PRESS RELEASE – July 2 – Action Fraud, the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime, is working with the dating industry to distribute intelligence about known scammers to dating services. The partnership is made possible through anti-scam service Scamalytics, who already provide a scammer detection and intelligence sharing service to household names in the dating industry. The reports taken by Action Fraud are sent to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) which is run by the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud. The NFIB then pass intelligence to Scamalytics, who load it into their central database. Dating services then check their users against the Scamalytics database, and receive a status on whether a user matches a known scammer. Scamalytics, based in London UK, maintain the largest shared anti-fraud blacklists specifically dedicated to the online dating industry. Founded by a group of industry veterans, the team have years of experience in both detecting scammers, and in applying the latest artificial intelligence techniques to make sense of user behaviour on dating sites. Scamalytics specialise in detecting all types of dating fraud including romance scams, chargeback fraud, affiliate fraud, camgirl fraud, redirection fraud.
