According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumers lost over $1 billion to romance scams in 2023. CT Buzz Host Natasha Lubczenko talked to April Helme, who is the daughter of a romance scam victim.

New York had 823 people fall victim to a romance scam in 2022, losing a total of $33.5 million. Believe it or not, that's actually an improvement from 2021, and is much less than California and Texas.

They used fake profiles to prey on dozens of women, peppering them with false promises of romantic relationships, and then ...

The Connecticut Better Business Bureau says, behind investment scams, dollar wise, romance scams are highest in the state. And this $100k loss is the highest ever recorded locally in all of 2024.

Connecticut residents are losing a lot to fake love, according to a study from Social Catfish, which estimates that the average victim in the Constitution State lost 44,851 to a romance scam in 2022.

Online fraud tied to fake romantic relationships is growing fast, and the numbers prove it. In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 17,910 romance scam complaints, totaling a ...

Online fraud tied to fake romantic relationships is growing fast, and the numbers prove it. In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 17,910 romance scam complaints, totaling a ...

Three Chicago-area residents involved in moving more than $3.5 million for an overseas-based romance scam network were sentenced in recent weeks, including a former U.S. Postal Service employee ...

In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission reported losses to romance scams topped $1.14 billion among 64,003 victims. Full 2024 numbers have not yet been released, but for the first nine months of ...

The Better Business Bureau Serving Connecticut says that romance/friendship scams cost people more money than any other type of scam last year.. According to the BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report ...

He said the scammers head to the internet and study the victim, preying on the relationships they have with people. "The romance scams, or the grandparent scams, they're prevalent in every area ...

As romance scams are on the rise, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing new legislation aimed at holding accountable those who seek to defraud retirees and steal their hard-earned savings ...