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Online dating is an exciting and potentially rewarding experience that entails opening ourselves to an array of new people and situations. This series is going to explore how to keep it safe while online dating in three parts:
1. Emotional wellbeing
2. Physical safety
3. Privacy
Emotional Wellbeing
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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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You’ve talked to your potential date for days, weeks, or sometimes months on the dating website. Maybe you exchanged numbers and spent time texting each other. Then, you get the invitation to lunch, dinner, or maybe just coffee. You’re a little apprehensive…and rightfully so. You set up your profile in the hopes of meeting that someone special. Yet now that it may be happening, many thoughts run through your mind. One of those thoughts is whether or not this person ...
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Early this month a reader contacted me with the following question:
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Something that’s been around for a while (especially in Japan) but that I’ve only heard about recently is something called group dating. This works exactly like it sounds it would: a group of single men go out on a date with an equal number of single women.
In many ways, this is something that happens naturally at times but in this case it will be planned. As an example, there are plenty of times where a ...
Continue Reading →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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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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This article is one in a series that discusses protecting yourself from scams when dating online.
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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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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