CLEVELAND, Ohio — Romance scams rarely begin with a demand for money. They more often begin with a flattering profile, frequent messages and a relationship built to make a later financial request seem ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Romance scammers are stealing millions of dollars from Ohioans. Now the state’s attorney general is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Imagine meeting someone online and building a strong connection. They’re attractive, relatable, and tell you they’re in love. Yet, offering a slew of excuses, they won’t meet you.

One rainy afternoon in August, Jean Booth scurried up the stairs of a nondescript Thai restaurant and took out her phone. She ...

Prosecutors filed five forfeiture cases as Secret Service agents traced funds from thousands of victims to launderers in ...

Last year marked a record high for romance scams in the United States. The growth in romance scams comes in part from acute ...

The cases add to more than $800 million that authorities say a dedicated federal scam task force has recovered.

A misfired sext to his wife exposed a three-year affair, and now his wife and his mistress have joined forces to demand he choose between them.

When his mother fell for an online romance scam, Carlos Barragán flew to Nigeria to track down the con artist. What he uncovered was so much bigger.

As Congress considers how to respond to AI-enabled fraud, it should also revisit a tax code that treats victims differently ...

Carlos Barragán is a reporter and researcher for The New York Times and the author of “The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and ...