Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Iowan lost more than $400,000 in a Connecticut man's romance scam that targeted victims across the country. Naabanyin ...

Scammers using Connecticut-based bank accounts and addresses siphoned millions of dollars from middle-aged and elderly victims looking for love, according to federal authorities. Richard Fasanella, 56 ...

A Ghanaian national had pleaded guilty to scamming countless victims as part of a global fraud ring that engaged in romance fraud and business email compromise (BEC). The Justice Department announced ...

In January, San Francisco retiree Adan Look became Facebook friends with an account using the name Annissa. Annissa was a self-described Japanese microchip salesperson with profile photos of a woman ...

Jeremy Renner is fighting a fraud lawsuit filed by a California woman who claims she was scammed out of more than $23,000 by someone she believed was the Hollywood actor. Renner has denied any ...

International Women's Day celebrates empowerment, independence and resilience. However, people rarely talk about a difficult reality. Women navigating major life transitions, especially widows and ...

Jeremy Renner is at the center of a bizarre legal battle after a California woman filed a lawsuit claiming she was scammed out of more than $23,000 by someone she believes was the Marvel star himself.

Just 76 days after a wrong number text, this journalist had lost $271,000 on fake investments. He shares his romance scam ...

The FBI says seniors lose more than $3 billion yearly to fraud, with AARP finding nearly 1 in 10 adults over 50 targeted by online romance scams. Russia responds after Trump says he plans to take Cuba ...

An East Hartford man was sentenced in Des Moines, Iowa, to nine years in prison and ordered to pay back $1.5 million to his victims for a nationwide romance scam. According to public court documents ...

Criminal proceedings against a retired religious studies professor accused of scamming a woman he met on a Christian dating website in 2024 will proceed after a judge denied his second request for a ...

It seems that scams are everywhere these days — in our texts, emails, and phone calls to start. And con artists continue to become more sophisticated in the age of AI, so much so that a recent survey ...