When you register
on a dating site, you should be aware of the fact that these platforms are
frequently used by scammers looking to exploit lonely single men and women for
their money. Every year, people end up losing thousands of dollars after
thinking that they have found the perfect partner who understands them
emotionally and spiritually only to be robbed and left heartbroken in the end.
To avoid this from ever happening to you, follow some of the tips provided
below to help detect some of the most notorious dating scams.
Research,
Research and More Research
When you are
looking to find an ideal mate online, you need to be cautious and careful.
Sometimes it may feel that the above steps are extreme and unwarranted but they
are necessary to absolutely rule out any possibility of dating scams.
Firstly, if you
find a person whose profile is a close match to yours, it is a good idea to
start a conversation with them. Get to know about their background which
includes stuff like where they were schooled and also details about their
professional life.
Now that you have a
fair idea about the person, go online to check for the possibility of any
dating scam. Look in sites like LinkedIn and Facebook for the person and see if the details are
identical. For example through the FB page, you can see if the person is real
or not. People who use the social media platform actively are known to have at
least 100 friends on an average and many of the posts printed on the forum
would stretch back years. This proves that the account was not set up in haste.
With LinkedIn, you can get even better results. Right from his schooling days
to the place where he is currently working, you can find the whole curriculum
vitae of the person. Moreover if he happens to be a pilot, he will have several
connections with people who are from the aviation industry. You can fake your
profile, but it is simply impossible to fake all your connections.
The thing about dating scams is that people fail to realize its possibility until its too late.
When you develop an emotional bond with a person, you begin to trust him
blindly and it becomes difficult and pointless to question his every single
move. So it is better to do a thorough background check right from the start
which will really help to avoid most types of dating scams.
Never
Give Money
Scammers indulge in
dating scams so that they can get their victims to wire money. And they will
come up with all kinds of reasons to get you to do. They might resort to
emotional blackmail, give a sob story about their life or even tell you that
they are going to come to your town just to meet you and hence need money for
air travel.
One of the most
commonly quoted reasons by scammers is claim someone in their family is sick
and fighting for their life. He would then ask you to provide emergency
financial assistance. Once you do send the money, you would be dismayed to see
that the person has disappeared altogether and you will finally realize that
you just became another victim of dating scams.
So as a principle
its better to never send money to the person unless you have known for a long
time and you implicitly trust him to be true in his character.
For more details on
dating scams and other internet related information, visit BigScammers.com and
get all the latest updates.
