# Avoiding Scammers and Privacy Issues User experience is ruined often due to the centralized and controlled nature of contemporary dating platforms. Various spoilers can become very demotivating. Moreover, if caution is not practiced, the risk of getting scammed runs high. The onset of the pandemic was followed by an increase in the online dating demand, and this has also led to a higher fraud rate. Fraud rates have jumped over 7.5% and the dating world alone has witnessed a 40% increase in the fraud ratio from the beginning of the pandemic to April 2021. Since the start of this pandemic, online daters have suffered a loss of approximately $100 Million (£70m). This figure is a conservative estimate, and the real figure is thought to be much higher. Here is a complete list of these spoilers that are a common occurrence in the dating world now: --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://amore.gitbook.io/wiki/whitepaper/avoiding-scammers-and-privacy-issues.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.