Romance scams are surging in Florida, with victims losing over $22 million in 2025 in the Jacksonville area alone, often leading the nation in average losses per victim. Scammers use fake online identities, artificial intelligence (AI), and social engineering to build trust and steal money, frequently targeting older adults. Romance scams involve criminals creating fake online identities to gain victims' trust and affection, often using AI or stolen photos, to steal money through emotional manipulation. Scammers frequently work from abroad, requesting funds for emergencies or travel before disappearing. Victims should immediately stop contact, report to ReportFraud.ftc.gov and the FBI’s IC3, and inform financial institutions..jpg)
SCAM ALERT: Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms urged users to stay vigilant about "romance scams" and other social media platforms, as well as general text messages. Scammers tend to pose as "attractive, single and successful individuals," Meta says. They often claim to have military, medical or business backgrounds, with photos either stolen from real people's accounts or generated through artificial intelligence.
Better Call Bill Warner Investigations for domestic infidelity and child custody cases, surveillance, stalkers, and and online dating background checks call 941-926-1926. FAKE, FAKE, AND MORE FAKE PROFILES at Bumble, Hinge, Tinder, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, the video chat app Azar, the League, Match, and others. Why Are There Fake Profiles On Dating Sites: Fake Hinge Profiles, Bumble Fake Profiles, Catfishing On Dating Sites, Fake Hinge Accounts, Fake Bumble Accounts. Jan 4th, 2022 A Texas man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping a woman he met on a dating app and holding her hostage for five days in his apartment — where he tortured and sexually assaulted her before she managed to escape. Zachary Mills, 21, allegedly picked up the victim on Christmas Eve and drove her to his apartment in Spring after the two exchanged messages on Bumble, according to court documents obtained by KHOU. Scammers use fake profiles to get with women online and eventually start the money train to them. The apps don’t create fake profiles, people do. DON'T SEND CASH! see https://wbipi.com/
UPDATE ROMANCE SCAMMER PATRICK GIBLIN GETS 5 1/2 YEARS IN
PRISON. A New Jersey-based romance scammer who has allegedly conned at
least 155 women out of more than $500,000 was sentenced to five and a
half years behind bars, authorities said Friday. Patrick Giblin, 58, of
Atlantic City — who has been busted repeatedly for swindling widows,
disabled women and single moms — had faced 25 years in prison for his
most recent fraud arrest, according to the United States Attorney
District of New Jersey. The deceptive Don Juan, Patrick Giblin, has been
to jail at least four times for scamming women he met through dating
services, has escaped federal custody twice — and continued to pull the
con while on the lam, according to local police and federal authorities.
For decades, Giblin wooed his women with conversation designed to sniff
out their emotional weak spots — then used charm and pressure to
convince them to wire him money, ranging from $250 to $50,000 per
victim, according to prosecutors from past and current cases. see https://wbipi.com/
With that said, dating apps don’t always verify profiles nor are they quick to remove fake profiles. They rely on crowdsourced efforts (user feedback) primarily which is why profiles are up for a few days before getting flagged. It’s up to users to flag profiles and flag them often. If you don’t, you are not helping the societal dating pool on dating sites like Hinge, OkCupid, Tinder, Match etc, a guy could end up with someone like Casey Anthony with out a background check. See below International News article concerning “The
dangerous side of online dating” by Gretchen Peters Foreign
Correspondent.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA // With as many as 40 million single
Americans using online dating services or web-networking sites such as
MySpace to look for love, it would seem that there has never been an
easier time to find a soulmate online. The numbers are worrisome – and
horror stories abound. In February, MySpace was forced to cancel 90,000
accounts on its site that authorities revealed were linked to registered
sex offenders. It was a fraction of the 130 million users of the site,
but a significant percentage of the more than one million registered sex
offenders in the United States.
In April 2009 a Boston medical student,
Philip Markoff, dubbed the “Craigslist killer” by the media, was
arrested and changed with murdering a masseuse who advertised on the
popular website’s erotic services section. Two months later Craigslist
was hit with another scandal when it emerged that a North Carolina man
used the site to hire a man to rape his wife while the husband watched. BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL ME Bill
Warner, a Florida private investigator who offers on his website to “sort out the winners from the losers” for a flat fee
of $50.00, Bill Warner says running background checks on potential
internet dates now constitutes more than 50 per cent of his business.
“Usually the problem is that the man is married or he turns out to be
one of these crazy stalker people that follows a woman for months,” he
said in a telephone interview.
“It’s shameful because it lulls women
into a false sense of security,” said Mr Warner. “You get young naive
women or the over-50 year olds who are recently divorced, they are often
excited about meeting a new man and they make easy prey.” In some
instances, the first date ends in violence. Last October, for example,
police in Minnesota charged a 39-year-old man with raping a woman he met
through the internet, after he slipped drugs into her drink that caused
her to pass out. In other cases, the motive is financial. BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL ME In
many cases, Mr Warner said he would discover that men had joined a
online dating site using a false name, a prepaid, throwaway cell phone
and a phony e-mail address from free services such as Yahoo or Hotmail.
“There are a lot of people out there who get jazzed up by disguising
themselves,” he said, adding that nearly 100 per cent of his cases
involved women being victimized by men. Industry experts say the website
True.com is unique in the field for warning on its home page that
criminals and married men who come hunting “will be sorry if they do”.
The site recently sued a convicted sex offender in California who tried
to register himself as an eligible bachelor. But True.com is one of the
few online dating websites to actually run background checks on its
members, even though a recent survey found that a majority of people
visiting online dating sites believed that most did. Police in Tampa
arrested a Tennessee man who was wanted for swindling a woman he met
online out of tens of thousands of dollars and leasing a Mercedes in her
name that he wrecked, leaving her with more than $60,000 in
liabilities.
Bill Warner Private Investigator Sarasota 941-926-1926 - Cheaters and Child Custody Cases.
Reality star Darrell Sheets, known for his role as "the gambler" in the popular competition show "Storage Wars," has died at age 67, according to local authorities. Sheets was found dead in the early hours of April 22, 2026, at a residence in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, the local police department shared in a statement. The cause of death "appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head," the statement said. Sheets was pronounced dead at the scene.The incident is currently under investigation by the Lake Havasu City Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit and the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s office, authorities said. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Lake Havasu City Police Department at 928-855-1171.
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