Kowal became involved in a romance scam with a man she met through Match.com who called himself "Frank Borg." What started as an online and telephone romance migrated into increasingly desperate ...

Consumers lost a whopping $1.14 billion to romance scams in 2023, according to the Federal Trade Commission. "Romance scams tend to be some of the more insidious because they prey on emotions ...

Today we close out a three-part series on romance scams. This is the first such series in the several years that this column appeared and for good reason. Scams are destructive! All scams result in ...