If she'd a Native American Catholic widowed engineer or doctor from the Ukraine you might suspect!
8 Signs That Girl You Met On The Internet Is Fake
Lessons from a "sugar daddy" dating website
That widowed Ukrainian engineer you just met on your favorite dating website? She's probably a scammer.
Scam dating profiles are more likely to say they are Catholic; from Nigeria, the Ukraine or the Philippines; widowed and have a doctoral degree—among other characteristics, according to new data compiled by the dating website SeekingArrangement.com. Romance scammers tug at the heartstrings or stroke the ego to get dating site users to send them money.
SeekingArrangement caters to a very specific type of relationship, but the lessons here should apply to other dating sites and even to other aspects of digital life, Leroy Velasquez, a SeekingArrangement spokesman, tells Popular Science. "Because of the fact that we do cater to wealthy demographic, we do get an influx of scammers," he says. But scammers act the same everywhere. "Your random spam email? It's a really crappy version of what a man or woman would get on a dating profile," he says.
SeekingArrangement got its latest stats from screening new profiles over 10 months. The profiles first go through automated screening software, which flags both traits in the profile, such as certain ethnicities, and things that aren't visible in the profile, such as certain IP addresses and even certain passwords that scammers seem to like more than other people. Then a person on staff looks through the flagged profiles and decides whom to ban, Velasquez says.
SeekingArrangement has banned 60,000 profiles in the last 10 months, or about 220 a day. Here's what they've found are the ingredients in the typical scam profile.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/perfect-dating-scam-profile
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