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3rd October 2014 #1
Online dating scams: new tricks that fleece victims of an average '£9,589'
Nearly £10k!
Singletons sign up to online dating sites in the hope of finding love, but they are increasingly being targeted by fraudsters.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...rage-9589.html
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5th October 2014 #2
Going by those figures the fraudsters are making nearly 90k a day, if my maths are correct. Astonishing!
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5th October 2014 #3
Are these people silly people or just madly in love.
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5th October 2014 #4
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5th October 2014 #6
I paid Maritess University fees, but it wasn't much and she never asked, it was me who offered and it helped her parents!
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5th October 2014 #7
most of these scams are from nigeria they are the capital of scammers .
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5th October 2014 #8
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5th October 2014 #9
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So far it has yielded me very little money. I must be doing something wrong.
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5th October 2014 #10
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5th October 2014 #11
Silly? Well ... ... put it this way, they seem to have [a lot] more money than sense!
Madly in love? I doubt it; ... realistically, how can someone claim to "love" another person if he/she hasn't met the "object of his/her affections"? Infatuated, perhaps ... but not "in love".
Infatuation - bordering on obsessiveness - can cause people to act in a , often irrational, manner ... like becoming unwittingly hooked on dating sites.
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5th October 2014 #12
You'd have thought that dozens of scamming stories concerning online dating highlighted in the press would act as a warning to these people but obviously not.
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5th October 2014 #13
I think many are groomed over a long time period where some kind of trust is built up.
I doubt many just sent £9k after a few chats
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6th October 2014 #14
Soon as the scammer has reeled their victim in due to their infatuation is when the process starts. Can be as early as a couple of weeks.
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