Here at Widow Dating we want you to feel safe and secure so that’s why for the last 8 months our support office have spent over £1 Million in fighting the scammers. So where has this money gone?
1: We now employee a team of 23 people who check each and every profile which is a long and tiring process, but we believe that you can’t just rely on a computer system to find the con artists. In the last few months the team have looked through every profile and 1000’s were deleted as a result.
2: We have state of the art software that can also check content on the site and warn us of any wrong doing. The system will flag our moderation team who then deal with the situation straight away.
3: We use high-grade 256-bit encryption for all credit card transactions and process all payments securely using Protx (part of Sage Group PLC). Protx has achieved the highest level of compliance under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI). We adhere to the most stringent levels of fraud screening, ensuring that your customer’s details remain secure throughout the transaction process.
And if all that fails then we can count on you, our loyal customers to tell us of any scammers you have found. If you every come across any than simply click on the persons profile and click ‘report profile’ that will then be sent to our team who can deal with the issue.
Before I go and help combat these villains let me just remind you of what to look out for just in case you ever have the unfortunate misfortune to stumble across one of these scammers.
Email Discrepancies.
Have you ever exchanged emails with someone you met through an internet dating site, just to wonder if it’s the same person who is replying to your messages each time? Or perhaps you’ve briefly thought to yourself that the person on the other end of the communication really needs to employ a spell-checker.
Neither of these email discrepancies are cause for alarm; a lot of people aren’t very good with spelling and grammar, and they may be writing English as a second language. But if more than one of the following email discrepancies pop up during the course of your communications, it may be an internet dating scam.
* Communication is vague, difficult to understand or is repeated.
* Immediate (within 15 minutes) responses are received every time you send a message, with no discussion beforehand as to when you’ll be online.
* Email messages change in tone, language, style or grammar throughout the communication. This could evolve over time, or it could be apparent in just one email.
* A sob story is shared early on that changes quickly from an annoyance into an emergency – and only you can help.
Appropriate Responses
It can be very heady to have an on-going email chat with someone who is focused entirely on you. In fact, this is a great sign that the person on the other end of the conversation is truly interested and invested in learning more about who you are.
Where the danger lies however, is not their interest in you as a person, but rather that they don’t offer any detailed, personal information about themselves in return, or doesn’t really answer your emails in a personal manner, but rather changes the topic with each contact.
Appropriate responses are integral to determining whether or not the relationship you are creating is based in reality and not a potential internet dating scam. Could the person emailing you be merely copying and pasting responses from a pre-determined outline or script, or do their emails really seem to “get” you and offer some sort of individualized attention?
Being asked for Money and/or cashing a cheque.
Most singles who have tried meeting people from online dating sites have come across this tell-tale internet dating scam sign: being asked to either cash someone’s check or money order for them, or being asked outright for money. The story varies somewhat with each internet dating scam, but the intention remains the same: robbing you of your hard earned cash.
If somebody asks you to wire them cash online – no matter what the reason, no matter how plausible or sad it sounds – don’t.
Unrealistic or Fake photos.
Although cliché, the saying holds true for internet dating scams: if the person’s photo looks too good to be true, that’s because it probably is.
Of course models, actors and other extremely attractive people want to find love too, and you may very well have lucked out in the attractiveness category with the person you are communicating with online. But if your online date also falls into one of the other internet dating scam categories listed here, then you may want to do a bit more investigating, first.
Oh and just one last thing if you ever want to read a few very funny stories of a gentleman that got his own back on these horrible people then click here
Love to you all x
