In an extract from his new book The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos, journalist CARLOS BARRAGÁN travels to Lagos to uncover the truth behind romance scams When journalist Carlos ...

It began with a simple “Hello” on the social media platform Threads. The retiree, who lives near the south-western German city of Karlsruhe and asked not to be identified, was puzzled by the message ...

He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old ...

A woman lost her savings to an AI-powered romance scam using a deepfake Dubai prince. Learn how these scams work and how to ...

Valentine’s Day is a time for love, but unfortunately, it’s also a prime opportunity for scammers looking to prey on hopeful romantics. Romance scams cost Americans some $1.14 billion in 2023 alone.

Nobody likes spam messages, but some of them contain rather fascinating scams. Case in point, [Ben Tasker] recently got a few romance scam emails that made him decide to take a poke at the scam behind ...

“I can go three days without food, a day without speaking, an hour without moving, a minute without breathing, but never a second without thinking about you. A ...

A Los Angeles woman was reportedly duped out of more than $81,000 by a scammer using AI-generated videos of “General Hospital” star Steve Burton. Abigail Ruvalcaba sent money through prepaid cards, ...

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MUAR: A government pensioner claims she lost RM183,100 in a love scam after befriending two individuals via Facebook ...

A romance scam occurs when a criminal creates a profile online and pretends to build a romantic relationship with a victim in order to exploit them for financial gain. In many cases, these accounts ...