I’m a ‘love rat’ investigator who sniffs out guys who cheat – and most work in a profession

She is being cheated with these scammers.

A “love rat” investigator, who tests men’s fidelity to their partners, has discovered the professions most often associated with cheaters.

“If I see a certain type of profile, I know they’re scammers,” she said via The Sun.

Madeline Smith, a 32-year-old from Los Angeles, boasts more than 224,000 followers on TikTok, where she advertises her fidelity test services to suspicious women who pay up to $65 for the tests.

Smith – who has tested 5,000 men over the past three years and exposed hundreds – said No. 1 occupation held by fraudsters was law enforcement.

“I’ve probably pulled over 100 police officers since I started doing this,” Smith said. “This is the most likely profession to cheat in my experience.”

She said “service” professions such as firefighters, paramedics and military officials top the list of fraudsters, claiming “they are always looking for an opportunity”.

After police officers and service personnel, Smith said gym bros — “the ones who post progress photos or the ones where they’re flexing their muscles,” she noted — were the second most likely to be unfaithful.

“A gym photo here and there isn’t a big deal, but when it’s their identity it’s a big indicator,” she explained.

Businessmen and those in sales roles who have to travel frequently for work have also been found to be unfaithful because they have “opportunities to cheat”, Smith found.

“Their family life is their family life and if they’re traveling they’re very disconnected and that justifies their behavior in their eyes,” she said, adding that “it’s easy to meet people to pay attention to if go out to dinners or bars for work a lot.”

“Betrayal gives them a sense of feeling invincible, and I think they separate a lot.”

Lawyers are also among the professionals she’s most likely to cheat because they often have a “work hard, play hard” mentality, Smith claimed.

Doctors, however, fell to the bottom of Smith’s list because of their grueling hours – although she added that if they do cheat, it’s likely with their colleagues or staff.

“I think in general people are very emotionally stuck and men much more so. They’re looking for an opportunity because historically they’ve never had to be held accountable for their actions,” Smith said.

“Women usually fixate on a person to compensate for all their emotional inconsistencies and try to fix them, despite knowing deep down that they are unlikely to change.”

According to The Sun, recent data from the site Illicit Encounters confirmed Smith’s claims, revealing that police officers were, in fact, the biggest cheaters.

The website’s survey, which named the biggest cheating professions from 2024, found that 63% of police officers surveyed admitted they had been unfaithful in the past year.

Builders came in second with 42% saying they cheated, followed by 37% of salespeople and 31% of personal trainers.

The professional “honey trapper” – who previously revealed the signs of a cheater, such as putting their phone face down, using Snapchat, excluding their partner from photos and refusing to share their location – also explained why partners are unfaithful.

“A lot of infidelity and looking out of the relationship has to do with not having the right partner or not being happy with yourself,” Smith said.

“It could also be because people aren’t patient enough to find the right person or patient enough with themselves to realize they have to put in a lot of work.”