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Introduction
In this blog post, I will give you some advice about your security when you are dating online. The most important thing is to use your eyes and your logic.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that are trying to trick people and scam them on online dating websites. Don’t think for a minute that this is just a problem that is limited to small dating sites, big ones have the same problem as well.
Most dating website owners have invested heavily in different software that will help them detect and identify false profiles. However, they can not do everything themselves since the people that are trying these so called “love scams” are getting better and better on what they are doing.
In this article, I will give you some security advice that is applicable on any dating site you have joined. Read more…
Two Ways Of Detecting Fraud On Online Dating Websites
There are two ways of detecting people that are trying to be fraudulent on a dating website.
1. The person describes himself/herself in a manner that does sound too good to be true.
One of the consistent basics when it comes to getting information, whether it is on a news site or about someone is to have a critical thinking.
If someone describes himself or herself (there are both male and female scammers) being rich or being an ideal male or female then watch out(!).
Especially, you should have a look at the pictures (if there are any) and ask yourself if they look like they are from a model agency’s website, have a professionally look or if there is something that makes your gut/intuition react. The basic principle is always “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”.
2. Poorly written English (or some other language).
If the text is written in English or some other language that you know and it’s not grammatically right or if you feel that it is just someone who has put it into an online translate service like Google Translate, then it’s probably a fake one.
What To Do If You Discover A Fake Profile
Most scammers are not in the same country where their victims are. It also makes it quite difficult for you to take any legal action against them. However what you always should do is to contact the website owner or the company behind the site.
Look for “Contact us” or something similar on the dating site and read what you need to do to get in contact with someone responsible for that. Sometimes you need to call them or you could email them and you will most certainly get a reply from them.
You might need to report this to the legal authorities in your own country too so it will be reported. If the dating website is serious, they will start an investigation of their own, remove the fake profile and cooperate with the legal authorities in their investigation.
Next blog post
My next blog post will be published on Saturday the 16th of January 2016.
It will be about how you should use your list and search for candidates.
See you then,
Rickard
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