Are you tired of being lonely? Do you want to find REAL love?
Catfishing, the act of pretending to be someone you’re not to deceive people over the internet, can be caught early on by machine learning systems to prevent fake online romance scams.
Dating websites and apps are the best place catfishers to set up shop. All you have to do is create a convincing profile. Make it appealing by adding attractive photos and writing a little bit about your fictional self. Perhaps you like long walks on the beach or reading poetry. Maybe you’ll catch the attention of potential suitors right away, or you might have to do some leg work yourself by reaching out to other people first.
Send a sweet message and wait. Victims will take the bait and a conversation is sparked. Eventually a rapport is built and the catfisher can strike, pulling all sorts of tricks to win over the other person’s heart and wallet - asking for funds to buy a ticket to see them or sort out a visa are the most common scams. The most figures from the FBI’s most recent 2018 Internet Crime Report estimates that thousands of people fell prey to online romance fraud that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
So, a group of researchers from King’s College London, University of Bristol in the UK, the University of Boston in USA, and Australia's University of Melbourne, decided to tackle the problem using AI.
“Our work presents the first system for automatically detecting this fraud. Our aim is to provide an early detection system to stop romance scammers as they crea ..
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