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Older Women Should Beware of This Online Dating Scam

In 6 months alone, $82.3 million was reported in confidence frauds

(Newser) - Con artists are scamming elderly American women out of big bucks—sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars—by wooing them on dating websites and suddenly asking for money, the New York Times reports. "I blame myself," says a Georgia woman who gave a swindler nearly $300,000. "...

Love at First Sight? Sure, If You're Equally Attractive

Couples who know each other more than a month are less alike in attractiveness

(Newser) - "Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?" So asked poet Christopher Marlowe some 500 years ago, and now social scientists say they've got a scientific answer to the romantic notion that attraction is instant. It turns out that people who started dating within a month of...

Study: Women Let Handsome Men Off Easier

Homely men who misbehave aren't given as much slack: study

(Newser) - Males wooing women can get away with acting a little creepy if they're good-looking, but the homely ones are out of luck, suggests a new study out of Eastern Kentucky University. To gauge their perceptions of men, researchers showed 170 female college students two male faces with similar features—...

Woman Has 136 Online Dates, No Second Date

Belinda Stuckey of Australia has made 4,700 matches on eHarmony

(Newser) - An Australian school teacher says she's had 136 dates over 17 months but never a second date—because the mutual attraction just isn't there, E! News reports. "I know who I am and what I want and I just can't find a man who is worthy...

Where We Most Like to Go on a First Date

Order a Starbucks latte and hope it's love?

(Newser) - Coffee really does mean coffee on a lot of first dates, according to a survey from dating app Clover : The iPhone-only app analyzed data from its 200,000 users to determine that Starbucks is the most popular first-date destination (its blog post says the data "clearly shows" Starbucks is...

OkCupid Experimented on Users

Dating site 'brags about messing with emotions'

(Newser) - Online dating firm OkCupid has admitted using its members as guinea pigs—and, as its blog post title "We Experiment on Human Beings!" signals, it isn't exactly sorry about it. The company says it has played around with people's profiles, removing text and photos in some...

Dating Site Brings in DNA Matchmaking

'There is a science behind attraction,' SingldOut says

(Newser) - Spitting in a test tube could be the first step toward finding true love, according to a new online dating business that says it is the first to offer DNA-based matchmaking. SingldOut.com analyzes the saliva samples members send in for genes that influence how people respond to emotions and...

Tinder Co-Founder's Suit: I Was Called a 'Whore'

Other co-founder suspended over flap

(Newser) - A tech startup that's all about dating is now embroiled in a lawsuit and scandal sure to remind you what you hate about dating. Tinder co-founder and former marketing VP Whitney Wolfe is suing the dating-app company for sexual harassment, based in large part on the behavior of fellow...

For $5K, Match.com Will Find Lookalikes of Your Ex
For $5K, Match.com Will
Find Lookalikes of Your Ex
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Jun 22, 2014 11:51 AM CDT

For $5K, Match.com Will Find Lookalikes of Your Ex

New facial-recognition service costs a pretty penny

(Newser) - Match.com is rolling out a pricey new service that's causing some double-takes: It promises to match up clients with people who look like their exes. The premise is pretty simple: People send in photos of their former loves, and facial-recognition software then scans the possible matches available to...

Worst First Date Ever? Guy Swipes Woman's Dog, TV

You'll just have to up your 'Worst First Date Ever' game, America

(Newser) - Most people go on dates lookin' for love, but this one ended instead with a little larceny: A New Jersey woman went out Thursday night with "Joel," a guy she met on an online dating site, reports the Daily Record . She took him back to her place, and...

Ex-Worker: Ashley Madison Makes Fake Profiles

Doriana Silva sues, company sues back

(Newser) - Doriana Silva spent her days working for cheater site Ashley Madison typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women to "entice paying heterosexual male members to join and spend money on the website." That, from a lawsuit Silva has filed seeking $20 million for "unjust enrichment"...

Duped Dater Sues OkCupid After Losing $70K

He sent money via wire transfers to con man

(Newser) - An online dater who thought it was a good idea to shell out more than $70,000 to a suitor he had never met in person is now suing OkCupid over the scam, reports the Daily News . Queens resident Michael Picciano, 65, says the site should do a better job...

Mathematician Cracks OkCupid, Finds Wife

Though it still took 88 actual first dates

(Newser) - First, there was boy meets girl. Then, boy meets girl online. And now, boy meets girl online after manipulating the algorithms of his Internet dating site. As Wired explains, it helps to be a mathematician. Christopher McKinlay was a 30-something looking for love on OkCupid and not having much luck....

Woman Drops $500K in ChristianMingle Scam

Man behind the computer wasn't the hunky UK citizen he appeared to be

(Newser) - This dating scam didn't just break hearts, it broke the bank, too: A San Jose woman, 66, was conned out of $500,000 on ChristianMingle.com after a Nigerian man, pretending to be UK citizen "David Holmes," befriended her on the site. After several phone calls, texts,...

Police Use Fake Dating Site Profile to Nab Suspect

'Sasha' turns out to be a Richmond police lieutenant

(Newser) - Virginia police get points for creativity in rounding up a court no-show. A lieutenant created a fake profile of "Sasha" on the online dating site OKCupid, then set about wooing 24-year-old Ryan Covington, who had been accused of breaking into a car but never appeared in court, reports NBC12...

eHarmony: Pay $5K, Get Matched by a Human

Company VP admits some things are 'too hard for a computer'

(Newser) - eHarmony is pretty serious about about pairing "deeply compatible singles," but if its 29 Dimensions® of Compatibility can't find you your perfect mate, the dating site will soon offer a Plan B: Pay $5,000 for eH+ , which lands you your very own personal counselor for a...

35% of Marriages Now Begin Online
 35% of Marriages 
 Now Begin Online 
Study Says
Jun 3, 2013 4:53 PM CDT

35% of Marriages Now Begin Online

Controversial eHarmony study says over a third met through the Internet

(Newser) - Things have come so far since Meg Ryan falling in love with Tom Hanks over AOL was considered a novel enough concept to make a film about it. Now more than a third of marriages in the US start out online, according to a survey of 19,000 people who...

eHarmony Looks to Match Bosses, Workers

Dating website to use approach to romance to connect people with jobs

(Newser) - EHarmony is moving from the business of love to the business of, well, business. The dating website is developing a job service that aims to cut through what one eHarmony exec calls the "artificial and weird interaction" of the job interview in much the same way it does the...

Martha Stewart Narrows Down Match.com Suitors

Will email 2 today, she promises Matt Lauer

(Newser) - So Martha Stewart really is going through with this whole Match.com thing . After posting a profile on the dating site, Stewart, not surprisingly, received 1,000 messages from interested suitors. She managed to narrow it down to five potentially good matches, and out of those five she's going...

See Martha Stewart's Match.com Profile

She's looking for a younger, taller man

(Newser) - On Today Monday, Martha Stewart agreed to join Match.com—and now her profile is live, Time reports. While it doesn't reveal her to be a person who enjoys romantic candlelit dinners and long walks on the beach, it does inform us that she is looking for an "...

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