Love in the Digital Age: How AI is Helping Scammers Steal Hearts and Money

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What Are AI Romance Scams?

Online dating has its highs and lows; you get to meet different people and chat with some of them, and who knows, you may end up getting married. But not everyone online is honest. Nowadays, scammers use AI to deceive people. They design graphics for dating sites with beautiful faces and appealing texts to construct the impression that they are real, yet they are not.

How Do These Scams Work?

Here’s how scammers use artificial intelligence to deceive people:

1. Creating fake profiles: AI tools can even create images of people who are not real. Such images are strikingly lifelike and are very likely to lead you to believe that the person is indeed real.
2. Writing Sweet Messages: AI can even draft messages that are flirtatious, full of emotions, and compliments that would assist you in establishing a level of trust.
3. Building Relationships: For scammers, it is a series of stages that leads to the creation of trust, like telling stories to kids, where kids love to be heard.
4. The Trap: And when they reach a level that they think is trustworthy enough, then the next thing they do is ask you for money! It could be for a…