# OpenAI — Operation “Date Bait”: AI-enabled scam targeting loveseekers

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-date-bait
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11688-operation-date-bait-ai-enabled-scam-targeting-loveseekers
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Models affected: ChatGPT

OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts and one API customer that very likely originated in Cambodia and used AI to run a semi-automated romance and task scam targeting Indonesian loveseekers. The operation used ChatGPT to generate promotional texts, pose as a flirtatious receptionist, translate messages, and create fake dating platforms. OpenAI states its policies strictly prohibit use of its tools for fraud or scams.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-date-bait:

> We banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts and one API customer that were using our models to run a semi-automated romance and task scam likely defrauding hundreds of victims a month.

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