Learn more about scammers
Who hasnt received an email nowadays with a request to sent money and with the promise you will be rewarded with millions of dollars. Or phishing emails that are set to try to get your logins of any type of account. Not only this type of scamming is a big problem, but also scamming on sites like datingsites has won terrain.
More and more singles are joining datingsites all over the world. The number of singles and datingsites are increasing rapidly. But, as the dating market is growing, the number of scammers and victims are growing as well.
What is a scammer?
A scammer is a person or a group of persons who make a personal approach to you with the purpose to try to rip your money.
Where are scammers active?
Scammers are active on all sorts of websites like forum websites and communitywebsites. But the main type of website where scammers are the most active, are online dating websites. Not only free datingsite are often the playfield for these scammers, but also the paid datingsites.
How can they scam you?
Well, these scammers first look for victims on datingsites which often are uncertain about themselves. Then they will make contact and start an "internet relationship". Once they get to know the victims and the "victims get to know the scammers", they will try to make the victims to do payments for them of ask them to lent money. Don't do this at all, never. It starts with a little amount and before you know it, the amount has increased. Or all the small amounts have become one big amount.
Then you have the phone scammers. The scammers using paid phone numbers also is a big problem. They seduce people to sms/call some paid numbers. After that, the victims get their phone bills, which you can guess, are very high.
What can you have become a victim of scam?
First of all try to gather as much as many information about the scammer like emailadres, names, phonenumbers, IP address, etc. Than write down what happened from the beginning to the end with date en time if you know this and contact the website where you were scammed. Also you can Google the information you have. There are lots of website or forum where you might find something about this scammer or type of scamming. Than if you have as much information as you can get, contact the police and explain what happened.
So never just thrust someone and always be aware that there are lots of scammers active on datingwebsites. Sometimes it is better to gain information and thrust you instinct and common sense.
Who hasnt received an email nowadays with a request to sent money and with the promise you will be rewarded with millions of dollars. Or phishing emails that are set to try to get your logins of any type of account. Not only this type of scamming is a big problem, but also scamming on sites like datingsites has won terrain.
More and more singles are joining datingsites all over the world. The number of singles and datingsites are increasing rapidly. But, as the dating market is growing, the number of scammers and victims are growing as well.
What is a scammer?
A scammer is a person or a group of persons who make a personal approach to you with the purpose to try to rip your money.
Where are scammers active?
Scammers are active on all sorts of websites like forum websites and communitywebsites. But the main type of website where scammers are the most active, are online dating websites. Not only free datingsite are often the playfield for these scammers, but also the paid datingsites.
How can they scam you?
Well, these scammers first look for victims on datingsites which often are uncertain about themselves. Then they will make contact and start an "internet relationship". Once they get to know the victims and the "victims get to know the scammers", they will try to make the victims to do payments for them of ask them to lent money. Don't do this at all, never. It starts with a little amount and before you know it, the amount has increased. Or all the small amounts have become one big amount.
Then you have the phone scammers. The scammers using paid phone numbers also is a big problem. They seduce people to sms/call some paid numbers. After that, the victims get their phone bills, which you can guess, are very high.
What can you have become a victim of scam?
First of all try to gather as much as many information about the scammer like emailadres, names, phonenumbers, IP address, etc. Than write down what happened from the beginning to the end with date en time if you know this and contact the website where you were scammed. Also you can Google the information you have. There are lots of website or forum where you might find something about this scammer or type of scamming. Than if you have as much information as you can get, contact the police and explain what happened.
So never just thrust someone and always be aware that there are lots of scammers active on datingwebsites. Sometimes it is better to gain information and thrust you instinct and common sense.