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When loneliness makes you vulnerable to fake profiles

I keep getting friend requests from people with photos of attractive women but the profiles seem fake and I am lonely enough to consider accepting them anyway.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional vulnerability can override rational skepticism, making us susceptible to obvious digital deceptions when they offer what we crave.

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