Romance scammers: They call you honey, but don't send them money

"Meeting people online has opened the door to romance fraud," says Kim Casci-Palangio, program director of the peer support program at the nonprofit Cybercrime Support Network in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Reports to the Federal Trade Commission show consumers lost $1.3 billion in 2022 to romance scams. People are often eager to move relationships forward quickly,…