# OpenAI — Romance scams: AI-enabled romance scam workflows

- 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-romance-scam
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11690-romance-scams-ai-enabled-romance-scam-workflows
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts that used its AI to support romance scam workflows, including outreach, translation, victim engagement, and investment-fraud lures. The company describes a common pattern in these scams: the ping (cold contact), the zing (generate emotion), and the sting (extract money). This case study is part of OpenAI's February 2026 report on disrupting malicious uses of AI.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-romance-scam:

> OpenAI banned accounts using AI to support romance scam workflows, including outreach, translation, victim engagement, and investment-fraud lures.

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