Challenges Of Managing And Running A Free Online Dating Site

Free online dating is a growing industry with the owners of this online dating sites in Canada and USA making exorbitant profits from the increasing number of subscribers. Internet society is a gigantic income earner in Canada and USA like any other developed countries in the world. Its an industry that started featuring prominently in the last ten years or so. Among the leading sites in Canada and USA have a subscription base of over one million people with almost half of them being Canadians or Americans. Millions of US dollars are made everyday by the owners of dating sites through selling space or subscription.

The most prevalent danger in free online dating throughout the world is the invasion by scammers. People who spend the a lot of energy on dating sites trying to con the site users throughout the day.They present some questionable schemes that are supposed to be paying high yields. This group of people are mostly from Asia and Africa. They forward good offers to the unsuspecting site user. My advice to the site users is to be very vigilant anybody making a good offer watch out. One characteristic of this people is that they don't like to be asked many questions.

scammers especially from west Africa will come with very interesting stories. Some will tell the users that they are son or daughters of prominent people who were killed during the civil wars in there wore torn countries. They go further and talk of huge fortunes that were supposedly left by their late parents and would want somebody to help them to receive this money abroad and invest on their behalf. They normally ask for favors in cash to facilitate a number of transactions, if a user becomes a victim they disappear with the money never to communicate. Free online dating sites in Canada, UK and USA are the major victims of this scammers. Another group of scammers will pretend to be webmasters and send mails to the unsuspecting site users, purporting to be giving some gifts or running a raffle or a campaign of some sort. In all this cases i strongly advice the site users to confirm with their webmasters.

scammers from Asia and Russia pretend to be looking for life partners targeting culprits mostly Canadians, American and UK residents. They project themselves as very much in love especially targeting victims who are above the age of 50yrs. Later for the victims to part with huge some of money for lovers who either do not exist and if they do they date and con multiple partners. I have had hand on experience from when i started running my free online dating site.

Experience with scammers is so frustrating and frankly speaking before one can learn the art dealing with them, a lot of resources will have been wasted and genuine users disappointed. This calls for the webmaster to be vigilant and in most cases log in as a user to be able to hook them up and frustrate there selfish efforts. My advice to my site users is to be careful deal with everybody you meet with some degree of restraint, not everybody on the free online dating site is actually dating. Anybody asking for financial favors must be treated with the contempt they deserve and if possible report the them to the web master.

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   By Francis K Githinji
Published: 2/11/2008
 
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