Internet Dating Scams Warning
Internet dating scams are confidence tricks played on singles' feelings and desires for love and understanding, aimed at cheating money or valuable information out of them. Such kind of frauds have appeared long before the Internet and internet dating services. History knows cases when prisoners published their personals in  "men seeking men" columns and scammed enough money to buy themselves freedom.

The problem with internet dating is that it makes life easier for scammers and riskier for honest singles. The Web swarms with frauds and scammers, impossibility to trace the swindler and prove his guilt makes it the perfect place for him. Internet dating scams usually aim at the most vulnerable singles. So usually women are the most frequent internet dating scams' victims, as generally they are less emotionally secure and more confiding. Christian dating sites and gay dating sites get to the high-risk group too, as they naively suppose that as their communities are less numerous and less popular they can enjoy safe web dating. But statistics shows that they are internet dating scams' favorites, sensitive and trustful gays are easily cheated and fooled. The biggest problem of the Christian community lies in their high moral values, they believe that every member of such a dating site is bound to have a heart as pure as theirs.

There are some traditional schemes according to which internet dating scams work: the scammer creates a profile of an attractive young person, successful in business, then hooks a victim by smart and romantic lines, takes full interest in his victim, asks lots of questions, never answers the questions when asked as the answers are so skillfully lost in the charming web of compliments and declarations of love; he sends letters often and gradually make them more and more passionate, occasionally he asks about financial status of the victim, which doesn't seem suspicious with detailed description of his own prosperous and wealthy life and at last when the victim is sure that the scammer is the love of his/her life some kind of "slight financial difficulty" arises and the victim rushes to his love's rescue.