Scammer Videos - Romance Scams
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Connecting Singles Anti-Scam
Quality of this site is very important to us. We hate scam and do everything we can to prevent it here. But scammers are good at what they do and some get through the screen. It's sad that there are those who try to take advantage of people in this way.
Scam is big business in countries like Nigeria and other African countries, also in Russia and some countries in SouthEast Asia. Nigeria scammed $183 million out of Americans last year. They've even made a hit song about it called "I go chop your dollar" (view it above). How do they do it? They may email with you for months, flatter you with love and attention, gain your trust and get you emotionally involved, then make up a story that they need you to send them money... claiming they are stuck in another country without money or passport and they need your help, they have a sick relative, they need money to come to your country, etc., etc. IF YOU SEND THEM MONEY, YOU WILL GET SCAMMED & THEY WILL DISAPPEAR!
To Avoid Scam: Remember, ANYONE who asks for (or offers) money for ANY reason on a dating site is a scammer! Regardless of what they say... sending them money will not 'help' you or anyone else... it will only subsidize a billion dollar illegal business and encourage this kind of internet abuse to continue. The way to prevent scams is DON'T EVER send money for any reason. Repeat...don't send money!
Onsite mailbox, chat and IM are provided at CS to protect your privacy and anonymity. Don't be pressured to meet them at another site that may be set up ONLY to tempt you with private photos in order to gather your personal identity or credit card info for scam purposes. It's surprisingly easy for a scammer to gain your trust and get personal and family info from you...a little at a time... info you should not be sharing with an online stranger early on. The email address or photos you send them may be gathered for mailing lists (phishing) and misused for scam. The 'real looking' photos they email to you are likely the photos exchanged offsite with members like you who sent them the photos with the promise to receive one from the scammer in return. (Don't send private photos of yourself or family that might end up being used to scam someone else.) Stay on the site until you feel sure. Scammers quickly try to get you off the site, away from the watchful eye of site members who may identify their photos as fake, models or celebrities, and away from site systems and member reporting that may expose them.
If you haven't already, please check out the following pages we created about dating scammers at: Current scams and at Scam Happens
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