In the world of online dating, it always pays to do a bit of due diligence... Gothamist points to a story from the New York Post about an online dating scam on JDate, the matchmaking site for Jewish singles:

"A 60-something widow was taken for $100,000 by a match from JDate... The scammer, Alan Sarner of Sheepshead Bay, told the widow he was a banker about invest in a company that was close to finding a cure for leukemia, which just happened to be what the widow's husband died of."

Sarner may be a villain -- but anyone who falls for the "sensitive artist/investment banker" rap must be pretty naive. Sensitive investment banker? C'mon, that's the oldest line in the book. According to the Post, Sarner also told the victim that he was really "into romantic movies" and was in the process of building a luxury hotel on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca that would have a gambling casino, heliport, marina and restaurant.