I recently was invited to join a group called Anti-scammers at Yahoo Groups. Members share experiences, screen names tips and tactics for dealing with scammers on dating sites.
Perusing the group, I found photos of fake passports, photos of scammers and information/ratings on how polluted various sites are with scammers, spear-phishers and other nefarious characters. This is a classic example of the organizational power of grassroots collaborative efforts to identify the profiles of people who are actively preying on others on various dating sites.
I did an interview with TheStreet last week about what dating sites are doing to combat faksters and scammers. Short version, not nearly enough.
Other resources: RateOrDate Rateanddate Date-and-Rate Date and Rate Rate-Date.
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At dotSilver Union we have a scammers list with photos, emails and usernames proven to be used for scam/spam on any of dotSilver sites. Check it out: http://www.dotsilver.com/antiscam/
Funny that we have a lot of hits from search engines in search for emails. People use it to know more about questionalbe persons and find them in the scammers list we build every day.
In the nearest future this section will be redesigned to provide better navigation and browsing.
As opposed to the rate and date sites that seem more geared towards getting people together, there is relationslip.com, where you can review dates (not just rate them as hot or not). Sure scammers can be outed, but the site adds a personal dimension that often is missed in online dating.
The dating scams are fast becoming a menace online. For instance, about 145 women reported that they lost over $1 million to romance scammers in just two or three months .
I did a study on this and you can get more details on this scams on this site http://www.elovedeceptions.com
You could learn a lot there to help sop these scams menace .
I just gave up, all communications with the contact people at Meetic failed, after i was scammed by 2 ladies. I lost my subscription because I was lead down garden path, 1) to jion and then 2) to leave and start communication away from the site. So now I am out the 1 months subscription and the ladies conveniently vanished without a trace….I have resolved myself to thinking honest men need not apply or face duping by planted site ladies. Buyer beware.
I have receive numerous emails on offers to transfer funds and lotteries award where 90% from african continents and lead by niggers. Recently it involved The Consular of British High Commission in Nigeria and The Consular British High Commission in Brunei Darussalam. ist they use official email address of the embassy and letter the consular refers me to use their private emails for confidential transactions that lead by him personally. How do I detect if such emails is legitimate & legal or scam emails. Where should I report for such activities. I am very concern on this matter. Please Assist. Thank you. Salleh
they is actually a datinfg site setup callled dating and more they actually check the IP address if they ar efrom ghana nigeria or certain parts of russia they are not allow to join also this is run by the same people whjo run the anti romance cam on yahoo they are very anti scammer so you are as safe as you can get there