A lot of the girls on the dating sites are only there to scam money from gullible men - and are successful at it- only takes 1 or 2 % success rate to make it lucrative for them - and it is! There are men there that are naive and believe their sob stories and tales of woe.

Even a girl in my own ex GFs family tried to scam me by pretending to be my GF one day.

It can be big money if they hit the right person.