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Romance Scams !!!
Attention all More2hug.com visitors and members. Despite our best efforts to bring you the highest quality service, we have had the misfortune of having one of our More2hug.com members become a victim of a Romance Scam. We encourage all of our users to read the following information to better educate themselves on this evolving internet problem. The information below has been provided by www.romancescams.com.
The main purpose of this information is to protect the members of the online community, as well as other people who use online dating services, from fraud and scam, to inform them about the horrible situation with scams in the online dating world, to put them on alert if a scammer contacts them and to prevent them from contacting scammers themselves.
Online Scams
Scammers trick their victims into transferring thousands of dollars to Nigeria and some other West African countries, totalling millions of dollars per year.
Online scams come in many forms and shapes, but there is one particularly nasty form: romance scams, when the scammers approach you on a dating service. These scammers play with their victims feelings, send them lovely messages, call them on the phone, send them presents, make them believe that they finally met their "one and only", and after they build some degree of trust, they STEAL YOUR MONEY.
Since these type of scams involve some romantic foreplay and physical attraction, the major weapon of the romance scammers is PHOTOS. More attractive the better! The scammers almost never use their own photos and show their own ugly faces. They use photos of other people: attractive, good and decent. In most cases, they steal photos from online modeling agencies, like FocusHawaii.com, BlackCuties.com or NewFaces.com, or from magazines. But they may also steal pictures from the real dating or Yahoo profiles of innocent people, which is actually an identity theft.
When you receive a picture from a scammer, you are NOT looking at the actual faces of people who are scamming you. People on the pictures have nothing to do with scammers; their pictures are used by scammers without their knowledge and permission.
In case with Russian scams, the girls on the pictures are either also innocent girls (or even Russian models and celebrities) whos pictures are used without their knowledge, or they may get paid to get their pictures taken (sometimes they know what's going on, sometimes not), sometimes they are also the ones who pick up money Western Union, sometimes they get paid 15% of the scam revenue, but in any case, those are not the actual girls you are corresponding with. The scam "writers" and the scam "models" are often part of the same gang, but not the same people.
Here is how More2Hug.com determines scammers
For Nigerian scams: - click here for more info
1) Those that have been reported to us by actual victims, or potential victims, i.e. whom they tried to scam unsuccessfully.
2) Those listed on Yahoo group Romancescams.
3) Those whom we have booted off my dating service for the following reasons:
registering with the West African IP addresses (specifically, from the following countries: Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone or Guinea Bissau), PLUS:
a) listing themselves as being from any other non-African country, like USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Spain, Philippines, etc..
b) mass-mailing all members on the site with the same standard pre-written message without even looking at the profiles: just going down the list of members and hitting that "Contact User" button.
c) placing more than one profile with different pictures and names from the same IP address.
For Russian scams: - click here for more info
1) Those that have been reported to us by actual victims, or potential victims, whom they tried to scam unsuccessfully.
2) Those who tried to register on More2Hug and whom have already been listed on other Russian scam lists on the Internet.
3) Those whom we have booted off my dating service for the following reasons:
placing profiles through anonymous open proxies or from the most scam famous part of Russia, where operates the known Russian scam gang, which is Republic of Mari El, PLUS:
a) listing themselves as being from any other city of Russia, including Kazan and Cheboksary, or from any other country, like Ukraine, Belarus, or sometimes even US or UK.
b) mass-mailing all US and UK men on the site with the same standard pre-written message without even looking at the profiles: just going down the list of members and hitting that "Contact user" button.
c) placing more than one profile with different pictures and names from the same IP address.
These patterns of behaviour, based on our experinece, are ALWAYS 100% indication of scam.
If you suspect that you have been contacted by a scammer, please inform us as soon as possible with as much information as possible. The supected scammer will be investigated and dealt with accordingly.
More2Hug Staff
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