{"id":1524,"date":"2026-01-25T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:29:38","slug":"romance-scam-on-steroids-where-do-the-most-liars-cheats-and-fraudsters-in-the-us-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Romance scam on steroids\u2019: Where do the most liars, cheats and fraudsters in the US live?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a reason they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.<\/p>\n

Nevada just hit the jackpot in a new survey crowning it America\u2019s most deceitful state \u2014 after experts tallied up fraud cases, romance swindles, identity theft, bogus doctor\u2019s notes, fake IDs and even Google searches for\u00a0notorious cheating site Ashley Madison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Almost\u00a01 in 5 Nevada residents admits to frequent fibbing, according to researchers at online tarot reading site Tarotoo, who found the Silver State also has the second-highest rate of romance scams.<\/p>\n

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One of five people in Nevada admitted to frequent lying.nazarovsergey \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In February, the\u00a0feds nabbed a serial Vegas vixen<\/a>\u00a0in a scheme the FBI described as a \u201cromance scam on steroids,\u201d in which Aurora Phelps, 43, was accused of using dating apps to seduce, incapacitate, steal the identities and empty the bank accounts of men in their 60s and 70s.<\/p>\n

The three-year spree was linked to three deaths, authorities said.<\/p>\n

While falsehoods flew in Nevada, other states took the cake in individual categories.<\/p>\n

Florida topped the charts for fraud, with 2,179 reports per 100,000 people, and identity theft, with 528 per 100,000.<\/p>\n

In July, a\u00a0Florida woman was swindled out of $15,000<\/a>\u00a0of her retirement savings after scammers used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter\u2019s voice in a telephone scam to convince the victim her loved one was in trouble.<\/p>\n

Arizona, meanwhile, had the most romance scams reported, with\u00a0an eye-watering $53.7 million lost to love swindlers in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Researchers compared online searches for infamous cheating site Ashley Madison across states for the report.Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nevada, home to Las Vegas, was found to be the most deceitful state, with plenty of swindling and scams.LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Empire State was in the middle of the pack, ranking 26th for deceitfulness out of 50 states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a reason they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Nevada just hit the jackpot in a new survey crowning it America\u2019s most deceitful state \u2014 after experts tallied up fraud cases, romance swindles, identity theft, bogus doctor\u2019s notes, fake IDs and even Google searches for\u00a0notorious cheating site Ashley Madison. Almost\u00a01 in 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}