Scammers often prey on lonely individuals seeking love, using photos stolen from real people to establish fake profiles. One ...

While regulating dating apps could help in ensuring accountability of platform providers to curb "love scams", experts ...

When 'Julia' became suspicious and challenged the ‘Daniel Peeters’ requests in May last year, he asked her to marry him, ...

The victims pulled money out of their retirement accounts. The withdrawals had inflated their taxable income, even though the ...

A still from The Man With a Thousand Faces, which is screening at the 2025 Fraud Film Festival. Photo / Supplied A festival ...

SINGAPORE: A man with an intellectual disability fell for a woman he got to know via social media and transferred her more ...

From a ‘love nest’ scam to DeepSeek founder’s hometown becoming a tourist hotspot, here are five stories from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans (23%) say they or someone they know has lost money to a tax scam. Close to half (48%) of people have received a fake IRS message via text, email, social media, or phone ...

The deadline for having REAL ID identification is approaching in May, and that creates the sense of urgency that scammers ...