In the first months of her online relationship with a man calling himself Frank Borg, Laura Kowal was showered with love notes and spent hours on giddy phone calls. By year two, those exchanges were methodical and transactional, with Frank instructing Kowal how to set up fake companies and bank…

“She said, ‘You should invest with this crowd and I’ll guarantee your losses if there are any and I’ve never lost anything yet’.“ The man said he was duped by the promise of money-making and “a promise of a better life”. “Everyone told me I was crazy, but I believed…

Romance scams landed a Florida man in prison for four years. Niselio Barros Garcia Jr., 50, of Winter Garden, was sentenced to 48 months in federal court on Tuesday for his role in the fraud network. Garcia worked with four other people – who authorities say are still at large –…

It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video chats. Two months of sharing their life stories and their dreams about the future before he took the bait —…

A DUBLIN man labelled as Ireland’s ‘Tinder Swindler’ has been arrested by Gardai, the Irish Sun can reveal. The suspect, in his 40s, was lifted by uniformed officers from Kilmainham Garda station earlier today. 2 Dublin man labelled ‘Tinder Swindler’ has been arrested by GardaiCredit: Alamy He’s being questioned on…

A 28-year-old man from Toronto is facing several charges after allegedly defrauding two victims of more than $600,000 in an online romance scam. Police say between June 2021 and July 2023, a man purported to be in a romantic relationship with two victims he’d met on an online dating platform….

The romance scam cost people more than $1.1 billion last year, according to the federal government.One of the victims is a Lancaster County man who lost thousands.Mark Heath said an attractive young woman who identified herself on Facebook as “Libby Collins” connected with him through the site and quickly started…

A man called Spartanburg, South Carolina, deputies over the weekend to report he’d been scammed after using a dating app, according to a police report.(Above video is the Tuesday morning headlines for 4/30/24.)The report from the Spartanburg Sheriff’s Office said the man called deputies just before 5 p.m. on Saturday…

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – It’s a new twist on a classic scam that’s affecting people of all ages, according to FBI Houston, whether you’re looking for love or not. Houston’s FBI Field Office is receiving a new report of money lost in cryptocurrency investment scams as frequently as every week,…

Two months ago, I shared the strange story of a man who tried to lure me into a romance scam on Instagram — claiming to be a wealthy oil rig engineer from California, currently working off the coast of Scotland. “Bobby Brown” told me he was the divorced father of…