Scam ring runs 28 fake dating apps with 4,700 AI girlfriends milking 25,000 users

A fraud ring operated 28 fake dating apps with about 4,700 AI girlfriends powered by models like Claude, charging roughly 25,000 men per message. Anthropic researchers disclosed the industrial-scale AI catfishing scheme, noting 75% of matches on one network were bots.

2026-09-17 ~ 2026-09-17 · 2 related posts

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