The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
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The article examines the rising scale and organization of romance (confidence) scams, citing FBI data showing hundreds of millions in annual U.S. losses (peaking near $1B in 2021), and describes how social platforms, dating apps, and generative AI help fraudsters script and manage multilingual conversations at scale; it notes global operators (e.g., Yahoo Boys and scam compounds in Southeast Asia) and warns that growing loneliness and automation may further amplify these schemes.
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