Why Do Scammers Target Dating Apps? The $1.3B Answer (2026)
With 80 million Americans actively using dating apps (SSRS, 2026) and romance scam losses exceeding $1.3 billion annually (FTC, 2026), the question of why do scammers target dating apps has a deceptively simple answer: because they work. Dating apps concentrate the largest pool of emotionally available, trust-willing people on the internet — and the structural…