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Nigerian dating scammers work in large warehouses with phones and computers. They scam lonely singles in America, Canada and Western Europe. These operations earn millions of dollars. Hundreds of thousands of lonely people are left heartbroken and penniless each year.

Use Google image search if someone looks too handsome or beautiful. Often you find them on Scam Buster websites.

I have been approached by 38 scammers on dating websites. They are laughably easy to spot:

1. Extremely gorgeous photos. Scammers steal photos from modeling websites and profiles from dating sites.

2. Claim to have fallen in love with you immediately. Call me "an angel fallen from heaven."

3. Poor command of the English language. Rarely capitalize the letter "i."

4. Pressures you to immediately switch to instant messaging.

5 Same sob story: wife died in a fiery car crash or ran off with his best friend.

6. Says he is an American citizen who was born in Europe.

7. Claims to live in a city near you, in my case Seattle.

8. Temporarily working in West Africa oil fields as an engineer or missionary.

9. Keeps up romantic pressure until SURPRISE! ... He was robbed at the airport/bus station/taxi and needs you to immediately wire him $5,000 so he can fly into your arms. Or his child needs emergency, lifesaving surgery.

Keeps it up until you run out of money. None got a penny out of me.

I report and block them. They pop up like daisies with new photos and profiles.

How come no one's scamming me? Am I not pretty enough? "Laughs maniacally"

Yes ,very common but so easy to pick out,happens on face book all the time when they want to friend you to get a list of your contacts

Yep, if you are not even good for the price of the bus fare, they know they are wasting time on you. LOL

The ones who know another party is looking, are always thinking they might have an opportunity.
Scammers looking for another mark.
Pays to be suspicious. Always.

Both male and female prostitutes are looking for johns/janes. Not worth a fuss. I suspect they have a hard life, but it is not my responsibility to adopt them, nor my desire to use them.

I actually found a real person on Facebook dating, just across town from me, however, it quickly went BAD! First, she was all lovey dovey, until I found out the hard way that she is a narcissistic sociopath, when I failed to secure a new car loan. After that, her insanity forced me off of social media for good (no great loss there), with her breaking off the relationship, claiming I am a monster. Fortunately for me I live in a secure apartment building. Then I paid for a background report on her, and SURPRISE! She had multiple defaulted credit accounts, two bankruptcies, two DUI convictions, AND a child molestation and failure to register conviction in Virginia while as a school teacher! Lesson learned, that even real people can be absolute trash. For now on, before I agree to a first date, a background check will be mandatory!

Just 30-minutes ago I found an interesting brand-new dating site profile for an attractive lady 10-years younger in a small town in West Virginia I'm very familiar with, very near me. In the short profile she mentioned she'd just recently moved to Wasilla AK. I wrote her and told her I'm in Wasilla often and I could meet her there at a particular coffee shop if we developed a writing relationship. Her response was immediate... in bad grammar she told me how age and distance were not important, but that she's broke and needs a guy with ample resources. Wrote her back and told her I was a just a little bit suspicious of the story and asked her to prove her locations... I asked her two questions about each town that you'd have to live in each to know the answer. She immediately disappeared from the site. Yeah, either I was blocked, or others reported her as a fraud before I had the chance. Ya gotta politely test the ones that sound a little scammish. They often have relocation stories. And yeah, she'd just lost her husband and child to some disaster. And wanted to continue on instant messaging. Red flags all-around! But people fall for them every minute of the day.

I find the great bulk of members of this site are extremely good at identifying scammers. It is my experience that Admin deletes their accounts very fast.

Scammers will use a range of psychological tricks to snare their marks.

I commend @KKGator's comment to you.

Hope you're wrong but there are plenty of poople (shitty people) out there.

Scammers are everywhere online - not just dating sites ! Chatrooms, want ads, if you're selling anything, or looking for tenants or roommates, EVERYwhere !

It's been my experience on any dating site, that as soon as I hear "distance doesn't matter, I can come to you" - a red flag begins to wave ! The last one I encountered on Tinder, was ridiculously persistent, until I finally relented and said "ok, let's see what we have in common, and asked a couple more probing questions.

POOF - just like you said ! Ha.

Scammers are disgusting they like to play with good people's feeling who are looking for a real match. Finally I learned how to identify scammers and my patience is gone. When they send me their introduction and questions I only answer two or three then to stop them I say ok if you want to know more about me let's meet face to face. The scammers sent me their phone number but I tell them that I will call them after I met them in person. Funny but they stop bothering me when I don't play their dirty game.

"Watchers" - if you read the pinned posts you'll get an education on scammers. (Some information from the Better Business Bureau etc..).

Read some of the posts marked "REMOVED" at the top - and you'll get an idea of what the average scammer here looks like.

We get our fair share of scammers daily. Thankfully there's administration who looks for them and they listen to member reports and check those accounts as well.

They aren't tolerated here for long. (Unlike other dating sites).

Scammers do appear then we kick them out

I haven't had that problem here but as it states that I am here for the community that may be why I have not been approached. I met my girlfriend on a dating site after sifting throught hundreds of fake accounts. Not kidding.

Scammers are everywhere. They are here and I find them in other dating sites like Mingle 2. Usually they are fly by night people looking for a fast buck. However, I am followed by one woman in this sight from Puerto Rico and she just disappeared. Gone but her profile is still here. I think she joined the site, went to level 2, then just lost interest. You never know?

A relatively new twist on the dating site "scammers" (and probably MUCH more successful with men) seems to be the roving 1-woman escort services using the sites for connections. I discover them by doing a reverse image search for an unusually attractive women and discovering they're a real person... but operating her own personal escort service where they travel the country, staying in large cities for like 4-days (maybe the magic number before the hotel boots them out for needing too many sheets), then on to another. They make appointments ahead. I've never responded to one but a past friend (now deceased) used to use their services regularly (finding them on now shut-down ad pages). Since the various advertising sites have closed down they use the dating sites very successfully and probably make a few days' appointments in a new city in a few hours, before the sites shut them down and they pop-up in 4-more cities. I'm all for successful women's entrepreneurship, so have no problem with their business plan, but I find it offensive to be finding them on dating sites.

Once in a while I get one of those, too. They are easy to spot.

Sharing one of the scammer message : Osraldosrad1956
Hello there.You got a great smile,would love to know you and have an open conversation with you.lets get to know better and see if we are compatible, do hope to hear back from you thank you.

lifeoffabulous44
Hi dear, how have you been hope you are having a great day, I do miss your text a lot. Funny scammer how he miss my text if I don't know him in person. Hahaha

HorseDog60
I will love to know more about you and be your friend.

Timeforfunlv
Wow what a smile. How about a coffee some time? Just moving to Orlando and would love to see that smile in person.
When I said ok but I will pick the place then he stopped bothering me. Hahaha

You are smart enough to not be scammed. Males are approached by scammers also.

It is the internet. Report and block.

Dodgy can admin delete user????