A Cincinnati woman was sentenced to two years in prison for laundering more than $8 million for online romance scammers, according to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio office.Attorney Kenneth L. Parker announced that 65-year-old Pamela Moore pleaded guilty in February to one count of money…

US marine Kagan Dunlap says he has been fighting off romance scammers who steal his photos and pretend to be him on dating apps since 2015 – and some have even contacted his wife Kagan Dunlap claims fraudsters impersonate him on dating apps(Image: Kennedy News and Media) A US marine…

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 — Loneliness, the desire to find true love, and easily trusting words of affection are among the reasons why women often fall victim to online romance scams, or ‘love scams’, the police said today. According to Utusan Malaysia, Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director…

Beware of social media profiles with few photos and never send money or gifts without meeting someone first. Those two seemingly simple tips could potentially save an unwitting man or woman looking for online companionship tens of thousands of dollars, a self-professed former romance scammer in Nigeria told Newsweek. “People…

OXFORD, Mich. (WXYZ) – An Oxford woman was scammed out of nearly $500,000 — her life savings — by someone she thought she’d marry. Sandy Selvan told us that she sold her car and her house. She gave absolutely everything to a scammer who had convinced her that they were…

A fraudster Romeo who bilked five Alberta women of thousands of dollars by faking a lavish lifestyle, brain cancer, seizures and fathering a child with at least one of them, is appealing his dangerous offender designation. Jeffrey Kent’s lawyer says he has filed a notice of appeal challenging the ruling…

This story won the Military News (No Production Time Limit) award at the 2025 Southeast Emmys. To read more work from Emmy-winning ANF Investigates Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe, click here. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – The double-amputee soldier holds a cake and asks for birthday wishes. Patriotic Americans like,…

A trial started in Munich on Monday of 12 suspected members of the Nigerian mafia, accused of love scamming victims into paying them money by feigning a romantic relationship to gain their trust. The men aged between 33 and 54 have been charged with forming a criminal organization, with the…

A 35-year-old married father of two has pleaded guilty in a sophisticated romance scam that targeted women in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Kansas. They all met and fell in love with the same man online, who purported to be working on an oil rig. The women sent him millions…

A serial romance fraudster with a decades-long pattern of using relationships with women as a ruse to con them out of money has been labelled a dangerous offender. Jeffrey Paul Kent, 55, was given the label intended for Canada’s most violent criminals and sexual offenders last week in Edmonton. Court…