LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued a Purple Notice to its 194 member countries outlining a specific modus operandi on dating applications. The threat involves taking advantage of people’s vulnerabilities as they look for potential matches, and luring them into a sophisticated fraud scheme. In the initial stages, an artificial…
For many of the people caught up in an online romance scam, it starts something like this: You’re scrolling through a platform like Instagram, and you get a message from an attractive stranger. They say they’re in the military and are stationed abroad and it’s hard for them to travel…
Meeting someone new on a dating app has its share of challenges. No, we are not talking about compatibility issues, but about how the person at the other end is a complete stranger. Until you meet the person you have been talking to, you have no idea who they really…
ATLANTA — Plenty of people still throw around the 16th century proverb “all is fair in love and war,” but the Renaissance never had to contend with mobile dating apps. Eye-opening new research by a team at Georgia State University reveals just how treacherous the world of online dating is becoming,…
Shreya Datta thought she had met her dream guy on Hinge, but ended up being scammed out of $450,000 in a cryptocurrency investment scheme known as “pig butchering” — a loose translation of the name of the online scam in China, where it’s thought to have originated. Datta, 37, shared…
New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 14, 2023 15:16 IST Meeting someone new on a dating app has its share of challenges. No, we are not talking about compatibility issues, but about how the person at the other end is a complete stranger. Until you meet the person you have been talking to,…
China has launched a crackdown on cruel ‘pig butchering’ scam networks – which ensnare thousands of victims every year across the globe – including Americans. ‘Pig butchering’ scams involve victims being effectively ‘fattened up’ with a fake romantic relationship before being ‘butchered’ by fraudulent investment advice. It works by scammers…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Most Android users have probably never seen Google Play Protect in action. The malware-scanning service is built into every Android device and is supposed to flag malware that users have installed. Recently it flagged some popular apps that are very much not malware: Samsung…
High rates of sexual violence linked to online dating apps have led foreign governments to crack down on the world of digital romance. In September, the Australian government pushed online dating apps to reinforce their safety policies in response to research that showed 3 in 4 users experienced sexual violence…
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