- 49 % female profiles- created mostly by scam organizations with the single aim of financial fraud. Very few ladies scam independently. - 25% male profiles - created exclusively by the Nigerian scam organization with the single aim of financial fraud - 26% male profiles, usually partially true and partially very misleading - created by dishonest unscrupulous men usually in order to take sexual advantage of women, sextourists How do they cheat people? Most part of the scam on Internet is done by the 2 major scam organizations, the one in Russia, near Kazan, in the republic of Mery El and the African scam group, operating in Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Cote d'Ivore, etc. Other smaller groups are located in Lugansk, Ukraine and in the Philipines. These are the basic ideas upon which most scam organizations run: The infamous ?ussian bride scam, run by the Mery El organisation, is probably the best known and is simply done by creating lots of fake female profiles with pictures of Russian celebrities or pictures harvested from anywhere on internet and then writing to a lot of unsuspecting men. The fake females then ?alls in love with all these men and starts asking them to send money for all kinds of reasons. If the man becomes suspicious the ?ady just disappears. The Nigerian scam is very similar to the Russians. Obvious differences are that they will have profiles of black ladies as well as white. They also have many profiles of men. They use many different approaches and they constantly devise new ways. An unfortunate fact is that Nigeria is known as the capital of the scam industry and the ways and means that are used are too numerous to mention. Victims 67% - American men 28% - men from western europe or other locations 5% - women

Most Common Misconceptions about Dating Scams

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• 1) Russian women are scammers! This is a misconception because the profiles that are created are fictitious and could be created by anybody. These women just simply don? exist. There are very few independent female scammers in Russia.
• 2) Women cheat and men are cheated! Yes, most of the cheated victims are men, definitely, but not always - first of all there are women who get cheated by the African bouncing check scams, and secondly there are women who get cheated by dishonest men, who talk about love and romance but in reality are just cunning sex-tourists.
• 3) Online dating is dangerous! On the contrary, you are safer online than in a bar because you have control of the situation and can make informed decisions. The key to safety is to use common sense and discretion and to carefully read and implement helpful anti-fraud info (like this article for example)
• 4) There is no way to avoid the online scam! You can avoid being a victim if you use reliable dating services as per the criteria outlined below and apply our 100% scam-proof recipe.
• 5) Western dating sites are less likely to have scam profiles! This is a misconception as criminals operate wherever they see opportunity, all the large social networks like myspace are infested sex offenders, child abusers and all kinds of scammers.

Types of Dating Web sites

# 3% - Totally fraudulent websites operated by scam syndicates # 40% - Owners of the dating website knowingly tolerate and entertain the scammers to operate on the web site - scammers post sexy photos and that makes some other people pay and ... it is all OK as long as they pay... # 20% -Owner of the dating site is not aware of fraudulent activity or simply don't care that it is there. They may even place links to anti-scam Web sites or general warning against scam, but are probably unaware of the scammers operating on their site. # 30% - Web sites with relatively few scammer profiles - these are usually webmasters who want to remove scam from their web site, but lack knowledge of the true origin of scam and/or technical expertise or time to do it successfully. Such webmasters remove some scam profiles, for example ones that they saw posted on the anti-scam Web sites, but they do not have an efficient way of sweeping off all scam profiles from their Web sites # 7%-Sites where scam is non-existent or very rare. (keep in mind that independent scammers are often ingenuous and can sometimes pass even most advanced anti-scam checks). Romance tours scams Some of the dishonest dating agencies offer romance tours that promise you will meet hundreds of beautiful ladies. The easiest way to spot bogus Romance tours are advertisements like "You Can Meet ANY Lady From This Website". Be wary of this as some of these agencies will arrange dates for you but they will be with ladies who are employed for this reason and go home to their families in the evening. How to figure out if it is worth ordering a romance tour from an agency that offers such a service? # Try out and study the website and see if it seems reliable keeping in mind the scam symptoms described previously in this article. # Make sure that you will be meeting many women and women that you like - there is no point of ordering a tour, paying hundreds or thousands of euros and meeting 3 ladies only. # Carefully consider your payment options and make sure that your money is refundable.