Really? I haven’t had any scammers (that I’m aware of—I’ve certainly never been asked for money by anyone). I’ve had a lot of dudes I just don’t respond to because they have no profile basically, so maybe that’s them and my apathy is protecting me from them.

What are they thinking? Like, genuinly curious. Because I can’t imagine spending so much money on someone I have never seen in person.

I always use a photo that is charmingly unattractive — want to make sure the fellas know I’m real. (PLUS, I’m CHARMINGLY UNATTRACTIVE.)

“My mum is the sweetest, 93 year old woman in the world and she’s going to die because I can’t afford the heart surgery!”

Wow. That is some next-level optimism and unfounded trust your friend’s mother has. It’s sweet, in a way.

any muscular but sensitive Scottish guys are welcome to my tic tacs, but if they go in there looking for money, they’re going to be incredibly disappointed.

Google can find the same or similar photos from either an uploaded sample of an image or an image address (right click, “Copy image URL”, then paste into Google’s Search box - if you do this while set to Web, look out for the clickable blue text under the next page offering to “search by Image instead”). Sites such as…

My mother got duped once but luckily she had no money anyway, so didn’t lose anything but her dignity. The second time someone tried (she’s a widow so in the demographic, apparently), he said that he needed money or his mother in England would die and she answered “Sometimes you just have to accept it’s a person’s…

I have a friend whose mother was scammed. Like, scammed to the point where she sent thousands of dollars and GOT A DIVORCE and moved to another state to be with the guy... Only to find out that he never existed. I still don’t understand how that could have possibly happened, but it did. Be careful, y'all.

I don’t need contests or princes. I sit at my computer all day and make $75,512 an hour. My aunt’s boyfriend’s troglodyte son in law told me all about it.

That could be but I'm wondering how long the relationship was. They might have been giving money over time and not realized how much they gave until the looked at the numbers. I could see that happening.

Seriously! I can see getting duped into paying for a movie or concert tickets, but after that he’s barking up the wrong money tree.

Dr. Phil is probably always ill advised, whether napping or awake.

Holy shit the AVERAGE was $14,000? Who even HAS $14,000? I’m assuming the median was lower, and there were some really expensive scams driving that average up, but I clicked on a bunch of shit and couldn’t find anything. Let me know if you can find out what the median is! Also let me know if you’re looking for love!…

This even predates internet dating. The internet has just made it A LOT easier for the scammers — they used to have to find a good looking person to front for them (or be a good looking person) and do the romancing at least partially in person to scam the funds.

It’s amazing, the capacity humans have to deny the obvious when it comes to love. ( love which can be blind and critically fatally stupid). Common sense, which admittedly is not the sense that’s going to “show you a good time” goes out the window. And otherwise smart people wind up having conversations like this: “I…

OMG my mom is the worst with this. I have told her so many times not to clink email links or put personal info into a webpage, and she literally just like last week clicked on an email supposedly from her bank (it wasn’t) and then input her passwords and everything into the resulting page. I MEAN!!

Yeah, people can be so gullible sometimes. Luckily I won a contest that I don’t remember signing up for.

I mean, this has been going on for as long as there has been internet dating afaik. It’s probably been going on in some form as long as there’s been a way to communicate with people on the internet, really.
It would be nice if there was more awareness of it for some groups of people though - I think most people my age,…

It’s so sad to hear stories of people being scammed. Thankfully one of my uncles is a Nigerian Prince so my financial future has already been secured.