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Rising Romance Scams Cost Victims and Businesses Millions
Tue, 01/29/2019
A federal sting operation dubbed "Operation Gold Phish" has led to the arrest of nine people accused of bilking at least 18 victims out of $2 million through socially-engineered romance scams over the last two years.As first reported on December 19, the defendants are accused of manipulating victims into becoming unwitting money mules in an alleged wire fraud operation. According to the Chicago...