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

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

The Department of Justice seized over $8 million from romance scammers after tracing the money to cryptocurrency wallets.

The law firm said dating sites like Match.com and Tinder are full of scammers waiting to prey on vulnerable men or women.

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

On November 24 2022, Julie-Anne received a Facebook message from a man claiming to be called Andrew, an orthopaedic surgeon working in Afghanistan with the military. He immediately “love bombed” her ...

Five romance scammers-turned-money launderers were convicted in the UK today after police shuttered a multimillion-pound fraud operation. Prosecutors said 40 individuals were confirmed as victims, ...

Julie-Anne said: "I think I'm a target because they know I'm bringing scammers down by exposing them. "I can't believe it happened to me out of all people and I still don't know how." ...

Julie-Anne Kearns, 47, an NHS healthcare worker from Poole, Dorset, was first targeted in November 2022 by a dating scam when a user ... to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre ...