I originally started elamb.org for computer & Internet security issues. I found a few useful techniques on preventing and recovering from malware. After getting scammed I got interested in the helping people avoid fraud. I have found that people all over the world have the same experience I have had with these scams.

One of the biggest scams on the Internet right now are dateing scams. Scammers seem to be having great success on the dating sites and judging from what readers have submitted to this site, I believe it has to do with two primary factors:
1) Dating sites limited ability to stop scammers
2) Members of dating sites giving lots of money to scammers

Essentially, these two factors enables Internet date scams to exist and do fairly well.

The good news is that many of the major dating sites are doing better about informing their members of the date scam pandemic. Dating sites are beginning to for put up messages before they allow members to send any message to other members. Internet dating sites are also much better about discovering false profiles and shutting them down. They have begun to allow the users the ability to spot scammers and report them immediately.

The challenge is that anyone can create a false profile. Even legitimate members can create a fictitious profile and there is nothing that can stop them, however scammers can be easily identified by their practice of mass messaging hundreds of members over and over from a false profile. The success of Internet Dating scams are dependent on their ability to cast a wide net for profile phishing for the most emotionally vulnerable members of multiple dating sites.

Even with all the scammers and fraud, dating sites are still quickly becoming the best way to find a life partners. The caution that I would offer to members of dating sites is to take things slow and be VERY suspicious of anyone asking for money online also remember that most of the scammers are from Ghana, Nigeria and Russia but that is not to say they can not come from anywhere in the world.

Kloe sanders profile

Person said they mother is sick in nigeria and that is about to die, then she died and they have no way of geting back to the united states. They need help. then they want marriage papers and they need 900 to get the marriage licence and papers so they can get hold of the property that was left to them by they dead mother. They got left on the street when mother died have no surviving relatives father is so called white and mother nigerian, mother was hit by a car brother was also killed by a car.

She said she was living with a friend and now the friend is in hospital after a really bad car accident and she got evicted from the place and now lives in a room in an internet cafe.

I have sent money to help her out via western union and today i called the number from my work phone and a man answered I said frank and he said yes wassup. I hanged up and now will report this to everyone out there.

He claims he’s spanish, has a son, a dog, a horse in NY. Living in UK, working as an architech.

There’s a picture on his lieing blog

http://goldmanny.blogspot.com/2009/07/rainshine-house-decatur.html

IP address search shows Nigerian. Oh yes, and he loves me & wants to get married.

Protect yourselves!

All the best!

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