Fake profiles abound on dating platforms due to the easy accessibility and anonymity.
There are plenty of people who take advantage of this, knowing that dating sites provide an avenue to swindle regular people who are sincerely looking for love online.
Many don’t have the guts to commit a crime in the real world, where the chances of getting caught are high.
Instead, they hide behind fake profiles with cowardly intent, ready to take advantage of unsuspecting people who are searching for their life partner.
Someone like you.
When you decided to join a dating site, your intentions were pure.
Like so many before you, you haven’t had the best luck with relationships that were spawned in real life.
The last breakup you went through was heart-wrenching.
You never expected the relationship to go south, given that you loved and cherished her, and thought the relationship would last forever.
It didn’t.
After a period of emotional healing, you were finally ready to get back into the dating scene and find a new love.
This was your first time on internet dating sites, but you were hopeful.
Every fiber in your being wanted to have better luck in finding a life partner this time around.
Maybe the fact that you were using an online medium to do this would change your luck for the better.
Surely, in the vast landscape of dating sites, there was a woman that would be a perfect match for you.
It didn’t take long after signing up on dating sites before realizing that fake profiles are a constant nuisance.
This was a brutal reality you had to face.
A litany of fake profiles deluged you with messages and likes.
At first, you didn’t know they were fake profiles.
You were so inveigled by the photos of pretty women on these profiles.
After interacting with several of them, it wasn’t hard to put two and two together.
These supposed women weren’t real.
Everyone behind these fake profiles ultimately did the same things.
They asked for money or wanted you to visit a suspicious website away from the dating site.
It is all so frustrating.
These fake accounts are fully aware that you and people like you exist, and they want to take advantage of a naivety they suspect you all possess.
A naivety that is greatly influenced by a pure desire to meet a life partner on a matchmaking platform.
Unfortunately, there are bad people online, just as there are in the real world.
Given the anonymity of dating sites, everyone has the opportunity to be a crook online.
As far as you know, your next-door neighbor spends hours in front of her computer, posing as a gorgeous woman on a dating site who is intent on taking advantage of someone like you financially.
Let’s hope that’s not the case.
That’s a little too close to home.
Although there are dating sites that do more than others to rid their platform of fake profiles, it is impossible for even these well-meaning sites to completely eradicate them.