The scams of online dating.
Match.com is doing well these days. A little too well. They can afford to pay for radio advertising with Dr. Phil. If any of you listen to AM stations in a major city in the United States, then you have probably heard the ads all over the radio advertising match.com. For anyone who is considering using match.com to find a "life partner", you need to know something. Match.com is infested with perpetrators of a scam known as the "419 scam". If you would like to know more about the 419 scams, then you should visit this website: http://419eater.com/ Once there, click on the 419 FAQ at the top of the page.
Match.com seems uninterested in any kind of identity verification so I have no reason to believe that they are not complicit in the activities of such scammers. I am a member of match.com and have attempted to report such scammers, but the code in their site doesn't work at the moment. How curious.
One such known scammer on match.com goes by the handle loveperfected371. They claim to be from the United States, but are in Africa at the moment. The reality is that this person is probably from Nigeria trying to scam male members of match.com. There are numerous scammers on many other online dating websites. Be sure to visit the forums on 419eater.com and get information on where the scammers are.
Match.com seems uninterested in any kind of identity verification so I have no reason to believe that they are not complicit in the activities of such scammers. I am a member of match.com and have attempted to report such scammers, but the code in their site doesn't work at the moment. How curious.
One such known scammer on match.com goes by the handle loveperfected371. They claim to be from the United States, but are in Africa at the moment. The reality is that this person is probably from Nigeria trying to scam male members of match.com. There are numerous scammers on many other online dating websites. Be sure to visit the forums on 419eater.com and get information on where the scammers are.
posted by matchscam at 12:58 PM
2 Comments:
I believe I have been being scammed by someone who represents himself as a London gallery owner who is Greek (which would explain the poor English in our IMing, right?). Shortly after we began corresponding, he dropped his membership on match.com. It never occurred to me that this was a scam until he suddenly told me he was going on a sculpture buying trip to Nigeria!! Once he was there, we were chatting on the Yahoo IM when he surprised me and said he was coming to the states after his trip was over. He said he had told me before, but of course he hadn't. That's when the alarms started going off in my head. FYI: his membership name was Andy_1960 for anyone who is reading this who might have more information. Thanks for creating this Blog!
I also was scammed by a match.com guy who said he was living in Chula Vista, born in Ireland and then (during the course of our communicating) left to work as an engineer in Lagos, Nigeria...he is back at it even though I reported a concern. His tag is chulaguy900 on match.com
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