Menstuff® has compiled the following information on Sweetheart Scams. Below are a couple of web sites that specialize in exposing these scams. Note: Place cursor on the link below to visit the website of a free Yahoo! group website with more than 5,100 members fighting romance scams.
Romancescam.com
Scamfreedating.com
Book: Cyber
Love's Illusions: Exposing the Romance Scams of Internet
Dating
Tom Blake's column, From
Russia with Love
Romance Scam Topics &
Resources
Join the Romance Scam resource group. This online support group is
free to join and they might be able to help you track down the person
who is scamming you. Visit www.scamfreedating.com
Here are the rules that this list is based on:
For Nigerian scams
1) The ones that have been reported by actual victims, or potential victims, i.e. whom they tried to scam unsuccessfully.
2) Those listed on Yahoo group Romancescams. I love this group, I am a member of it, and encourage all of you to join. I trust the group and great folks over there unconditionally, if somebody is listed on this group as a scammer, I know he or she IS a scammer, no doubt for me.
3) Those whom I personally booted off my dating service for the following reasons:
registering with the West African IP addresses (specifically, from the following countries: Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone or Guinea Bissau), PLUS:
a) listing themselves as being from any other non-African country, like USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Spain, Philippines, etc..
b) uploading photos that are obviously not their own, i.e. of white, Hispanic or Asian people, or African-American models.
c) mass-mailing all members on the site with the same standard pre-written message without even looking at the profiles: just going down the list of members and hitting that "private message" button.
For Russian scams
1) The ones that have been reported by actual victims, or
potential victims, whom they tried to scam unsuccessfully.
2) Those who tried to register on my dating service and whom I've
seen already listed on other Russian scam lists on the Internet.
3) Those whom I personally booted off my dating service for the
following reasons:
a) placing profiles through anonymous open proxies or from the most scam famous part of Russia, where operates the known Russian scam gang, which is Republic of Mari El, PLUS:
b) listing themselves as being from any other city of Russia, including Kazan and Cheboksary, or from any other country, like Ukraine, Belarus, or sometimes even US or UK.
c) mass-mailing all US and UK men on the site with the same standard pre-written message without even looking at the profiles: just going down the list of members and hitting that "private message" button.
d) placing more than one profile with different pictures and names from the same IP address.
These patterns of behaviour, based on experinece of a dating
webmaster, are ALWAYS 100% indication of scam. Visit www.romancescam.com
Here are some of the scammers at www.romancescam.com/album
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. - Woddy Allen
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