Unfortunately, criminals are also on the hunt, but for victims, not romance. “Meeting people ... serving in the military or working on an offshore oil rig. “They may not be who they say ...

A woman who lost tens of thousands of dollars in an apparent online romance scam began to be harassed ... he ran into trouble while on an overseas oil pipeline project. She wire transferred ...

The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud,” out of a mixture of boredom and curiosity she soon began corresponding with these scammers, who were impersonating not only oil rig engineers and ...