With Valentine’s Day approaching, the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service want consumers to be aware they may be targeted for romance scams, a deceptive form of fraud that ...

The Canadian government has highlighted "romance scams" in its travel advisory for Ireland. "If you’re travelling to Ireland to meet someone you’ve otherwise only met online, you may be the ...

A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance ...

Three of the men are from Nevada. The FBI says it’s “one of the most egregious and reprehensible” romance scams in recent history. The crimes spanned from July 2021 and December 2022.

A Las Vegas woman with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship ran a “romance scam on steroids” that caused the deaths of three people, FBI Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans said during a news ...

A pig butchering scam is a type of long-term scam, which usually but not always combines the various forms of romance scams and investment frauds, in which the victim is gradually lured into ...

Detective Chief Inspector Jason Smith, of the Bermuda Police Service, said there had been about 15 to 20 cases of “romance scams” over the past year. The BPS and the Bermuda Bankers ...

The Bermuda Police Service [BPS] and the Bermuda Bankers Association [BBA] are advising Bermuda residents to be aware of “romance” scams. A spokesperson said, “Romance scams begin with a ...

PHOENIX -- Looking for love online? Be on guard: That suitor tugging at your heartstrings over text messages and emails may be interested only in your purse strings. In Arizona, losses from online ...

February is the month of love, but this does not mean that romance scammers stop scamming for Valentine’s Day. They pretend to love you, but they only love your money, and they want lots of it.

Scammers use texts and fake profiles to win trust and fleece billions of dollars per year from Americans. Ali Rogin speaks with investigative reporter Cezary Podkul about how these scams work and ...