It’s a sad fact, but true — so many of today’s most common scams work by preying on and exploiting trust, and our most human emotions. And that’s even more true when it comes to online dating scams ...

Romance scams are surging this holiday season, with Avast reporting a 64% increase in blocked dating scam attacks and high rates of victims falling for them. Scammers use emotional manipulation — ...

WASHINGTON -- Love is blind -- and scammers are taking advantage of that. Americans lost more than $201 million to romance scams in 2019, up 40% from 2018, according to a new Federal Trade Commission ...

Let’s briefly consider a hypothetical scenario. Say you’ve been single for a long time and are becoming jaded about the state of current dating apps. Once-promising leads keep ghosting you, and the ...

The feds want a Virginia grandmother to pay a whopping $378,000 stolen in a $2 million romance scam. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., or FDIC, claims Cynthia Concordia is on the hook for the cash ...

Learn how AI deepfakes enabled a sophisticated romance scam that drained a Bitcoin investor’s $86,800 retirement fund and how ...