Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to help overhaul the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the ...

Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one ...

An elderly Nevada man looking for love was allegedly drugged and pushed across the US border into Mexico in a wheelchair by a ...

A Las Vegas woman has been charged with wire fraud, kidnapping and a litany of other crimes in a romance scam that targeted ...

The alleged victims were “folks that are out looking for love that ran into something far more sinister,” according to the ...

The agency described the scheme as one of the most nefarious it has encountered, with nearly a dozen known victims and ...

Romance scams, where fraudsters lure victims with false promises of love, prey on thousands of people every year. In 2023, ...

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico ...

A Las Vegas woman with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship ran a “romance scam on steroids” that caused the deaths of three people, ...

This is a romance scam on steroids,” said Spencer Evans, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division.

In an era where love and relationships are increasingly found online, cybercriminals have turned digital romance into a ...

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms is urging users to stay vigilant about “romance scams” ahead of ...