The Society Of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Supports This Legislation!

In addition to the stated goals of the SMART Act, it will also have a positive impact on reducing online scams - especially those that are propagated on social media.

By helping users of social media reduce and control their behaviors on social media, it will reduce addictive behaviors that open the door for scams and scamming, and also leave users less vulnerable to the additional suggestion and ready for manipulation. We believe this will empower social media users to be in a stronger state of mind so that few manipulations will succeed.

At this time it is impossible to estimate the full extent of this improvement since no clinical or academic studies have been performed as yet, but we believe this will be a measurable amount, possibly as high as 10% fewer victims - which would translate into an estimated 100,000 fewer scam victims per year if approved and fully implemented.

After all, if only one person can be saved from the agony of a romance scam then this is well worth it!