The Department of Justice seized over $8 million from romance scammers after tracing the money to cryptocurrency wallets.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Pig butchering’ see victims lured into investing their money by scammers (PA Archive) At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud ...

On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced it had seized $225 million in cryptocurrency connected to pig butchering scams. The seizure involves funds stolen from 400 victims worldwide ...

(NewsNation) — The Department of Justice says it has seized the most money it’s ever recovered in one action in targeting the founder of a Cambodian conglomerate accused in a massive cryptocurrency ...

Online dating scams are all too common. Sweet-talking and typing swindlers, wooing unsuspecting, hopeless romantics. Not for love, but lover boys or girls looking to steal your money. "She put money ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The multibillion-dollar “pig-butchering” scam industry, once treated as a consumer-fraud issue, is now being described as a ...

Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Hanes, 53, also swindled funds from a local church and investment club — and a daughter's college savings account — to transfer money, ...

As online scams grow more sophisticated, members of BOK Financial’s Fraud Risk Management team are getting creative to warn the public by dressing up as pigs for Halloween. Their goal is to spotlight ...

Long-term trust-building tactics power pig-butchering crypto scams, the fastest-growing fraud threats today. Unlike phishing attacks that defraud victims quickly, pig-butchering scams build long-term ...

“I lost everything. I lost my kids’ future. I lost my future" ...

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...