Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages. Arguably the most hurtful and damaging of these scams is romance scams ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized over $8.2 million worth of USDT (Tether) cryptocurrency that was stolen via 'romance baiting' scams. Previously referred to as 'pig butchering,' in ...

After collecting money from many desperate job seekers, they vanish. Romance scams mostly happen online. A person may send you sweet messages, call you “babe”, and even video call to build trust.

Damages from special fraud cases, as well as investment frauds and romance scams on social media, totaled approximately 200 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in 2024, according to provisional figures ...

Hong Kong billionaire heir Jeremy Fok and his Thai girlfriend Purisa ... with "Happy Birthday Nam Fok," referencing her nickname Namfon. Since the couple began dating in 2019, they have regularly ...

Seniors, especially the recently widowed or divorced, may be particularly susceptible to romance scams, which you see a lot in mass media reporting. They were among the most common scams in Canada ...

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The victims of 'romance scams' turn to Congress for help to pass a bill that would require dating apps and social media companies to remove or flag fraud accounts and issue notifications to users ...

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Utah man losing $186K in romance scam is one of many scams targeting seniors, police say Published at 7:42 pm, March 25, 2025 | Updated at 3:05 pm, March 26, 2025 Pat Reavy, KSL.com ...