FAKE PROFILERS

You say you have a Need to Know. Our available records do not confirm you as having this need. Perhaps the records available to us are not complete. Please explain why you feel you have a NEED to know.

That said, about 89$ of the profiles here contain one or more falsehoods. Some of the hottent looking women are old men sitting in some Internet Cafe and giggling to themselves over the fools that imagine they and the love letters flowing from them are real. Any day now the suckers will wire them money to pay for a sick mother's operation, bail a brother out of jail, or buy them a plane ticket so they can unite in love once they can leave their country. They make a pretty good living at it and usually they have 10 or 20 men (or women) writing them in the belief they are real.
Read all profiles.
Tell Tales..
Beware of letters that begin Dearest Beloved after only 2 emails.
Beware any profile or email that writes God as GOD,
Beware any communication from someone who writes in CAPITAL LETTERS
Beware of 19 year old doctors and lawyers or university professors
Beware of 22 years olds whose children are grown and live elsewhere.
Run away from anyone who does not drink or smoke ever.
Beware people who describe themselves as being one race but post a photo of someone of a different race.
Pay attention to height. Try not to fall for someone who is only 4 feet 2 inches tall.
Understand that child care, hair dresser, fashion, entrepreneur are pseudonyms for 'I have no job skills and sometimes I baby sit kids or earn side money as a prostitute'

Google their photos and don't be too upset if you find the same photo under a dozen other names in RomanceScams or similar websites. Scammers sell the photos that work to other scammers often.

Learn how to trap IP #s and locate them. Often someone pretending they are in place X will when you run down their IP turn out to really be in country Y. Get used to it.

There are real people here, but you have to be on here long enough to spot them.

Ignore all emails that on first or 2nd contact want you to contact them at gmail or yahoo, etc.

There is more, but you haven't shown a need to know yet.

They're getting better at it though. They pick up tips on how to improve their profiles so they will appear more genuine. Some good tips here.
They do like to include an obvious mistake like the age because some people will write to let them know, thereby unblocking them and opening dialogue.
More tips for them.

"Please tell me how did they act it all out until you found out ?"

I always find out immediately. If they send a Like or Favorite, they obviously haven't read my profile. So I report them and the Moderator deletes them. While you chew on that miracle, you might also tone down your profile title, which reads:

BE WILLING AND READY TO TRAVEL TO MEET ME HERE IN 1 MONTHS TIME.

Wow. Scam-bait with an ultimatum. Step right up! Get 'em while they're hot!

First of all fake and real must be defined.
The criteria of fake and real may be different for different people.
If by any criteria the presence of fake picture in a profile indicates a fake profile, then my profile is also fake.

But my profile picture is given by the administrator, I have just put a mustache and goggles on a flat face.