Are you in love with one Boots; The list of dating sites and "close network" applications continues to grow. It is growing because there are too many interested parties. They are people looking online for love, or at least someone or someone for dinner.
The problem with online dating is that you never know who really exists at the other end of the screen until it's the first meeting. Perhaps the images used in the profiles are retouched, or drawn before 10 years, or even worse, not even the image of the person you think you are talking to.
But there is another category of "interlocutors" in online dating and it seems to be on the rise in recent years: cheating bots.
Hackers and fraudsters have created bots that aim to deceive people who "frequent" popular dating sites or applications, for close contacts. The purpose of malicious bots is to lure you into some kind of scam, which usually results in your personal information or even your money being blown away.
Below are five points that you should take care of on these sites, so you do not find yourself having an online romance with a bogey's bot:
1 – The answers to a conversation they are coming at high speed
When two people seem to match the photos and "fit" in the Tinder app they should be very careful about who is on the other end of the line. Tinder cheat bots are notorious for responding promptly, and in a matter of seconds give you an answer. Most people do not respond immediately, no one writes without thinking or maybe even filtering what they write.
Bots have ready-made "canned" answers that they know will catch your eye.
2 - There is no direct answer to your queries
Another feature of bots is their limited question-and-answer capabilities. Most robots are programmed to give some ready-made answers to your questions. Most answers are to break the "ice" until they start delivering their "payload", which is either a link, or an email address, or a phone number.
Once the "load" is delivered, usually a bot tries to take you to another website, or to a telephone conversation, to a more "close and private" conversation via an email address.
There are some sophisticated robots also known as Chatterbots that have the ability to mimic smart chats, but these are used much less frequently than Tinder is today.
3 - The username they usually use contains a phone number and words like CallMe, HitMU, HMU or something like that
Match.com serves an audience who is willing to pay for features offered free of charge by other services. This fact in itself makes the website a very good target for fraudsters.
Match.com seems to be the home of bots. Fraudsters usually create fake profile with an embedded phone number in their username. For example, TXTme_5551212 or HMU_5551212 or something like that.
The goal here is to mislead the victim. If anyone has a brilliant idea, send it message SMS, or call the number, will be charged exorbitant amounts. After all, the answer he will receive will aim to lead the gullible user to some malicious website, with known tactics (malicious link, spam, phishing link, etc.)
4 - Try to make you visit a different website
As previously mentioned, the common element in most of these scams is that they are trying to direct the victim somewhere outside of the dating site, be it a phone number that serves premium SMS content 10 dollars per month, or something similar.
5 - Bots use very appealing pictures
Usually, the pull factor is the key to cheating bots. Scammers will "borrow" images from attractive people on the Internet and use them as their own.
