So you are lonely eh and looking for romance and singles and dating sites, well first let me tell you about something very, very important so you do not get into trouble and lose any money, fraud, scams and so on, okay.

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So whether you are saved, meaning a Christian going to heaven when you die or not I have some really important information to warn you about, yes WARN you about.
Whether you paid or not, does not matter, I've been on the awesome http://www.fusion101.com/ BUT now there is a danger, SCAMS.
You are lonely, looking for the love of your life, you have joined a dating, singles, personal site, where you can message and email and romance and chat and oh the list is endless. In fact your even likely to be in danger if you are on penpal sites as well. Sadly there seems no proper way to contact that penpal site, if it is even a genuine one, and not run by scams itself.


Is the person you think you know really genuine, or are they after your money, are they living in Africa, Nigeria or Ghana, or else where, having had this happen to a member on my site and realized it seems pandemic and having to ban all African ips, as many as I can, I'm starting to wonder who can you trust and is it now safe to be online in chat rooms and dating singles sites.

Don't think it can't happen to you:

A Brisbane woman who was conned out of $10,000 by a Nigerian scammer she met on a dating website said she is still angry with herself for being duped.

As a successful businesswoman in her late-40s, she would normally be the last person to be scammed by someone she had never met.

However the woman, who asked she not be named, said she was "played beautifully" by a man portraying himself as a globe-trotting computer programmer.

"If one of my kids came to me and asked for $10,000 to fix their car or something, I'd tell them to go and take a hike, yet I gave that amount of money to a complete stranger."

The pair first started communicating on an Australian dating website in June, and at first there was little to raise the woman's suspicions.

"I really vet people before I give them my name or anything like that, but he seemed so genuine," she said.

The man said his name was Tim Hegan - a 52-year-old Australian-born contractor working out of London for computer company IBM.

As a child, he was left an orphan when his parents were killed in a car accident.

He lived on the streets before a woman befriended him and helped him turn his life around, which led to a lucrative career in information technology.

"I was talking to him one day when he said he had to go to transfer some money, and when he came back I asked him what the urgency was.

"He told me he sponsored an orphanage in Somalia and helped support 25 children at a cost of $12,000 a month.

"That's probably when I let my guard down, because I thought he couldn't be that bad if he was looking after 25 kids."

After working abroad, Tim expressed a desire to return to Australia, and as a boating enthusiast, he wanted to live on the water.

What better location than the Gold Coast. He asked the woman to suggest some suitable suburbs and even talked about purchasing a home.

While on his way to Australia, he stopped over in Nigeria for a job interview with the government.

"He had been offered a contract by the government to set up a computer network and we even talked a lot about his work there."

However while in Nigeria, he was mugged and had his personal papers, money and passport stolen.

It wasn't the first time he had lost money through theft, he told the woman.

A photo she had earlier received showed him playing golf with three friends, who he later said had swindled him out of money.

"They were all in a business venture together and they scammed him for $100,000 by emptying out his bank account.

"After that, he said he told his bank that unless he was there in person they were not to release his funds to anybody."

Without identification in Nigeria, where there were no bank branches, he had no money to buy an airline ticket to Australia.

"When he said he was stuck and didn't know what he would do, I offered to lend him the money.

Less than an hour later, the woman was at an Australia Post wiring $5000 to the man via Western Union.

Another $5000 followed a short time later. She took the money out of her savings, which was meant to go towards buying a house.

Tim provided the woman with an airline booking reference number, and when she checked she saw a ticket had indeed been booked in his name.

He even sent a copy of his bank statement, showing a balance of $12 million and indicating there would be no problem in paying back the $10,000 loan.

"The $12 million didn't impress me or anything, but it just made it seem that my $10,000 didn't really matter that much.

"He was very humble about the fact that I offered him the money, but then he asked for more and more."

Tim said he needed another $8000 to pay a "departure tax" and $3000 to cover the cost of his accommodation bill in Nigeria.

She became suspicious, but when she raised her concerns she said Tim made her feel ashamed for doubting him.

Still feeling uncertain, she put his name in Google but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

When she put in the name of his travel agent, who he had asked her to send the departure tax to, alarm bells started to ring - the name was linked to a number of romance scams.

Then she entered Tim's e-mail address in Google and saw several accounts of women who had been scammed by the same person.

"I called the airline and they told me the ticket he had booked was never paid for."

After contacting Interpol and the Queensland Police, the woman realised there was little that could be done.

"The police actually told me I had gotten off lightly, because the average scam was about $25,000."

Despite knowing Tim Hegan didn't exist, the woman played along for another two weeks before cutting off contact with the scammer.

She told him the $8000 he requested had been wired, and gave him a phony Western Union collection number.

Now, a month after things fell apart, the woman still can't believe she was conned.

"When I go back over all of the things he said, I keep wondering how I could have missed it.

"I'm angry with myself because I would've thought I would be smart enough not to fall for something like this."

However she said the scammer was so consistent and clever that she had little reason to doubt his story was genuine.

"I honestly had no idea. I was scammed by an absolute pro.

"I've moved past it - I had to, I can't really dwell on it, but I just really hate the thought that other women are victims of these scams."

Only a few of her friends know, and she hasn't told all of her children either - she is too afraid of what their reaction might be.

In addition to the financial lost, the woman said the experience has damaged her belief in human decency.

"You just lose faith that there are good men out there. I guess I'm looking under the wrong rocks, and in this case I think it was a boulder.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/11/27/1196036839741.html?page=1

Right now if you never do anything else in your life, you so have to see this web page I've done on the scams and ip addresses and links and so much more for you.
Also below I'll be listing some dating, singles, romance, personal sites so as to gain as much attraction as possible, I need you to help as well, please link to this web page, very important search engines pick it up like google because we need to bring as much attention to this 419 scams and spam and cons and fraud and trying to get you to part with your money.

I've had the PM (private message) option removed from my chat site and doing all I can now to make sure this does not happen again.
You need to be very careful and sadly yes the innocent will suffer meaning you just pray for them, never, no matter what the story give any money to anyone you have never met, gotten to know over least 12 months and so on. Personally, just never give money at all.
Most probably know about this, but as we see from the above article in November 2007 and even March 2008 it still seems to be going on.
We need to take actions ourselves and impliment our own sanctions against these countries until they finally deal with this once and for all.
Below now are dating and singles sites, probably mostly Christian in nature due to content on some singles sites, sex and graphic images being the obvious and web cams and pleasure and, oh you know. However, actually it seems it is the Christians, soft and loving they like to target. Don't be fooled, having chatted to some they know how to pretend to be into God.
Be very weary of the yahoo emails and gmail and hotmail, any easy free to get hold of email account that they often use, yahoo among the worse with this scammers after your money. Chatting live on yahoo messenger and so on also puts you at risk. Personally now I'd trust no one and never go on any of these sites ever again, yes that serious I take it. However, I'm not saying you have to do that, but just be very aware of the dangerous of online internet dating and giving out any personal information, your home address, any phone number even a mobile one for texting and of course your email address. If you have your email anywhere on the internet expect sooner or later it to be picked up, we've all had them, from no where, middle aged men the most vulnerable, thinking, ohh nice, but no it is too good to be true, no offense very rare some 18 year old asian is going to be interested in an over 40's man, okay.

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I will of course inform many of the following dating sites if I can about this problem, of which I'm sure they are aware, but many Africans go through Israel ip service and use proxy servers and appears to be places they are not, you have been warned.
First here is the one suspected of conning the woman on our site, how do we know, because he said he was 17 and an orphan in March 2008:
http://adade2005.tubely.com/ Oh dear, see, already altered it, changed it, had said he was 18 on there, how I found out it was not right, we don't get a year younger each year. Now here he is 21: http://avatars.imvu.com/catalog/web_mypage.php?user=20493312
The above was correct as of 25th March 2008, however as it becomes known the person will delete and move on, where possible I'll get a cached version, and save the evidence to my computer also.
http://www.fusion101.com/
http://www.fusion101.co.uk
http://eharmony.com/
http://www.christiancafe.com/
http://www.christiancupid.com/
http://www.adammeeteve.com/
http://www.christianconnection.co.uk/

YOU NEED ALSO to be very weary now when joining anything, giving your credit card details, check addresses and phone numbers and the security lock feature, stick to well known been around a few years site, can do that be checking places like http://www.alexa.com/, putting the main link in the search at the top. However be aware of any changes, sometimes, often smaller struggling to survive Christian sites change hands, get bought, not always by some porn sites, but it's possible again by a scammer.