Pasadena man threatened online while looking for love on dating app Scott Davenport wants to warn others about dating app scams after his experience on Facebook. HOUSTON – A Pasadena man is sharing his online dating nightmare in hopes of sparing others the same pain. Cyber experts say operations like…
HOUSTON – A Sugar Land girl’s dreams of seeing one of her favorite country singers in concert, are now shattered after her mom says they were scammed out of a thousand dollars. After seeing a post online advertising Morgan Wallen tickets, they shelled out the money but never got the…
HOUSTON, TX—In 2021, some 24,000 victims across the United States reported losing approximately $1 billion to romance scams.1 It’s likely that many more losses went unreported. Romance scams occur when a criminal adopts a fake online identity to gain a victim’s affection and trust. The scammer then uses the illusion…
Dominique Golden, 31, admitted that, as part of the scam, she opened mailboxes and bank accounts in the names of fake individuals and businesses for the purpose of receiving and depositing “romance scam” victim funds. From about Feb. 4, 2018, through Dec. 12, 2018, she collected and deposited a total of…
In the summer of 2018, a 54-year-old woman living in a Houston suburb—a woman I’ll call Denise—decided to expand her social media horizons. “I’m not a social media butterfly,” she tells me. “I’m typically lurking on Facebook to see what my daughters are getting up to, but 2018 was a…
