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How to identify fakes on these sites  

Bind_You_Tightly 57M
9 posts
1/26/2016 5:51 pm
How to identify fakes on these sites

I've been a member on several dating sites for a long time. Besides the usual crazy or insane people you get stuck dealing with, there are also the scammers looking to have you send them money. I have been contacted several times lately by such twits, and I want to share with you some things to look out for to protect yourself.
• Most of the scams are going to come from female based profiles. This is because they are targeting lonely men - which there are a ton of out there.
• They usually only have one or two photos up - tops. That is because they are usually not using their own photos.
• Another clue is if they person pictured is naked, but there is no way they could have taken the photo. Also, if the lighting and composition are way too perfect. Chances are, you are looking at some came girl's photo the scammer ripped off.
• A great way to battle this is to download the pics you see and do what is known as a Google Reverse Image Search. This gets rid of the fakes really fast as the search will find out if these photos exist anywhere else and under any other names on the web.
• The person in the photo is just too professionally beautiful.
• Another tell tale clue is if the person writing can't put words together in a clear manner. The words make sense, but in your mind you can tell no one on the planet talks this way. Chances are you are being approached from someone in a different country posing as an American.
• They give you a number to text them to - and the area code doesn't match the area they say they live in.
• They don't want to video chat or actually talk to you on the phone.
• They say they are out of the country at the moment - going to school or on vacation. This is all leading up to them somehow - some way - asking you for money to help them get home.

Do not waste your time with these messages that get sent to you. At the first sign of suspicion - drop them. There are plenty of real people on these sites and you need to block the loser scammers to get to them.

sphxdiver 74M
21063 posts
1/26/2016 5:54 pm

 Then there's the classic; Am never married, am got no kids.

They just don't stop, do they ?


LiveLifeDoU 69F  
2199 posts
1/26/2016 6:01 pm

 Also put their pic through Tineye to see if it comes up on porn sites.


BrownEyedBBW 55F  
8831 posts
1/26/2016 6:29 pm

 Good job on the list, I probably couldn;t have done much better.

One thing to note about Google Image search. Some people figured out that if you flip the picture or crop the hell out of it, Google won't recognize it.


Stay_In_Reality 56M  
2209 posts
1/26/2016 7:30 pm

 The words honest and soulmate in the first line usually ring alarm bells for me


sphxdiver 74M
21063 posts
1/26/2016 8:04 pm

 A good example of is one that just view me.

status line is; Am looking for true love.

Fake as a three dollar bill, that one is !!


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