If you place a dating profile on dating sites, you may receive a number of emails. Some may be genuine and want to start a conversation with you, but some emails may be from scammers. You need to know how to sort out the scammers from the genuine potential dates.
Just like banking scam email, scammers will be very general, may not mention your name and not refer to specific information about your personal profile. These are the kind of email you should ignore as scam. If you have doubts about the genuine bona fides of the mail you receive, then it most likely is scam.
Being alert, keeping your eyes open will help to prevent you becoming the next victim of dating online scams.
Here is a true cautionary tale. An online friend flew to London to meet a man. Upon arriving at the airport, she got a message that the man she was to meet, has died. She spent all that money to fly to London from overseas, hoping to meet a man she has been dating online on dating chat channels for months. She later finds out the man is a actually a woman, living in Canada.
These were the days of message boards and chat channels. Anyone could put any picture on a dating profile and pretend to be someone else. These days, there are dating webcams and other dating resources, to help stop you making this mistake.
Now you know how to be alert to stop you becoming the next victim of online dating scams.
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1 comment:
When it comes to quality online dating sites, I would sooner use niche dating sites or some of the more popular online dating sites like Match.com or AmericanSingles.com. With free online dating sites I see a problem and that problem is they are usually where the majority of online dating scammers do their work as they may provide whatever information about themselves which is usually all lies.
At least with paid online dating sites these online dating scammers have to provide a valid credit card when paying for their membership and it becomes more difficult for online dating scammers to do their work. As well paid dating sites will go after these online dating scammers usually if they are reported by those members that these online dating scammers ask for money from.
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