Are there any genuine dating sites out there on the internet? I ask this because someone at my place of work got scammed for a 4 figure sum. I used to use dating sites a lot in the past but didn't let on to my colleague.
Have you ever noticed on these website's adverts there's always a picture of an extremely attractive smiling woman or man? They never look like the average person, whatever that is. This is the dating site's fake hook which they use to reel unsuspecting people in. The truth is that woman (or man) are not on that site and very few if any of the people on that site will look anything like them. The dating websites want to attract people. The more people they have on their books the more money they make through subscriptions and possibly advertising.
Someone will not subscribe to a dating site that only has 150 - 200 ordinary looking members, which is a lot closer to the truth than any dating sites will admit to but if you go to a site and read something like, ‘150,000 members visit our site daily', you're more likely to join them without even asking yourself if the profiles are genuine. Once there the sites have all kinds of tried and tested underhand methods to keep you there, such as SUE has sent you a message. the man will look at the picture of her and his jawbone will hit the ground hard! But he has to subscribe in order to view her message.
I was talking to a mid 30s woman on a VERY well known dating site. She was slightly overweight and I do mean only about 15 pounds, these were her words. Anyway I told her she was very attractive. Her answer was, 'are you sure you don't work for the site?' Many people are clued up on these sites but not everyone.
And let me not forget you have the SCAMMERS usually from West Africa or Eastern Europe. They're not interested in dating they only want to SCAM as much money from people as possible, using CATFISHING methods, with some success I might add, with fake pictures, knowing there are enough gullible people (mainly Americans and Australians) who will take the bait of an extremely attractive person. The best way to catch a scammer out is to ask for VIDEO CHAT. More than 90% of them will choose from a selection of ready made excuses not to come on video, usually relating to a broken phone, bad reception area or out of data etc.
I, in the past, used a lot of dating sites, some of the worlds most well known, and gained the ability to spot fake profiles very easily. During the lockdown I went to a few of the best known huge sites. All of them were littered with fake profiles. In fact there were so many on one of the sites I wrote to the site in the section to complain about fake profiles. In MANY cases there was more than one profile using the same pictures. Needless to say the sites never got back to me even once. I won't say no one has ever found success on these sites (there are many success stories that have led to marriage) but the sites themselves are very keen to show success stories but say nothing of the many people who have either been scammed or simply had their time wasted.
After writing this article, out of interest I went to two WELL KNOWN sizable dating sites. Both of them were infested with easily noticeable fake profiles!
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