[Source: Consumer Council of Fiji / Facebook] With National Scam Awareness Week underway to empower communities to fight against fraudulent activities, the Police Force today revealed that retired women are becoming targets of romance scams. According to Acting Director Economic Crime Reshmi Dass, a woman reportedly lost around $500,000 due…

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…

As with many elaborate con tricks, not everything Raymond McDonald said was a lie. He had indeed been in the army. Dishonourably discharged in 2000, McDonald worked briefly in a supermarket and at a factory packing chickens but soon began committing fraud. He received his first prison term in 2003….

In what cops called a ‘romance scam on steroids’ this Nevada woman is facing 21 counts after drugging and robbing men she would meet online – and killed three of them 04:05 ET, 22 Feb 2025Updated 04:20 ET, 22 Feb 2025 She would lure her victims online to meet her…

He was a soldier of misfortune. As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, so do the scams utilizing it. A UK woman who fell for a “US army colonel” she met on Tinder discovered later that he was a romance scammer after he swindled her out of over $20,000 by deploying…

A FRENCH woman was left broke and broken after an AI Brad Pitt scammer convinced her to divorce her husband and hand over nearly £700,000 for his “cancer treatment.” Smitten interior designer Anne, 53, thought she’d struck up a romance with the Hollywood star after someone pretending to be Pitt’s…

Onijah Andrew Robinson has been appearing in multiple news reports and social media posts in the past few days. She came from the US to marry a young man in Karachi, Pakistan. As it turns out, he didn’t want her, and she was left alone to wander around in Karachi…

Hong Kong police recently busted a gang that managed to steal tens of millions of dollars from middle-aged men looking for love. We are referring to a deepfake love scam. The men were lured by beautiful but fake women who were part of a criminal organization that managed to steal…

MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) – A Miramar woman was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in federal prison for her role in a money laundering conspiracy tied to romance scams that defrauded American victims out of millions of dollars, according to federal officials. Cristine Petitfrere, 30, admitted to laundering over $2.7 million…

The story of an extraordinary romance fraud is making global headlines as its victim is mocked around the world for her naïveté. The story of Anne, a French woman in her 50s, was recently broadcast on the French TV channel TFI. Anne explained how she ended up paying 830,000 Euros…