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MAY-31-10 1:14:47	Forum: Singles Dating Scam Reports Don't hide away if scammed. Report them! Read Topic | Reply to Topic		injesuscomplete Female 51-60
	I've been contemplating/praying about this. It's time for me to speak out & prayerfully help someone else in the future. I'm not looking for sympathy. Please understand, this isn't easy for me. My reason for passing this along is so that others can educate themselves like I had to. I was one of those women who got scammed last fall. It wasn't until late Dec. that the pcs began to not fit. In Feb, I filed a report to the FBI, police, & 2 scammer websites. *Today, like me, most of us look for that 'someone special' through the internet dating sites. These have their PLUS's: we can meet some people who become true/authentic friends. The MINUS: getting involved with someone claiming to be whom they're not! These are defined as internet Romance Scammers. They steal photo's, identities [identity theft], SS#, pertinent information & passports. Then use this to hide behind; so that when you do an identity background check, IT WILL APPEAR to be legit! That's what happened to me when I did an ID background check on him. *FYI, according to Romancescams.org many of these scammers 'are Christian'. Mine actually prayed with me. He sent me his 'faith/theology' supported with Bible texts. I've been informed that, "They actually believe that when they get a victim to fall for a scam, God is answering their prayers. It's all in their twisted psychopathically thinking". Scammers are on all the sites! "some favor the Christian sites, b/c the users are more complacent, & tend to assume that b/c they're on a religious site, their fellow users will have high moral values." "Scammers post profiles to fish for victims. Upon finding victims scammers lure them to more private means of communication to allow for fraud to occur." Be careful! Find out what church they attend. Make sure it's legit. Contact the church pastor, elder. Ask lots of questions. Scammers avoid questions, & continually redirect the conversation back on you. Some websites, like here: ChristianSinglesDating.com actually tracks to see if they're posted on these scammer posting websites. They'll even email you an FYI, if a person is discovered as being a scammer to quit corresponding with them & not to give out any pertinent information about yourself. Amen! Sadly, no other site, I've seen so far, will do this! By reporting these scammers, we can possibly help to save another person from being a victim. My posting has saved 2 other women, whom he had tried to scam on the AdventistMatch.com website. We'll call him 'my scammer' since he really wasn't whom he claimed to be. *When you meet someone, you can check on the DelphiFAQ.com & Romancescammer.org, IF that person's photo has already been reported as a scammer. You can check by name, or submit a photo & see if it's been used as a scam. These websites may also be used to report the scammer. My so-called 'scammer' had gotten away with quite a few scams before I'd reported him because no one before me had reported him. They'd kept quiet about it. Sad huh... When I'd checked his photo/name, it wasn't listed yet. It is now though! http://www.delphifaq.com/outside_the_cube_male_dating_scammers_full.htm and http://www.romancescams.org/index.html *If you've been caught in a romance scam, File a report with the American Embassy . FBI IC3 report: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx OR http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/financial_scams/financial_scams_4554.htmlhttp://ic3.gov Do a follow-up with a local police report to have it on file as being reported. Report the information to the dating site. Though when I reported my scammer to the dating site I'd met him on, seems they disregarded it. Still report it though. *Just a few other helpful resources: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/ is a helpful support group to help with the healing from the situation. They offer emotional support since many people will not understand fully the impact effect one goes through afterwards. They were a blessing. http://www.familywatchdog.us/ShowNameList.asp is a helpful website to see if they've ever been reported as a preditor http://www.maxmind.com/app/IP-location -then click the 'online demo' tab, to check their IP-address the true source where e-mail is coming from. Lots of times, scammers IP address's will not be consistent of the location they claim to be living at [as my scammer's wasn't]. I later found that his locations changed dramatically. & his 1st IP was...you guessed it! Lagos Nigeria! According to the DelphiFAQ "Scammers use open proxy to hide their location, because no real authentic person would use so many IP's as scammers do. An IP showing Nigeria is 100% sure that this is an scammer." In your email program, lists all the new emails at the top. then if you left click on it, it will open so you can read it. To check IP address: you right click on it instead, it should bring up a box that will have choices like open, print, delete, reply, etc. Down at the bottom ‘options’. If you click on that 'options', it will bring up a box that's titled ‘message options’. Down at the bottom will be a subheading “internet headers”. if you scroll down in that information is where you'll find the IP address. Scroll from bottom of box upwards. The originating IP address in brackets [ ] as this. Copy/paste to the Maxmind IP-locator website to find where the email's coming from. There'll be other IP addresses further up in the box [generally IE: Yahoo and AT&T] "Don't bother telling the scammer you've reported them to the authorities. They simply don't care or will threaten. This won't make them stop contacting you, & will continue if you're responsive. STOP talking to them/STOP writing to them. Eevery time you open one of their emails they know about it b/c they get a email receipt notice stating it's been opened, & you're also opening your hard drive to them." BLOCK THEIR EMAIL. Delete from your email listings. Block from your options/spam.