An Ohio man is scheduled to appear in federal court Friday after being indicted for scamming more than $1 million from online dating site users who thought they were forming a romantic connection. As ...

“My mom felt the emotions of feeling love and having companionship just through email. I know a lot of people out there saying, ‘How could that happen?’” Kelly Gowe told CBS News. The daughter of a ...

Down a dusty alley in the Ghanaian capital Accra, young men huddle together in a small, dark room and cast off their true identities, taking on the phony role of women looking for love online. They ...

An immigrant from Ghana who was involved in a romance scam that targeted elderly and recently bereaved people was sentenced Wednesday to 6½ years in prison. U.S. District Judge Timothy Black told ...

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Dear Abby: I was recently the target of a romance scam on a popular singles website. After being a divorcee for 15 years, I decided to try online dating. Minutes after I went online, someone asked to ...