Please consider posting about any scammers you encounter to "Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here" : we track them, so we can spot them when they come back. Sometimes they use the same photos, parts of a username, or other elements. We have amassed a sizable database; input is always appreciated, and you can drop by to check out one you suspect or just browse the identified scammers for future reference.

The plague of the online world. And it can happen on any site where the public had access - not just dating sites !

Obviously, some people are falling for them - or they wouldn't keep occurring.

Have you never been on a dating site before? That part of the experience

What’s really fucked up is when you have morons on another thread defending them. WTH is up with that? One was identified as a potential scammer the moment she joined. We were not disappointed.
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How do they make so much money off of something so lame and obvious? Scammer tactics have an IQ lower than room temperature behind them. How do people fall for this?

In a word: MONEY.

Nigerian dating scammers work in large warehouses with phones and computers. They scam lonely singles in America, Canada and Western Europe. These operations earn millions. Hundred-of-thousands lonely people are left heartbroken and penniless each year.

Use Google image search if someone looks too handsome or beautiful. Often you find them on Scam Buster websites.

I have been approached by 38 scammers on dating websites. They are laughably easy to spot:

1. Extremely gorgeous photos. Scammers steal photos from modeling websites and profiles from dating sites.

2. Claim to have fallen in love with you immediately. Calls me "an angel fallen from heaven."

3. Poor command of the English language. Rarely capitalize the letter "i."

4. Pressures you to immediately switch to instant messaging.

5. Same sob story: wife died in a fiery car crash or ran off with his best friend.

6. Says he is an American citizen who was born in Europe.

7. Claims to live in a city near you, in my case Seattle

8. Temporarily working in West Africa oil fields as an engineer or missionary.

9. Keeps up professions of love until SURPRISE! ... He was robbed at an airport/bus station/taxi and needs you to immediately wire him $5,000 so he can fly into your arms. Or his child needs emergency, lifesaving surgery.

Keeps it up until you run out of money. None got a penny out of me.

I report and block them. They pop up like daisies with new photos and profiles.

What's up with the people that fall for them? Idiots.

Lucky you. I had 6 just yesterday! Not this site, but another. All reported and blocked.
It IS crazy, the numbers.