage [during the teamâs introduction event], the fan presence and the atmosphere, it seemed pretty cool,â he said. âItâs going to be special to be a part of it.â
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The defenseman said heâs heard good things about the franchise â and Salt Lake City â already.
âIâve heard nothing but great things about it, nothing about great things about the owner and what itâs going to be, the fans, the atmosphere. Talking to some of the guys who have already been out there from Arizona, nothing but good things to say about it.â
And as for his new home? Marino says heâs ready for his next chapter.
âIâve heard itâs just beautiful there. Being up in the mountains, the scenery. Thereâs a ton to do, outdoor actives and everything like that,â he said. âBut getting that firsthand experience will be a lot different than looking at it through my screen.â
Just one of the five New Jerseyans who signed the Declaration of Independence went on to run for public office.
Abraham Clark had served in the Continental Congress in 1776 and was the only New Jersey delegate who supported independence from the start. The pro-Independence legislature recalled their other four delegates and sent a new delegation to join Clark.
Two of his sons served in the Continental Army; both were captured and brutally tortured. The British offered to spare the lives of Clarkâs sons if he would recant his signing of the Declaration of Independence, but he refused.
Clark ran again for Congress in 1791 and was the top vote-getter. He served in the Second and Third Congress from 1791 until he died in office in 1794.
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Clark was the clerk of the New Jersey Provincial Assembly, before becoming Essex County Sheriff and a member of the Provincial Congress. Clark and four others were appointed the Continental Congress on June 21, 1776 when New Jersey replaced delegates who opposed separation.
After serving in the Continental Congress through 1778, he later represented Essex County on the New Jersey Legislative Council.
Richard Stockton, one of George Washingtonâs best friends, served on the New Jersey Provincial Council from 1768 to 1774, when he was named to the New Jersey Provincial Supreme Court.
While serving in the Continental Congress, Stockton ran for Governor of New Jersey. He and William Livingston tied on the first ballot and Livingston later won the race by one vote. As a consolation prize, Stockton was offered the post of Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, but he declined the offer.
His son and grandson represented New Jersey in the United States Senate: Richard Stockton replaced Frederick Frelinghuysen in 1796 and served two years, lost three races for governor, and then served as a congressman from 1813 to 1815; and Robert Stockton served as Military Governor of California before serving in the Senate from 1851 to 1853.
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Francis Hopkinson was the customs collector in Delaware before moving to Bordentown and taking a seat on the New Jersey Provincial Council.
President Washington nominated him to serve as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Pennsylvania in 1789. He served on the bench until his death in 1791.
Some historians say that Hopkinson, and not Betsy Ross, was the designer of the U.S. Flag.
John Hart began his political career as a Hunterdon County Freeholder in 1750. He served in the New Jersey Colonial Assembly from 1761 to 1771 and later became of judge. He served as a member of the Revolutionary Assembly before joining the Continental Congress thirteen days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
In August 1776, Hart returned to New Jersey to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.
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His great-great-great-grandson, John Hart Brewer, was a New Jersey Congressman from 1881 to 1895. Another descendant served as mayor of Hopewell and on the township committee until his defeat last year.
John Witherspoon, the president of a college that would become Princeton University, was sent to the Continental Congress in 1776 and served until 1784. He served two terms in the New Jersey Legislature.
Lawyers for U.S. Senator Bob Menendez rested their case on Friday after calling four witnesses, with the New Jerseyâs senior senator declining to testify in his own defense, which is his right. Menendez, in his own words, told reporters on his way out of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse in Lower Manhattan: âFrom my perspective, the government has failed to prove every aspect of its case. And for me to testify and give them another chance to have, in essence, a second summation, go through the whole case again, and then go ahead and have their summation, and then have a rebuttal case at the end, is simply not something that makes any sense to me whatsoever. So we look forward to the summations, and I expect my lawyers will produce a powerful and convincing summation, deduce how the evidence came out, where they failed across the board, and have a jury render a verdict of not guilty.â
No witnesses were called by co-defendant Fred Daibesâ lawyer, while the attorney representing another co-defendant, Halal meat executive Wael Hana, will call a defense witness when the trial resumes on Monday.
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HEREâS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Jurors are expected to begin deliberating next week.
DAYS SINCE THE INDICTMENT:Â 284
DAYS SINCE MENENDEZâS LAST CRIMINAL TRIAL ENDED: 2,419
MISSED VOTES:Â 34 There have been no votes in the Senate since June 20 and is not expected back in session until next week.
And in case youâre keeping track: itâs been 43 years and 61 days since a United States Senator from New Jersey was last convicted of accepting a bribe.
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NEW JERSEY ABSTAINS, COURTEOUSLY â Sen. Menendez rests his defense in federal bribery trial from New Jersey Monitorâs Dana DiFilippo: âSen. Bob Menendez, in his first words in court since his federal bribery trial started eight weeks ago in Manhattan, told the judge Wednesday that he would not speak in his own defense and rested his case after just two days of witnesses testifying on his behalf. âIâm not seeking to take the stand at this time,â New Jerseyâs senior senator told Judge Sidney H. Stein, assuring the jurist he had discussed the matter âat lengthâ with his attorneys ⊠After testimony by the senatorâs sister and sister-in-law riveted jurors Monday, Wednesday was an anticlimactic end to the senatorâs defense in a trial that was expected to end a week ago. Stein, as well as attorneys for all three defendants, have increasingly expressed concerns about âlosing jurorsâ as the trial has fallen behind âŠÂ Stein on Wednesday doubled down on his frequent vows to speed proceedings up, telling Hanaâs attorney Lawrence Lustberg that he wonât wait on a witness Lustberg aims to call to the stand Monday â whoâs now stuck in Egypt awaiting a visa. âWeâre all going to be as efficient as possible in the use of this jury. Iâm not going to significantly delay things for that issue,â Stein said. âThe rule in my court is: If you donât have a witness, you rest.ââ
CRITCHELY: MENENDEZ DIDNâT NEED TO INTERVENE BECAUSE GREWAL HAD âA WEAK CASEâ More from DiFilippo: âJurors also heard a prerecorded video deposition of attorney Michael Critchley, who represented a trucking company owner in an insurance fraud case filed by the New Jersey Attorney Generalâs Office/ Prosecutors have said Hana and codefendant Jose Uribe bribed Menendez to derail the officeâs prosecution of E&K Trucking owner Elvis Parra ⊠Critchley testified that Menendez called him in March 2019 to complain that Parraâs case was âan abuse of prosecution,â and the men agreed the Attorney Generalâs Office was being used by insurance companies to collect private debt. Under Weitzmanâs questioning, Critchley said the senator did nothing âinappropriate or improperâ and that he occasionally talked with Menendez about criminal cases that made the news. Parra eventually agreed to a plea deal with a sentence of noncustodial probation, but Critchley said the plea offer was made because state prosecutors had âa weak caseâ and not, as prosecutors allege, because Menendez called and met with Gurbir Grewal, then the attorney general, in a deal with Uribe that required the senator to âkill and stop all investigation.â
AND NOW, THE END IS NEAR â Menendez Defense Rests Without Senator Testifying from New York Timesâ Benjamin Weiser and Tracey Tully: âAfter calling just four witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey rested their case late Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, setting the stage for jurors to begin deliberations in his international bribery conspiracy trial early next week.â
ITâS NOT UNUSUAL TO GO OUT AT ANY TIME â Bob Menendezâs defense rests without New Jersey senator testifying in bribery trial by CBS Newsâ Caitlin Yilek: âA handful of witnesses testified on his behalf, compared to the 30 witnesses called by the prosecution during the trial, which has so far spanned eight weeks. Menendezâs defense attorneys called his sister and the sister of his wife, Nadine Menendez, to testify on Monday as they sought to show it was not unusual for the couple to keep gold and  large amounts of cash in their home.â
* Sen. Bob Menendez declines to testify in his bribery trial as the defense rests
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* Bob Menendezâs lawyers bring in family as they argue his trial defense * Bob Menendez says he didnât testify because prosecution failed to prove its bribery case against him
* Senator Bob Menendez rests defense case in federal bribery trial
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