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New York is looking for love in all the wrong places, apparently — but a couple other states get burnt worse by fake loves.

A state police task force has recovered more than $23,000 for a Milford victim who was scammed into making deposits into Bitcoin ATMs under false pretenses.

A Long Island man’s yearslong scheme to collect disability insurance benefits all the while he trained for bodybuilding competitions and owned and operated a limousine business was foiled by a series of social media posts, state officials said. Instagram posts chronicling Anthony Ragusa’s physical transformation as a bodybuilder helped the state attorney general’s office catch the fraudster for illegally...