Anola Johnson began innocently chatting with a man from LinkedIn—and less than a year later, she would lose nearly everything ...

A handbook found during a police raid on a compound used by a cyberfraud gang in the Philippines offers detailed instructions in Chinese for conducting scams. A second handbook, seized during another ...

Are you free tomorrow? We are going to have a BBQ.” The stranger’s text arrived one July morning, just ahead of a weekend memorial service for a colleague that included a picnic. So, while I normally ...

Romance scams come at a huge cost that goes far beyond broken hearts. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data (1) shows $298 million in reported losses from romance cons originating on social media in ...

A woman named Abigail believed she was in a romantic relationship with a famous actor. The messages felt real. The voice sounded right. The video looked authentic. And the love felt personal. By the ...

It seems that scams are everywhere these days — in our texts, emails, and phone calls to start. And con artists continue to become more sophisticated in the age of AI, so much so that a recent survey ...

The median reported loss for romance scams was $2,218 in the third quarter of 2025. Romance scammers will frame their pitch one way for a 25-year-old woman and another for a 55-year-old divorced male, ...