Created with Sketch. The scammers may just have lit upon the perfect crime. They sit at computers safely overseas, hunting for their prey on social networks, and they rarely get caught. Steve G. The Worst Online Dating Scams News broke in 2018 about Grindr, an online dating service for gay men, unknowingly exposing sensitive user information. Faden was able to see user profiles, messages, photos and locations, which he, thankfully, never made public. Though exposing that data is risky enough, the fact that it targeted a dating service for gay men made it worse.