AWS CEO Adam Selipsky responds to FTC allegations against Amazon, discusses AI innovation, and breaks down Amazon’s contributions to the U.S. economy on ‘FOX Business Originals.’ From dating sites to phishing emails, bad actors are taking advantage of artificial intelligence to create more realistic scams. They are now infiltrating dating apps to try and create...Read More
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A few years ago, Allie Miraglia and Trent Childs were cleaning their home when they had an epiphany. “I was just like, why do we need all this space?” Childs said. So, they downsized. The couple bought a van, fixed it up and started living out of it. A Utah...Read More
Fraudsters use many methods to try and con people out of their money, with one of the most popular involving fake supermarket voucher offers, supposedly from the likes of Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and more. We have warned loveMONEY readers about these scams many times over the past few years as these hoax voucher promotions have popped up...Read More
Mai Watanabe, a young self-proclaimed dating scammer, was arrested for selling how-to guides on defrauding ‘sugar daddies’ through paid dating. 25-year-old Watanabe, who hails from Nagoya, Japan, was arrested in August for selling a number of dating scam manuals to her social media followers. featuring titles like ‘Textbook for Sugar Babies: The Right Profile and...Read More
A woman from Kentucky was catfished by a person pretending to be Dacre Montgomery, an actor from “Stranger Things” She sent him 10 million naira worth of gift cards and divorced her husband to be with him, only to find out he was a scammer She contacted a YouTube channel to expose the scam and...Read More
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Almost three in 10 (29%) people who have met others online in the past 12 months say they were asked to give or lend money to someone they...Read More
Scammers have a powerful new weapon to wield this Valentine’s Day when drafting love letters to whisper sweet nothings at scale: artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT. The tactic of using fake online identities to gain victims’ affection and trust for financial gain is known as romance scams. While it sounds skeptical that humans can be...Read More
In recent years, people around the world have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online romance scams. One of the most lucrative of these, being run by criminal gangs across South East Asia, is called the “pig butchering romance scam”. The scammers refer to their victims as pigs, whom they fatten up to be...Read More
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A 70-year-old pensioner who fell victim to a romance scam has been refunded £153,000 by Lloyds bank – despite not being automatically entitled to compensation. The man, named...Read More
Romance scams remain a (growing) international problem. I am quoted in this CBC News story about a Calgary woman who lost almost 500K Canadian dollars: Legal expert Irina Manta says people could try more exclusive and expensive online dating services to receive a better vetting process. But in the meantime, she says, people need to stop blaming...Read More
