Online dating scams: new tricks that fleece victims of an average '£9,589'

[joebloggs]

Nearly £10k!

Singletons sign up to online dating sites in the hope of finding love, but they are increasingly being targeted by fraudsters.

Read more here ......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...rage-9589.html

[Ako Si Jamie]

Going by those figures the fraudsters are making nearly 90k a day, if my maths are correct. Astonishing!

[stevewool]

Are these people silly people or just madly in love.

[Terpe]

Are these people silly people or just madly in love,

Often the two go hand-in-hand

[stevewool]

Often the two go hand-in-hand

True Peter, i am glad i have very deep pockets

[Michael Parnham]

I paid Maritess University fees, but it wasn't much and she never asked, it was me who offered and it helped her parents!

[tiger31]

most of these scams are from nigeria they are the capital of scammers .

[Terpe]

most of these scams are from nigeria they are the capital of scammers .

Plenty of 'home grown' UK scammers too........

[grahamw48]

So far it has yielded me very little money. I must be doing something wrong.

[Terpe]

So far it has yielded me very little money. I must be doing something wrong.

You need to raise your profile and get featured on that BBC programme 'Saints and Scroungers' or 'Rip-off Britain'

[Arthur Little]

Are these people silly people or just madly in love?

Silly? Well ... ... put it this way, they seem to have [a lot] more money than sense!

Madly in love? I doubt it; ... realistically, how can someone claim to "love" another person if he/she hasn't met the "object of his/her affections"? Infatuated, perhaps ... but not "in love".

Infatuation - bordering on obsessiveness - can cause people to act in a , often irrational, manner ... like becoming unwittingly hooked on dating sites.

[Ako Si Jamie]

You'd have thought that dozens of scamming stories concerning online dating highlighted in the press would act as a warning to these people but obviously not.

[joebloggs]

I think many are groomed over a long time period where some kind of trust is built up.

I doubt many just sent £9k after a few chats

[Ako Si Jamie]

Soon as the scammer has reeled their victim in due to their infatuation is when the process starts. Can be as early as a couple of weeks.