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Sean
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Posted: Friday February 22nd, 2008 04:23 am |
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After searching hundreds of profiles now, I have some questions:
1. If they do not mention the desire to have a family, does this mean they are likely a scam? To me, it seems at least to increase the odds.
2. My search includes the woman having no children. But some profiles come up with the category missing altogether. Does this mean they have kids?
3. Often, English will not be listed as a language, then in the description category they say, "I also speak good English (or some English)." Why there and not in the language category?
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ronin1
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Posted: Saturday February 23rd, 2008 05:24 pm |
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1. If they do not mention the desire to have a family, does this mean they are likely a scam? To me, it seems at least to increase the odds.
No. the omission that you indicate is not even a yellow flag in my book. For instance if the RW in question comes from a poorer family, she may have resigned herself to putting children as a lower priority in life. It maybe an oversight of her or the computer translator to include her interest in children. Also, she may already have a family or considers herself too old to start. It would be difficult to be more conclusive without further investigation. Does it increase the odds of being a scam… it depends. If scam artists find that they get more responses from their profiles when they don’t mention the desire to have children… then yes.
2. My search includes the woman having no children. But some profiles come up with the category missing altogether. Does this mean they have kids?
This could be the fault of the database of the agency you are searching in. Perhaps, they have changed category formats at some point, though it would be odd to not have this info in any format. You can’t be sure unless you email the RW in question. Let me guess, the RW in question is very hot and the site service is pay-per-email. If so, it maybe a ploy of the site to bait clients to write.
3. Often, English will not be listed as a language, then in the description category they say, "I also speak good English (or some English)." Why there and not in the language category?
Again, It maybe an oversight of her or the computer translator to include it in the language category.
You may not be aware that these sites are often internet blocked to the country of origin. This means that a RW can fill out an agency profile form and give them pictures or photo/video session and haven’t a clue as to what is actually going out online. There could be omissions and mistakes galore let alone the possibility of out right manipulation and editing by the agency. On top of this the RW could be a scammer herself… or it could boil down to simply an innocent mistake of omission.
Remember, profiles are just a starting point. I understand that in the beginning all a WM has are the profiles to go by. They are there to spark interest as ‘possibles’ you would like to meet. Only the obvious and blatant scammers you should avoid. The reasoning here is that as one engages RW in an email dialog, you will start paring off ‘possibles’ for incompatibilities, deal breaks, and red flags that include likely scammers. So in the natural elimination process you will be gathering more and more information where you can effectively judge whether any give RW is a scammer or not.
Ronin
Last edited on Sunday February 24th, 2008 03:38 am by ronin1
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