What are the signs? I know the obvious one's,but it seems the scammers are getting better. Is it just me?

No you are correct.....they figured out how to post now.

For me, sentence structure waves
a big red flag.
Then, the inability to take in what
is on a profile.
Trying to get you off site, i.e.
Yahoo, Facebook other email, etc.
Over-the-top protestations of love.
Now it is the fealty ('I'm not one
of THEM!') posts in the forums.

Send me money so we can be together,

They say they live in one place like Pasadena CA but then they are in Lagos, Ghana, Indonesia,

Looking for personal information, sensitive personal information,

Flaky about continuing contact,

No pics,

Super bad email addresses like Sex4pay@dlink.net or luv2havesex@hotmail.com,

Want to get married sight unseen,

Push for marriage out the gate,

Want your phone number up front,



Does this info help???

When you get as many scammer e-mails as I do, you learn to identify them in your sleep.

Look for the ones that try to get you off-site as quickly as possible. They usually want you to contact them at a yahoo address (although I've seen msn and hotmail on occasion, as well) -- and their yahoo addresses are often munged so as to enable them to bypass spam filters. They'll write it like "ya who dut come" or something.

If they don't provide a yahoo contact, they'll usually ask you for yours.

The main thing is they want to get you off-site, and they want you to give them a valid e-mail address, which they can then do all kinds of things with.

Look for discrepancies in their stories. A common one is that their location in their profile doesn't match where they say they are in their e-mail. I get a lot of them where the profile says they're in New York or California, but the e-mail says they're in Afghanistan or Ghana or someplace.

Awkward or stilted English is often a clue -- I think a lot of them are using the same translator programs. I get e-mails that say things like "I will like to get to know you" and "I am to be liking your structure."

Look for profiles where the picture of the person does not match their own self-description.

I have noticed that the vast majority of my America scammers are claiming to be from New York, and about 95% of those claim to be from Manhattan. So Manhattan is an automatic red flag.

If they ask you questions that have already been answered in your profile, then you can assume this person didn't read the profile. I get these all the time. "I read your profile and I loved it! Where are you and what do you do?"

If you suspect a scammer, report it. We would like to identify them and remove them as quickly as possible.

What if I'm just a skeptic and report a person that I think is a scammer,but really isn't?

The daylight lasts longer....... my electric bill has gone down........my allergies are back.......I can wear less clothing! How's that for a start?

OOOHHH i'm sorry I thought you said, SUMMER!!!

Sorry maybe i'm a SCAMMER????

I'm with Lex on this one.. I've had sooo many scammers I can pick them out almost immediatly.. If I'm not sure I will write them one email on here and will be able to tell if I get a response.. They don't like it when you say you want to just talk on the site instead of their email address...Just report them..

Yeah, I was confused for a second!

Simple don't give info and they can't scam you lolll and if you give info make sure you know who the person is first i mean have their number and info first most scammers ask for e-mail and have no cam and no microphone or say its broken or say well give me e-mail we can talk there why you need to type in a e-mail when you can type here fine? lolllllllll people also try to say you won millions or thousands and ask for money to get it processed ,then you can say well take 1000 from my millions i won and no need for me to send you none lolllllll they all use stupid tricks but 1 thing give least info as possible unless you know them for a while and have info from them or talk to them live and see them lollllll cheers good luck

Admin will look into it. If it's not a scammer, then there will be no further action taken. No harm, no foul.

That's true, their job is to get you off-site.

I used to tell them there's no reason to go anywhere else, because we have e-mail and IM and forums right here. That's not what they want to hear. They would always want to argue about it. "I want to send you some of my naughty pics!" -- that sort of thing.

I don't even bother with the conversations anymore, I just report them as soon as I've read the message and I'm sure this is another scammer. Admin is really good about deleting scammer accounts quickly. I've had some situations where the person was removed from the site before I'm done reporting them!

Thanks for the help everyone. I know I'm a jerk most of the time.

I'm a scammer. Sshhhhh....don't tell Spidey.

i've been wondering about that. does that mean your going to send my money back now?

Check's in the mail.

isn't that one of the 3 biggest lies?...lol

Would I lie to you?