Beware SCAM! Russian scammers, dating scam, Nigerian letters, etc.
On ANY dating site some women may try to extract money from men. Here are some of the stories they might employ:
- they need money for obtaining travel documents, or
- to cover the airfare, or
- to pay off some debt, or
- to travel to another city to get the visa, or
- for compensating a damage they accidentally inflicted to someone else's property while travelling trying to get to you,
- her disabled mother needs nursing care while she comes to visit you, etc.
Although we take every step to ensure validity of every girl on this site, some girls might have indecent intentions.
Do NOT send money to girls. Report suspicious requests to Support.
Other scam comes in many forms from Nigerian, Senegal e.t.c.:
419 scam, when they offer to transfer millions of dollars into your bank account, or lottery scam, when they tell you that you've won something in some bogus lottery. However, Nigerian dating scam, besides just asking for money for their sick relatives, etc..
Usually involves this scheme: the cammers upload fake attractive photos, in most cases of white people. They pretend to be the foreign specialists working in Nigeria (usually from US, but it may also be Canada, UK or any other European country). After they establish some lovely correspondence with you, fall in love and maybe even send a couple of cheap presents, they will tell you that their employer pays them with Money Orders, and they can't cash them in Nigeria. They will send you the Money Orders and ask you to deposit them into your bank account and then wire the money to them via Western Union. Usually they say to keep
some money for your trouble. Needless to say, those Money Orders are no good, and not even worth the paper they're printed on.
If you cash them or deposit them into your account, Money Orders will come back after few weeks as fraudulent and you will be responsible for paying back the money to the bank and sometimes even charged for passing counterfeit instrument.
When we say "Nigerian scam", it doesn't mean it originates from Nigeria only. It may also originate from any other West African country, like Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal etc..
