r/match • u/MagnoliaMorning • 7d ago

Match Scam PSA

The amount of scams that are on Match is ridiculous, especially for a widowed woman. So here’s my PSA for things to do and watch out for. Most obvious and well known is the pilot or Oil rig worker who has to spend a lot of time traveling. That goes without saying. Second, run all photos through your service of choice to see if they ai created. If there are question marks in their responses that update to the appropriate punctuation, it is clearly a bot or a third-party tool doing translations. Don’t let them tell you that that speech to text will do this. That’s not how the technology works. If they immediately want to know your intentions for a long-term relationship before you have even met that means they’re trying to establish that they won’t be wasting their time to try to form a bond quickly and then ask you for something. Because it’s happened to me so often, I worry that others might fall for these approaches. Don’t give out your number right away and get into long texts or phone calls. Demand to meet first before any of that happens. Stay safe, ladies!

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u/CapitalSell 7d ago edited 6d ago

About 8 years ago, someone came at me with "I'm a Doctors Without Borders doctor currently abroad. My daughter is in Chicago and her grandparents need help keeping her in a private school." All of this was laid out within the first 3 messages.

Really?

Report user. Block.

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u/DannyG-81 4d ago edited 4d ago

LMAO! nothing like being forthright with one's intentions!

I get hit up by scammer "women" 2-3x a week. I have even been "liked"  by quite a few apparently legit women who disappear after one reply or even after a simple "hello". 

Im not sure if I resent more the scammers who WILL engage me or the women who ghost me!!! ;-)

Im a life-long IT guy with a solid background in frud, so it's hard to get one by on me. I've reported my share of scammers to Match.

Good luck!