A scam called “pig butchering” gaining steam as a potent threat to Canadians almost lured this reporter — and it all started on Insight Timer, the meditation app.

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...

It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video chats. Two months of ...

There was the realtor whose wife liquidated her 401(k). The church secretary who invested her life’s savings. The husband who went into credit card debt, all to feed the beast. The cases that Steve ...

Q: I’m trying to protect my parents from scammers. What are some scams targeting older people? A: Older adults are often a prime target for scammers, and it’s not just by chance. They tend to have ...

“Many times, we’re talking about everything they have.” How it started While some pig butchering scams start with a “wrong number” text out of nowhere, dating apps have become a common hunting ground, ...

Many scams target older adults who may be more trusting and less familiar with technology. Red flags of a scam include urgent requests, demands for unusual payment methods, and poor grammar or ...

How ‘pig butchering’ romance scams siphon millions from Californians every year 'It’s heartbreaking to hear the stories and to talk to the victims,' says an official with a state agency trying to ...