Paul Davies from Southampton believed he was chatting to the Friends star. Paul believed he was chatting to Jennifer Aniston(Image: AFP via Getty Images) 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…

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – A woman from Wichita thought she had found her perfect match but ended up getting scammed out of thousands of dollars. Frank Annin is now on trial for scamming her and several other women. Trisha, the alleged victim, said that in June 2022, she had just…

MAPLE CREEK – A 53-year-old Saskatchewan man has been arrested in connection with a high-profile romance scam that allegedly defrauded a British Columbia woman of $110,000. Michael Paul Snow, originally from Maple Creek, Sask., was taken into custody on June 24 following an extensive investigation by the Sunshine Coast RCMP in…

Several other victims were identified over the course of the investigation, say police. After two years of investigation, RCMP has arrested a 53-year-old man for scamming a Sunshine Coast woman out of more than $100,000 in a “romance scam.” Michael Paul Snow was arrested in Maple Creek, Sask. on June…

MARIETTA, Ga. – A Marietta man who posed as a wealthy suitor to swindle women out of millions has been convicted in a sweeping federal case involving fake love, fake identities, and real financial ruin. What we know: Kenneth G. Akpieyi, 44, who went by the alias “Phillip Anderson,” was…

When Facebook Dating served me up both an international pilot and a mega-bucks currency trader in the same week in 2021, I should have known they were too good to be true. But I was a tad naive, as I’d spent the last seven years meeting someone/having children/splitting up and…

Seduction is a powerful tool, and in the wrong hands it can turn fatal. “Charmed to Death,” premiering Sunday, July 18 at 7/6c on Oxygen, provides chilling proof with true-life stories of people whose magnetism and shiny veneers became deadly weapons.  Dangerously charismatic criminals include a small-town serial seductress, a doting husband…

CBS News Live CBS News Pittsburgh Live WHEELING, W. Va. (KDKA) — A man from Wheeling was indicted in a romance scam that federal prosecutors said cost a woman about $96,000.  After meeting the victim online in 2022, 52-year-old Eugene Robert LeClear told her he needed money for several fake…

A 70-year-old woman from Coeur d’Alene in Idaho who had fallen for a romance scam was kidnapped by the men who had “catfished” her and has now died shortly after being able to return home, according to her family. Diane Webb had been introduced to dating apps three years ago…

CHICAGO — Artificial intelligence could be targeting you on texts, social media and dating apps. Some victims lost thousands of dollars to people they thought were real women but turned out to be fakes. The people behind the scheme were stealing their cash and hearts. “Hey, hey honey, you’re the…