Americans lost $1bn to Tinder-Swindler style romance cons last year, FBI says

Victims financially and emotionally devastated' by scammers who prey upon vulnerable, often older, people, bureau finds

Americans lost more than $1bn in 2021 alone to romance scams" such as the one documented in the hit Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, according to the FBI.

The majority of the victims who were cheated out of their money were women older than 40, and women who are widowed, divorced, elderly or disabled, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said in a press statement last week.