He would text things like I love you. Nothing will stop me from making you happy. He’s talking in this dutch, sexy accent. I really had no idea the amount of debt that I was going to rack up when true love turns to true crime, she made this assumption…
Whaling also said that many of the company’s apps ask users to take profile photos within the app itself, so that automated tools can compare the images with the person’s already-uploaded photos. In theory, this provides evidence that a person is who they say they are. But this Photo Verification…
Tinder is reaching its 10-year anniversary, which also marks nearly a decade of constantly trying to beat back bots and scammers on the platform.Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP (Getty Images) It’s been nearly 10 years since swiping left became the gesture of choice for millions of daters with the advent of Tinder. Since…
An Ohio man admitted yesterday (September 29) to laundering more than $4 million from people looking for love on dating apps, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker of the Southern District of Ohio. 45-year-old Edward Amankwah of Westerville plead guilty to conspiring to launder almost $4.3…
Our phones have made us hyperconnected. You can use them to check your email, answer calls, respond to text messages, chat on any number of platforms, check your dating profile, and so on. All those means of communication are increasingly being taken over by online scams. “The internet is a…
ALBANY, Ga. – Two individuals pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges today resulting from separate United States Secret Service (USSS) led investigations into larger Walmart gift card schemes involving hundreds of fraud victims from across the country. Yao Lin, 51, of Ruther Glen, Virginia, and Wen Xue Lin, 39,…
He would text things like I love you. Nothing will stop me from making you happy. He’s talking in this dutch, sexy accent. I really had no idea the amount of debt that I was going to rack up when true love turns to true crime, she made this assumption…
A resident of south Edmonton fought back tears Thursday as he described how he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on a cryptocurrency investment that he is now certain was a scam. The man, who CTV News Edmonton has agreed not to identify because he claims to be the victim…
A resident of south Edmonton fought back tears Thursday as he described how he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on a cryptocurrency investment that he is now certain was a scam. The man, who CTV News Edmonton has agreed not to identify because he claims to be…
The Delaware Department of Justice’s Investor Protection Unit halted the operations of 23 entities and individuals involved in cryptocurrency romance frauds, known as “pig butchering” scams. A recent analysis conducted by Bankless Times estimated that Americans lost around $185 million between January 2021 and March 2022 due to such schemes….
