Tinder let 1.5 million scammers match with users, Senate report finds
US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams
A Senate investigation into Match Group's dating apps reveals that nearly 1.5 million scammers matched with users on Tinder and Hinge by late 2025, with 500,000 exchanging contact info. Internal documents show Tinder hadn't updated its machine learning models in years, making scam detection unreliable. Romance scams cost Americans at least $1.3 billion annually. One victim lost nearly $100,000. Match Group disputes the findings, citing recent AI and facial verification improvements.
They never leave you alone. I call it like being in a vortex. You don't even realise what's happening. You're sending money, and it's adding up, but each one of those times that you send money, it's, like, not connected to the other times. But finally when I realized how much money I lost, I was like: 'Whoa.'