{
  "slug": "dating-app-bots",
  "title": "The profile is charming, attentive, and not a person",
  "summary": "Romance scam losses reported to the FTC passed 1.16 billion dollars in nine months of 2025. Photo verification is being defeated. What works, and what does not.",
  "lede": "Romance scam losses reported to the Federal Trade Commission passed one point one six billion dollars in the first nine months of 2025 alone, and everyone who studies this agrees the real number is higher because most victims never report. Dating platforms answered with photo verification. Photo verification is now being defeated at the capture pipeline, and it was never the harder half of the problem anyway.",
  "date": "2026-09-30",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Consumer",
  "tags": ["dating app bots", "romance scam", "verified human dating", "photo verification", "injection attack", "pig butchering", "online dating safety"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Dating%20App%20Bots/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/dating-app-bots.html",
  "wordcount": 4657,
  "related": ["kyc-injection-attacks", "elder-fraud-second-signer", "verified-human-comments"],
  "schema": "Article"
}