Beware of fake profiles: Are you a sensitive and emotionally less intelligent person? If yes, you may be at an increased risk of being duped in online dating, finds a recent study conducted by researchers in the UK, adding that rise in the number of people using online dating has also increased fraud. Perpetrators of dating scams simply set up false profiles on dating websites with the sole purpose of extracting money from their victims. They use sophisticated techniques and eventually may begin to know exactly the sort of people to target and how to manipulate them, the researchers noted.