Online dating scamsare 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 it’s like a shadow. So everything appears to…
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Photo: Olumide Bamgbelu, via Unsplash A couple from South London duped approximately 80 people, primarily gay men, out of more than £400,000, or $482,126 in U.S. dollars, as part of an elaborate scam that had them posing as single people in need of cash on dating apps. Fredrick Diji, 37,…
A 38-year-old Canton woman who stole $1 million from her victims using romance scams and pandemic unemployment fraud will spend more than three years behind bars. Florence Mwende Musau pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and was sentenced to 44 months in prison and ordered to…
SALT LAKE CITY — The FBI says Utahns reported losing over $7.7 million to romance scams in 2021, but the total is likely much higher. The criminals conjure up fake bios using fake photos to woo their victims. The website Social Catfish says it analyzed reverse image searches from its…
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On the search for love, many people turn to dating apps, but a few friendly texts with a potential match can quickly turn into one of the newest and fastest growing scams. “Pig butchering” or “pig slaughtering” is a crypto scam in which victims are enticed to…
By AFP Once carefree and comfortable, Huang is now haunted by debt — the target of a scheme operated by international crime groups that force human trafficking victims to do online scamming work. She is among a growing number of Chinese people lured into handing over large sums of cash…
Other victims cited similar experiences of the never-ending top-ups required of them. Han Ni, who was persuaded to invest in a “game” platform, had her account frozen for “violating a rule”. To reactivate it, she was told to put in half the amount she had in there: About S$35,000. Then…
The pig butchering scam is not the usual romance scam. Victims are contacted randomly and lured into high-paying investments. Losses run in billions of USD; crypto one of the conduits of funds transfer The US state of Delaware’s Department of Justice issued a Cease and Desist order against 23 entities…
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,…
