Dating websites, apps and social media have made it easier than ever to meet someone special online. While millions use these platforms to find love, scammers often lurk behind fake dating ...

A new BBB study found that investment scams were the number one most reported scam last year. In one in four cases, the scammer spent time building a romance or friendship with the victim. According ...

A pig butchering scam is a type of long-term scam, which usually but not always combines the various forms of romance scams and investment frauds, in which the victim is gradually lured into ...

China has repatriated nearly 3,000 telecoms fraud suspects from Myanmar since launching a joint crackdown with Myanmar and Thailand earlier this year, according to the top Chinese police authority.

A new federal report shows scams cost Iowans more than $50-million dollars last year. The Federal Trade Commission says it ...

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 ...

Over time, I transferred a total of VND5 billion (US$196,348). An online romance scam can lead to both emotional heartbreak and financial loss. Illustration photo from X Then everything unraveled.

A Nevada woman used online dating sites to lure mostly older men into a “romance scam on steroids” that netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars and is linked to at least one death ...

“This is technically a romance scam, but this is a romance scam on steroids,” Spencer Evans, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division, said in a news conference Friday.

“This is kind of a blend of a romance and an investment scam,” she said. A recent BBB study found that more scammers are striking up relationships online to lure people into fake investing ...