People fell in love with Regina’s fake profile via chat site: ‘I sold my soul to the devil’

For thirteen years, Regina van der Sterren (not her real name) worked for a deceptive network of dating sites that earns millions of euros from lonely hearts. Online she pretended to be hundreds of different people. Victims like Frederika from Borne lost tens of thousands of euros, without one real encounter. “I feel like a criminal.”

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