 of non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators have not said who was driving the truck. Consumers lost over a billion dollars to romance scams in 2023. That's according to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC found that about 40% of people who said they lost money to a romance scam in 2022 said the contact started on social media. Median losses per person amounted to $2,000, and almost three-quarters of those who had been scammed were men.