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HubPages and Hubbers authors may earn revenue on this page based on affiliate relationships and advertisements with partners including Amazon, Google, and others. Among the worst of the worst online dating scams that have actually been executed are the following ten shocking and downright dirty tricky. As Ambrose said, no one could convince her she was being scammed, not even the police. Verify first, and then decide.

He would charm women by bombarding them with flattering messages, and would even send them poetry and flowers on their birthdays, to show his apparent legitimacy. Due to the rise in technology and evolving techniques used by scammers worldwide, even the most skeptical can be a victim of scam.

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Disclaimer regarding pictures posted on the board: please understand that you are NOT looking at the pictures of people who are actually scamming you. The people portrayed on these photos are innocent men and women, NOT involved in scamming in any way and have nothing to do with scammers. The scammers are using their images without their knowledge or permission to deceive their victims and steal their money. Disclaimer regarding pictures posted on the board: please understand that you are NOT looking at the pictures of people who are actually scamming you. The people portrayed on these photos are innocent men and women, NOT involved in scamming in any way and have nothing to do with scammers. The scammers are using their images without their knowledge and permission to deceive their victims and scam them out of money. First thing I did after receiving his email was to check his IP address. I selected and clicked on Show Full Header in my Yahoo mail it's slightly different for other email services and copied the entire header to my computer's clip board. Then I clicked Submit and copied the pertinent information to post in the White Males forum. City: Pretoria Country of Origin: South Africa For the new members here, I've done an analysis on one scammer's format. It's very typical of the average love scammer, especially the ones who get money off their victims and repeat offend. I'll put my text in pink. His email to me: Hello Pinky, Thank you for writing to me and again thank you so much for your message. I guess it is important that I tell you more about me. I am a single widower this is to inspire your compassion and give you the impression that he really was a good husband and have been for 5 years and 8 months since my late wife died of cancer of the lungs. Here he's smart enough to know that cancer is a bad thing, but not that the American terminology is 'lung cancer' or that it's generally associated with heavy smoking to die so young of it and that heavy smokers generally live with other smokers yet he says he's a non smoker. This isn't much, but it's the first chink in credibility. If a real widower were really in that situation, he'd either tell you his wife died of cancer and disclose nothing more in his introduction, or he'd say she died from lung cancer from smoking and he'd quit because of it. I was born in Spain He plans on getting you to a phone call stage and this is to cover if you ask him where his accent is from. It's going to be African, but he's going to tell you he's only been in the US for a short time and was raised speaking Spanish. It's a calculated risk he's taking, that you won't start speaking Spanish to him, but he may know a rudimentary bit of that language too. This is how you can tell you're getting a 'format' email from a scammer. This is designed to be universally versatile as he's going to use the same format on Asians, South Americans and Europeans. My mother is Spanish and my Father an American Again a cover for the accent, but he's also probably going to have co-workers who'll inevitably go a round or two of chat with you. This will cover a multitude of mistakes regarding culture and language. I have a daughter they always like to have a child or two. The child ren will usually be reserved for a crisis and a reason to ask you for money, but if they believe you have strong maternal instincts which is why they play the child card in the first place they'll bring out the children as other characters and try to get you involved and enrolled in nurturing and protecting. All this is to further make themselves look heroic and honorable while inspiring your compassion. Victoria 22yrs old this one is older than usual but I got him off a 'seniors' site and he's pretending to be older. In reality he's probably no more than 23 and has a girlfriend who'll step in and phone chat with you if it ever becomes necessary. I am a Civil Engineer LOL, aren't they all? And this is designed to explain the building project he's going to land a contract for, in Africa. This is also familiar to them. Ever since the discovery of oil and westernization, expansion and development came to Africa, there have been ongoing building projects. These boys might have even been put to honest labor had they not chosen a more lazy and lucrative but dishonest career. I am always very creative in the field. I do not usually go out because am not the outgoing type although I love fun......... This last part of his run-on paragraph, I have to deal with in one swoop. It's probably the scammer's own touch he's added to humanize the cold and calculating text previously that he's either lifted from another scammer or his mentor gave it to him, but it could be a composite of real profiles of people who were truly looking for a dating relationship or unwitting helped the scammers put it together. They get their formats from many sources. He doesn't recognize the conundrum of 'I love what I do because I love doing it' as meaningless filler to plump up his format and sound sincere, but that's exactly what he's doing. He's always very creative in the field? He'd quickly change the subject and not answer if you called him on this one. He has no clue what he was trying to say other than to try and make you think he's clever, artistic and talented. And the next like is to make you think he's romantic but you need to be all alone with him. This is actually the beginning of his isolation tactics. He will quickly try to isolate you from the dating site, your friends and even your family. I love expressing myself, I am very emotional, My little puppy's name is Ranger. More of his own handiwork. The grammatical skills decline as he attempts to portray himself as sensitive, caring and tender; a person who'd never hurt you. Because I am spontaneous I sometimes do not think of the consequences of my actions.... Maybe a bit too much.... I hate violence; especially towards a weaker person.... I respect my fellow beings and their opinions.... I almost always smile even in the morning. It takes a lot to get me in a bad mood..... I am considered to be quite funny and entertaining..... Sometimes, I can be shy. These are all I can think of in a short time..... Again, maybe a different writer here but this entire paragraph has the same purpose and intent as the one before. The only exception to be noted is that scammers ALWAYS portray themselves as impeccably honest and loathing of deceit. It's the ultimate epitome of irony. I would love to see the side of the country guess he doesn't realize Florida is a side and learn other cultures, I have the intention to relocate soon but no destination yet. I intend to start a new life with my future partner if I find one. His plan to assure you that he will come to you. I would love for us to give each other a chance to be friends and then see how it goes. I hope that gives a better impression about my person. I have enclosed more pictures for you, pls send me some of your recent pictures , and tell me how long you have been on the dating site, if you have an access to instant messenger you can add me up on ''''........... I want to know more about you. Do tell me about yourself..... The post of him and his daughter is a well known canyon-tourist-photo-opportunity spot here in Utah where I live, which brings me to one last point I'd like to make. When these guys send you pictures. Read how to examine EXIF data that many photos come with. Unfortunately the canyon shot there has been stripped of data, however sometimes they say when and where the photos were taken and what camera used, etc. Look closely at backgrounds of the photos. Once we busted a scammer claiming to be in a hotel in Europe, when the electrical outlets were clearly American ground fault plug receptacles. In the Utah photo above, the scammer claims he's with his 22 year old daughter, when the woman appears to be in her 40's. Sometimes scammers using military photos forget to obscure the name tags on service uniforms and they rarely get rank insignia right, even the branch of service. It doesn't take long at all before the scammers are easily recognizable. One of the most frustrating things for me here at RS is that I can smell them the minute they send me a message, yet we have to have exacting proof in order to post here. 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