A 77-year-old woman in Western New York thought she was talking to a man named “Oliver Wilson.” Federal prosecutors said the ...

Anola Johnson began innocently chatting with a man from LinkedIn—and less than a year later, she would lose nearly everything ...

Bill Johnston-Walsh, state director of AARP Pennsylvania, said the emotional manipulation used in romance scams is what makes ...

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick “The Yahoo Boys,” journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Romance scammers stole $672 million in 2024, and now the FBI is warning Kansas Citians to stay alert this Valentine’s Day. Federal investigators say criminals are targeting ...

Police are warning Far North Queenslanders to think twice before trusting online romances after a spike in scams targeting ...

The scammers will push and push and push until you have nothing. Americans lost over $672 million from romance scams in 2024, according to an FBI report. AI has only made these scams more widespread.

It’s one of the cruellest scams ­imaginable, and it’s playing out on a daily basis at airports across the country.

Cecilie told how she was conned by the man who called himself Simone Leviev (real name Shimon Hayut) in the Netflix ...

AI has helped these scams blossom. But the tax code now offers little relief for those who have lost money to a romance scam—unless it turns into an investment scam. Valentine’s Day has typically been ...