Catfish blocked: Adviser spots romance scam after client asked to print off 'US marriage contract'

Last week (April 7), Williams, who is part of the Personal Finance Society's (PFS) ScamSmart initiative, was approached by a longstanding client of his firm, who asked if they could print a form off for him because he did not have a printer at home. Nobody was in the office, however, and Williams offered to print it out himself, providing the client emailed the document over. The client agreed but asked Williams to promise him he would not look at the document. Of course, the adviser said he would not. However, after gently nudging his client, Williams was told that he was in fact bei...