Online Dating Scams

The practice of online scamming of people looking for love online is successful because often it can look so real. Scammers always attempt to mould you by encouraging you to create the automatic reply they need.

Some tips on how to identify and avoid scammers at online dating sites.

1. Be cautious in the dating online scene. Try to use your emotional intelligence. If you have a stock standard profile that does not include your photo on any dating website rarely will you ever get any responses from members of the opposite sex. So be very careful if you start to be inundated with love letter emails from extremely attractive women.

Ask yourself the question why is this total stranger falling in love with the profile you threw together in a few minutes that does not even include your photo?

2. The first thing that creates an impression  the person who is communicating with you is a scammer is their emails. Generally scam emails are sent to lots  of members so they tend to be neutral and impersonal, often includng poor English. These emails will mention to you that they liked your pictures or description although you don't have a comprehensive description or photo listed with your profile. Also, scammers tend to fall quickly in love, so alarms bells should ring when this virtually unknown to you person starts to refer to you as sweetheart, darling, baby or  honey etc.

3. If anyone genuinely is interested you can expect to be given a number of questions about your hobbies, life, maritial status before the individual decides to focus more on developing your relationship.

However, it is extremely unusual for a scammer to start to ask much about your personal details. More often than not they will write in a general manner: How was your day? How is everyone at home? How are you today? Scamming letters often do not even refer to what you asked them last. Even if you discuss something in particular about youself dont be surprised if the scammer does not even remember it the next time you make contact.

4. If after a few weeks your new online friend shows great interest and pretends to be willing to spend their life with you, ask yourself why is he/she still searching for online love? People who love somebody, will quickly delete their own profile from the dating website. If you view your lover still online, make a new contact id as a new user from a separate email address and check what reply you get. If your mate is also immediately in love with your new profile its time to move on.

5. Never ever send any money for tickets and visas! It is much wiser to visit the person's place or country and visit him/her there. This way you are more likely to discover hidden stumbling blocks to your future life toghter such as babies, partners etc. Also make sure someone reliable knows your movements etc on a daily basis.

6. How can you be sure the photo you admire online is the same person you are chatting to online? We recommend that you suggest they email you a fresh photo with a building such as McDonalds in the background. It will also be harder to generate in photoshop if you ask them to print out a small message you send them in big font and hold it up between their hands for the photo you have requested.
 

Good luck and just be careful at all times.