Scheduled text messages are nothing new, but a new app called Bro App has packaged them in a novel way: scheduled sweet nothing text messages to your girlfriend or girlfiends (yes, plural, let’s be realistic here; the sort of guy who would use an app like this may also be the sort of guy who is, in the vernacular, a playah). What could possibly go wrong with that?

From our “Why online scams work” department, a woman (if she is indeed a woman) who was in an online relationship with an Illinois man for over two years has managed to scam at least $200,000 from the man. The scam came to light when the 48-year-old man from Naperville, Illinois contacted police because his ‘girlfriend’ had disappeared right after he wired her the last of the $200,000, and he feared she had been kidnapped.