Widow’s mysterious death highlights growing concern over romance scams – CBS News Watch CBS News A growing form of fraud is posing physical, emotional, and financial threats to everyday Americans. Jim Axelrod reports on a romance scam turned tragic — when a widow was swindled out of her life savings. Be the first to know […]

It turned out to be an investment scam. Scammers dupe Hongkongers out of HK$31.5 million in low-interest loan cons “I was so stupid to trust her and invest all my family savings,” businessman Albert Berton (not his real name), 53, told the Post. He had never met the woman. Police said 822 cases involving romance […]

A year-long CBS News investigation finds that in the hearts, minds and wallets of Americans across the country, romance scams are taking a serious – and sometimes lethal – toll. CBS News and Stations kicks off a multi-part investigation, ANYTHING FOR LOVE: INSIDE THE ROMANCE SCAM EPIDEMIC, beginning on Sunday, April 21 through Sunday, April […]

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Romance scammers are using deepfakes to defraud people online. Getty Images The Nigerian online crime group known as the “Yahoo Boys” is now using AI in its romance scams. Romance scams cost Americans $1.3 billion in 2022, according to the FTC. One […]

The German police say they have arrested 11 suspected members of a Nigerian mafia group behind a large-scale dating scam in Germany. The Black Axe gang was involved internationally in “multiple areas of criminal activity”, with a focus in Germany on romance scams and money-laundering, Bavarian police said in a statement. According to the statement, […]

Melanie Wright is money editor at Rest Less. An award-winning financial journalist, she has written about personal finance for the past 25 years, and specialises in mortgages, savings and pensions. She is a former Deputy Editor of The Daily Telegraph’s Your Money section, wrote the Sunday Mirror’s Money section for over a decade, and has […]

TOWNSEND – Organized romance scammers target their victims by using sophisticated scripts, sending messages promising love, then they get men and women to send them money.  That is bad enough. But, for a Townsend woman who was duped into believing a famous actor was in love with her, the scam took on a potentially more […]

Three people — including a husband and wife — from New Jersey have pleaded guilty to charges they faced in a $4.5 million dollar romance scam that, officials said, left 100 victims “broke and heartbroken.” According to the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R Sellinger, the husband and wife pair of […]

The findings were based on data from 158,586 social media conversations and 16 interviews conducted by Halal Wave from 2021 to 2023 across five countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Germany and the United Kingdom. Baituljannah, a Malaysian digital matchmaking platform for Muslims, is also seeing a rise in the number of singles using their services. Its […]

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