Salus App Aims to Use Tech to Promote Child Online Safety While the world wide web provides people with many great opportunities, there are also many concerns when it comes to online safety. While there are many negative aspects of the internet that need to be addressed, one of the most critical involves the online …
Bumble Partners to Fight Against Sexual Abuse Online Many users of online dating apps have increasingly called on companies to be more transparent in their efforts to promote online safety. This has led many companies to unveil new features and initiatives aimed at helping users. A new partnership between Bumble and Panorama seeks to help …
Long Island Woman Searches for Love Online; Finds Scammer We often hear stories about people falling victim to online dating scams. Most people likely think it isn’t something that can happen to them. This was likely the case with a woman in Long Island recently. Unfortunately, searching for love online led her to a fraudster …
Romance Scammer Playbook Made Public When we think about online dating dangers, we typically envision romance scammers as singular individuals attempting to take advantage of someone’s trust. While this is certainly the case in some situations, most cases of internet fraud originate from romance scammer mills where dozens of people work to try to scam …
Online dating can be a wonderful experience. Many people who have met online have found their forever love. Others have made great friendships. Whether you are hoping to find love, flirt, or have a fling, one thing no one wants is to fall victim to romance scams. Match Group recently took steps to help users …
Like many things, scams fall in and out of fashion. A current trend is to scam people through dating apps, including Tinder and Bumble. A lot of people started signing up for sites at the start of the pandemic and there was a resulting boom in online romance scams – although the numbers had been …
Online romance scams have been around for as long as online dating itself. People see an opportunity to exploit someone and promptly take it. But we’re now discovering that there’s a new type of online dating scam, specifically involving cryptocurrency. Various forms of cryptocurrency have been around for years. Tech bros, entrepreneurs and other people have …
We’re all looking for love and companionship, and we’re also all aware that it comes at a cost. But there’s a difference between treating your partner to a nice dinner or flowers on your anniversary and running foul of online romance scams, where one person tricks another into giving them large amounts of money for …