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A Glencoe woman narrowly escaped a costly scam after being led to believe she would marry Hollywood hunk Shemar Moore. The romance ruse reached the point where she had already booked a Dundee church for the ceremony and begun searching for caterers and a photographer Star-struck by the interest in…
Article content A 28-year-old Toronto man is accused of an online romance scam that bilked two people out of more than $600,000. Article content Peel Regional Police allege that between June 2021 and July 2023 two victims believed they were in a genuine romantic relationship with the man they had…
A devastated Friends superfan claims he was brutally scammed out of £200 by a fraudster posing as Jennifer Aniston. Paul Davies from Southampton believed he was chatting to the Rachel Green star on social media, before ‘Jennifer‘ asked him to hand over the cash so she could pay for her…
Catriona MacPhee and Rachel Coburn BBC Disclosure On his dating profile, Harkins presented himself as a jet-setting, business-owning, “gym rat” Nine women separately told police about one of Scotland’s most prolific and predatory romance fraudsters in the years before his arrest, the BBC has found. Christopher Harkins was finally jailed…
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MUMBAI: A lot can happen on a date. Why, one could even get scammed by the partner. In a dating scam case, 21 people, six of them women, have been arrested. The women would scout for targets on dating apps, call the men to restaurants on a “date”, connive with…
Freepik/Reddit Sometimes, protecting a friend means saying something they don’t want to hear. This woman has a friend who is in a relationship with a man who sounded nice from her stories, but then the man asked for money. She thought it sounded like a romance scam, but she wonders…
Imagine meeting someone for a date and being scammed! Well, this isn’t something new for people finding their matches online, but a recent scam pointed out by a Delhi man who paid a whopping bill of Rs. 17,983 on his date raised concerns about Delhi’s growing food scam. Here’s all…
A Sunshine Coast woman’s initial report to RCMP has led to more victims identified, and the arrest of a 53-year-old man for fraud over $5,000 where he earned the trust of multiple victims online with the promise of romance. In June 2023, the Sunshine Coast RCMP began investigating a report…
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