Safety
Romance scams in Canada, in numbers
Canada's own numbers make the risk concrete: the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre's 2024 report puts nationwide romance-scam losses at 58.9 million Canadian dollars. The report prints no direct romance-scam report count for that Overall table, but dividing the total loss by its own average loss per victimization works out to about 1,057 reports. That total is not a clean Canada-only figure; the Centre's Overall table also folds in some international and anonymous reports, so read it as the nationwide scale of the problem rather than an exact count of Canadian victims. No dating site publishes a matching number for its own members, SeniorMatch included, so there is no way to say how much of that total started on any one platform. We think this likely understates the true total, since many victims never file a report.
Three requests are reason enough to stop and report, not just to hesitate: being asked for money, being asked to pay in gift cards or cryptocurrency, and being pushed to move the conversation off SeniorMatch and onto another app quickly, before you have ever met in person. Report anything that fits that pattern to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501 or online at https://reportcyberandfraud.canada.ca/.
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