Romance Scams

Twelve Chinese nationals and five Filipinos were arrested on January 8, 2025, in a major operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Paranaque City, Metro Manila. The …

SINGAPORE – A 66-year-old man, Christopher Moh, was sentenced to 21 months in prison on October 16 after he pleaded guilty to charges related to sharing his bank account details …

A 48-year-old transsexual, Uthai Nanthakhan, was arrested in Bangkok on Saturday night for allegedly swindling a 36-year-old Japanese man, marking the latest in a series of similar crimes spanning a …

Blake Lively may face a trial over her sexual harassment complaint against Justin Baldoni, according to legal expert Gregory Doll. Lively, 37, filed the complaint this week, accusing her It …

Police have apprehended four Thai nationals and two Nigerian men involved in running large-scale romance scams and laundering money through mule accounts for foreign criminal organizations. The Department of Special …

BANGKOK, Thailand – A Thai woman, Sunisa, is currently at large after being linked to a series of seven romance scams, swindling significant amounts of money from her tomboy victims. …

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries Arrested in Sex Trafficking Case Jeffries and Partner Matthew Smith Charged with Operating Prostitution Ring Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & …

Akanbi Akorede Afeez, a student, was sentenced to two years in prison by Justice Suleiman Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on December 9, 2024, for his …

John Kavanagh, a 58-year-old man from Cramlington, Northumberland, has been sentenced to four years in prison after swindling an 84-year-old woman out of her life savings, totaling £22,000. Kavanagh, who …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned two brothers, Christian and Onubuogu Ajim, for their involvement in a romance scam that defrauded an American woman, Chebet Chumba, of …