Online Dating Safety & Romance Fraud Crisis

Online Dating Safety Crisis: How AI Catfishing, Romance Scams, and Fake Profiles Enable Fraud, Sextortion, and Why Your Information on Data Brokers Makes You a Target (2025)

1 in 4 online daters targeted by scams. Romance scams cost $1.3B in 2025. AI-generated fake profiles. How information exposure enables dating fraud and sextortion.