{"id":172642,"date":"2026-02-11T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172642\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:17:08","slug":"how-to-avoid-online-romance-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172642\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid online romance scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessa Vasconcelos Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13299281_052523-kfsn-vanessa-vasconcelos-Bio-Image.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, February 10, 2026 11:50PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"How to avoid online romance scams\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Scams come in many different forms and sometimes can be very personal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">New AARP research shows nearly one in 10 adults age 50 and older has been targeted by an online romance scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">We spoke to Amy Nofziger, the Senior Director of Fraud Victim Support at AARP, about how these crimes unfold.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, February 10, 2026 11:50PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Scams come in many different forms and sometimes can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[82637,41116,112,114,113,82636,6080,28489,294],"class_list":["post-172642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-82637","tag-aarp","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-online-romance","tag-research","tag-scams","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}