A 77-year-old woman in Western New York thought she was talking to a man named “Oliver Wilson.” Federal prosecutors said the ...

Journalist Carlos Barragán tells Reema Khrais what drives Nigeria’s “Yahoo Boys” to crime and how they profit from loneliness ...

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

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to a romance scam that defrauded a 77-year-old New York woman of over $177,000.

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick “The Yahoo Boys,” journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop ...

Bill Johnston-Walsh, state director of AARP Pennsylvania, said the emotional manipulation used in romance scams is what makes ...

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 ...

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 ...

The specialist team of financial crime experts is working 'in the shadows' to hunt down scammers online.

A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of thousands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis, police said Tuesday. The ...