Ezeneche Uzochukwu Jerome, 45, standing left, and his accomplices in a romance scam are arrested following police raids on 14 locations in Bangkok and six other provinces. (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham) A Nigerian man and 13 Thais, who were members of a romance scam gang responsible for siphoning about 800 million…
Romance Scammers Dupe Missouri Woman Out of $1 Million | St. Louis Metro News | St. Louis | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
click to enlarge ILLUSTRATION BY JUSTINE ALLENETTE ROSS Today in federal court in St. Louis a 37-year-old man from Texas pleaded guilty to duping a Missouri woman out of more than half a million a dollars. As part of scheme, Rotimi Oladimeji and other fraudsters used the identity of a…
How to spot and avoid romance scams | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
“My goal was to get money,” said Adekunle Adedeji, a former romance scammer from Nigeria who goes by the name Chris. While Adedeji, 23, did not pose as a “Nigerian prince,” he did tap another long running internet fraud: the romance scam. Using someone else’s photos found on Instagram and…
How ‘Leonardo DiCaprio’ Scammed a Houston Widow Out of $800K by Claiming He Was Trapped in Scientology | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
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…
Glastonbury police: Online romance scam likely originated in Nigeria | Crime & Courts | #lovescams | #datingapps
GLASTONBURY — A local woman looking for love on the online dating app Zoosk was scammed out of $18,750 by her would-be sweetheart in a romance fraud scheme that likely originated in Nigeria, police say. The police investigation into the matter, which is continuing, recently led to the arrest of…