While may start as an innocent Facebook connection may cost you thousands of dollars. The FBI has issued a warning about ...

FBI asks victims of alleged romance scam to come forward The FBI on Friday issued a news release asking other possible victims to come forward after prosecutors filed a motion to unseal the ...

A Las Vegas woman with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship ran a “romance scam on steroids” that caused the deaths of three people, FBI Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans said during a news ...

The woman said a fake FBI agent told her hackers got into her account. He said the money would be safe in a Bitcoin machine.

Three of the men are from Nevada. The FBI says it’s “one of the most egregious and reprehensible” romance scams in recent history. The crimes spanned from July 2021 and December 2022.

Scammers may propose marriage and make plans to meet in person, but that will never happen. Eventually, they will ask for money,” the FBI says on its website. Many romance scammers adjust their ...

Report romance scams to the FTC, the platform where the scam occurred, and consider contacting AARP's fraud helpline or the FBI. The Federal Trade Commission has reported more than 64,000 romance ...

A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance ...