SURPRISING STUFF
Online dating sites to overcome loneliness during the holidays.
There aren’t any. Not safe ones anyway. If you go on looking for whomever or whatever you might be seeking, well, online dating sites have by no means replaced social groups in real life for meeting potential significant others. Almost all online dating sites are populated now by scammers. The photos you may see of potential dates are all ‘farmed’ in that they are not the person or persons portrayed but paid for by the scammers. What are the signs you are being scammed instead of communicating with a real human being? The scammer gets you to go from the website to an encrypted app. WhatsApp, Google Chat, Signal, Telegram, and Threema come immediately to mind. If you go, there to chat then the other supposed person (scammer) cannot be traced when it comes time for the money. Yes, money will be asked for and that’s another tipoff that you are being scammed. The money requested for gasoline to get to you, car maintenance, ER room charges, or whatever other creative inducement, will be in the form of cards or PayPal. The scammers want an Apple or Steam card because those can be instantly turned into cash almost anywhere. The scammer will want the number of the card, a photo to be sent as well as a copy of the receipt. The PayPal scammer will want to send a tag.
Just the fact that the other ‘person’ on the site knows how to ask for those (again untraceable and encrypted forms of sending cash) is an indication that you are being scammed. For the women who want a date and go to one of the sites, the man you are texting will likely want a warm long-term relationship, even though as a woman looking you may know that most men are on the site, if they are real and that’s rare, want sex. For the men going there, the women’s photos will be blown away gorgeous, and very revealing. Please engage your intellect and realize that women who look like those photos don’t need the attention of any man. They need baseball bats to beat all the suitors off!
Nothing beats going to church, attending benefits, or even meeting in coffee shops around the local area. In real life, the scammers don’t exist. Most scamming is also done by males in Lagos, Nigeria, especially if the texting is done at all odd hours, as the time difference is so significant.
Place of the Week
The Mountain Top at Grand Geneva opens this Saturday. They have trails for all experience levels.
