Online dating services can’t keep users from having their hearts broken.

A state legislator wants to make sure online daters aren’t having their money stolen by thieves too.

Assemblyman Clyde Vanel, D-Brooklyn, has introduced A.3889 to change the way online dating services protect users from fraud by requiring that an online dating service shall disclose cautionary information to all of its New York members known to have previously received and responded to an on-site message from a banned member in order to prevent the members of an online dating service from being victimized by banned members.

“Many of New York’s law on ‘social referral services’ was created in age before the rise of online dating platforms such as Match and E-Harmony fundamentally changed the way that most New Yorkers utilize such referral services,” Vanel wrote in his legislative justification. “As such, the time is ripe for updating aspects of the law to better protect New Yorkers who use these services from fraud and abuse.”

Online dating services would be required to give New York users who been contacted by someone banned from the site the user’s name, identification number or other profile identifiers. The sites would be required to disclose if the member was banned because they may have been using a false identity or may pose a risk of trying to use fraud to steal money.

Notification would be required by email, text message or other means of communication and be required to happen within 24 hours and three days after the fraud ban.

“Each year, internet dating services ban millions of members, the vast majority of whom are banned within 72 hours of creating an account with the service when it became clear they were violating one or more terms of use, or because the service determined the member poses a risk of defrauding another member,” Vanel wrote. “Many New York members of online dating services have lost significant financial amounts to people using Internet dating services to defraud members.”