In December 2024, a man named Jason Morris persuaded his online girlfriend — a senior woman living in Oklahoma — to send him ...

While way more sophisticated than emails from a wealthy Nigerian prince, this smishing text was just the latest in an ...

If you suspect or know your parents have been targeted by a romance scammer, help them report the crime and claw back any ...

Older adults are often targeted: Americans age 60 and over lost more than $356 million to confidence/romance scams in 2023, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime ...

The FBI offers a few tips to avoid a romance scam. Here are just a few: Never send money to anyone you’ve only communicated ...

Eventually, the person she was texting started asking her for money. He claimed to need cash for food. "I would even tell ...

The woman allegedly manipulated four elderly women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars each by using aliases, the ...

One victim sold her house to send $600,000, according to an affidavit, while another sent $40,000 in gift cards.