A scam called “pig butchering” gaining steam as a potent threat to Canadians almost lured this reporter — and it all started on Insight Timer, the meditation app.

Law enforcement seized $200,000 belonging to a Massachusetts victim who wired more than $500,000 into a suspected fake crypto ...

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Thousands have lost huge sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. By Cezary Podkul / ProPublica ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A cruel scam known as pig butchering has struck yet another Bay Area resident. This time, an elderly widow in San Jose thought she found new love online. Instead, she was targeted ...

Online dating scams are all too common. Sweet-talking and typing swindlers, wooing unsuspecting, hopeless romantics. Not for love, but lover boys or girls looking to steal your money. "She put money ...

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped ...

Prosecutors in Brooklyn seized nearly two dozen web domains associated with a scheme known as "pig butchering," in which scammers strike online conversations with unsuspecting victims, gain their ...

DOJ files civil forfeiture to recover $200,000 in USDT from Tinder crypto scam. Victim transferred $504,353 to fraudulent ...

“I lost everything. I lost my kids’s future. I lost my future." ...