kingskid Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 [sIZE=2]Is anybody really thinking about here much about online dating scammers? I'm amazed at how quickly I get messages from other members in as little as 15 seconds after joining a dating site.It seems like they believe if they keep after you they can persuade you to meet you offline where they try to tell you a sob story to get you to send money to Africa somewhere. They don't even seem to care how obvious they are that there trying to cheat you because they have been successful many times before and feel like they can break down anyone with enough persuasion. I was shopping around different sites and came upon one that seemed like was run by scammers.I received 32 flirts in just a couple of days with incredible pictures of women about half my age. I know it's obvious they were just out to try to steal a quick buck but it was kind of shocking not just because I received so many flirts but again the same tactic of trying to wear you down with multiple hits just like I saw on another site. That's bussiness to them and you're just a cash cow for the taking if your nieve enough in there opinion. It is actually a crime to steal and a second crime to commit fraud which is what they are doing in reality. I had to step back a little and ask myself how I got in this situation, I'm not interested in the least in them and don't want to spend half my night or day using member blocking for a hundred or more scammers with no personal convictions after I've just logged onto a site if it's even available. My heart used to go out to them anyway because I pictured someone in a dirty little city apartment with no job that needs money desperately sitting all alone in a slum or in a tiny shack suffering overseas somewhere.They realize to that sometimes people will be smart enough to know that there's a desperate or hurting person behind all this. Whatever works from a beggar or thief's point of view. In reality I will always feel for the down trodden and hurting but what about the the beggar's and scammer's that are getting rich off of this? I saw a special on television about beggars who live in major cities in the U.S.A.. who were secretly followed home after a hard day of begging on the street and without watching the program you would never believe it. At the end of the day they went home to gorgeous apartments, which were colorful, and very plush and expensive.Don't ask me how they can put on dirty clothes every day and stand outside all day and cheat people all day with no local authorities catching on to the act or how they can live with themselves.Maybe they make enough to bribe the police if that comes up as well It's beyond me.I connected scammers on websites as being of the same type. It's the money greed machine at work in both scenarios that work basically the same, it starts out with a desperate human need that grows into a monster fed by the greed machine when the line is crossed to take advantage of human kindness.So my heart's feeling a little bit more educated about who I should feel compassion for.There's plenty of real charities to help real homeless people, orphanages, children's hospital funds, food banks here and overseas I can contribute to and make the world a better place and really help someone that needs it. I don't even know a church anywhere that can compare to mine in giving to the poor with a higher percentage of giving than the united way.I know I have a good amount of favoritism with this church is concerned but I'm amazed at them. They give about 95% of what you give to the poor because they really, really care about people. That can't be beat anywhere that I know of. I'm not a member their but you should see this place to believe it at http://www.wwlm.org among many worthy charities, really unbelievable. [/sIZE]
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