Dating Online Scams Online Dating Secret Friends Guide
Dating Online Scams Seeking Vulnerable Victims
By George Stenhouse
Dating online scams are all over dating sites, run
by scam artists, looking for vulnerable people. You
can take advantage of tips in this article, to stop
you becoming their next victim.
If you place a dating profile on dating sites for review,
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.
Ignoring Scam Email
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.
Being Alert To Online Scammers
Online scammers mainly aim at people of different income
levels, backgrounds and ages throughout the world. There
is not any specific group which is more prone to become
a prey of a scam.
The practice of scamming is successful because it looks
like real. It seems to fulfill your desire and needs.
Scammers always attempt to mould you by inducing your
nature to create the automatic reply they need.
Tips To Identify And Avoid Online Dating Scammers
Here are few tips how to identify and avoid scammers
at online dating sites.
1. Be cautious in the dating
online scene. Use your emotional intelligence. If you
have an ok profile without a personal photo on any dating
website you will rarely ever get any answers from
females.
If you get lots of love letters from attractive good
looking women, you should think yourself: Would you
be able to step into love with the profile you made
that fast? What is there that could make her fall in
love that quickly?
Identifying Scam Emails And Letters
2. The first thing that
creates an impression that the person who is communicating
with you is a scammer is the mails. Scam letters are
sent to a lot of people, are very neutrally, impersonally
made for bulk use.
The scam-emails can often be used for both the sexes,
male and female. They will mention to you that they
liked your pictures or description although you don't
have a self description or photo on internet. Scamming
artist fall quickly in love, they will address you very
quickly sweetheart, darling, baby or love honey.
A Scammer Never Asks About Your Personal Details
3. If anyone is interested
in you, you will get a number of questions about your
hobbies, life, before the individual decides to meet
you. A scammer artist never asks you about your personal
details.
They will use, to talk in general manner: How was your
day? How is everyone at home? How are you today? Scamming
letters are often contain different details from what
you mention to them. If you discuss about particular
things, they will not even remember one week later and
keep on saying the same things.
Dating Profile Still Searching For Love
4. If you try to keep in
contact for a few months and if your date shows great
interest and pretends to be willing to spend his entire
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, since it's not
a big issue to post a new edition, if they become single
again. If you view your lover still online, you can
make a new contact id as a new user from a separate
email address and check what reply you get. If your
mate is willing to come to you and loves you like anything,
then you should not get him/her two times.
Do Not Send Any Money
5. Never send any money
for tickets and visas! Go to the person's place or country
and visit him/her there. Use well-established, trustworthy
marriage or dating agencies for arranging and meeting
trips.
Using these tips and keeping alert for scammers, reduces
your chances of becoming their next victim. If you have
doubts about the information you are receiving from
a potential date, then be careful and do not give out
your personal information, until after you meet on a
physical date.
Taking Precautions On Your First Physical Date
On your first meeting on a physical date, you should
meet at a place where there are a lot of people and
bring a trusted friend along with you, just in case
you need to escape from the date from hell.
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, had
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 actually a woman, living in Canada.
Using Dating Resources On Dating Sites
There 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 dating mistakes.
Now you know how to be alert to stop you becoming the
next victim of online dating scams.
About the Author:
George Stenhouse is an author of dating articles including
Online Dating,
How To Meet Women,
Dating Chat,
Personal Web Sites,
Alternative Dating,
Dating And Personals,
Dating Internet Service.
Keep a lookout for more articles coming soon.
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