Cybercrime Magazine Update: Widow Loses $1M To Romance Scam. How She's Fighting Back.

Debby Montgomery Johnson was a widow, looking for new love after the death of her husband. In the spring of 2022, South Florida's CBS 12 News reported that Johnson had logged onto a dating site, then fell head over heels for an international man of mystery and was tricked into sending him north of a million dollars. Turned out, "he" was never real and a team of computer savvy Nigerians was pulling the strings the whole time. In this episode, host Paul John Spaulding is joined by Steve Morgan, Founder of Cybersecurity Ventures and Editor-in-Chief at Cybercrime Magazine, to discuss. The Cybercrime Magazine Update airs weekly and covers the latest news, interviews, podcasts, reports, videos, and special productions from Cybercrime Magazine, published by Cybersecurity Ventures. For more on cybersecurity, visit us at https://cybersecurityventures.com