Down a dusty alley in the Ghanaian capital Accra, young men huddle together in a small, dark room and cast off their true identities, taking on the phony role of women looking for love online. They ...

PeopleFinders reports that romance scams are rising, with signs like refusal of video chat and repeated financial troubles.

AUSTIN, Texas - More people than ever are trying to find romance online these days. But scammers are increasingly using those dating apps to try to take advantage of those looking for love. What ...

The operation, co-ordinated by Interpol and funded by the UK, targeted criminal networks using social media and digital ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Ghana man who pleaded guilty to an online romance scam that tricked 11 victims out of their money was sentenced to serve more than 5 years in prison by an East Tennessee judge ...

"Love is blind" takes on a more sinister meaning when so-called artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a tool for exploiting our deepest human emotions. Convincing AI technologies are increasingly ...

Q. My 70-year-old female friend is a widow and was the victim of a romance scam. Could you please write about this scam so others will not be duped into thinking they had met their true love. You will ...

With Valentine’s Day approaching, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) are warning consumers to be aware of romance scams, a deceptive form of fraud that preys ...