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Police are searching for social media influencer Luís Felipe de Oliveira, who allegedly conned a man out of £30,000 by posing as a young female cancer patient online.

Leonnie Robson, a 35-year-old from Great Yarmouth, defrauded vulnerable men out of more than £8,000 through a series of fake romantic relationships on Facebook and other dating sites.

Cambodia is planning to eliminate all online scam centres by the end of April, having already shut down 80% of identified locations linked to crimes such as human trafficking.

A letter sent to an accomplice in a Myanmar-based romance scam revealed crucial evidence that has led to the arrest and prosecution of several members of the scam organization.

A Nigerian man was sentenced to one year in prison for his involvement in a romance scam that defrauded a victim of €49,000 in Ireland.

Leslie Chinedu Mba, a Nigerian national, was sentenced to 19 years in prison in the U.S. for his involvement in a $4 million romance scam and business email compromise scheme.

Nigerian man Leslie Mba has been sentenced to 19 years in prison in the US for his involvement in a romance scam that defrauded American women of over $4 million.

A fishing scam organization based in Cambodia was caught after defrauding victims through fake online relationships, resulting in the arrest of 49 individuals by South Korean police.

A new warning from the Insurance Fraud Bureau outlines a troubling trend in romance fraud where victims are manipulated into participating in fraudulent insurance claims.

A woman in her 50s from Aomori Prefecture has been defrauded of 36 million yen through a TikTok romance scam involving a supposed investment opportunity.

A 75-year-old woman from Elbląg lost nearly 200,000 PLN to an internet scammer posing as a U.S. soldier.

Toronto police report that scammers created a fake dating profile to defraud victims of $250,000.

A 60-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding the municipality of Solna out of over 18 million kronor, claiming she was a victim of a romance scam involving a fake Mick Jagger.

A Swedish woman was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling money from her employer and sending it to someone she believed was Mick Jagger in hopes of a romantic relationship.

A South Korean couple involved in a 10 billion won 'romance scam' in Cambodia has been arrested and indicted after being investigated for their fraudulent activities targeting victims in South Korea.

Nigerian socialite Henry Ikeji has rejected accusations of defrauding a Romanian woman in a $2.5 million online romance scam, claiming the allegations are part of a plan to damage his reputation.

In 2025, special fraud and SNS-type investment and romance scams resulted in record damages of over 324.1 billion yen in Japan, sharply increasing from the previous year, with authorities warning of a crisis.

A 70-year-old woman almost fell victim to a romance scam where she intended to send 10 million KRW but was saved by the quick actions of bank staff and police in Jeonbuk, Korea.

Store employees in Hylte prevented a significant romance fraud by alerting authorities after a victim had already sent gift cards worth around 40,000 SEK to the scammer.

The Nigeria Police Force is investigating Nzube Ikeji, a socialite accused of pretending to be the Dubai Crown Prince to defraud a Romanian woman out of $2.5 million.

The Nigeria Police Force has repatriated $23,000 to a victim in the Cayman Islands who was scammed in an international romance scam allegedly involving a Nigerian suspect.

A woman was scammed out of over $81,000 and her home by an AI deepfake impersonating a famous actor in what she believed was a romantic relationship.

A model conned multiple men out of thousands of pounds by falsely claiming she would inherit a large fortune, using the deception to fund her lavish lifestyle.

A 24-year-old man named Precious Onudhona was arrested in Lagos for allegedly defrauding victims out of N48.5 million in a romance scam.

A 35-year-old man from Hamburg has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for defrauding a woman out of 165,000 euros by pretending to be in a romantic relationship with her.