Comments on: Japanese gangsters swindle thousands http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/01/japanese_gangsters_swindle_thousands/ Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary Tue, 22 May 2012 18:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: annon http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/01/japanese_gangsters_swindle_thousands/comment-page-1/#comment-61 annon Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:33:53 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/01/japanese_gangsters_swindle_thousands/#comment-61 "It's only a matter of time before this sort of thing happens in the US and EU. I've heard talk about scams but nothing as substantial as this." Then you aren't looking hard enough, i would say between 1-3% of all signups on dating sites are scam artists, hookers etc. The worst are russian scammers, before we banned russians we estimated 50% of all signups from russia were con artists. "According to Chelyabinsk police, the group scammed more than 1,500 men and extorted more than 1,5 million US Dollars from them, in the period of 2000-2002." http://www.womenrussia.com/scammers_caught.htm That was just a man and wife team, scamming members of yahoo, match.com and american singles. I would estimate combined with the nigerian scammers well over $50 million a year are scammed from north americans via major dating sites. http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/protectingid/0,3800002220,39118085,00.htm "Nigeria's anticorruption commission has seized more than $200m from conmen in the space of eight months." “It’s only a matter of time before this sort of thing happens in the US and EU. I’ve heard talk about scams but nothing as substantial as this.”

Then you aren’t looking hard enough, i would say between 1-3% of all signups on dating sites are scam artists, hookers etc.

The worst are russian scammers, before we banned russians we estimated 50% of all signups from russia were con artists.

“According to Chelyabinsk police, the group scammed more than 1,500 men and extorted more than 1,5 million US Dollars from them, in the period of 2000-2002.”

http://www.womenrussia.com/scammers_caught.htm

That was just a man and wife team, scamming members of yahoo, match.com and american singles. I would estimate combined with the nigerian scammers well over $50 million a year are scammed from north americans via major dating sites.

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/protectingid/0,3800002220,39118085,00.htm

“Nigeria’s anticorruption commission has seized more than $200m from conmen in the space of eight months.”

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