• Verified Love announced on 10 November 2026 a free interactive platform to help people identify and prevent online dating scams.
  • Features include scam-pattern identification, document authenticity checks, a database of reported profiles, scam reporting and free manual verification.
  • The FBI's 2025 IC3 report logged 23,159 Confidence/Romance complaints and $929,287,469 in losses.
  • The release gives no founding date, ownership, funding, user numbers or database size.

Verified Love, a Montreal-based site, announced on 10 November that it has launched a free interactive platform to help people spot and prevent online dating scams, including AI-enabled ones. According to its press release, the aim is to let people check a suspicious contact before they hand over money or personal details.

Verified Love is an independent anti-scam service rather than a dating platform, but it tackles the same problem that dating operators' trust and safety teams are judged on.

The DII Take

The need is real, and the FBI figures show the scale of the problem. The product is another matter: with no disclosed ownership, size or method, Verified Love's effectiveness is unverified. Until the company says more, treat it as a signal of where scam-awareness tooling is heading, not as proof that it works.

What the platform offers

The service lets users ask for documents to be checked for authenticity, look up profiles that others have reported, flag suspected scammers and ask the team to carry out a manual check at no cost. The release also sets out red flags, among them being asked for money, sudden financial emergencies, avoiding in-person meetings, personal details that do not add up and pressure to leave the dating service for another channel. It cautions that none of these on its own proves fraud.

Dimitri Berezniakov, the spokesperson, said: 'The reported losses are already staggering, and they do not reflect everyone affected,' adding: 'People deserve practical ways to pause, check details, and seek help without judgment.'

The numbers behind the pitch

The FBI's 2025 IC3 report records 23,159 complaints and $929,287,469 in losses in the Confidence/Romance category, in line with the figures the release cites. The release's claim that the true toll may be about 10 times higher is Verified Love's own, with no source given.

The AI framing deserves scrutiny. Verified Love says AI lets scammers produce convincing messages, fabricated identities and fraudulent documents at scale, and expects scam reach to rise significantly. The IC3 report does say scammers use AI chat generators to build fake profiles and scripts, and it attributes over $19 million in romance losses to a likely AI nexus. That is a small share of the $929M total, so the significant rise Verified Love predicts is, for now, a forecast rather than something the FBI's count shows.

Separately, the FTC says nearly 60% of people who reported losing money to a romance scam in 2025 said it began on a social media platform, and that $298M was reported lost to romance scams that started there.

What to watch

Look for Verified Love to disclose who runs it, how many profiles it holds and how manual verification works. Also watch whether dating platforms start routing members to outside tools like this, or build equivalents themselves.

  • Verified Love's free scam-checking platform is a third-party resource whose ownership, database size and verification method are undisclosed, so its effectiveness cannot yet be assessed.
  • The FBI's IC3 report puts romance fraud at $929,287,469 in 2025 and ties over $19 million of it to a likely AI nexus.
  • Trust and safety teams should note that nearly 60% of people reporting romance scam losses to the FTC in 2025 said the scam started on social media.

Sources: Verified Love Launches Free Interactive Platform to Help Users Identify and Prevent Online Dating Scams (Verified Love via GlobeNewswire); FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report (FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center); Reported losses to scams on social media eight times higher than in 2020 (US Federal Trade Commission)