Safety while Dating Online in South Africa

Online dating is one of the most exciting activities on the Internet, but like everything in this life, we have deprived predators trying their luck on various online dating sites.

The first thing is to choose an online dating site where it is moderated. The good scammers still get through these online dating sites, but will have less chance and they tend to avoid the moderated ones.

So following the above point it is often better to find a site that is a paid site as this will have much better moderation.

Scammers are often difficult to identify, but often they are from foreign countries so look for a name that is misspelt, or an area that does not make sense.

Also the picture is often too good to be true. Many of the model pictures we get on advertisements are paint brushed to look better. So what many scammers do is go onto these Ukrainian mail order bride websites and get a few of the fake pictures and put them up on a dating website.

So there are many beautiful women out there, and there is no reason to distrust them, but when chatting, and the person obviously doesn't know the geographic areas of where they claim to live, be careful.

If in doubt, ask the administrator of the site to check the profile for you, they have various means of checking the validity of the profiles.

With online dating you are always their to find love, and a partner, some people to flirt and see what happens, both legitimate reasons for going to a online dating site.

One key thing to watch out for is long sob stories, they are always original and sound quite horrific, but will always end in them asking you for money. Think about it no one joins an online dating website to get money, so when the person asks you for money run a mile, but first report them to the website administrators.

Another common thing is for them to put in a legitimate central African country like Ghana, and a good conman will always try and establish credentials with you first. Like they will tell you how they studied in America, or their father was the ambassador to a country, and how they a re actually from a privilege country or something.

However it will always end in a transaction for money in one way or another.

The golden rule with online dating, no matter how convincing and moving the stories are, do not send money or physical gifts. If you have met and love the person that is another matter, but on the basis of an internet chat, don't!

Another scam is woman who are over eager. If other words they will tell the male how they want to get intimate with them right now, and how that person must meet them immediately.

Some guys are even foolish enough to invite that person over to their house, believing that they have just landed an opportunity of a lifetime. Well if that guy just stopped thinking with his urges, you know a strange woman is never going to proposition you like that unless they are a prostitute, or even worse, read on ….

Some syndicates use free online dating sites as a means to gain entry into guy's houses. A woman is over eager, and then the guy innocently invites them to their house, and three male thugs pitch up.
Well run dating sites don't allow these people on, but in general just use common sense and chat to the people for a while before meeting them.