Creating a beautiful romance and looking for a boyfriend/girlfriend for creating a family or relationship is a wonderful ability of a human, but the development of science and technology nowadays has created a new modern form of romance called online dating, which becomes dangerous because of a very high probability of Nigerian Scam.
In case you are practicing online relationships, in order not to become the next victim, there is no doubt you should not be lazy and spend some time learning the information about the mechanism of Nigerian Scam, also this will be of great use if you share it with your friends to prevent a possible accident or a crime. As you might remember, “forewarned is forearmed”, this information will never be unnecessary.
There has recently appeared the newest evolution of the Nigerian Scam, when instead of sending spam e-mails and letters, promising millions for your assistance, these scammers are targeting single men and women who are searching for love online.
It is not a secret that they use a classical scenario when money is very important for hospital bills; a scammer often says he needs the mark to send money to pay for a passport; the scammer may offer a job, often to people in a poor country, on payment of a registration fee. These are particularly happen at African dating sites; a scammer might say he/she requires money for a flight to the victim’s country because of being left there by a step-parent, or husband/wife, or because they are just tired of living in their country and then never comes, or says that they are being held against their will by immigration authorities, demanding bribes. Moreover, these legends always strike a victim of Nigerian Scam with their indefatigable fantasy and probability.
Such dating scammers, involving people to Nigerian Scam, are very clever and creative, being career criminals they know the thing they are doing and make the fraud perfectly well. All those e-mails to their victims are written as a series by psychologists to dupe you into thinking you are really corresponding with a beautiful honest smart girl, very interested only in your personality; no doubt these “professionals” know which mental buttons to press to get you to react the way they prefer and to be involved in Nigerian Scam.
It is also known that they use psychological tricks to lure their victims in, they even use poetry and even gifts to get the victims under their spell, then once you are there, will try to reach for your wallet, or other aims all the time declaring their “undying love” for you. The scam may take the form of asking you to cash a cheque for them through your bank account because they are “out of the country” and unable to cash it themselves, or they may come right out and ask you to send money to help them out of a fabricated "financial difficulty" they claim to be experiencing. These are all lies used to try to make them easy money from an unsuspecting and naive victim.
Thus, the only working weapon against such online dating criminals and the whole system is education and being well informed and not to lose your mind. The more people that are educated in the ways such scams as Nigerian Scam work, the harder it is for the scammers to make money and the more scammers that can be put out of this dating fooling business.