COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2024 Annual Report, romance scams resulted in at least $672 million in reported losses, with over 17,000 complaints.

The scammers will push and push and push until you have nothing. Americans lost over $672 million from romance scams in 2024, according to an FBI report. AI has only made these scams more widespread.

Romance scams, or catphishing, are a deeply destructive category of fraud, often causing deep financial and emotional loss ...

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Romance scams are often seen as the most shameful type of fraud to fall victim to. A new survey commissioned by the identity theft protection service NordProtect reveals that 55% of Americans who lost ...

Romance scams reports may increase around Valentine’s Day (awareness campaigns certainly do), but these confidence scams are a year-round threat, leaving victims with deep financial and emotional ...

Romance scams are on the rise, and they are costing Americans hundreds of millions of dollars. According to the FBI’s 2024 Internet Crime Report, romance scams (and the similar confidence scams, which ...

Online crime complaints surpassed 1 million for the first time last year, driven by a spike in AI-enabled fraud, crypto scams ...