Be careful of romance scammers in senior dating

Romance Scam

With more and more senior singles start to use senior dating sites, romance scammers also target this age group in recent years as most of them are financially stable, Besides, they are easy to trust people and like to help others, the scammers took advantage of these to try to scam them for money. But it is not to say online dating is unsafe, we just want to let you know and be aware of their common ‘skills’ to avoid romance scammers in over 50 dating.

In most cases, women over 50 who are divorced, widowed are the main target. They have relatively lower chance to meet people who are interested in them, scammers would take advantage of this and get in touch. Here is how they usually ‘work’: They would have a decent profile with photo/photos that looks decent as well. But of course, both of them are fake. They will get in touch with you pretend to be interested in you, claim that they are in the same area with you but currently travelling abroad or working in other country. After communication for a while, you may thought you were in some kind of relationship with this ‘nice’ guy, what is really going to happen is that this new ‘friend’ of you would ask you for money.
You can not deny the truth that scammers exist in almost all the dating sites. But you do not have to worry too much, sites like SearchingSenior would ‘kill’ these scammer profiles at the first time. Once there is registration, we will manually screen the profiles to close those obvious scammer profiles. If there is any chance that they can get through, he is also under monitor by his online activities. Then here is what you can do to help us spot it out.

1. If someone contact you, read his profile carefully. Some scammers are not serious about this profile and you can found details to proof it to be a fake profile.
2. Since all online activities are monitoring by us, you are safe when you do online communications with others. But scammers are eager to ask you to do offline communication. So if someone is asking in his first contact, you need to careful.
3. After all, money is their goal. When someone asking you for money. You need to be careful. Never let our any personally info until you feel that person is trust worthy.

Anytime you found any suspicious profile/activity, you can report it to us, we will do the further investigation for you.

We work hard to close down profiles that is fake or from scammers. All we have done is to provide you a safe over 50 dating site for singles over 50 to find their love, romance or friendship. These tips are just for your information, you may never need them. Hope you can find that special one soon.