An Oklahoma widower says he lost more than $85,000 after a Facebook relationship turned into a romance scam built around a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. A 75-year-old B.C. woman says a romance scam that began on Facebook left her $60,000 in debt and with ...

NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. — As Valentine’s Day approaches and people turn to online dating in search of connection, a Minnesota woman’s experience highlights the growing threat of romance scams targeting ...

Joe Novak thought he had found a genuine human connection on social media. After the 51-year-old father shared a Facebook post about the challenges of caring for a son with celiac disease, a woman he ...

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 ...

Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime because they combine carefully manufactured intimacy with financial theft – the scammers go after your heart, and then your ...

It’s called catfishing. As described by Merriam-Webster, “catfishing is defined as the act of creating a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes." You ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

AI has helped these scams blossom. But the tax code now offers little relief for those who have lost money to a romance scam—unless it turns into an investment scam. Valentine’s Day has typically been ...