For many singles, January means shaking off the holiday blues and starting their New Year’s resolution to find love.

While you’re not guaranteed to find your soulmate, you’re very likely to get a date: The beginning of the year typically brings a spike in online dating activity. Many popular apps like Match.com and Tinder report increases in sign-ups around this time of year, which means you’ve got more opportunities than ever to find your perfect match – and a greater risk of choosing the wrong partner.

Going through a recent breakup? You’re not the only one. A significant peak in breakups occurs two weeks before the winter holidays.

It’s suggested that this season of breakups occurs because many would rather break up than “meet the family” (which typically coincides with the holidays) or are looking forward to the New Year, and therefore a fresh start.

Unlike the days before social media, these days you might stay in contact with your ex. The two of you might share mutual friends and have decided that you want to remain friends, too.

Dirty John, a six-part podcast from the Los Angeles Times and journalist Christopher Goffard, tells the riveting story of how one woman and her family were affected by a diabolical man she met from an online dating site.

The podcast moves like a mystery thriller. One aspect of the story opens the door to another; you know something terrible is going to happen, but you’ll never predict what and when.

A recent study that looked at the profiles of online daters discovered an intriguing insight into how age affects the way that we portray ourselves.

The researchers found that older singles (50 and up) tend to be happy about their existing social connections, but want to expand them. Individuals in this age bracket used more pronouns such as “us” and “we” that emphasized friends and family. In contrast, younger online daters tended to use more first-person pronouns, highlighting work and achievements.

As the cold winter months get closer, you might be wanting someone to spend them with. There’s a reason behind that: it’s cuffing season." Introduced to Urban Dictionary in 2011, it’s the time during fall and winter when singles get serious about finding a partner to be “cuffed” to, or tied down with.

Naturally, it’s also the time of the year when online dating sites see a spike in user activity.

And if catfish weren’t deceiving enough, interactions with one who’s after your heart might seem more genuine, and therefore even more deceiving.

Online dater, Emma Perrier discovered this the hard way.

After investing her heart and exchanging “I love you’s,” she found out that her male model love interest, “Ronnie Scicluna” was actually someone else entirely.

No one ever expects to be the victim of an online dating scam. However, according to a Consumer Reports 2016 Online Dating Survey of over 114,000 online daters, 12 percent said they were scammed, while 35 percent felt misled by someone’s online dating profile.

In fact, according to the FBI, both the number of victims and the financial losses resulting from online dating scams have nearly quadrupled in the last five years.

As was reported in CNBC’s latest American Greed Report, a new twist in online dating scams involves con artists exploiting Americans’ respect for the military.

Scammers are notorious for playing on the emotions of their victims, and this scam does just the same: it plays on the trust people have for military personnel.

One woman thought she met a military officer named Adam Smith who was serving overseas, and had a young daughter.