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Online Dating Scam

Posted in Online Dating by kenny on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 // 0 comments

If you are planning to date or meet people online, then you should be aware of online dating scams. Online dating scam is a serious problem since it will not only hurt you emotionally but will also burn a big hole in your wallet. If you want to get serious with meeting people online, then you must be careful about the scams. Most of the online dating sites are offering free services. What this means is anyone can sign up at these free online dating websites and put up a fake profile so that he or she could look for potential dates by sending you some fake pictures of good looking men or women.

There are basically 4 most common types of online dating scams. They are

1. Phone scams.

2. Prostitute scams.

3. Travel scam

4. Nigerian Postal scam.

1. Phone scam

Phone scam is the oldest form of online dating scams. Anyone may ask you to make a call to him or her. Then the caller will ask you to dial a certain number after you have picked up the phone call. After you make the call and press the number, you will get a bill for thousands of dollars in the following month.

2. Prostitute scam

Prostitutes may place their photos in online dating websites to solicit their businesses. You can easily find such profiles by grubby user name and steamy self descriptions.

3. Travel scams

Your date might tell you that he or she is living overseas or in a place far from yours and is living a poor life. For this reason, he or she demands money to pay for travel expenses in order to meet you. After you send them the money, he or she will disappear for no reason.

4. Nigerian postal scam

Here the person may pretend that he or she is a relative of a deceased government official who is loaded with cash. They will ask money from you for the financial transactions where you are supposed to get like 5% of millions of dollars in helping the person to get the money from the decease.

These are the 4 common types of online dating scams. The following online dating tips will help you to avoid online dating scams and make your online dating experience safe and secure. When you are browsing through the profiles at these free online dating websites, carefully go through the profiles and you will know for sure if these profiles are real or fake. Most of the time, the men are always thinking about sex and they will say so in their profiles. Sincere men do not do like that. Sometimes you can tell if the person is sincere or not just by scanning their online name. Profiles with sleazy name such as “the sweetest sin” are mostly bearing ill intention and should be carefully avoided.

Another tip to determine if the online dating profile is a scam or not is by scrutinizing the profile carefully. People who are likely to lie to others will say something vague that will fit anyone in their profiles. Other than the profiles, the pictures of the person alone will tell you a lot of things. Some person might post pictures of some super hot model to trick you into believing that he or she is actually a model. Photographs of beautiful women and handsome men in combination with vague profiles really mean something is wrong about this person. In fact, for guys who easily fall for beautiful women, please take note of the following advice. Beautiful women are more selective and they will definitely include more requirements in their profiles. Women will not be ready to talk about sex naturally, not in their profile and not in the first meeting. If anyone does that, then you can decide that she is a liar.

Another common scam is about overseas profiles. Some people may reveal that they are residing in local town in the profile but when you want to talk to them they will say that they are in overseas. You should treat such profiles as potential scams. If the location does not match, then immediately drop the profile. This will help you save your time. Sometimes you just don’t get too emotionally attached to one person in the initial stage of online dating.

Sometimes your match may ask you for money saying that his or her relative needs money to do operations. You can decide that long distance coupled with the request for money really means a scam. You can simply avoid this. Whenever you are going for online dating, please remember the above mentioned points and search for an honest and sincere dating partner.

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