Are you in love with one Boots; The list of dating sites and "close networking" applications continues to grow. It grows because there are so many people interested. They are people who are looking online for their love, or at least someone or someone for a dinner.
The problem με το online dating είναι ότι ποτέ δεν ξέρεις ποιος υπάρχει πραγματικά στην άλλη άκρη της οθόνης μέχρι να γίνει η πρώτη συνάντηση. Ίσως οι pictures used in profiles are retouched, or taken 10 years ago, or even worse, not even the picture of the person you think you're chatting with.
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 - Answers to a conversation come at great 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 characteristic of bots is their limited question-and-answer capabilities. Most bots are programmed to give some canned answers to your questions. Most responses are to break the "ice" until they start delivering their "payload", which is either a connection, or an email address, or a phone number.
Once the "load" is delivered, usually a bot, it tries to lure you to another siteσελίδα, or in a phone conversation, in a more “up close and personal” conversation through an email address.
There are some sophisticated robots also known as Chatterbots that have the ability to mimic smart conversations, but these are used much less frequently than those used on Tinder 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 the bots. Fraudsters usually create fake profiles with an embedded phone number in their username. For example, TXTme_5551212 or HMU_5551212 or something like this.
The goal here is to deceive the victim. If someone has the bright idea, send an SMS, or call the number, huge amounts will be charged. The answer will, in turn, be to lead the user at a malicious site with known tactics (malicious link, spam, phishing, etc.)
4 - Try to make you visit a different website
As mentioned earlier the common element in most types of these scams is that they try to direct the victim somewhere outside of the dating site, be it a phone number that serves premium content SMS 10 dollars a month, or something like that.
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.
