Scammers take advantage of people looking for romantic partners, often via dating websites, apps or social media by pretending to be prospective companions. They play on emotional triggers to get you to provide money, gifts or personal details. How this scam works Warning signs Protect yourself Have you been scammed?

5 Ways to Know If Someone You Met Online is a Fraud: Guest Post attached to this person, you have to make sure that they are “the real deal”. More and more people are using internet dating sites in the hope of finding.

Don’t let his smooth talk — and your desperation — cloud your judgment. Some people have great success with online dating, yet there are hazards that must be known so that online dating doesn’t cost you emotionally, mentally and monetarily. One of the biggest hazards of online dating is falling for a catfish, or someone who pretends to be someone else. Scammers have made a lucrative business in catfishing people on online dating sites and apps in order to get money.

Some daters are so desperate to find love that they ignore red flags and warning signs of scammers and catfishers in a hopeful exchange of a possibility of being in love. Here are the warning signs so you don’t waste time with frauds and instead can focus on the possibility of real love. Note: I used male pronouns here, but scammers can be either gender and can present themselves however they wish online :. Start with what is stated on the dating site.

Scammers often are not specific in what they are looking for in a mate.