Six in ten cheating lovers are caught out by their own smart device, study shows

21 October 2023 , 19:07

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Suspicious partners are using tech like Alexa to catch out straying lovers.

Three in five cheats are nabbed with evidence from devices, research found. Some 11% of wary women check Alexa playlists for slow songs and 8% look at a fitness watch to see if their partner really was at the gym. Some 5% review doorbell video for illicit visitors, while 2% use AI to fake their partner’s voice and call a love rival.

Just 3% catch their spouse by spotting him in the act or after a tip-off from a pal. Jessica Leoni, of married dating website Illicit Encounters, said: “Technology has advanced in ways we could never have imagined over the past few years, and in some cases it’s made it super easy to catch cheaters in the act.

“But it doesn’t appear to be having an effect on the number of people having affairs as the figure continues to rise. Whether it’s old-school errors like saucy texts left on phones, or more modern slip-ups with location-tracking and AI, people need to be clever about how they’re covering their digital tracks.”

Alexa is spilling secrets on its users (PA)

Researchers found 65 per cent of women who have been cheated on used new tech devices around the home to get evidence on cheating partners. The devices also have GPS tracking and heart rate history which reveal when someone is lying about their whereabouts and when their rate rate is up.

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Most women spotted their partner was cheating when a flirtatious phone message popped up on his screen - 24 per cent of women said it gave their partner away. Another 18 per cent of women said they caught their partner out by checking his browsing history and further 13 per cent by checking his mobile phone call history.

Nine per cent found out what was going on by checking emails and a further seven per cent used phone location tracking to find out the truth. The dating site for married couples illicitencounters.com asked 2,000 UK members how they had been caught cheating to come up with the findings.

David Jarvis