Chatbots Allegedly Used in Romance Scams Targeting Nearly One-Third of New Zealand's Dating App Users
Date: 2025-02-04
Affected: Chatbot Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Romance Scammers Targeting New Zealanders, Scammers
Attack vector: other
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #954: Chatbots Allegedly Used in Romance Scams Targeting Nearly One-Third of New Zealand's Dating App Users. Alleged deployer/developer: Chatbot Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Romance Scammers Targeting New Zealanders, Scammers. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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