What is it about the holidays that seem to ignite the spark for uncoupled people? Some say the combination of cold weather and the holidays creates a need for cuddles, also known as “cuffing season." With all the single ladies and men jumping online to find a date for the festive season, it also brings out the scammers, or catfishers.

Whether you’re hopping onto Match.com, Zoosk, or other online dating app, you’re likely to see a fresh crop of daters joining the scene, especially right after the first of the year. Catfishers know this, too. In fact, catfishers, or people who pose as someone else looking for love, have managed to scam nearly $1 billion out of those longing for love since 2015 in the United States and Canada. The catfish scam is only getting worse, and you’re likely to encounter one regardless of which dating site you use.

No matter how cute those Halloween trick-or-treaters are, you might be wondering what tricks some criminals may have up their sleeve during this holiday. After all, Halloween gets a bad rap for being a time when mischief and crime spikes.

Despite the (understandable) belief that criminals take advantage of this spooky holiday, many communities may be safer on Halloween, thanks to neighborhood watch programs that ramp up their efforts on All Hallows Eve. You might even notice an increase in police cruisers. All this is to ensure your little ones are safe as they dart from home to home, though generally speaking, Halloween doesn’t typically see an actual increase in crime in all areas.

This is exactly what happened to Kim Brooks, a mother who intentionally left her then-four-year-old son alone in the car to play his game while she ran into a store. Although she was only gone a few minutes, a passerby videotaped the “abandoned” child and reported Brooks to the police.

Tawfilis had met Dahl at his winery on the night of the shooting to try to settle one of those lawsuits. The negotiations turned violent and Dahl began firing his handgun at Tawfilis, who attempted to outrun his shooter. As deputies arrived in response to Tawfilis’call, Dahl appeared to execute his victim and subsequently fled the scene. Dahl was later discovered dead in his vehicle of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Imagine getting a home DNA test kit, just for fun — only to find out that your father wasn’t your biological father at all. That’s precisely what happened to Colorado resident Kasi Mireles Taylor. The results were completely unexpected, and not only for Taylor, but also the person she knew all her life as “dad.”

As shocked and heartbroken as she was, she met with her biological father and was welcomed to a big, inviting Italian family. Taylor says she considers herself lucky to have an extra family who she’s just now getting to know, and the discovery hasn’t changed the love she has for the man who raised her.