Dating on Facebook - How to protect yourself against dating scams

This is the third article in the series Dating on Facebook (first article: Nigerian dating scams; second article: Russian dating scams). This article will focus on how to protect yourself against dating scams.

How to protect yourself against dating scams

The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has a page dedicated to protecting against dating scams. Your online "date" may only be interested in your money if he or she:

• Presses you to leave the dating website you met through and to communicate using personal e-mail or instant messaging;
• Professes instant feelings of love;
• Sends you a photograph of himself or herself that looks like something from a glamour magazine;
• Claims to be from the U.S. and is traveling or working overseas;
• Makes plans to visit you but is then unable to do so because of a tragic event; or
• Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).

One way to steer clear of these criminals all together is to stick to online dating websites with nationally known reputations.

Source. Via FBI.

In the next article from the series Dating on Facebook we will explore good and relatively safe websites for online dating.

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