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Six tips to keep you safe from dating scams

Many people create fake profiles on dating sites with attractive pictures taken from various sources including from social networking sites and try to allure the innocent and gullible souls.

An urge to find true love has no comparison and this impulse brings young men and women on various dating sites.
Generally, dating sites claims to help you finding your soulmate or true love but it is probable that you may end up losing your hard earned money.dating

A 23-year old man in 2011 was sentenced to a maximum 42 months in prison by a court in United States for meeting several women at the same time on dating sites and seducing them. He was stealing their personal information including credit card details.

In July last year police arrested two Nigerians from a hideout in Gurgaon after they duped about Rs.48 lakh from a Hyderabad based lady doctor after meeting her on a dating site. If you search the internet you will come across several similar cases of fraud.

Many people create fake profiles on dating sites with attractive pictures taken from various sources including from social networking sites and try to allure the innocent and gullible souls.

Since millions of people visit online dating site every year to find their soulmates, the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had issued an advisory two years ago and provided tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of such scam.

Here are some key tips recommended by experts that can protect you from scammers.

  • Never reveal your confidential information over online chat. Even about your work place, if you are working in some important department.
  • Fake person doing online dating will turn up asking for money someday. If not instantly then may be after a month or few months.
  • Some people share their intimate, and even explicit, pictures to these fake account holders after they insist them to do so. Later these scammers resort to blackmail for money and other favours by threatening to make the pictures public.
  • It is common that people share their family details on online date while chatting when they get comfortable with the person. Never follow this practice while doing online dating.
  • Scammers also go to extent of calling you for a coffee or just a walk. Never go alone to meet the person.
  • It may be a sign of fraud if your ‘online date’ presses you to leave the dating site and meet or communicate using personal email or instant messaging.

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