A fraudster who targeted women on dating websites pretended to be an intelligence agent as part of a £50,000 scam, a court heard.

THANK YOU. SAMANTHA DATING APPS AND THE INTERNET HAVE MADE IT PRETTY EASY TO FIND LOVE ONLINE, AND THAT HAS MADE ROMANCE SCAMS ALL TOO COMMON. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S MARY REGLI GETS THE FACTS ON THE ...

Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Grindr, and Bumble are where millions turn every day to find potential partners, but these dating apps are also used by cybercriminals to carry out romance scams. In a typical ...

Figures from Action Fraud show that hundreds of people across the North East fell victim to "romance scams" between 2022 and 2025. Data released under Freedom of Information laws shows that in between ...

Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday pressed Match Group, the parent company of the popular dating app Tinder, on dating scams. “Given Match Group’s stated ...

Two U.S. senators sent a letter to Tinder parent Match on September 24 pushing for action against dating scams on the company’s platforms and asking for information about its efforts to detect fraud ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Romance scams cost victims $1.3 billion in losses in just one year. A common romance scam is catfishing, which is when the scammer pretends to be someone else online. Now ...