How machine learning helps prevent online daters from getting scammed

Ahead of Valentine's Day 2018, CBS News reported that the FBI is warning those looking for love online to be wary of scammers on dating sites and apps. Online dating services can be lucrative targets for fraudsters. According to the article, online dating scams cost Americans up to $210 million over the past three years. "A fraud scammer sets up a series of false personal profiles on these online dating sites, and then reaches out to form relationships. At first, the relationship seems pretty genuine. Then, once the relationship is formed, at some point the scammer determines an'extraction point' where she or he begins to ask the other party for money to'help them out.'"