{"id":186150,"date":"2026-02-10T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/a-new-wave-of-romance-scams-is-washing-across-the-internet-heres-how-to-stay-safe\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:35:10","slug":"a-new-wave-of-romance-scams-is-washing-across-the-internet-heres-how-to-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/a-new-wave-of-romance-scams-is-washing-across-the-internet-heres-how-to-stay-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"A new wave of romance scams is washing across the internet \u2013 here\u2019s how to stay safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-new-wave-of-romance-scams-is-washing-across-the-internet-heres-how-to-stay-safe-274121\">A new wave of romance scams is washing across the internet \u2013 here\u2019s how to stay safe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-new-wave-of-romance-scams-is-washing-across-the-internet-heres-how-to-stay-safe-274121\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-new-wave-of-romance-scams-is-washing-across-the-internet-heres-how-to-stay-safe-274121<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-10 14:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emotional Impact and Increasing Prevalence:<\/strong> Romance scams combine emotional manipulation with financial theft and are worsening thanks to larger online platforms and synthetic AI impersonation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI Advancements:<\/strong> The scammers&#8217; toolkit has evolved with AI, lowering the cost of impersonation by generating realistic profile photos and conversations, and creating convincing deepfakes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scam Procedure:<\/strong> Scammers start by creating a highly credible profile, accelerate intimacy quickly, isolate the victim, and then request money, often under the guise of investment opportunities, making the scam harder to recognize.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safety Tips:<\/strong> To stay safe online, avoid moving conversations off dating apps, verify profiles using various tools, keep interactions on the platform, be wary of financial and investment requests, and never send intimate images. Immediate action should be taken if any money has already been transferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave of romance scams is washing across the internet \u2013 here\u2019s how to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/716464\/original\/file-20260205-82-yflfgo.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C177%2C2121%2C1060&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186152,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186150\/revisions\/186152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}