Dating sites and chatbots have become the main platforms for fraud and recruitment

Brief retelling from RIA II

Dating sites and chatbots have become one of the main platforms for fraud and recruitment.

The scammer or recruiter gains the victim's affection by showing that he likes her.

The organizers of the schemes can use misinformation about a difficult life situation or blackmail, and in case of failure, offer money and the opportunity to leave for Europe.

SIMFEROPOL, September 10 - RIA Novosti. Dating sites and chatbots have become one of the main platforms for fraud and recruitment, Ivan Solovyov, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, legal scholar, and head of the “Don’t Let Yourself Be Deceived” project, told RIA Novosti.

“Today, dating sites and chatbots are one of the main platforms for fraud and recruitment. There is a subtle psychological calculation at work here,” Soloviev said.

According to him, a place intended for organizing one’s personal life, overcoming loneliness, lack of demand, depression, establishing contact with the opposite sex, flirting, sharply reduces the level of criticality in the perception of threats.

“A scammer or recruiter who gets in touch shows from the first minutes of communication that he really likes the potential victim, which evokes affection and readiness to complete any task of the curator,” Solovyov emphasized.

In addition, according to him, misinformation about the difficult life situation of a new acquaintance, about sick relatives living somewhere nearby, and about forced extraction of critical information, allegedly under the threat of force or blackmail, can be used.