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Blogs > Dr_Scarpachi > WYSIWYG Reality

Recognizing Scammers Online  

Dr_Scarpachi 56M
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7/29/2019 7:28 am
Recognizing Scammers Online

Sometimes I find it amusing reading the responses of people to the images of people who are online, whether globally, locally or those in my<b> hotlist. </font></b>What I find amusing about the comments is that some person will state that the person is "Beautiful" or that they are "Gorgeous" or "Sexy", or some other similar compliment, and then another person will post something to the affect that one has to be an idiot and/or desperate to believe that image/profile is real or that the image/profile is for a scammer in some African country.

I realize that some of what one sees on this site takes a bit of faith since it is based on just either images or tag lines in the profile, especially for standard members such as myself who often can't even see the full profile. The thought that does enter my head is, how do these people know with such certainty that some selfie image posted with a profile is NOT legitimate and/or some kind of African-based scammer? Are they a more current version of the Amazing Kreskin or clairvoyant? I am sure some of them could be right, but I certainly would appreciate some kind of proof. Otherwise, it just seems like a "gut feeling".

Granted, if the person seems pretty (at least to my liking) and it looks like a selfie image, there is a chance that I could think it is real, but also a chance that I wonder if it is not. If the image is that of someone that meets the definition of "drop-dead gorgeous" and looks professionally done, it would seem to me to be a scammer of some sort, as I highly doubt someone that looks that stunning would actually be on a site such as this. There is a point where one can go past the point of believability.

But then, it would be impossible for me to scan and know about every image on the Internet, so maybe this scamming business is more prevalent on this site than I originally thought, and I thought that a fair number of the profiles were already scammers. Could make for trying to find someone for a nice liaison a bit more difficult...

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