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The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse.
Foremost among these is one of today’s most pernicious digital frauds: romance scams, which exploit targets’ feelings of isolation and net fraudsters hundreds of millions of dollars per year. And while there has been some decrease in the amount of money lost to romance scammers in recent years, there has been a rise in so-called pig butchering fraud, which often contains elements of confidence scams. Keeping the relationship secret, combined with tactics to trick the victim into offering money rather than asking for it, can make it difficult for even the most careful, thoughtful person to grasp the manipulation that’s happening.
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