SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of the victims of “romance scams” in South Korea are women under 30 years of age, a study showed Monday. Romance scams involve pretending to have romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining their affection, and then exploiting that goodwill for fraudulent purposes. Park Beom-jin, a student in [...]
SUWON, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Two Nigerian men have been apprehended for allegedly swindling South Korean victims, mostly women, of tens of thousands of dollars in romance scams, local police said Wednesday. According to the Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency, just south of Seoul, the suspects defrauded four South Koreans — three women and one [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean police have arrested four Liberians for defrauding more than 30 South Koreans of nearly 1.3 billion won (US$1.15 million) after posing as American military officers, officials said Tuesday. The Liberians are accused of mobilizing a romance scam by approaching South Korean men and women on social media [...]