The victim is said to have first been contacted on Facebook last year by a man who claimed he was working offshore.
Lloyds Bank is warning of a sharp uptick in romance scams targeting older customers with thousands of pounds of savings being lost to this ruse.
There has been a rise in reports of over-55s being conned by romance scams, a major bank has said, as it disclosed the most ...
Britons are being warned to be wary of scammers online pretending to work on an oil rig or in the army when being romanced. In a cruel type of ruse, scammers gain the trust of a victim by posing as a ...
A phone transcript has documented the moment a customer begged his bank to let him transfer £10,000 to a fraudster he met online. The exchange, shared by Lloyds Bank, captured the anonymous romance ...
Romance scam-fighter Ruth Grover received a strange message on Facebook - and uncovered a dark world of duplicity ...
Lloyds Bank has shared a transcript showing the moment a customer begged his bank to let him transfer £10,000 to a fraudster he met online. The anonymous romance scam victim tried to bet the employee ...
Joy McGill is an AARP official focused on helping seniors in Oklahoma avoid being scammed or victims of fraud.
Hertfordshire residents have lost £1.14 million to romance scammers, with hundreds of cases reported this year.
A 59-year-old schoolteacher from East Bengaluru was allegedly defrauded of ₹2.27 crore (approximately $272,500) by a man she ...