Banks working with City of London Police to hunt romance scammers - BBC

The fact that banks and City of London Police are now actively coordinating on this tells you how organised and widespread these operations have become—they're running industrial-scale emotional manipulation from overseas. If you're being pressured for money by someone online who claims to care about you, that's your cue to stop and report them immediately.

Someone who claims to love you but has never met you, and now urgently needs money, is running a script they use on dozens of people simultaneously. The feelings may have felt real — that's precisely the point of the scam. Never send money to someone you haven't met in person, no matter how convincing the story or how long it's been going on.