Soon, Akbari fell for her admirer — Ethan Schuman, who claimed to be a 35-year-old graduate of Columbia University and MIT — and the pair arranged to meet in person. But they never did.

Her name was Ethan Schuman. At least, that's what Anna Akbari says Emily Slutsky called herself when she messaged her on ...

Back in 2011, Anna Akbari, a sociologist who now lives in California but was residing in New York City at the time, connected with a man named Ethan Schumann on a dating site, and immediately ...