AI Romance Scams 2026: How Bots, Deepfakes & Fake Profiles Target Daters
AI romance scams have fundamentally changed how online dating fraud works — and 2026 is the year the threat became impossible to ignore. According to McAfee’s February 2026 Valentine’s Research, 1 in 4 Americans have encountered a fake profile or AI bot on a dating app (McAfee, Feb 2026). AI bots can now send 60+…