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China
Chinese teacher scammed out of $548,000 believes scammer will still marry her
A Chinese teacher reportedly insisted to police that the scammer who took off with her money amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars w...
Bryan Ke
Crime
Japanese woman conned out of $30,000 by ‘astronaut’ who promised marriage but was ‘stuck’ in space
A 65-year-old woman in Japan’s Shiga prefecture was conned out of millions of yen by a fraudster who claimed to be a Russian astronaut work...
Carl Samson
Married Chinese man cons 39 women out of $78,000 in romance scam using photos of attractive Korean men
A married Chinese man was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison and fined 30,000 yuan (approximately $4,166) for scamming 39 women...
Japanese man behind $2.9 million global ‘romance scam’ arrested in Ghana
Hikaru Morikawa, a 58-year-old man accused of being the ringleader of a “romance scam” that swindled 65 victims out of nearly 400 million y...
News
Singaporean Woman Makes $36,000 Off Love Scammer, Loses It All to Another Scammer
A woman in Singapore pleaded guilty to spending cash that a love scammer had deposited into her bank account from scams that she fell for he...