How Can We Detect Online Romance Scam

How To Detect Online Romance Scam

Girls aiming boys. Women con artist who zero in on men can present very enticing. They claim to be from another place. The more the place is inaccessible, the better.

Contrary to scammers who victimize women, these con women will sometimes claim to be single moms or single young attractive women (in photo at least)

They will sometimes tell stories about: Living with elderly parents of fragile relative in a place where livelihood is hard. This plot sets up the nice background for needing money.

Other cases like a blooming girl will claim to be accomplishing her schooling or managing a small business or if not, appearing hardworking and educated. Now If you think the story is “Too good to be true?...Then it is too good to be true”. 

Deception can even lead to years. Imagine the steady source of financial backup when the girl needs to pay her monthly bills or when the fridge is empty.

To cut the story short often times it ends up in a Skype chat. Things could get more intimate and she has captured or recorded secretly. Now, she will blackmail you for money. Threatening and controlling to make your life

“A Living Hell”

According to Wikipedia: A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigned romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining affection, and using goodwill to commit fraud or blackmail.

Scam may involve access to victim’s money, bank accounts, credit cards, email or by getting the victim to commit financial fraud on their behalf.

What Are The Signs You Are Being Victimized

1. They have asked you for a money transfer even if you have not

met them personally

2. You have no solid proof and evidence of their existence. Try looking

at their Facebook accounts. Looks fabricated or recreated.

But of-course the conversation is real.

3. They are overly defensive or not definite or clear when you inquire

about their manner.

4. Their emails look like copy pasted from a poetry site.
    They will use the "jealousy"tactic to lure you to give your
    email password. 

5. Most communication is received and sent by text, email and

messenger

6. When you ask for photos, they will not send it right away.

if they do the will send you a slightly different person. Often

filtered

7. They will make excuses not to show their faces on webcam.

8. Makes too many excuses.

9. They have asked you to purchase laptop or gadgets or even open

an account for them. Usually victims are wealthy old businessmen.

10. They often tell stories they have lost their money, accident,

sick love ones, helplessness. But will not make it appear they are

not asking.

11. They request financial help for variety of reasons.

12 Appearing wealthy yet request money from you to invest in their

“So called” Business venture or daily living allowance.

13. They have contacted you through Facebook or games sites

pretending to be just gamers or people who just like to meet

other people

14. Look at their Friend’s list on Facebook. Not too many friends and

almost no relatives at all

My advice is never to commit about anything or send money or engage in any activity that will put you in a very compromising situation.

They will control you by showing you that they have access to your friends, co workers, parents or relatives. Yes even to your Email.

They will use “Fear” to control you. Most of the online romance scam happened quickly. Here are scammers who will religiously gain your trust, confidence and even love.

They are intensely patient.(to look real). In fact there are some reports and cases where scammers have to extend online relationships for months, or even many years before they start making up stories and lure you to act out of affection, care and love.

If you have been victimize don’t worry, my upcoming blog will be about a friend of mine who works in the company Facebook and Google. People who can trace conversation and secret nature of online scammers.

To give you an example: The picture used by scammers can give you a hint that something is not right. If someone sends you a request saying they’d like to make friends with you, but not a single mutual friend, that’s a red flag.

My expert friend suggest Save a copy of their picture and use

Google’s “reverse image search.” To check if that picture is being utilized for scam. If the picture appears on other profiles with different names, you should be cautious. It is potential that its someone looking for action on a dating site, but very possible to be a scammer searching for their prey. If you receive pictures and anything seems suspicious, be careful.

By Noli Cerrillo

Reference: MULE

Wikipedia

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