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Online Dating Scams

April 03, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Scam

Sex is the biggest selling thing on the internet. The number of romance scams as well as victims is on the rise. You can find some “fake” people in many dating websites even in the popular and famous ones as they can’t predict their users to be scammers or real users seeking friendship. Mostly these types of fraudulent activities are committed by people living in the African countries whose major source of income comes from this business.

The scammer posts an attractive photo, stolen from other websites, so these photos have nothing to do with these scammers. The real people of these photos are also victims of romance scam.

Scammers then can message you, become your friend, and then hit you with a “come see me on my cam”, for example. If you click one of the links, you could put yourself in a lot of trouble. Best bet is to just stay away from them all together.

When it comes to webcams, that is the scary part; Scammers sometimes ask the victim to get naked and take photos of the victim via the webcam. The scammer would later demand for money by threatening with exposure of the victim’s naked photos on internet.

Online dating scammers always Mass message members with pre-written copy of message revealing their interest in the victim’s profile and ask if the victim wants to know more about the scammer.

The scammer gradually lures the victim away from the messaging channels provided by the dating website towards external means such as personal emails, instant messaging, and telephone calls.

Those people can then convince you that they are real friends and want to do a relation with you, ask for some personal data, and then start their scamming business. Or even they can claim how bad their current circumstances and needs help to overcome it in some way. The scammer’s story could be very emotional and easily gain sympathy from the victim asking him/her to send money in many forms such as cash money orders, send merchandise, or currency exchange via a telegraphic money transfer service, etc…

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