Helinsa Kaban started the Safe Dating Space network to help women wise up to swindlers on dating apps, and support love scam victims. The WhatsApp community has grown to over 500 members across ...

Boston police are warning residents about a surge in online romance scams, which use fake dating or social-media profiles to ...

Extreme adoration at the start of a relationship, often followed by periods of withdrawal, is a tactic to lower victims' ...

Young West African ‘catfish’ scammers have turned cyber-fraud into a cornerstone of transnational crime by recycling age-old ...

Barclays found that romance scam victims lost £8000 on average in 2024, a significant increase from the previous year ...

Victims lost £8,000 on average last year, increasing to £19,000 for those 61 and over. Kirsty Adams, Fraud and Scams Expert ...

The bank's data revealed the average amount lost to a romance scam in 2024 was £8,000, up from just under £5,800 in 2023.

Barclays Bank has issued a warning about the “devastating” rise in romance scams as online dating hits its 30-year ...

Barclays has issued a cautionary notice to its customers aged 61 and above, following revelations that one in 10 UK adults ...

Barclays has sounded the alarm on rising romance scams, cautioning that victims are losing an average of £8,000 from their ...

The bust is considered one of law enforcement’s most significant actions against romance scams in U.S. history.

This video from Wired is a warning about how scammers target people on dating apps. The video interviews a woman who lost ...