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Online Romance Scams: a $50M Business

Dustin Lushing — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:43:00 CDT

Scammers conned $50 million out of 5,600 people last year who were searching for love on the Internet, says a new report. That's an average of $8,900 per victim. The way it generally works: Fraudsters hunt for vulnerable targets on dating sites and social networks, and convince the...

12 Odd 'Missed Connections'

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:50:23 CST

A shared glance with a beautiful stranger once inspired hours of pining and poetry. Nowadays there's "Missed Connections," a 12-year-old service on Craigslist that helps people reconnect. Mashable runs down 12 strange listings from last year: "minotaur, halloween, downtown": A man eyed a "tall blonde" in a "creepy minotaur mask"...

Couple Who Don't Speak Same Language to Wed

John Johnson — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:56:03 CST

A nice tale for Valentine's Day courtesy of the Charlotte Observer : Larry Bushnell, 85, will marry Columba Rosaly, 97, this weekend, and the wedding is unusual not just because of their ages: Turns out they don't speak the same language. Rosaly is from Ecuador and speaks only Spanish, and Bushnell...

You Can Die of a Broken Heart

Matt Cantor — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:27:03 CST

The poets are right: It's possible to die of a broken heart, a study finds. The risk of a heart attack is 21 times higher the day after the loss of a loved one, say researchers who interviewed 2,000 subjects over 5 years. During the week after the death,...

Wife Regains Husband's Love After Severe Amnesia

John Johnson — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:31:44 CST

When 46-year-old Scott Bolzan slipped and fell in 2008, he suffered a brain injury that instantly wiped out all of his memory, writes his wife, Joan Bolzan, in the Daily Beast . He knew nothing of her, their two kids, or the business they ran. "Our marriage, our family, our life,...

Match.com User's Monthly Haul: $1K Worth of Dinners

Dustin Lushing — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:39:57 CST

How did a young woman in New York City rack up $1,200 a month in free fancy dinners? By signing up for online dating site Match.com and orchestrating a rotation of suitors eager to wine and dine her. "Before I barely had enough money to pay for food,...

'Sensual' Phones Kiss, Cuddle

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:47:15 CDT

Here's a cellphone that's got your number. In pursuit of more "emotional" and "sensory" phones, a designer at the Berlin University of the Arts has come up with three different touchy-feelie models that will blow on your neck, coo, and even kiss, reports the Los Angeles Times . One prototype has...

1 in 4 Men Fall in Love in 'Seconds'

Matt Cantor — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:05:08 CDT

Forget notches on the bedpost: When it comes to true love, men fall hard fast. Most think they can tell whether it’s “the real thing” after a single date, whereas women aren’t certain until the sixth, a study finds. For nearly a quarter of men, things move even faster: They...

Lonely Emma: Men Fear My Fame

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:41:49 CDT

Poor Emma Watson. She doesn't have a guy and she thinks it's because men are frightened by her fame. "I find it hard to believe I would be intimidating," she says. "It must be the fame wall, the circus that goes around me." Guys can even be downright rude when...