smotovated is offline smotovated Post #1  November 24,2008, 5:57pm
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I see a lot of postings from woman on scammers... on another site there are females who try that but they're pretty easy to spot. Just wondering if anyone's come across them on EH?
 
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QT314159 is offline QT314159 Post #2  December 1,2008, 6:24pm
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Smotovated,


I dated a guy from EH that was really quite happy that I was (in his words) "better looking in person than my picture" and "actually resembled" myself.


He is a very goodlooking guy (by anyone's standards) and apparently he has come across quite a few female scammers. They posted pictures of their friends or models, and then were basically unashamed when he finally met them. Others he said went all the way through to Open Communication and then just told him they didn't want to actually meet (or even talk on the phone)- they just wanted to email. CRAZINESS!


These people ruin it for the rest of us...and I don't know any way to be able to weed them out.
 
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corky44 is offline corky44 Post #3  December 5,2008, 10:29am
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There are likely scammers who pose as females (could be male or female on the other end) on EH as EH doesn't filter for matching IP and stated address. Being a woman, I didn't get matched with any of those but you could Google "romance scams" for more info on female scammers.
 
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wractor is offline wractor Post #4  December 5,2008, 6:52pm
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One of my ex's posted a pic of Stephanie Seymour as her primary Myspace photo. Naturally her number of male 'friends' skyrocketed, butit was an early sign of duplicity I should have seen coming...
 
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JETFUELMAN is offline JETFUELMAN Post #5  February 9,2009, 5:37am
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I have had my profile on a nother site before eH and had scammer start messsaging me ask me for money and I end it,removed my profile.But there is more to this I had some friends that I went to highschool with on facebook so I have a profile on there keeping in touch with them.One day I get this message from the same person that was on the other web site.Wow and they did know me from the other site She/he had the same pic and is from the same area lol!!!
 
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Yes. Perfect professional pictures of a TEN Hollywoodish model...these aren't normal or regular studio photos. I'm a former pro photog. Other scammers are women looking to get married quick (immigrants.) I'm talking about extremely desperate... Others who just got out of a rehab...others who want personal info and then disappear...never give out birthdays, etc. There's more but I got to go.


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