PreCrime™ Labs, the threat research division of BforeAI, has been analyzing a set of recent suspicious domain registrations around the theme of love and romance, in anticipation of the Valentine’s Day holiday. The surge of malicious campaigns spans across phishing, gifting, dating apps, chat platforms, crypto, and potential pig butchering activities that could lead to loss of financial and personal information. This report analyzes over 3280 suspicious domains containing strings such as “love”, “valentine”, “dating”, “tinder”, and “matchmaking”, registered primarily between December 2025 and February 2026, and highlights patterns in top level domain (TLD) usage, registrar choice, and geographic lures, indicating both opportunistic fraud and coordinated campaign-style abuse.
Interestingly, a cluster of 280 domains registered under a single IP using Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) was actively operational and hosting random content to engage users to lure them to interact before moving to the main campaign operation.
The link to access the report is here: https://bfore.ai/report/romance-scams-proliferate-domain-registrations-valentines-day/
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BforeAI Threat Report: Romance Scams Proliferate Domain Registrations Ahead of Valentine’s Day
PreCrime™ Labs, the threat research division of BforeAI, has been analyzing a set of recent suspicious domain registrations around the theme of love and romance, in anticipation of the Valentine’s Day holiday. The surge of malicious campaigns spans across phishing, gifting, dating apps, chat platforms, crypto, and potential pig butchering activities that could lead to loss of financial and personal information. This report analyzes over 3280 suspicious domains containing strings such as “love”, “valentine”, “dating”, “tinder”, and “matchmaking”, registered primarily between December 2025 and February 2026, and highlights patterns in top level domain (TLD) usage, registrar choice, and geographic lures, indicating both opportunistic fraud and coordinated campaign-style abuse.
Interestingly, a cluster of 280 domains registered under a single IP using Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) was actively operational and hosting random content to engage users to lure them to interact before moving to the main campaign operation.
The link to access the report is here: https://bfore.ai/report/romance-scams-proliferate-domain-registrations-valentines-day/
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