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This Dating Site Is Putting Scammers on Blast (Will Show You Who They Catch!)

Seeking.com is basically being the Batman of dating.

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Dating apps have spent years telling us to trust our instincts while simultaneously asking us to swipe through an endless buffet of strangers with professionally lit selfies, suspiciously vague bios, and an uncanny willingness to fall in love after three messages. These days, plenty of people won’t even hand out their real phone number until date three, opting for a Google Voice number instead and keeping safety apps like Noonlight on standby just to survive modern dating. And honestly, they’re not being paranoid—romance scams have become a billion-dollar business.

According to the Federal Trade Commission, Americans lost $1.14 billion to romance scams in 2023, and those losses have continued climbing as scammers get better at using AI, fake identities, and increasingly convincing social engineering tactics.

Now luxury dating platform Seeking.com says it’s tired of pretending the problem is unsolvable. The company announced a new anti-fraud initiative that does something almost no dating platform has publicly embraced. It plans to expose the faces of would-be romance scammers caught trying to infiltrate the site using AI-powered identity verification and selfie checks before they ever reach real users.

Seeking.com being the Batman of dating? We’re here for it. 

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And, here’s a question to other dating apps: If fraud can be stopped earlier, why aren’t the rest of you doing it?

How Seeking.com Plans to Catch Scammers Before They Ever Slide Into Your DMs

Most dating apps focus on removing fake accounts after users report them. It already sounds flawed. Why do daters have to do the hard work........

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