Celebrity Matchmaker Susan Trombetti Helps Singles Spot Catfishers, Romance Scammers And Con Artists

After a recent survey found more online daters are being fooled by scammers using artificial intelligence to to enhance their profiles and messages, celebrity matchmakers Susan Trombetti says her “investigative eye” helps clients looking for love avoid common traps.

Trombetti is the CEO of Exclusive Matchmaking, and has successfully paired some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. But many don’t know she is also a relationship investigator, with a keen eye for not only who you should date, but who you shouldn’t date.

“Online dating apps are the biggest venue for financial fraud,” Trombetti said. “Anyone can pass a background check with a fake name but I can tell you who they really are and what they want.”

According to new study from Norton, more than half (55%) of online daters reported seeing suspicious profiles at least weekly, while 40% say they have been targeted by scams. Among current online daters, 60% believe they’ve had a conversation with someone that was written by AI.

But even though daters reported being suspicious of AI-assisted profiles, when tested, less than half (46%) of respondents could correctly spot a fake, AI-generated image.

According to the survey, the most common scams targeting daters are catfishing (55%), romance scams (34%), sugar daddy/sugar baby scams (32%) and sextortion scams (31%).

“Many men and women are so focused on finding ‘THE ONE,’ that they have blinders on to certain traits in a potential date or relationship they should run from,” Trombetti says.

Trombetti has built an entire high-profile brand around helping people find love, but she says before you can get to love, you need to weed out the others. Sometimes that means more than just judging compatibility, but spotting a con.

The relationship guru offers all kinds of advice, from how to spot a cheater before the end of the first date to how to stop falling into the same dating patterns. She also helps clients spot and avoid catfishers, romance scammers and con artists, and once the red flags of a con are spotted, how to confirm it and what to do about it.

“People need to know the red flags to avoid being conned,” she said.