<b>The Romantic Fraud Playbook</b><b>Behavioral &amp; Legal Patterns in Affinity-Based Financial Exploitation</b>

This research brief outlines a behavioral and structural playbook for affinity-based financial exploitation. Focusing on how emotional proximity — particularly through romantic engagement — is leveraged to legitimize fraudulent LLC formation and shift financial liability, the report documents patterns found in civil litigation and entity filings. Through this lens, it explores how perpetrators exploit both trust and legal ambiguity to obscure involvement, leaving victims to bear legal and financial fallout.