{"id":186812,"date":"2026-02-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/artificial-intelligence-is-fueling-romance-scams-heres-how\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:15:08","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-fueling-romance-scams-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/artificial-intelligence-is-fueling-romance-scams-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is fueling romance scams. Here&#8217;s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/ai-romance-scams-deepfake\/70315255\">Artificial intelligence is fueling romance scams. Here&#8217;s how<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/ai-romance-scams-deepfake\/70315255\">https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/ai-romance-scams-deepfake\/70315255<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\">www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are five key points from the article on online dating scams using AI:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In 2024, Americans lost over $672 million due to romance scams, with AI making these scams more widespread.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; One in four Americans report encountering fake profiles or AI chatbots, while one in seven lost money through online dating scams, according to McAfee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Men are more likely to encounter romance scams, with one in five reporting weekly encounters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Scammers build trust through mirroring the victim\u2019s interests and stories, before asking for money through hard-to-recover methods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To identify scams, look for changes in writing style, suspicious photos, and unusual behavior in video calls, while prioritizing caution if someone you\u2019ve never met asks for money.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is fueling romance scams. Here&#8217;s how https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/ai-romance-scams-deepfake\/70315255 Publish Date: 2026-02-12 14:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/tn-romance-scams-article-698dfa434ca3f.png?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-186812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186812"}],"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=186812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186814,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186812\/revisions\/186814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}