Every day, people get duped by the promise of love and affection and it ends up costing them big bucks. Romance scams usually involve some kind of fake online profile ...

Romance scams usually involve some kind of fake online profile photo. And now we’re getting a look at some of the photos used by scammers in their schemes. The Social Catfish website just ...

As an expert in the field of technology fraud, I want to shed some light on the typical pattern of romance fraud and expose the psychological factors that make victims vulnerable to this type of scam ...

I want to shed some light on the typical pattern of romance fraud and expose the psychological factors that make victims vulnerable to this type of scam. Romance fraud, also known as romance scam ...

Scammers involved with this kind of con will usually target people they meet on dating apps or via social media and will pretend to be someone they’re not, often using fake photos to catfish ...

Scammers used AI-generated images ... psychological barrier that prevents victims from recognizing or accepting that they are being scammed, even when presented with evidence. Online dating ...

In addition to personal information, scammers have escalated their approach by including images of the target’s supposed home, workplace, neighbourhood or street in attached PDF files.

With the advent of artificial intelligence, romance scams are becoming even more sophisticated and prevalent, with scammers using video deepfakes to con their victims. Deepfakes are images ...

Video / NZ Herald / AFP An Auckland man has lost nearly $50,000 after being lured into an online romance scam with the promise of financial gains and “a better life”. The 78-year-old ...

He worked alongside hundreds of others aiming to steal money in a ‘pig butchering’ romance ... to scam buster Jim Browning before he had to delete it off his phone. These are among the images ...