Online Dating Scams are More than Requests for Money

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Online Dating Scams are More than Requests for Money

Online dating scams are something that are happening all the time. I would say that most weeks I receive emails from someone who is dealing with a scam, sadly it’s often after they’ve already sent money to the scammer.

In the past when I wrote on identifying online dating scammers, I often concentrated on the fact that scammers would ask for money. My advice, which I still believe, is that if someone asks you for money through an online dating ...

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Signs in Online Dating that He Might be Married

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How can you tell if a man you are talking to at an online dating site is married? A reader recently contacted me about an issue she was having with a guy she was dating. Our conversation reminded me that married men dating online isn’t a problem that all women are considering when looking at dating issues.

This is something I have talked about in the past when I wrote about watching out for online dating scams, but it ...

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MAR
2

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Should I Give Out My Personal Email When Dating Online?

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I’ve talked about this before but in a relatively short period I’ve had several woman contact me with the same question: why do men want to talk to me using our personal email accounts and should I give my email to them?

What I tell my readers is this: I wouldn’t be too worried about moving to personal email accounts. Often the reason people ask this is because they’re embarrassed to log into dating service at locations other than their house ...

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JAN
2

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Spotting Fake Profiles with Google Images

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In my free online dating guide, I talk about using a service called tineye to identify fake dating profiles. In this article, I want to talk about using Google Images to do the same thing.

In many ways I’m writing this for men as I believe scams with beautiful women are aimed more at them (for obvious reasons). That said, this should be helpful to anyone as there are multiple reasons people put up fake photos, not just ...

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DEC
9

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Help! I’ve Been Incorrectly Charged for a Dating Subscription

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From time to time I get emails from readers who have been incorrectly charged from an online dating service. This generally occurs in one of two ways:

  1. The person never subscribed to the service and is totally caught off guard by the charge. In most cases this is some type of fraudulent charge (for example, ...
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FEB
3

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Online Dating Scams Still Fooling Many Singles

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An article at MSNBC lists some of the most common online datings scams that are successful. Online dating is right at the top of that list. Many of use want to believe we’ve found love so badly that we’ll believe anything. I thought this article was great, right from the beginning:

Most people think they’ll never fall for a scam. In fact, that frame of mind is precisely what con artists look for. Those who believe that they know ...

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An Internet Scammer Speaks

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A few months ago I wrote a series of articles on avoiding online dating scams. One of the scams I discussed was the 419 scam. This involves the scammer convincing their target to send them money for one reason or another. With online dating it will often be the scam will often involve the person you are communicating with needing financial help for a troubling situation or because they want to meet you. For a recent example of this, ...

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Protecting Yourself From Scams When Dating Online

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I’ve been putting together a series of articles to help you protect yourself while dating online. This series is broken into three parts:

1. Online Dating Scams: The Romance Scam – The first part of the series discusses the main scam occurring with online dating.
2. Online Dating Scams: Additional Scams – Several other online dating scams are discussed here.
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OCT
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Tools For Identifying Online Dating Scams and Liars

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This article is one in a series that discusses protecting yourself from scams when dating online.

As online dating grows more popular so do dating scams associated with them. There are many good resources online describing dating scams but not very many give concrete ways to defend or combat them. Because of this, I want to offer some actual methods to detect if you’re dealing with a dishonest person. I’ll try to cover the tools in detail so you can ...

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16
OCT
4

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Online Dating Scams: Additional Scams

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This article is one in a series that discusses protecting yourself from scams when dating online.

Online Dating Scams: The 419 Scam

The Romance Scam is often mentioned in relation to the 419 scam (also referred to as the Nigerian scam). The standard 419 scam involves the scammer offering you a large sum of money if you help them move that money out of the country they are currently in. For example, they may want to send you a check for ...

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16
OCT
0

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Online Dating Scams: The Romance Scam

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This article is one in a series that discusses protecting yourself from scams when dating online.

There are many online dating scams out there but I would consider this the “main” scam. This scam involves the scammer posing as a potential love interest with the goal of making money off of their target. It’s amazing how many people are fooled by this one but the bad guys are good at what they do and can be ...

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OCT
8

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