Here are four ways to help identify, prevent, and protect against romance scams. If a love interest asks for money, they may ask you to send it as a gift card, online money transfer or cryptocurrency.

It’s a sad fact, but true — so many of today’s most common scams work by preying on and exploiting trust, and our most human emotions. And that’s even more true when it comes to online dating scams ...

A Navy veteran and widower was scammed out of $16,000 by a romance scammer with whom he had been texting for years.

On social media, Kevin Ottomar, a project foreman from West Palm Beach, Florida, looks quite similar to Caleb Wilson, a North Carolina college alumnus, and Wilson Davis, a marine engineer in Ireland.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A Massachusetts woman is warning others after her 74-year-old mother was conned out of nearly her entire retirement savings in an elaborate year-long romance scam. Jessica, who ...

"It becomes so big that I can't even do anything about it," Scott Cole said of the constant use of his photos Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...