The episode shows how anyone can be deceived — even a city with a population of more than 231,000 people and an entire ...

Anola Johnson began innocently chatting with a man from LinkedIn—and less than a year later, she would lose nearly everything ...

Older Americans looking for romance online were allegedly pulled into fake relationships with fictitious women, false stories ...

Chief Correspondent and Executive Editor, "Eye on America" Jim Axelrod is the chief correspondent and executive editor for CBS News' "Eye on America" franchise, part of the "CBS Evening News." He also ...

HAMMOND IS SET TO BE SENTENCED APRIL 20TH. IN THAT CASE, A CONNECTICUT MAN WILL SPEND NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR HIS ROLE IN A NATIONWIDE ROMANCE SCAM THAT AFFECTED VICTIMS HERE IN CENTRAL IOWA, ...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a major federal and state cooperation in Ohio in the fight ...

The victim, who believed he was in a genuine online relationship with the woman, had sent large sums of money to fraudsters.

Romance scams aren’t rare. In 2024, Americans lost hundreds of millions to them. Rather than selling a fake product, these ...

Her boyfriend of well over a year was Shimon Hayut, the infamous "Tinder Swindler," and she was one of many women he had scammed out of nearly everything they had. The women were victims of a ...

A man in his 30s who participated in a romance scam operation in Cambodia, defrauding victims of billions of Korean won, was ...

Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., right, arrives for a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13, 2025. Romance scams put banks in a bad spot, as our ...

A Castle Rock woman was recently sent to prison for handling almost $3.5 million gained by overseas operatives through romance scams - after she had lost a large amount of her own money to the scam ...