Internet Dating Scams and How To Avoid Being Scammed- part 4
Go with your gut feeling. Males also have intuition although arguably not as keen as woman’s intuition. How many times have you looked back and knew you knew something wasn’t quite right, or thought you had an uneasy feeling about that, or wasn’t happy, or just didn’t take a liking to someone, and later, sometimes much later, found out why. Learn to trust your instincts. If something doesn’t feel right then it probably is a scam. Those that get caught out carry on regardless, blinded by love or lust, or just the fact that a beautiful younger woman is taking an interest in them and all reason seems to go out the window at that point.
Go with your gut feeling. You may be wrong, and miss out on the catch of the lifetime, but the chances you are right and the odds are just too great to ignore. If you can’t let her go and believe there still is a chance it is not a scam, then please at the very least tread very carefully from here on in. Maybe try and catch her out. Remember the person you are corresponding with is quite likely not even in the country she says she is. Check the time in her time zone when she has sent the emails. Is she sending them at 4am ‘her time’. While she might be a bad sleeper or an early riser this may not fit in with the story and the job she has told you she works at so far. Maybe try and catch her out by asking her something about her city which she should know. For example get a picture of a Lenin statue in her town square and ask her something about it, only send her a picture from another city, or a picture of the town square or the main park from another city. If she is really from the city she says she would immediately know that the picture is not of the one in her city. You can easily google or use wikipedia to get some info about the city she says she comes from and using a little cunning you will quite easily be able to catch her out if she doesn’t live there.
Just try a few tests to try her out. As these scammers have many scams running at the same time and can easily get confused as to what they have said to whom, you may easily be able to catch them out on something that they don’t have time or can be bothered to check if they said or not in a previous correspondence to you if you word it correctly. If they do pick up on it and correct you you can easily brush it off as confusion on your part. This is a little harder as of course they keep all correspondence so can look back and see what they have said or not said, but if you word it in such a way that they have no reason to doubt then they might be lazy and not check back to verify. You just have to be a little smarter. These scammers are often not that bright, or will just slip up one day.
Try a few tests. If they pass the first one, it doesn’t mean of course that they are legitimate, so don’t drop, and never drop your guard completely.
More next week…
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