Each year, people around the world lose millions of dollars to a highly sophisticated scam known as “the pig butchering romance scam”.
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Inside a Romance Scam
We take you inside a romance scam investigation to show you the crooks’ current tactics, plus you’ll hear some choice songs from our scammer.
Continue ReadingWomen Abused by Romantic Frauds
How smart women are being swindled by romantic frauds. This happened to journalist Stephanie Wood when she fell in love with a man she met online.
Continue ReadingRomance Scammer Killed My Mum
A woman meets the man of her dreams online who is a romance scammer, who promises her the world only to scam her out of thousands of pounds.
Continue ReadingGlobal Online Romance Scams
W5 investigates romance scams and reveals a global criminal organization behind the rip-offs and tragic consequences.
Continue ReadingWidow Loses $430k in Romance Scam
Bonnie Libheart has formed virtual relationship in a romance scam with three men over the last eight years.
Continue ReadingArizona Romance Scams Victim
Romance scams are affecting more and more Americans, one Arizonan who fell victim to such a scheme to defraud people of their money.
Continue ReadingRomance Scam Victim in Prison
One family’s desperation following a sinister romance scam that landed a grandmother from Barrie, Ont., in a Hong Kong prison.
Continue ReadingMan Sends $500k in Romance Scam
A romance scam occurs when a criminal adopts a fake online identity to gain a victim’s affection and trust.
Continue ReadingPolice Shut Down Website
Ten Australians have been arrested and charged as part of an international police sting targeting a website selling stolen account logins.
Continue ReadingAustralia Under Cyber Attacks
ASIO believe Australia is absolutely under perpetual cyber attacks there are new programs for university graduates to go straight into cyber-defence.
Continue ReadingCyber Criminals Exposed
Director of Threat Leadership for the NCA, Rob Jones, discusses how dozens of cyber criminals have been exposed for defrauding millions of people.
Continue ReadingTAFE South Australia Data Breach
Thousands of TAFE SA students are tonight at the Centre of a major data breach that has put sensitive information in the hands of criminals.
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