Displaying items by tag: Dating sites

Australia is among the top ten recipients of Christmas-themed spam, according to Bitdefender Antispam Lab, but with only 1% of the total volume we're a lot better off than Ireland. Despite the emerald isle having a population that's less than a fifth of Australia's, it has been hit by 24% of the world's seasonal spam.

Australians lost nearly $300 million to scammers in 2016, with a 47% increase in scam reports to the competition watchdog, the ACCC, during the year over 2015.

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, there’s been a timely reminder from Australia’s competition watchdog that we Aussies lost $22.7 million to dating and romance scams last year, and scammers are once again after your money.

Australian owned gay dating app Pash will give half of all profits earned in the 2015/16 financial year and free advertising to Australian Marriage Equality.

Paris-based dating app Happn has integrated leading music streaming service Spotify’s API into its platform which it says will enrich the user experience of its four million global users.

Lifestyle applications such as dating and navigation, and eBooks, are slated to become the highest growth area for the global app market over the next five years, but still trailing games which continue to account for the largest share of revenues.

The increasing proliferation and popularity of online dating sites has caught the attention of scammers, with users of the services running the risk of becoming victims to identity theft, phishing, webcam blackmail and a dating scam with the unlikely name of catfishing.

International dating website EliteSingles has asked its members to open up about the taboo topic of cheating between men and women and it seems it’s the males who think sexual infidelity is worse, not the women. Despite their opinions, however, men say they are more likely to cheat sexually.