Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 7—A U.S. District judge sentenced a Nigerian national to seven years in federal prison for conducting a romance scam that ...

Romance scams aren’t rare. In 2024, Americans lost hundreds of millions to them. Rather than selling a fake product, these ...

The suspect in a romance fraud scheme in North Carolina has been extradited from Nigeria to the United States after being ...

The episode shows how anyone can be deceived — even a city with a population of more than 231,000 people and an entire ...

Her boyfriend of well over a year was Shimon Hayut, the infamous "Tinder Swindler," and she was one of many women he had scammed out of nearly everything they had. The women were victims of a ...

HAMMOND IS SET TO BE SENTENCED APRIL 20TH. IN THAT CASE, A CONNECTICUT MAN WILL SPEND NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR HIS ROLE IN A NATIONWIDE ROMANCE SCAM THAT AFFECTED VICTIMS HERE IN CENTRAL IOWA, ...

Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., right, arrives for a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13, 2025. Romance scams put banks in a bad spot, as our ...

Karen Whitaker had sent the person $30,000 over a year, despite being told by friends that it was not Tom Selleck who was asking for money, her friends said.

The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre has arrested a mother and her daughter over their alleged involvement in ...

Australians “who thought they had found love” have been unwittingly committing crimes after being enlisted by criminals ...

Games like Words With Friends have become hunting grounds for romance scammers who build trust and then ask victims for untraceable gift card payments.

Aussies who have lost thousands of dollars to scams could soon be given a much-needed reprieve under a new plan from the ...