You meet someone on Tinder, Bumble, Facebook, or another dating app. The conversation is going well, but after a few messages they suggest moving to Telegram. There is usually a reasonable explanation. They rarely use the original platform, Telegram is easier for them, or they want somewhere more private to talk. Moving to Telegram does […]

In March 2026, three suspects were arrested in Cape Town for a scheme that had, over 2017 and 2018, drained a woman in her seventies of R14 million. It started the way most of these cases do: a well built profile, a few flattering messages, and a stranger who seemed to have all the time […]

A woman in Ohio met a man online who said he was finishing a master’s degree on a student visa and would have to leave the country in a year unless something changed. They dated for four months, married at the courthouse, and she filed the paperwork to sponsor him for a green card. Eighteen […]

In August 2026, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed charges against 11 people accused of running a marriage fraud operation that had been active for a decade. According to the indictment, the scheme arranged more than 1,000 marriages between Chinese nationals and U.S. citizens, with some staged weddings held at restaurants, […]

In March 2026, the Justice Department filed a civil complaint seeking to strip the citizenship of a Miami man named Alec Nasreddine Kassir. According to the filing, Kassir had told USCIS he was living in marital union with his U.S. citizen spouse for the three years before his 2010 naturalization application, the exact window the […]

A woman is told she is pregnant even though the pregnancy test is negative. The clinic says an ultrasound will not find the baby. She is warned that ordinary doctors will not understand her condition and that only a special treatment can protect the pregnancy. Elsewhere, a man meets someone online, becomes emotionally involved and […]

A message from a stranger does not always look suspicious. It may start with a match on a dating app, a friend request on social media, or even a simple wrong number text. The conversation feels normal. Then it becomes personal. Within days or weeks, the person may be talking about love, a future together, […]

A growing share of people talking to a romantic interest online aren’t sure whether they’re talking to a person at all — and increasingly, the honest answer is that they aren’t. Millions have now downloaded an AI companion app on purpose, looking for conversation, comfort, or something that feels like a relationship without the risk […]

She matched with him on a dating app, and within four days he suggested moving the conversation to Google Chat, a legitimate communication platform, because the app “kept logging him out.” Once there, the exchange moved fast: a sob story about a stalled shipment, then a request for a wire transfer to release it. This […]

You meet someone online. The relationship develops for weeks or months. You talk every day, exchange photos, discuss family and make plans to meet. Then your romantic partner asks for a favor. They are expecting money, but there is a problem with their bank account. Could the payment come to you instead? All you have […]