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Blogs > HandsomeDaddy7 > Handsome Daddy's Rants & Raves

Before You Meet or Invest in someone on AFF  

HandsomeDaddy7 65M
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11/16/2018 12:16 pm

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1/8/2019 11:34 am
Before You Meet or Invest in someone on AFF
There appears to be not a few scammers on this site. I've come across 3 of them recently. Same goes for their sister sites. So to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

How to discern if he/she isn't real? Well if you have been online long enough and have some common sense about you, usually within a few short back and forth message exchanges, they usually say/write something that sends up little red flairs. Liars have a hard time remembering their lies. Just today, after wasting my points to be #1 admirer, the messaged me back with her phone number stating it was easier for her to text. Well she was also on IM. But one thing I always do is Google their area code. It's not always fool proof but in this case it was enough to send HQ a heads up about her. In her first reply she stated "up here". She apparently is in No. Dak. but listed herself as in my town. 1st slip up. Second slip up was the giving of her phone number in her second reply with no further conversation. She didn't reply after I pointed out her mistake. And Couples Dating has yet to remove her profile.

Another thing I do is when they send me a face pic, I always Google it. Just this week I did that and found out it was a stolen identity and was a scam from Russia. I did a search when she gave me her name. It didn't match her picture even though all the other specifics were spot on. i.e. stolen identity. Of course when she began asking for a little "help" with her phone bill, then I knew.

One thing that I have done in the past, and real people seem not to be offended by the asking, is to ask them to take a picture of themselves standing in front of a mirror having written my name in lipstick or whatever on the mirror. Sometimes this can be photoshopped but even then, usually you can tell if it's fake. I asked one woman which boob was her largest. She told me the right one. But the picture showed that her right one was the largest until you realized that phone picture reverse the image. You have to flip the image to get the real person. So it wasn't her right, but her left that was larger. She never did understand what I was talking about when I pointed it out to her and reported her. They took down her profile.

What tricks do you use to weed out the scams?
1seeking1 58F
3767 posts
12/28/2018 3:43 pm

 Both genders lie a out anything and everything. Pity such a waste of time. For me real life public coffee meet is first step. Some do not even show up lol what was lied about?


HandsomeDaddy7 replies on 1/8/2019 11:41 am:
Ah, yes. I hate weeks, months of online banter with continual promises to meet but never actually having it come to pass. And I whole heartedly agree, face-to-face is always the best. I wished I had a dollar for everyone who later told me they didn't like me until they got to know me. Even at work with men I worked side by side with. Then we became best of friends.

I have often heard that people set up meets and then someone doesn't show. I don't get that at all unless they were posing as something they weren't. I wrote to someone for two years (I've always had penpals) only to have them slip revealing that they were way underage girls. The intellect and mature comments were that of someone much older. But some people have life experiences that force them to grow up a lot faster than their peers.

Thx for your comments.

missthee 58F  
4511 posts
12/3/2018 12:08 pm

 In my geographical area, there are a lot of cheapskate men using fake female or couples profiles.
There are two reasons for doing this.
1.Women and couples profiles are eligible for free gold memberships if they become "popular" profiles. So these fake accounts use fake pics, videos, and keep on adding friends in order to retain their "popularity."
2. The man is a closet gay or a trans.


HandsomeDaddy7 replies on 1/8/2019 11:36 am:
Yes. I had one such person contact me. We chatted for a while till I finally realized she was a he. He used the female profile to get free gold status. The Wicked Witch, "Oh what a world!"

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