DateMyAge is a global age-positive online communication platform that connects mature singles across borders. As part of the online connection industry, it faces the same trust and safety challenges affecting dating services, social platforms, and other digital communication products, and has a direct view of how those risks are changing.
By 2026, romance fraud is increasingly difficult to treat as a private loss affecting only one user. In 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said the contact began on social media, and across all scam categories those reports accounted for $2.1 billion in losses, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Romance scams originating on social media were one part of that total, accounting for $298 million in reported losses.
