Today the internet is a really huge network filled with all ages and different types of people. While most of them mean you no harm, there are also some scammers who will lie to you to just to get what they want.

When it comes to online personals there is the older man or woman who lies about their age, but it doesn’t mean he or she lies about being just one or two years younger. It is a situation when men who are in their late 40s write in their online personals that they are 25 years old. An easy way to find out if they are scammers who lie is to ask for a current photograph of the person holding up the banner with today’s date, to confirm it’s in point of fact his actual photo and not a stolen image taken from somebody’s else profile or a website.

Then there is another common type of online dating fraud, the weird guy who get in touch with you through online personals and then he will start asking for your nude explicit amateur photos. These sort of (mostly) older men are generally looking to gather erotic photographs of random, unknown women through dating services and social sites such as Facebook or MySpace.

Another type of a dangerous scam is the person who puts his personal ad online just to waste time when they are bored at work for their own amusement at your cost. This kind of activity is common for bored office workers as well as for immature teenagers who get a kick out of playing with men or women trying to see how far they can take it. They use stolen photos of models or other members with fake dating profiles, then they make contact with you and lead you on for unfair excitement.

Some other type of people who are bored and have lots of time on their hands are prison inmates. To my surprise they have internet access in jail and prisoners entertain themselves by getting in touch with online singles. It is an easy way to end this game – simply ask for their phone number. In this case most of them will get discouraged and leave you alone.

When you get a member’s phone number you can do a reverse lookup with it, using an online reverse phone directory and you can know the full real name and home address of the person related with that phone or cell number. This is an easy way to find out if they are telling untruths about their name or location.

If you get the persons full name you can do a Google search to see if this name is listed, sometimes very unexpected and strange results do come up. You can learn many interesting things about a person by doing a web search on them.

Another fast method to get rid of all these problems is not to signup to totally free dating sites. All free dating services don’t have need of a credit card, so scammers can easily lie about age, gender, nationality or anything else they want to misleading you about. If you signup to popular and established dating services you will throw away underage teenagers, prisoners and many other liars fast this way.

Don’t get scared and think of online personals as of a great chance because the amount of singles who start relationships by meeting through the web is staggering. It’s a nice and fast way to meet other singles but you need to be careful.

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