This real-lie romance scammer just confessed on-camera. Here's how he stole $100,000 from American women, and how he targeted them. *Subscribe* <a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: The Island Packet/Facebook. A South Carolina man lost more than $800,000 after an online romance developed into a ...

Online dating apps and social platforms have become fertile ground for a form of fraud that weaponizes affection. The pattern ...

Northern York County Regional Police filed charges against a suspect in an alleged scam hatched through a dating app that cost a man more than $47K.

He thought he was helping a grieving widow unlock her inheritance. Police say it was a Bronx man running a $47,000 con.

According to the viral post, the scam unfolds after two users match on a dating app and agree to meet in person. The woman then asks the man to cover her transportation costs, claiming her bank server ...

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new tool, Scam Alert, to thwart con artists on WhatsApp. The optional feature, currently in beta testing, will run an on-device machine learning ...

Abdul Rashid Ibraham, 27, allegedly posed as a woman named "Lara Lafayette" on the Widows dating app to scam the victim, according to police.

DES MOINES — Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird’s office is partnering with Meta, which owns both Facebook and Instagram, on a public awareness campaign aimed at helping Iowans avoid investment, ...

In this scam, the crooks view their victims as pigs that can be tempted and tricked into turning over their life savings.

“The person said he was an officer of the Department of Criminal Investigations looking into drug trafficking and money laundering,” the woman recalled. He seemed to know a lot about her: the states ...

A dating app that marketed itself as a way to meet people nearby used a “chat-to-earn” business model to weave female chat operators across China into an organized scam targeting middle-aged and older ...