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Online dating scams are all too common.Sweet-talking and typing swindlers, wooing unsuspecting, hopeless romantics. Not for love, but lover boys or girls looking to steal your money.”She put money into my wallet, into this app, and this app is super crazy, where its like a shadow. So everything appears to be working,…
Pig butchering has become an all-too-common online con that costs victims billions of dollars annually. And there’s little remedy for a growing number of victims. But Erin West, a California prosecutor, has made it her mission to fight back against these scams and the people executing them. On a recent episode…
(NewsNation) — A “love at first swipe” cost a Philadelphia woman nearly $500,000. Shreya Datta explains she was matched with a guy on the dating app Hinge — they bonded and realized they shared a lot in common including investing. VIDEO: Watch the latest video stories in the WKRG News 5 Video Center…
(Video above are the current top stories) PHILADELPHIA (WJW) — A “love at first swipe” cost a woman nearly $500,000. Philadelphia resident Shreya Datta explains she was matched with a guy on the dating app Hinge — they bonded and realized they shared a lot in common including investing. The person she was…
Recently, consumer protection magazine Which? identified some of the most convincing scams of 2023. These scams all have one thing in common – they insidiously take advantage of people’s cognitive biases and psychological blind spots. They included “pig butchering” a way of fattening up victims with affection, the missing person scam…
(NewsNation) — A “love at first swipe” cost a Philadelphia woman nearly $500,000. Shreya Datta explains she was matched with a guy on the dating app Hinge — they bonded and realized they shared a lot in common including investing. The person she was communicating with recommended she put her cash into Coinbase and change…
(NewsNation) — A “love at first swipe” cost a Philadelphia woman nearly $500,000. Shreya Datta explains she was matched with a guy on the dating app Hinge — they bonded and realized they shared a lot in common including investing. The person she was communicating with recommended she put her cash into Coinbase and change…
The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation (DFR) is warning consumers to be wary of an unexpected text or direct message from a stranger – it might be the first step in a “pig butchering” scam. The term pig butchering comes from the practice of fattening a pig before slaughter. These…
You have heard of the Nigerian prince scam, but you probably do not associate the term “pig butchering” with investment fraud. Like a hog fattened before the slaughter, perpetrators of these scams slowly build trust with their targets before “butchering” them with a final fraud and walking away with the…
