Romance Scams

This report by ACCO members Advocating Against Romance scammers takes a look at how Facebook and YouTube enables and profits off of the Yahoo Boys, an organized criminal group involved in romance scams. Check out the report.

The Internet is ground zero for romance scammers and every year, thousands of people get sucked into romance scams on social media that have defrauded victims of more than $475 million in 2019 alone. Download our fact sheet to learn how romance scams have swept social media.

In this report, ACCO experts Kathy Waters and Bryan Denny focused on revealing fraudulent accounts on Facebook and found issues with ineffective procedures and platform security. Read the report.

Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in global fraud that the social network and the United States military appear helpless to stop. Read The New York Times article.