Before Aurora Phelps was charged with federal crimes related to scamming older men, she faced fraud and theft charges for a 2019 incident in Benton County, Arkansas.

The FBI announced criminal charges against a woman who is accused of “deliberately and methodically” targeting older men to rob them of everything.

The 43-year-old is currently in custody in Mexico and is facing 21 charges, including wire fraud and identity theft ...

A Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding older men and causing the death of at least one of them.

In court documents, 43-year-old Aurora Phelps is charged with scamming four older men using dating sites like Tinder and OkCupid.

She used online dating apps to lure older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, the FBI said.

Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, kidnapping and one count of kidnapping resulting in death.

Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one ...

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico ...

“This is technically a romance scam, but this is a romance scam on steroids,” said Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division, at a news conference Friday. “We have not ...

February 23, 2025 – LAS VEGAS, NV – A Las Vegas, Nevada, woman has been charged in a 21-count superseding indictment for ...