by admin | Apr 25, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
General John F. Campbell has a lot on his plate as the highest ranking officer in Afghanistan, however, in recent years he has had more to deal with because he has become somewhat of a darling of scammers who use his name for a large range of scams including romance...
by admin | Nov 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Nigerian Kazeem Owonla was arrested and extradited to Indiana where he is facing charges for scamming an Indiana woman out of more than $100,000 in a romance scam. The victim first met Owonla online in January of this year. Owonla used the name John Tony...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 4, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Thirty-two year old Krist Koranteng, of Maryland was recently arrested and charged with running a romance scam by which he is alleged to have stolen more than a million dollars from his elderly victims who he contacted online and then through emails, telephone calls...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently Malaysia has become a major hub for scams, most prominently romance scams in which the scam artist, the only criminal we refer to as an artist, contacts the victim on a legitimate dating website, such as Match.com and starts an online relationship with the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 17, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A study presented recently at the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society concluded that people with strong romantic beliefs who form idealistic images of their romantic partners are most likely to become a victim of an online dating scam. This is no...