Romance scams can leave you both broke and heartbroken. Military romance scams take advantage of both those looking for love and our service members. SAN ANTONIO — One soldier is fighting a battle of a different sort. Army Col. Daniel Blackmon says fraudsters are using his name and pictures in…
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Men are coming forward frustrated at learning their pictures are being used to scam people looking for love. ABC11 Troubleshooter Diane Wilson continues to warn you about the financial and emotional heartbreak of the victims who thought they formed an online love connection, only to lose…
WASHINGTON — How cautious are you online? Scammers attempt to get money, goods or services out of unsuspecting people — and military members are often targets. Here are some scams that have affected service members, Defense Department employees and their families. Romance scams In…
Mark Edward Atkinson/Tracey Lee | Tetra images | Getty Images “Scammers target active duty members and veterans,” said Paul Bischoff, a privacy advocate for Comparitech. “These are repackaged scams that affect everyone, but it may be that members of the military are more susceptible or the scams are tailored to…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two men have been sentenced and a third has been convicted in an online dating scheme where a Kentucky woman was scammed out of more than $750,000. Kahad A. Wuupini of Auburn, Washington, was sentenced Friday to six years and seven months in federal prison, The Lexington…
Veterans are losing more money than ever before to scammers. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — “You fought for us, so we’re fighting for you.” That’s the message several Pennsylvania agencies have for today’s Veterans. According to AARP, veterans are 40% more likely to lose money to scams than the civilian population….
For more than a year, hundreds of military members thought they were finding love online. But it wasn’t so. Instead, it was a case of prison inmates posing as women online, looking for victims in a scheme that investigators say netted more than half a million dollars. The service members,…
Whether you’re shopping online or searching for love on a dating app, it bears keeping in mind: Online scams, ranging from bank scams to romance scams to crypto scams, are on the rise. More than 2.8 million people in the United States reported being victims of fraud in 2021, resulting in…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the heartbreakers at the Federal Trade Commission recently released their latest report on online romance scammers and the aftermath of their schemes. According to the FTC’s statistics, almost 70,000 people reported falling for romantic scams amounting to $1.3 billion in personal losses. The median…
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah Townsend’s identity, for some reason, has been usurped by online scammers to such an extent that the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), which the general led from 2018 to 2019, felt compelled to issue a public warning in 2018. “***IMPOSTER…
