“So-called romance scams involve building a relationship and trust with the victim so that the target willingly provides ...

Police in Ghana have rescued 57 Nigerians trafficked to the country and arrested five suspects linked to a cybercrime and ...

The Ghana Police Service has arrested ten suspects alleged to be behind a fraudulent online food delivery syndicate that ...

Scammers in Ghana extracted payments using a range of schemes ... a network that impersonated celebrities and used emotional manipulation on social media and dating platforms to defraud 120 victims of ...

The operation, co-ordinated by Interpol and funded by the UK, targeted criminal networks using social media and digital platforms to extract money from victims in romance scams, and in so-called ...

Authorities in 14 African countries have arrested 260 people in a major crackdown dubbed Operation Contender 3.0 on cybercrime targeting romance scams and sextortion. According to africanews, the ...

In Senegal, police arrested 22 suspects who allegedly posed as celebrities on social media and dating platforms to scam over 100 people out of around $34,000, Interpol said. The organization also said ...

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Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday pressed Match Group, the parent company of the popular dating app, for information about its handling of romance scams. “Given ...

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 ...