Responding to Contact from “Fake” Profiles

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A reader recently contacted me with the following situation:

Just getting my feet beneath me with online dating. What comes clear very fast is that there is a LOT of faking going on, lots of winks from “cardboard” profiles with boilerplate language and a GQ profile photo. Can you discuss how to navigate this and even how to understand it — I don’t get the whole purpose, aside from them maybe asking for money, which of course I would never fall ...

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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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Spotting Fake Online Dating Profiles

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One problem that most of us who have used online dating have run into is the fake profile. Currently, online dating services don’t make it very easy to spot these fake profiles (although some discourage it better than others).

In this article I want to talk in-depth about my experience with “fakes” as well as offering you some thoughts on avoiding these profiles.

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