Letters are exchanged between the scammer and victim until the scammer feels they have groomed the victim enough to ask for money.

This might be for requests for gas money or bus and airplane tickets to travel to visit the victim, medical expenses, education expenses etc.

Making a list of necessary characteristics will help narrow down your search since dating services are designed to meet specific factors.   If you have friends or family members that have experience with online dating services, ask them for recommendations.

Be sure any dating service you look into is reputable and provides security.

Upon finding victims, scammers lure them to more private means of communication, (such as providing an e-mail address) to allow for fraud to occur.

The fraud typically involves the scammer acting as if they've quickly fallen for the victim so that when they have the opportunity to ask for money, the victim at that time has become too emotionally involved, and will have deep feelings of guilt if they decline the request for money from the scammer.

It is owned by People Media, a company, that also owns a whole series of online dating sites based on race, ethnicity and political views.Online dating has grown in popularity to the point where there is almost no social stigma attached to it.With an estimated 1,000 online dating sites in existence, however, it can be hard to sift through all the options and decide which is the best site.A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigned romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining their affection, and then using that goodwill to commit fraud.Fraudulent acts may involve access to the victims' money, bank accounts, credit cards, passports, e-mail accounts, or national identification numbers or by getting the victims to commit financial fraud on their behalf.