Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Staying Alert Against Online Dating Scams

Online dating scams are all over the internet. If you receive wild promises of love and romance, followed by a request for money, then you should take precautions and assume you are talking to a scammer. Some of these scammers are in your local area, pretending to live overseas in order to claim money for traveling expenses.

Some may even have a sudden illness and out of the blue, the family requests money for hospital expenses and then funeral expenses. Quick promises of romance. Sudden illness and death. Request for money. Now you know, how these scammers work.

Real romance often develop over a period of time. Some take weeks, months and even years. Friends can become romantically involved and then may even marry. This is how real romance develops.

Take these tips in your consideration, whenever you are chatting online, online dating and even videochatting on a web cam. Just be aware that the person you are chatting online, may not be who they say they are and may be looking for opportunities to steal your money.

If someone is making wild promises of romance and love, comes back the next day and tells you a tale of woe and everything in his life has suddenly turned upside down and needs your money to make everything right again, then you should take extreme caution and presume he may be a scammer.

You work hard to earn your money, you should not make it easy to lose your money to online dating scams.

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