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In March 2024, more than 800 Filipinos and foreign nationals were rescued from a large scam hub in Bamban, Tarlac, after it was raided for alleged illegal activities that included crypto and love scams; the hub was legally registered as a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) firm. [17]
A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the FBI is warning of online dating scams. The bureau received more than 15,000 reports linked to romance scams last year with more than half of those complaints ...
Always report romance scams to the FTC, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and the dating app or social media site where you came across the scammer. FTC: You can report a scam to the FTC ...
Opinion: Be suspicious if you can’t ever meet an online love interest in person or the relationship progresses too quickly. Heartbreak fraudsters are trying to fleece you, but scams give love a ...
On June 22, 1994, during the 1994 Manila Film Festival awarding ceremonies in Manila, Philippines, hosts, actress and beauty queen Ruffa Gutierrez, her brother—actor Rocky Gutierrez, actress Nanette Medved, and Mauritian beauty queen Viveka Babajee read an erroneous set of winners for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, which included Gutierrez herself, in a manner that raised ...
Almost 70,000 people fell victim to romance scams in 2022, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Experts told Fox News Digital how those dating online can protect themselves.
The so-called "Pork Barrel Scam" was first exposed in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 12, 2013, [12] with the six-part exposé of the Inquirer on the scam pointing to businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles as the scam's mastermind after Benhur K. Luy, her second cousin and former personal assistant, was rescued by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on March 22, 2013, four months ...