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

A Ghanaian businessman admitted to running a $4.4 million romance scam targeting elderly Americans. Here's how the scam worked and how to protect yourself.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...