Online dating risks are rising. Learn 8 warning signs of catfishing and simple tips to stay safe, avoid scams, and protect yourself online.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meeting real connections can be hard online, with embellished bios, facetuned pictures, and AI bots on fake accounts. Experts say ...

An Orange County woman wound up in the middle of a "catfishing" romance scam that has cost another woman at least $100,000. "I thought Walter was someone who cared about me, and he really didn't," ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Valentine's Day is this Saturday, and you may be looking for love, but along with your search, watch out for a very sophisticated scam. According to a recent survey by cybersecurity ...

What used to be dismissed as internet oddity is moving into the mainstream of fraud prevention, platform regulation and organised crime analysis: the distinction between sock-puppet accounts and ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Romance scams cost victims $1.3 billion in losses in just one year. A common romance scam is catfishing, which is when the scammer pretends to be someone else online. Now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and cybersecurity experts warn that the season of love is also the peak season for romance ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

CHARLOTTE — A woman masquerading online as a man netted millions of dollars from a romance scam that targeted the old and the lonely, according to investigators in eastern North Carolina. The con ...

Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime because they combine carefully manufactured intimacy with financial theft – the scammers go after your heart, and then your ...

Meeting real connections can be hard online, with embellished bios, facetuned pictures, and AI bots on fake accounts. Experts say too much time on dating apps can be bad for your mental health, too.