romance fraud

Former East Dunbartonshire Council leader Andrew Polson has been sentenced to 22 months in prison after defrauding his partner out of £188,000 in a property-based romance scam. Polson, 53, persuaded …

SEOUL, South Korea — Members of a Cambodia-based voice phishing organization involved in romance scams have been sentenced to prison in the first trial, with courts also ordering the confiscation …

Five men have been sentenced to prison after exploiting victims through romance fraud and laundering over £2 million. According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), there were 40 confirmed victims …

DENVER — A Nigerian national living in Minnesota has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for orchestrating a romance scam that defrauded a Colorado woman out of …

Tokyo, August 31, 2025 – A 22-year-old woman, Arisa Kato, has been arrested in Japan for allegedly defrauding several men out of nearly ¥8 million (approximately HK$50,800) through a dating …

Ben Millin, a 32-year-old man from Yeovil, Somerset, has been jailed for 34 months after defrauding four women out of nearly £40,000 to support his online gambling addiction. Millin used …

They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Helen Dimitrijevski, a Gold Coast woman once exposed in 1998 for orchestrating a love scam through her dodgy dating agency …

Three separate indictments involving Ghanaian nationals have been unsealed in the United States as part of a major federal crackdown on transnational romance fraud schemes targeting elderly Americans. The U.S. …

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WFRV) – A Nigerian citizen living in the United States on a student visa has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for his involvement in a …

Five Nigerian fraudsters have been sentenced to a combined total of 1,549 months (129 years) in prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar scam targeting at least 100 victims in the United …