The woman told police 'one thing led to another' and she wound up sending him a total of $220,399.34 over the course of three months.

A woman who fell victim to an online dating scam has said "you do blame yourself". Deborah Cole, from Hampshire, gave £700 to ...

It started with a Facebook friend request and a message that felt too good to be true. Then, it quickly turned into an expensive lesson in online deception. The woman this happened to in Jensen Beach, ...

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Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms, Inc. META on Thursday announced new efforts to combat the growing threat of “pig butchering” scams, which have cost Americans billions of dollars each year. What ...

Staying safe online is harder than ever. With billions of email addresses and passwords stolen and shared on the Dark Web, it ...

Ever get a Facebook message from an old friend, only to find out it wasn't really that friend? That's exactly how a recent Facebook impersonation scam almost cost someone $2,500. A scammer hijacked a ...

Social media giant Meta is stepping up its efforts to protect older users on its messaging platforms, launching new alert features in WhatsApp and Messenger aimed at flagging potential scams before ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Alyssa Landguth, a 30-year-old from Washington state, used Facebook like most people do these days ...