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‘Sextortion’: Financial Fraudsters Take to Dating Apps

While many youngsters are finding their partners through dating apps, scammers are using them to find new victims of financial fraud.

Recently, there has been an alarming rise in cyber frauds through dating apps, wherein fraudsters threaten to distribute others’ private and sensitive material or other sexual content and ask for money in return.