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Reader Stories: Is This a Scam? Dating Scams Revealed

If you've been taken advantage of by an online predator at a dating site or in a chat room, please report the dating scam first to the company that housed the website you met at (see: Dating Scam Reporting). Then, add your experience to our dating scam database, so others who are wondering, "Is This a Scam?" can easily see for themselves.

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What dating service or website did you meet at?*

In what month and year did the dating scam take place?*

How much money (if any) were you scammed out of?*

Where did you report this dating scam, other than here?*

What details did the internet dating scammer share?*

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What did the internet dating scammer do?*

How they contacted you, what they said, when you knew it was a scam, if you reported them, and if there was resolution.

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What advice would you give other singles so they don't fall prey to a romance scam? What would you do differently?

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