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- A federal judge sentenced a former Army service member to prison for running a romance scam.
- Romance scams cost Americans $1.3 billion in 2022.
- The service member impersonated military officials and others to defraud his victims, police say.
A US soldier will spend more than three years in federal prison for a romance scam in which police say he impersonated military officials.