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Romance Fraud: A Worrying Problem For Online Dating

July 3rd, 2015

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Romance Fraud: A Worrying Problem For Online Dating

Many people are now using online dating sites as a way to meet a partner. However, there is a dark side to online dating sites and no doubt, you are aware about romance fraud and the many scams that are involved. Unfortunately, this isn’t a problem that is going to go away anytime soon.

So how can we be so confident in saying that it won’t go away anytime soon? Well, the reason that these incidences of fraud are occurring comes down to a couple key reasons in particular:

  1. Lack of personal vetting of members.
  2. Lack of security and discretion.

These two key reasons are why these incidences will never stop happening in the near future. The problem is that when you sign up to an online dating site there is no process of personal vetting; that is confirming you are who you say you are, a reliable background check. Then there is the lack of security and discretion. It is a well known fact that when you create a profile on an online dating site that it becomes public information.

And then to think that this information is easily accessible to other members of the public, that this information can be shared across other online dating sites. This has actually happened in the past with some notable US online dating sites sharing their members’ information across their sites.

So it is for these two primary reasons why romance fraud will continue to be prolific for members of online dating sites. Until they tighten their membership entry and tighten security and privacy for their members it will keep happening. Of course, the easiest way to avoid all of this is to just not use online dating and use more traditional methods of dating that can guarantee you safety, discretion, and anonymity.

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