US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams

A congressional investigation into dating app scams has revealed that Match Group's platforms, including Tinder and Hinge, failed to adequately protect users from romance fraud, with nearly 1.5 million scammers matching with users and romance scams costing Americans at least $1.3 billion annually. Internal documents showed that Tinder had not updated most of its fraud-detection systems in years, allowing scammers to operate more freely, as exemplified by one victim who lost $100,000 to a scammer on Plenty of Fish.