HOW TO AVOID BEING AN ONLINE DATING SCAM VICTIM

If you have used a dating site in the past, it is likely you have come across a dating site scammer at some point. If you haven't, you are either very lucky or maybe they were not uncovered by you at the time. You may even have been conned into sending a scammer hundreds or thousands of hard earned dollars, never hearing from them again.



A dating site scammer is a person who may contact you in order to obtain money. They will use a false name, age, country of birth, occupation and most cunningly, they will have a misleading purpose for contacting you. They will appear sweet, caring and in-need of your help.



Dating sites are very prone to dating site scammers. Generally they will prey on people who are prepared to "open their heart" to the scammer, often being "sucked into" the scammers lie. The ultimate goal of their lies is to receive money from you - often in large quantities.
As the operator of the dating site Pricelesspartner.com, I have come across every story, every username, every lie that a scammer could possibly think of. I thought it would be useful to share my knowledge of dating site scammers and to write a "How To Avoid" guide to dating site scammers in the hope that it may save you both time, possibly money and give you a more enjoyable online experience on dating sites.
In no particular order, here is a list of what to look out for when dating online.

The Email Address



From my experience, the most popular email service used by dating site scammers is Yahoo! Mail. At present very few scammers use Hotmail or Gmail, although they are both not immune from being used as scamming email addresses.
The email address will often contain a username similar to their registered dating site username. See below.

The Username



The next most obvious sign of a dating site scammer will be his or her username.
Generally, their username will consist of love related or relationship related terms. Common terms include 'luv' or 'love' or 'real' in combination with a common generic name such as 'Bob' or 'Jane' or 'Jennifer' etc.
Often the username will also contain a string of numbers at the end, perhaps helping them exhaust a range of memberships or registrations with a site. For example 'Bob4real' may have '001' at the end.



Here is a tiny sample of random usernames I have rejected:



Jennifer4real
Vivian001
Bobtrueluv
Luv4real
Jennifer_brown03
Lovely2000
Honest005
God_fearing_001
plus thousands of variations of the above, and more.




The Description



The personality description used by the dating site scammer is probably the biggest giveaway and sometimes the most humorous (when you have gone through thousands of profile registrations like I have, you need to have the odd giggle here and there).
Most commonly, the dating site scammer will use the following phrases or word combinations in their personality description:



They either live in a common scamming country or region (Nigeria, Senegal, and Russia) or they will state they were originally born in the USA, London, Australia etc and are currently living in Nigeria, Senegal, and Russia etc.



They will start a sentence with "Am" eg. "Am Jennifer Smith by name…"
States they are god fearing, or have the fear of god in them.
The dating site scammer will describe themselves as "real, honest, sincere, loving, careing (often spelt like that), genuine". They will often tell you about their tragic life story or history. Often this will include the death of both parents at an early age, they are recently widowed, they have a sick child or a child has died.



In combination with their life story, the dating site scammer may also claim to do saint-like activities such as work with disabled people and students, work for a charity such as UNICEF, or even work for the United Nations. Alternatively, some dating site scammers (usually from Russia) are very sexual in nature and desire to be loved and cared for by you and to please your every desire, despite only having read your profile for 5 minutes.




The Photo



The photo used by a dating site scammer is often very professional - almost too professional. Photos will be very clear and appear to be a "pose" by a professional model. Alternatively, many male scammers from African countries will send a passport-like photo of themselves. It will be very grainy and somewhat aged. Some photos may also appear to be everyday snaps, but are very tiny - almost thumbnail in appearance.




The Message



The message sent to you by a dating site scammer is almost always your first contact with them.In most cases, the message is likely to be very self contained and not just a simple "Hi, want to chat?". It will include many of the keywords and phrases used in their personality description (see above) and will often request you contact them directly via their email address or to add them directly to MSN,YAHOO or your computer's Instant Messenger.



A good example of a typical message would be similar to the following:
Hello, am Jennifer Smith by name, am 25 years old,from USA but currently living in Lagos,Nigeria I got my first Degree from Greemwich university, London, and am currently working for Unicef. am real, loving, faithful careing lady who is god fearing and would like to talk to you more. Please contact me on emailaddress@email or add my name to your MSN. Love Jennifer xxoo

So, what do I do if I think I have found a scammer?
If you believe the person contacting you fits the descriptions listed above, do the following three things: Report the scammer to the dating site operator. On Pricelesspartner.com, you can do this by clicking the 'Scam or Spam' button in your Message Center, or simply contact me with the scammers' username. Pricelesspartner.com has their internet access information on file and will use this information to investigate the origin of the scammer.



If the scammer has listed their email address in their message to you, contact the scammer's email provider. In many cases this will be a free email service such as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. If possible, send them a copy of the message sent to you by the scammer, including the scammers email address.



Ignore them. After completing the above steps, delete their message to you immediately. You should not continue corresponding with them and under no circumstances give them any personal information such as your email address or phone number.

Additional Resources
The Internet Scammer ListThe world's most comprehensive list of scammers and banned online daters. Search over 140,000 email addresses officially banned from dating online at PP, for free.
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WARNING





NEVER give out any personal information. Far to many people are being taken in by online scammers being too sweet. They attempt to make you let your guard down by saying sweet things. One of the major tricks of their trade to look out for is when they ask you for your full name and address so they can send you something. They are counting on you thinking that is nice of them and, they are doing to show how much they care about you. However, in all reality, what they are doing is gathering all the information they will need in order to steal your identity. They will also ask you things like, when is your birthday and, what city and state do you live in. Whether you give in to that part of their scheme or not, they may step it up a notch. Don't be surprised if they give you some sob story about their job like, they need a part or parts for work but UPS does not ship directly to Nigeria or wherever they say they are.









SEE YOU SOON IN THE SCAMMERS ISLAND.................................

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to truely find what it is, to get hooked up with the right person.The growing popularity of online dating coupled by the anonymity has led to an increase in Internet dating scams. It is terrible enough to rip an already lonely heart - but to rip the heart as well as owner's bank account? Talk of extreme brutality, and yes, heartlessness.Internet dating scams come in various forms and the perpetrators are always creating new ones. An obvious one is the scam dating site. This is simply a fly-by-night operation, out to sell as many memberships as possible and then disappear without offering service.


Such a scam site will almost certainly cost far less than a typical dating site, while promising to deliver similar offer better service. Well, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is Allow me to direct you to were you can get more facts about what i am writing about.


A WOMAN FALLS VICTIM TO £10,000 INTERNET DATING SCAM.

The victim, said to be 'vulnerable', was tricked by a man posing as a US Army captain in Afghanistan, who she met via an online dating agency.The man, who built up the victim's confidence through romantic emails, convinced her to transfer ?10,000 via Western Union to an untraceable bank account in West Africa (NIGERIA). This prompted Buckinghamshire Trading Standards to warn residents of the dangers of online dating agencies. Jackie Eldridge, education officer, said: "A vulnerable Buckinghamshire lady has been scammed in excess of ?10,000.


The online Romeo took advantage of the anonymity of the internet and created a fake personal profile posing as a captain in the US Army."Ms Eldridge reminded internet users not to give out personal data like bank details or to send money to people they do not know.She added: "Common stories used by online dating scammers are that their mobile phone has run out of credit and they would like money to top it up, that they would like to meet you but do not have enough money to travel or that a family member requires surgery."Nigerian Dating Scam (aka 419 scam it is not only NIGERIA THAT DO THIS LEBANES,PHILIPPINOS AND OTHERS)Millions of people receive emails claiming to be sent by a "Nigerian Authority" offering millions of dollars to the lucky recipient for just opening up a bank account. Most people are savvy enough to hit DELETE. However, for the numerous that have fallen victim to this scheme, they have lost thousands of dollars, their life savings, and in some cases, their lives, when trying to get their money back.

Many people might shake their heads and shrug their shoulders feeling superior that "something like that" would never happen to them - when in reality it already has, especially if they are trying to find love on a dating site. From cyber boiler rooms all through out Nigeria, scammers zero in on their prey. They call them "maghas" (slang for gullible white people). These scammers spend hours extracting thousands of American e-mail addresses, sending off fraudulent letters, and then wait for hundreds of replies each day.For the vulnerable and lonely, the scammers offer the irresistible hope and belief that they have found their true love and soul mate - without a question or a doubt. They are being offered the promise of life, love and riches beyond their dreams. "This is a conversation between a scammer and hs so called internet lover"



"Is the guy in these pictures really you??


I just can't get over, you're soooo handsome!!!!


I can't believe my luck!!!!!!!" one hapless American wrote to a scammer seeking $1,200.

The scammer replied, "Would you send the money this week so I may buy a ticket to come see you? I can't wait to see you, and hold you.

""I don't have the money yet. I will get it, though.


Don't you worry, can't wait to see you," the victim wrote back.


This scam happens more and more each day as unsuspecting wounded hearts receive requests from gorgeous people asking their friendship.Why scam in chat rooms? The "gorgeous person in trouble" scam has the biggest payoffs.In most cases, the scammers log into chat rooms and on Christian dating sites posing as handsome and beautiful Americans or Nigerians. They set up fake and phony profiles, using pictures from modeling sites from all over the net. They spend hours, days, weeks and sometimes months, chatting up and luring their naﶥ targets with Internet intimacy. As far as the victim is concerned, they believe what they are experiencing is the real thing - that the picture of the person they chat with is real. The person they are chatting with, while revealing their deepest desires, really does care about them. The person they are chatting with loves them.

So once a "relationship" has been established, it doesn't always seem odd that their cyber soul mate may need a few dollars. However, once one dollar is wired or transferred, the scammers know they have a "live one." In many cases people with degrees in psychology are hired brought in to help the scammers "close the deals."In a long string of "mishaps," the fictional "boyfriend," "girlfriend" and/or "fianc饢 claims to be in America and goes to Nigeria on business. Next, a wallet is stolen, someone needs an operation, hotel owners hold the unreal soul mate hostage, and hundreds of dollars is needed to pay the bill. Also included in the series of events, new plane tickets need to be bought, custom officials must be bribed, not to mention, heavy "get-out-of-jail" bribes.The U.S. Secret Service estimates such schemes net hundreds of millions of dollars annually worldwide, with many victims too afraid or embarrassed to report their losses.Stephen Kovacsics of American Citizen Services, an office of the U.S. Consulate, says he is woken up several nights a week by Americans pleading for help with an emergency, such as a fianc饠(whom they have only met in an online chat room) locked up in a Nigerian jail. He has to tell them that there is probably no fianc饮Kovacsics, who has spoken to a victim who lost $200,000, says most victims can't believe that a scammer would spend months of internet chat just to nab $700 or $1,000, not realizing that is huge money in Nigeria and fraudsters will have many scams running at the same time.

This dating scam is just one of the many frauds that have first surfaced and continues to grow in Nigeria - performed by thousands of scammers.It's called a "4-1-9" scam, after an old Nigerian criminal code for theft under false pretenses.Basil Udotai of the government's Nigerian Cybercrime Working Group said 419 fraud represents a tiny portion of Nigerian computer crime, but is taken seriously by authorities because of the damage it does to the country's reputation."The government is not just sitting on its hands," he said. "It's very important for the international community to know that Nigeria is not glossing over the problem of 419.







We are putting together measures that will tackle all forms of online crime and give law enforcement agencies opportunities to combat it."Though the fraud is apparent to many, some people think they have stumbled on a once-in-a-lifetime deal, and scammers can string them along for months with mythical difficulties. Some victims eventually contribute huge sums of money to save the deal when it is suddenly "at risk."If something or someone sounds "to good to be true" - chances are it's a scam!The many forms of 419 scams:The "Nigerian National Petroleum Co." scam, in which the scammer offers cheap crude oil, then demands money for commissions and bribes.The "next of kin" scam, tempting you to claim an inheritance of millions of dollars in a Nigerian bank belonging to a long-lost relative, then collecting money for various bank and transfer fees.The "laundering crooked money" scam, in which you are promised a large commission on a multibillion-dollar fortune, persuaded to open an account, contribute funds and sometimes even travel to Nigeria.The "overpayment" scam, in which fraudsters send a bank check overpaying for a car or other goods by many thousands of dollars, and persuades the victim to transfer the difference back to Nigeria.







The "job offer you can't refuse" scam, in which an "oil company" offers a job with an overly attractive salary and conditions (in one example, $180,000 a year and $300 per hour for overtime) and extracts money for visas, permits and other fees.The "winning ticket in a lottery you never entered" scam - including, lately, the State Department's green card lottery. This website has even been solicited by these scammers, click here /www.dangersofinternetdating.com/nigeriandatingscam1.htm> to see some of the emails we received. Many of you may recognize these emails as ones you have already been sent as well, but hopefully some of you who have not, will recognize it instantly as a scam, should you receive one yourself.







WHAT TO WATCHOUT FOR







NEVER give out any personal information. Far to many people are being taken in by online scammers being too sweet. They attempt to make you let your guard down by saying sweet things. One of the major tricks of their trade to look out for is when they ask you for your full name and address so they can send you something. They are counting on you thinking that is nice of them and, they are doing to show how much they care about you. However, in all reality, what they are doing is gathering all the information they will need in order to steal your identity. They will also ask you things like, when is your birthday and, what city and state do you live in. Whether you give in to that part of their scheme or not, they may step it up a notch. Don't be surprised if they give you some sob story about their job like, they need a part or parts for work but UPS does not ship directly to Nigeria or wherever they say they are from.







BETTER ENDS.







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HOW THEY SCAM YOU ON DATING SITES.

YOu will find them in Facebook.COM,Myspace,hi5,and a whole lots of other dating websites this i will prove to you that they are there and how you acn identify them when you meet with this kind of wicked heart rippes in this my 3 STEPS OF IDENTIFYING A SCAMMER ON A DATING SITES.

STEP 1
ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR LOCATIONS:-

if they tell you were they are located then go to an IP verification site if the IP reads a different location then that is proof suicide victims of internet scam

STEP 2

ASK FOR PHOTOS

Ask for their photos and verify them from this websites Modelcoast.com,focushawaii.com if youdo not seethe photos there don't fret because they have alot of sites were they extract this pics from so you can them ask them for the 3rd step.

STEP 3
ASK THEM TO APPEAR ON WEBCAM:-
Ask them to appear on webcam if they give you excuse about the webcam being bad i advice that you insist that they appear on webcam if the loverman or woman refuses log them off they are the scammers that you are affraid of on your dating sites.
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HOW THEY SCAM YOU ON DATING SITES.

HOW THEY SCAM YOU ON DATING SITES.

YOu will find them in Facebook.COM, Myspace, hi5, and a whole lots of other dating websites this i will prove to you that they are there and how you acn identify them when you meet with this kind of wicked heart rippers in this

3 STEPS OF IDENTIFYING A SCAMMER ON A DATING SITES.

STEP 1
ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR LOCATIONS:-

If they tell you were they are located then go to an IP verification site if the IP reads a different location then that is proof 1.

STEP 2
Ask for their photos and verify them from this websites Modelcoast.com,focushawaii.com if youdo not seethe photos there don't fret because they have alot of sites were they extract this pics from so you can them ask them for the 3rd step.

STEP 3
ASK THEM TO APPEAR ON WEBCAM:-
Ask them to appear on webcam if they give you excuse about the webcam being bad i advice that you insist that they appear on webcam if the loverman or woman refuses log them off they are the scammers that you are affraid of on your dating sites.
trust me if you believe in true love and really want to be loved th 50/50 kind of love i hereby officially invite you to sail with me on this adventure titled MISTRIES OF DATING SITE SCAM (SCAMMERS ISLAND).


Suicide of internet scam victim A man died after setting himself on fire when he was cheated in an internet money-laundering scam, an inquest heard. Leslie Fountain's body was discovered in a field in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, on his 48th birthday, days after he thought he had won $1.2 million in an internet lottery.

Mr Fountain, a senior technician at Anglia Polytechnic University, had debts of £25,000 and thought the win would solve all his financial problems.
When he realised he had been tricked he became depressed, the inquest at Shire Hall, Cambridge, was told. Can of petrol He spent the evening before his death trying to access his winnings through the internet but became increasingly frustrated as he realised he was not going to get the money.

The following morning Mr Fountain, of Woottens Close, Comberton, near Cambridge, bought a can of petrol and left a message for his wife, Roberta, saying he could no longer "handle things".
His badly burned body was found shortly after 1100 GMT on 18 November last year with a petrol can and matches lying nearby.
A post-mortem examination showed he died of injuries suffered in the fire.
Detective Sergeant Alan Page told the inquest that officers found Mr Fountain had been taken in by an internet scam which had been run from Amsterdam and was now being investigated by Interpol.

Money laundering The operation involved emailing people to tell them they had won and asking for bank account details so the money could be transferred.
Instead, the accounts were used for laundering money.
Deputy Coroner Dr Colin Lattimore recorded a verdict of suicide and said: "Mr Fountain killed himself while suffering from depression, caused by what would have been good news but turned out to be very bad news."

After the inquest Mr Page warned other internet users to be careful of cash scams.
"Anyone who gets an email saying they have won lots of money like this should ignore it and never pass on their bank details. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/3444307.stm