A romance scam survivor and advocate shares her story as lawmakers push for a bill requiring dating apps to notify users ...

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 ...

NORTHERN MICHIGAN, (WPBN/WGTU) - - A northern Michigan woman is speaking out after losing tens of thousands of dollars to an elaborate online romance scam, and she's not alone. In 2023 ...

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 ...

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.

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Whether you've fallen for text message scams in the past or even just side ... may even develop into a long-distance relationship or romance. Other common tactics include roping victims into ...

But if I have something doing it for me in the background, I can do what I want, even go to a movie and have something doing my scam for me. Tech savvy criminals will even sell the programmes ...