Valentine’s Day is a time for love, but unfortunately, it’s also a prime opportunity for scammers looking to prey on hopeful romantics.
Romance scams have become the most common type of fraud in 2025 and have swindled would-be lovers out of over $1.3 billion in the United States alone. Just last year, the world heard the ...
Romance scams often start online but frequently escalate to requests for money or valuables sent through the mail, leading to devastating financial and emotional losses for victims, the USPS ...
Romance scams are surging in Texas, with scammers preying on the emotions of people seeking connection to steal money, ...
She was heartbroken when she finally realized that it was all a con and followed the patterns of other romance scammers looking to take advantage of vulnerable singles looking for love ...
But unfortunately, romance is a tactic used by scammers to make money by defrauding lonely and isolated people who would like a little bit of love themselves. Romance scams are a problem ...
But instead of finding romance, many find a scammer trying to trick them into sending money. Romance scammers create fake profiles on dating sites and apps or contact you through popular ...
The more information that they can get on somebody, then they can use it down the line." Another big scam surrounding Valentine's holiday is romance scams.