In a world increasingly interconnected through the wonders of the internet, a case study published in BMC Psychiatry sheds light on a darker facet of digital interaction: online romance fraud inducing erotomania, a rare delusional disorder. Erotomania, or de Clérambault’s syndrome, manifests as a persistent, delusional belief that an individual, typically of higher social status, is in love with the person experiencing the delusion, despite little to no interaction between the two. This condition, recognized in major psychiatric classifications such as the ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR, reflects a profo…