The AuthentiLens Dating Scam Checker analyzes pasted dating profiles and messages for romance scam patterns, catfishing signals, and AI-generated fake persona language. Paste a profile bio, a message you received, or both, and the checker identifies the specific risk signals in the content before you invest time, trust, or money in the relationship.
Romance scams cause some of the largest individual financial losses of any fraud type. The FTC reported that people lost over $1.1 billion to romance scams in 2023. Scammers create fake personas using stolen or AI-generated photos, then build an emotional connection over weeks or months before requesting money. Requests are framed as emergencies: a medical crisis, travel funds to visit you, a business investment opportunity, or a fee to release a large sum of money they claim to have access to.
Military romance scams are a specific and common pattern where a scammer claims to be a deployed soldier or overseas contractor. The persona establishes emotional connection quickly while being impossible to meet in person. Eventually the scammer requests money for leave paperwork, medical care, a travel ticket home, or customs fees to release valuables they claim to be shipping.
The checker looks for signals common to romance fraud. These include overly perfect or generic profile descriptions, rapid escalation of emotional intensity early in the conversation, claims of an overseas location that make in-person meeting impossible, introduction of financial hardship or an investment opportunity shortly after emotional connection is established, requests to move the conversation off the dating platform to a private messaging app, and language patterns from known romance scam scripts.
Paste the profile bio, a sample of messages you have received, or both together. For checking a profile photo that may be AI-generated or stolen, use the AI Image Detector alongside this tool for a visual analysis of the photograph itself.
Every result includes a risk verdict, confidence level, and explanation of the specific patterns found. If a profile is flagged high risk, do not send money under any circumstances. Report the profile to the dating platform and to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov.