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For Real?!? Part 2: Spotting the fakes! (UPDATED--JUN 2017)
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For Real?!? Part 2: Spotting the fakes! (UPDATED--JUN 2017) I am starting to reorganize the list into better categories, because the tips are timeless.  The number of fake profiles (especially in the WSM category) has mushroomed ... again. AdultFriendFinder could use some good deflector screens, like the ships in Star Trek. LOL When I posted the first five tips back in August 2011, I was aiming to share what I had noticed in over a decade of browsing personals sites. As I reorganize this list with now nearly 20 years under my undies, I had no idea it would have 28,000 views and counting! The month a tip was originally added to this list is in parentheses after it. Please note that these tips are only guidelines. There may be an exception to any of these tips that has a perfectly reasonable explanation. Also, some sites offer base profiles separate from ads placed under those base profiles. I use the terms interchangeably here. Tips for spotting the most prolific of the fakes: 1.) Lots of profiles from very small communities. (Knowing your geography really helps here.  ) (August 2011)2.) Profiles ending in a number, usually 3-5 digits, where the number has nothing to do with the person's real area code, age, or postal/ZIP/PLZ code. (August 2011) 3.) Ad content with different personal stats than what's in the personal attributes, or different geographic area for someone who doesn't travel there. (Lots of duplicate profiles fit this pattern, too.) (August 2011) 4.) If you get a reply wanting you to go to a cheaters website or paid webcam site for further contact. (August 2011) 5.) If you get a reply from a lonely hearts female (i.e. from Russia or the Philippines) who wants a green card. (August 2011) 6.) Ads with excessively poor grammar, like they were run through a translator and copy-and-pasted to the profile. Ads like this have sentences that frequently start off with "Am" (not "I am") or contain the phrase "seeking for". Both in the same one? Jackpot! (May 2014) 7.) Ads that try to spell out EVERYTHING they want in a partner. 9 times out of 10, it's a copy-and-paste with only minor tweaks. Once you see the patterns, they're easy to skip over. And, sad to say, many of these women are from lower economic countries like Nigeria and Ghana, and there may even be some from Russia and the Philippines. (December 2014) 8.) Ads with fake, edited or stolen photos. My friend Sexy_SandraD offers these tips to spot them: -[post 3224903] (December 2014) -- Chrome browser users can highlight a picture and use the right-click menu to gOOGle search to see if an image has appeared elsewhere on the web; there are other sites you can upload saved images to, to do similar searches. -[post 3665365] (July 2015) -- Look at pictures carefully to see if a picture has obvious signs of digital editing, such as enhanced or reduced curves on the person and any background objects like a door frame show the same effects as well. -[post 3756208] (January 2016) -- Look at pictures carefully to see if they were cropped from available web images in an attempt to avoid the search from tip 8.1 flagging their reuse; and those with blank cards where a username can be edited in to fool the confirmed photos. 9.) Ads intended to deceive regarding the user's gender, such as from a single male or female purporting to be part of a couple or group, a male purporting to be a female, or a transgender purporting to be a female or male without completing their jurisdiction's legal requirements for doing so. (October 2015) 10.) Ads that are recruiting for a bogus group of exclusive swingers. I have seen a dozen different templates, and rest assured they are as bogus as a $3 bill... (October 2015) 11.) Ads from a couple where both have the same birthday or both list "January 1". Seriously? What are the odds in real life of that happening? (October 2015) 12.) Ads with no description. How did they get around the minimum character requirement?!? (October 2015) 13.) Ads with no or very few personal attributes shown. (October 2015) 14.) Ads with a subject line "do you want to try my pinky pie?" or similar phrase. (June 2016) 15.) Ads where the text says "am (insert person's name here) by name". (October 2016) 16.) Ads from male scammers. In addition to tip 9, my friend hinj1 offers these additional tips to spot the uniquely male scammer: [post 3897792]. (October 2016) 17.) Ads where the subject line starts with "If I hotlisted you I'm in your city/town/area..." (January 2017) In addition to tips 3, 9 and 16, we must also add two twisted variations of those tips (Thanks to author51 and Recalcitrant72 for information that inspired them): 18.) Ads from stalkers. (March 2017) 19.) "Revenge porn" ads from jilted ex-lovers. (March 2017) 20.) (A variation related to tips 4 and 5). Ads from people who give you a bogus contact email address, such as from long-retired domains. This includes multiple first names using the same bogus address, e.g. the copy-and-paste replies where they start as one name and sign off with another. (June 2017) If 1, 2 or 3 is true, you are probably looking at a fake profile. Dittoes for tips 9 through 17. If 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 20 is true, RED ALERT! More than one? B A T T L E S T A T I O N S! -- Report and Block ASAP! For tips 18 and 19: report, block, and call your local law enforcement. These are serious crimes in many jurisdictions. If you have any other tips, please feel free to post them. Now, is anybody here for real?!? I still am.
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You are welcome Sandra, and Thanks! Main post updated with your tip and article link. 
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Main post updated with Sandy's latest tips. [post 3665365]
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More new tips added to the main post.
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Main post updated with the latest tip from Sandy: [post 3756208]. Thanks for your vigilance!
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Thanks! The fake men are usually posing as women, or so I've noticed over the years.
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Good info.
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Good info. They were compiled through years of personal experience plus tips from a few friends.
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Very good. I have found most of this frequently on Fake profiles. Translators rarely take into account the punctuation of the English language. When I saw your post ([post 3831953]) mention Birdwell, TX not having a dozen hot women, it fit so well with my first tip about the small communities... Providence, UT and Hobson, MT were the two that first clued me in on that twist of fake. With the translators, it's not so much punctuation as usage. While "seeking for" is as technically correct as "searching for", "seeking for" is almost never used. I never saw "seeking for" used until I came across it in the fake profiles here.
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One new tip added today.
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Ah yes, another small town replete with beautiful women... 
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Well hello! I was reading your blog and I wanted to leave a comment somewhere but... Alas, I fit #2. So I guess I am not real. (Looking inside my shirt and bra) Well I think I am real. But I guess I am not. huh. Go figure that I had to go to another blog to find out I'm not real. big sigh Kk The observant make the best lovers, I may not do right, but I do write, I have bliss, joy, and happiness in my life, Kitkat Come check out my blog KItkat1415 check out this post by me Adventures In Body Grooming #39 April Topic Link: What Lies Beneath If April Showers Oh Bloody Hell What Kind Of Weather Turns Me On Bloggers Symposium 40
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Well hello! I was reading your blog and I wanted to leave a comment somewhere but... Alas, I fit #2. So I guess I am not real. (Looking inside my shirt and bra) Well I think I am real. But I guess I am not. huh. Go figure that I had to go to another blog to find out I'm not real. big sigh Kk As I note, that is a "probably", not a "definitely" indicator. In my time here, a lot of those non-related numbers at the end of a username turned out to be fake profiles.
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Two new tips added today. Many thanks to hinj1 for her tips on male scammers.
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Hello Again! That is good to hear. We always hear about the fake women, but very little about the fake men, who can be just as bad. I am glad your experience so far is amazing.
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Indeed. Glad you have met real men through the site.
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Glad to know you're a real woman. 
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Tip number 17 added today!
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Thank you for the tip. That is one I'm planning to add thanks to you and author51. And very unfortunate that this stuff happens at all.
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Tip 20 added today.
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