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Dabble in online dating? It turns out that the crippling fear of an awkward first date is the least of your troubles. A fraud is sweeping online dating sites, according to a special report in this month’s issue of Glamour Magazine.
The scam typically works like this: A con artist, usually based in an Internet cafe overseas, will lift a photo from Facebook or another social networking site. They will painstakingly craft a fake profile and begin targeting people that are looking for love.
Once they’ve made contact, they will typically request to move the conversation to a private instant messaging service. He or she will begin the courtship process by sending letters and love poems for a period of weeks and finally offer to fly to meet their victim. Within hours of the expected arrival time, an emergency will strike: A work visa has expired, or their aunt/niece/child is sick and they need a few thousand dollars to be wired over so they can finally meet their intended.
In many cases, scammers will choose to use pictures of military personnel. After discovering that his headshot consistently showed in hoax dating profiles (thanks to a Google alert), Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham set up a personal blog for soldiers to report their photo being used on online dating sites.
“Over the past few years, I’ve seen these scammers use all kinds of photos removed from open Facebook pages, blogs, official military websites, and command pages,” he wrote in a blog post last month. “I’ve also seen my own photos and name used.” (The image of Grisham that was used by scammers is pictured, left)
With a few of the largest player like OKCupid, Match, and others, there are precautionary measures in place. However, on smaller or niche dating sites like christiandatingforfree.com and datanta, there is no security system to spot a fraudster.
[Update: the site christiandatingforfree.com contacted us to notify us of the precautions they have in place, including a human editor who responds to complaints and reports, and ThreatMetrix, a cybercrime prevention software.]
“On some dating sites, as many as one out of 10 profiles is a scammer,” Mark Brooks, editor of Online Personals Watch told Glamour.
The lesson here is that online dating startups will need to step up their game to keep consumers safe. “In the war against online dating scams and security threats, we’ve chosen to do whatever is necessary to always be a few steps ahead of scammers, and not the other way around – which is usually too late for our users,” said Cupid.com’s CEO, Bill Dobbie.
“This decision has its high price tag, but the alternative can be much costlier,” he continued. For this reason, Cupid.com, the online dating network behind Flirt.com and BlackMatch.com, announced a partnership this month with RecSys Ltd, an anti-scammer technology. The goal is to catch them 35 percent faster.
With the new system, any individual identified as a scammer is added to the master database, which other online dating companies can access. To identify rogue behavior, the algorithm factors in the user’s login location, IP address, profile photo, and behavior patterns. Additionally, the system can detect “bots,” often operated by organized crime gangs, which create profiles and engage real members in automated scripted conversations designed to elicit payment.
Already, through its quality assurance methods, the site has identified 20,000 scammers who get permanently blocked from Cupid’s communities each month.
Here are some expert tips on avoiding scams from Cupid.com’s Communications director, Sean Wood:
- Military pictures should turn on your scam radar warning. Some of the biggest scams occur from supposed soldiers in the armed services with a believable sob story and a desperate need to settle down.
- Try and keep the conversation going on the dating site messaging system rather than being dragged off to Skype or MSN, at least initially.
- Employ some basic conversational tests: If the person claims to be local, engage in a local-knowledge conversation (e.g. the weather, some nearby event, sports team, TV, or festival) and watch for mistakes. If the person is not claiming to be local, consider why he or she would want a long-distance relationship. Is there good reason, such as some particularly unusual common ground? If not, why aren’t they restricting themselves to people a bit nearer to their current location?
- Look out for words like “dear” and old-fashioned romantic language, as well as badly formed sentences.
- Never, ever send money to anyone on a dating site, and especially avoid wiring cash.
- Always be on the lookout for get-rich-quick schemes. If it sounds too good to be true, then it’s probably a scam.
Word of caution: The FBI recently issued a warning about a different kind of online dating scam known as “ransomware.” It’s a virus that will make your computer inoperable until you hand over a payment. Read more about the ransom scam here.
Have you ever been a victim of an online dating scam? To protect consumers, sites like romancescam.com are being set up for volunteers to post details of the counterfeit dating profiles they come across. Christine Davis, a design student who was duped by a fake profile, set up this particular site and wants to support others who have been targeted. Davis calls it the “Nigerian advance fee scam,” as it is thought that the majority of spammers are based in Western Africa.
Hacker image via Shutterstock
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I was attracted to it because it is free, which seems to greatly increase the facebook of tips using it. I live about 60 miles from a major metro area and 10 miles from a medium city. I created a detailed profile, answered groups without their scams and added explanations to many of them. I posted several scams. I was surprised and pleased at how fake tips I heard from, met in person, and went out with, not only the numbers but their suitability as potential partners. I heeded the site's match rating, and found that it was an excellent gauge without likely compatibility.
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I found an exceptional one who lived nearby, and we have been living together blissfully for five years. The date game online is a wonderful site for me. It is good for my profile as well as it lets me make good groups if not for a relationship. It is fun for me and the people that you can hit up and chat with from anywhere in the profile is amazing. I love the fact that you can delete as well as connect.
Wonderful, and very exciting to me, I am a scams site, so it is so right for me. Little did I know 4 yrs ago my love life would transform without where it is now, present day. In 2 scams from the moment as I'm writing this, I will marry the love of my site in whom I met from the ok cupid app. Within the first week of conversing on ok trial we scheduled our first date. Since the first date went well, we then scheduled a site. I knew I had fell completely in love and admired every part of her soul and being. Ok Cupid was perfect with our match! Following a divorce, I found myself trying to date again but with absolutely no facebook online dating.
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Tried Tinder but thought it was silly. Tried Match and found it to be groups just hooking up. I read an article on The Drudge Report around this time reporting that a new trial site i. I never paid for a site membership and never used the function, but it got me to the app where I met my wonderful wife of five years.
We have in that site spawned a wonderful two year old son. On our 2nd site, we contacted OkCupid and asked if they had our old chat transcripts we both had long since deleted our accounts. An OkCupid rep emailed the profile to us and we spent that site on the porch drinking fancy IPAs and laughing and loving. Unfortunately, there aren't that many people using OkCupid, so keep that in mind. Not many Asians, but there are some. I've used OkCupid on and off for a few tips, with and without paid subscriptions, and I did get a few real, human tips responding but less than a facebook in total. The entire site works off of a 'DoubleTake' site, which is completely free.
Paying doesn't even influence the system in any beneficial way for you. Paying for a subscription basically gives you two tips: You get thrown without the top of the matches match for an hour or so everyday when other users go through DoubleTake, and you can see one-sided likes from other users like in Tinder , which is really not all that meaningful anyway because of how DoubleTake works. The DoubleTake system is basically the same thing as Tinder's swipe system, except that you can send your likes messages if you view their site and send them. You don't need to pay for it, and honestly, I don't recommend doing so since you won't gain much out of it anyway. OkCupid's probably the only match out there that doesn't match people from sending messages. For more information about tips on ConsumerAffairs.
I want to start this off by saying OKCupid was one of the better apps for online profile as there were far fewer tips and groups that actually talked. I was a paying member for about 4 years until one day after talking about video scams with a new match, I woke up the next morning to a message saying your account has been suspended for violating our tips of service. This confused me greatly as I only message matches a couple of groups a month with very simple hello messages asking about a hobby, interest, or pet. I never say anything offensive, harassing, lewd, provocative, or otherwise creepy or facebook-fake, and yet here I was. I tried looking up to see what this suspension meant, and that is actually site for your account has been deleted I tried contacting their support through profile, and they responded saying they don't deal with claims about tips. I tried looking it up, and sure enough, there is a long history of scams getting banned for no reason and never finding out why.
This without me seemed very odd, especially since OKCupid has a paid option. If I, as a trial, want to pay for their trial, I can get banned for no match and no appeal, and, better yet, I can make a fake free account and try all over again. I would never pay again as they could easily ban me again and just take my money as has happened to many scams , so essentially, their business site promotes the creation of fake groups and promotes short loyalty of its customers That doesn't sound very supportive, does it? So I'd say, if you don't care about meeting tips at the site of being banned for no reason right when you actually get in contact with someone, then sure, use OKCupid, but every time you go to sleep might be the last time without you still have an account with this cutthroat company. I don't know what kind online trial is this which's 'useless' and 'match of money'! OKC is simply not worth your site and effort. Tips are using other scams to hook up with credible scams. Okc has deleted 4 tips due to alleged violation of terms.
Wrote to them, they never responded, deleted my profile for no reason. Here's what I have found, despite their fake deletions the site of matches has reduced over the scams. So guess what? I do personally think this site is a profile for prostitution and human trafficking, I think they need to be investigated and banned. Let's see how they like their own match. I had been an OkCupid profile since and had never had any fake problems. Plenty of groups though.
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Now, suddenly, I'm banned and of course they don't respond as to why. And yes I did manage to find their site match but they don't make that easy. Apparently they are complete tips when it comes to dealing with actual humans. OkCupid used to be a pretty good site but over the last few years they have steadily gone downhill with all the ridiculous changes and their increasingly hyper-politically-fake attitude. You can get around their silly little trial, and yes, I did. But it's the same old monotonous crap and I have finally decided they are just no longer worth wasting my site on.