Dating site fights scamming proactively | oasisoflove.com

(I-Newswire) December 16, 2005 - http://www.oasisoflove.com

While dating online is convenient for the parties involved, it also attracts unsavory characters with every intention but finding a date. Online dating scams are perpetrated predominantly by foreign subjects primarily from Eastern European countries, Asia, and parts of Africa.
These scams are so pervasive and perfected, that even smart people get taken often. The scammers know the vulnerabilities of the average user, and take full advantage of those vulnerabilities. Perhaps because of a higher standard of living, victims are often North Americans.

As it turns out, the public is beginning to catch on to the tricks used by the perpetrators. On a typical dating site, merely being from a country where these scams originate raises a red flag for most users. Hence, the scammers are now beginning to lie about their true location, most now claiming to be located in the USA, or Canada just to deflect suspicion, and get more people to click on their profile.

An up and coming singles website, Oasisoflove.com has studied these problems, and is doing something about it. The first solution offered is to detect a user's location during sign-up. So, if someone is signing up from Russia, or from say, Ivory Coast, he or she cannot simply claim to be located in the USA.

It does not end there. If a user sends a message from a location other than his/her registered location, the recipient is alerted upon opening the mail. This is an excellent feature, that reminds the unsuspecting recipients of their vulnerability to scammers. It also thwarts the scammer's dirty tricks.

Scammers want an easy target. But with the actions that Oasisoflove is taking, most of them simply move on to less discriminating dating sites.

One may ask why other dating sites haven't thought of these measures before now. The fact is, they have. The selling point of dating sites these days seems to be "millions of members", and since spammers make up a substantial portion of the user base, chasing them away can't be good for business.

A stitch in time saves nine. Oasisoflove.com's stance against online parasites leaves honest users less susceptible.

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Richard Akindele is the Founder of http://www.oasisoflove.com, a full-featured, and FREE online dating service. Sign-up and start to meet singles in your local area.

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