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by Canadiana Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:57 am
SeniorMatch.com has now been infected by romance scammers. I have received two scam emails, the most recent is a guy with profile name of 'cs163amg' - notice how most of them have strange profile names, just a jumble of letters and numbers. I emailed back to him asking for proof that he is who he says he is as dating sites are full of scammers, and of course no return email from him. Although he says he's caucasian, an executive, etc., his profile is full of grammatical errors -

"I am intelligent , Well educated,Kind,Reliable,decent,honest,good looking,physically fit,interested in sport,love children and animal,even tempered,financially secure,generous,caring,attentive and have a good sense of humor,well read and well traveled. I believe in romance and chivalry. I'm down to earth man,very adventurous,like to take risk no matter what because i had better try my best see my self doing nothing and losing . I am well established an introvert,sometimes extrovert and professionally. I'm quiet and shy but warms up quickly i have learned lot in the past relationships and i'm ready to give the best of my self and be the best i can. No human is perfect.. But i always try to be the best i can in my life because life is too short to be living it alone and working always ... I have been workaholic for long and i need someone to share my world with enough for now.. will be writing more later"

I tried posting his picture but don't know how to do it as they don't let you copy pictures from seniormatch. Here's the link to his profile:

I removed the link because it leads to the front page of the site. ~Bubbles

I'm going to contact seniormatch to warn them that they've been infected.
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by Arnold Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:14 am
All dating sites are infested with them. Not their fault, but they can post fake profiles faster than the sites can investigate and deal with them.
I agree that is one, in view of the style of English. And he uses American English spelling although the British spelling is more usual in Canada.

by began steele Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:47 am
i have a neat program which is free called Gadwin Printscreen. You just take press a key to take a shot. There is a setting to enable you to select a screen area and just take the shot of that part you want and save it. It enables you to take any picture you like.
Here is your witless wonder using the program. Its life will be harder because Google Image Search now have it labelled "used by scammer", and elsewhere it is used.
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HERE you can see he has moved house. I love it when they do that!
http://www.ourtime.com/search/index.cfm ... us-Singles
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Seniormatch have a good reporting screen. I am quite impressed.
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ~~ George Orwell.
by Terminator5 Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:35 pm
If your going to be doing business online or meeting people online , its best to develop at least some scambaiting skills . Such as tracing emails and learning all the scams . You can do this on sites such as 419eater or the scambaiter . Baiting a prospective contact to email and than tracing them is one of the best ways to identify a location . You must learn to extract the headers from their emails and than use a service like this .

http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email

Daniel 8 :25
by Terminator5 Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:59 pm
The link in the first post needs to be removed . That link logs you into an account on senormatch . Probably yours Canadiana .

T5

Daniel 8 :25
by Musketeer3 Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:41 am
Very many contact sites are infected. I was chatting to a lady who told me she was a widow and had recently lost her mother. After offering my sympathies I felt I should alert her and asked if she had had contacts claiming to be military personnel, art dealers or engineers posted abroad. One of the first signs of a scammer is a claim to be from one country but residing in another. She said she had and thought some odd so I warned her that these are predators after her savings and inheritance. After reading sites such as this she closed down her membership.

I also warned a local lawyer that when advising senior clients with money that they should be made aware of this scum who prey on the lonely and vulnerable.

Using the free IP tracers is a help but if the scammer is misdirecting or using a proxy server it will not necessarily be detected. If the mail was sent by mobile phone or satellite then the origin will appear as where the signal came to earth which can be thousands of miles from where it was sent and even seem to be in UK.

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