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…

“I felt so betrayed and ashamed of myself that I’d fallen for a scammer,” said Alice, a woman from Australia. “And that I’d parted with so much money.” GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Over the last several years, “romance scams” have become much more common, where people will use dating profiles…

Photo: Olumide Bamgbelu, via Unsplash A couple from South London duped approximately 80 people, primarily gay men, out of more than £400,000, or $482,126 in U.S. dollars, as part of an elaborate scam that had them posing as single people in need of cash on dating apps. Fredrick Diji, 37,…

PHOENIX – A suspect in Arizona faces federal charges for his alleged involvement in a romance scam, defrauding victims for millions of dollars and authorities say there could be others. You may think to yourself, “That could never happen to me,” or, “Why would anyone give away hundreds, thousands, even…

The story behind Houston online romance scam A Houston family says their elderly father was scammed out of more than $100,000 dollars by a woman he met through a dating site. Social Catfish reports people seeking love lost a record $547 million dollars to romance scams last year with Texas…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Texas man was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years in prison for his role in an online romance scam in which the identities and images of real U.S. military generals were used to cheat victims from across the nation out of a total…

What’s the context? Poverty and unemployment are driving Ghana’s youth into the dark underbelly of identity theft and romance scams Romance scams gaining ground across West Africa Students abandoning school for internet fraud Scammers using crypto to bypass safety checks ACCRA – As a teenager, Kasim was the star striker of…

Police in China have busted a fraud ring that had duped an undisclosed number of male victims out of a combined 300,000 yuan (US$42,000) by scamming each individual out of a small amount of money. Police in Shanghai arrested 20 members of the network from seven cities across the country….