Romance Scams Hurt 😢 Helpful Tips

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Common Signs of a romance scammer. the dating world can be a difficult world to navigate. online dating sites can be a wonderful tool to help find a partner. However, by being aware of the signs of a dating scam, such as bad grammar or requests for personal and financial information, you will know if you are a victim of a dating scam. Romance scammers are experts in social manipulation and can sound very convincing. Many of the signs of a romance scammer are subtle and insidious because the scammer is trying to build trust before they exploit you. To avoid online dating scams. Be on the lookout for these red flags when you're getting to know someone online. Romance scammers profess love quickly without actually meeting you. Oftentimes, the first sign of an online dating scam shows up. When a romance scammer expresses strong emotions in a relatively short period of time. They may even say that they're in love with you, but it's a tactic they're using to get you to give up personal details and answers to the security questions that you use to lock down your accounts across the internet. guard your personal information carefully and be wary of a new love interest asks for personal details soon after contact. He loves you sight unseen. Love you is a statement that everyone wishes to hear. But how do you know if it's real? scammers tell you they love you before they have ever met you in real life. Think about it. How do you know if there's real charisma there? Some people can sound great on the phone. But when you meet them there's nothing there. Or physically they just don't meet your standards. How can someone honestly love you before having met you in person? romance scammers claim to need money for emergencies hospital bills or travel. be suspicious of anyone who asks you for financial assistance, no matter how dire their circumstances seem to be. If you encounter one of these storylines when you're talking to a new love interest on the internet, there's a good chance they're scamming you. I need money to support a sick relative. I need a short term loan for airfare to visit you. I need some startup money for a business venture. I need funds to finalize a loved one's funeral. I'm a US service member overseas and I need some money. Online romance scammers try to lure you off the dating site. Oftentimes, scammers convince victims to leave the dating site and use personal email or instant messaging to continue communication. At first, this might not seem like a red flag. When you are getting to know someone, you will naturally want to move beyond the dating site and use other forms of communication. Be very cautious when someone asks for your phone number or email address. This makes it even easier for them to access your personal information. If you want to communicate outside of the dating site, set up an alternate email address or utilize an instant messaging app that isn't connected to personal information like your primary email and phone number. Romance scammers plan to visit but they always cancel because of some emergency. If an online love interest makes plans to visit but always seems to change their plans at the last second because of a traumatic event, family drama or a business loss, you should be very suspicious. Often, their cancellation will be accompanied by a request for a short term loan. Look out for someone who says something like I really want to meet you. But I can't buy a plane ticket right now. If you buy me a ticket, I will pay you back. I just want to be together, paying attention to their grammar. One of the first clues of an online dating scam is bad grammar. While not everyone who has bad grammar is a scammer. If the person you are talking to online also suggests that they have a high education level. This should be a warning sign. If their grammar or sentence structure seems odd, and things don't just don't seem to add up. It is likely to be a scam. Do a quick Google search. If you are talking to someone that you don't know online, be sure to Google Search some of the information that they give you. Search their name, email address, and username. The name email or username may come up in a search of frequent online scammers. Online scammers often use other people's online images. Sometimes online scammers adopt a real person's identity to make their scam more believable. He flaunts his income. Most people who earn a decent living wish to be

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He wanted for who they are not for their income. Yet, scammers will often indicate that they make more than 150,000 $1,000 a year in an attempt to set up the person who wants to know them for their income, and not for themselves. This way, when he says he's gotten into a jam and requests money, the unsuspecting person thinks her investment or loan will actually get reimbursed. Be realistic. Unfortunately, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. Be aware of people who are significantly younger than you or profess their love for you to quickly. Someone who is significantly younger than you might only be interested in a relationship for financial security. Remember that true love takes time and claims of love at first sight could be a warning sign that you are being scammed. For example, if you are a 65 year old retiree and a 25 year old model is showing interest in haven in a relationship. It should raise suspicion. he avoids questions. How tall are you? What do you do for a living? It's almost as if his mail is sent automatically, like you're on his list, and this is the next standard email that is sent out. him answering with questions to your specific questions is a sign of a scammer as he isn't giving you an actual answer. The scams done or tried on me. I was contacted by a person online who claimed to be in the US military in Afghanistan. After convincing me to send iTunes cards. The person told me he would come see me and marry me. Soon after, the guy was delayed for one excuse after another excuse why he could not return home. Eventually, he was in a country by the name of togo in Africa and out of the military but could not come home. Then he started to ask for money for hotels and visas and all kinds of other things. Another scammer I had he had gold he wanted to send back for some reason, which was given to him by saving a Middle Eastern man's life. The gold was seized and he had to pay customs US dollars to get it out. Another guy and his friend, this was the worst one. I met a guy in the United States on an online dating site. He was retired military. He lied to me that he thought his friend that was serving that just lost his boyfriend would be a perfect match for me. He introduced us I got a bunch of pictures and the guy seemed to be generally interested. Come to find out they were doing identity theft. Not to go into details. But that was a disaster and it cost me a lot. But it what it cost more than anything was it damaged my heart. I truly loved this man. I hope you enjoyed my article and be very cautious. I will conclude this article with the quotation from something I wrote after finding out I had been scammed. I am a mess. Why do I have to cry? Why am I crying now? It is four in the morning and my employee woke hearing me crying. My dogs are looking at me trying to see what's wrong and they kiss and try to get me to play. Why is this happening? Why am I crying? Is something wrong? It is my heart and I have so much love inside me and feel helpless against it. I fell for someone and they like me. I think he is beautiful and young. He talked a lot to me. Then it happened. He said, I love you I want to marry you. Then just send me money to get an airline ticket and I leave here to be with you. The next day I get a fake boarding pass image. The next day after that is today and all I've done is cry. The story goes on and hopefully I learned my lesson and I can share this information and help someone else not get a broken heart. Report scams to the Federal Trade Commission. When you report a scam, the FTC can use the information to build cases against scammers, spot trends, educate the public and share data about what is happening in your community. If you were scammed reported to the FTC and report fraud dot FTC dot government

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