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Two scam victims in two separate cases in Hamilton County recently got all or some of their money back, with help from the ...
The Federal Trade Commission reported the money lost by U.S. romance scam victims in 2022 was about $1.3 billion. STAFF Local News By Nick Blizzard Feb 8, 2024 ...
Have you been the victim of a romance scam? Help is on the way — courtesy of Netflix. Cecilie Fjellhøy, one of the victims ...
Police arrested a Zimbabwean man at an apartment in Bangkok for operating a romance scam in Phuket and overstaying his visa.
Scammers are using people to funnel stolen money out of the country. This con may look like a classic romance scam, but victims are tricked into illegal activity and can be prosecuted.
According to Social Catfish research, romance scams specifically are under-reported with just one in three victims sharing their experience and more than 70 percent of scam victims in general had ...
Online romance scams cost victims thousands. Read the story of one man who lost $31,000. Susan Tompor Detroit Free Press 0:00 ...
Many online ‘romance scam’ victims first contacted through social media, authorities say Troopers say that was the case with a Berks County man who lost more than $194,000 in a scam.
According to the FBI, almost 25-thousand victims lost nearly a billion dollars in romance scams in 2021. And scammers are now stealing significantly larger sums of money, and even leading victims ...
April Helm, a journalist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has dedicated her life to spreading awareness about romance scams and helping victims after her 70-year-old mother was scammed out of $350,000.
$718,000 romance scam leads to 2-year prison term, FBI warning More and more, scammers are preying on people, mostly women, who are looking for a relationship through dating websites and social ...
Romance scam losses topped $547 million three years ago, six times more than was recorded in 2017, surpassing all other Federal Trade Commission fraud categories, the agency reported.