I'm diggin digg

I'm addicted to digg. I can't help but wonder the business model of making a digg for dating profiles. What are the privacy implications of posting a photo from a third party dating site? Even if the profile was pulled live from the dating site, and removed when they left I don't think people would appreciate having their photo propagated over the Internet without their permission.

The demise of my spammers blog

I haven't had any spammers to post for a while because OtherSingles hasn't had any in awhile. I've automated my site to detect spammers and delete them on the spot. Very few have made it through. Maybe I should patent and license the technology; it is very simple to implement but very few other dating sites do it. Online daters are getting more savy and are sick of scammers and spammers. Read through this blog and you will see customers from the pay sites that are sick of being scammed from fake profiles created by the dating sites to get their free members to upgrade. That's why I made this site free, and that's why it continues to grow.

What does this mean??

Anyone understand this blog posting about OtherSingles?
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/filipino/2006-02-16/trackback

I tried to translate it in Google but it didn't help much.

vesnemo confirmed as Russian scammer

Uses e-mail address: vesnemo@gmail.com

Sample e-mail:
Hi
Still looking anyone?
Maybe will try?
I am interested in you!
I am without bad habits
and financial problems.

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Jeniffer confirmed as West African scammer

Jeniffer confirmed as West African scammer.

Uses e-mail address: jeniffer_wllms@yahoo.com

Sample e-mail:
Hello..How are you doing..i came accross your profile and it sounds interesting....if you don't mind being my friend,it is ok by me...your profile made me know you are the caring type and you live with your kids...although,i haven't had any kid yet but i love being around kids...you can reply and let see what comes after ...take care
Jenny

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Natalilika removed as Russian scammer

Natalilika removed as Russian scammer.

Uses e-mail adress: natalilika@mail.ru

Sample e-mail:

Hi, sweet!
I am Nata. I want to know you better. I am
looking for long-term relations. Are you looking
for the same? Then you need just write to my
e-mail and know me better. You will not lose
anything. Why not to try?
Here is my e-mail address: natalilika@mail.ru

Nata

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Blocking users from Russian, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Ukraine

I am now blocking users from the countries above due to the large volume of scammers attempting to scam money from my members. Most sites allow profiles to be created from these countries because they add to their membership base and they entice non-paying members to pay to contact them. These profiles always have pictures of beautiful models and near perfect women/men. Eventually they will ask you for money for a visa/air fare/transalation services. You and your money will soon be parted. These profiles are easily blocked, if your dating site isn't blocking them, you need a new dating site.

lianda removed asWest African scammer

lianda removed asWest African scammer.

Uses e-mail address: liandamyname@yahoo.com

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nancyana confirmed as West African scammer

nancyana confirmed as West African scammer (no photo).

Uses e-mail addresses: nancy4sent@yahoo.com

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tommysgirl61 removed for posting indecent photos

tommysgirl61 removed for posting indecent photos.

Uses e-mail address: tmheavenly42@aol.com

gnkk69 removed for posting indecent photos

gnkk69 removed for posting indecent photos.

Uses e-mail address: gnnk69@hotmail.com

alayham removed for posting porn

alayham removed for posting porn.

Uses e-mail address majeddohini@yahoo.com

Nigerian e-mail (419) scams

Mitchell Zuckoff writes in the New Yorker of John Worley, a Massachusetts psychotherapist, and how he fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam, lost $40,000, was sentenced to 2 years in Federal prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in restitution.

Late one afternoon in June, 2001, John W. Worley sat in a burgundy leather desk chair reading his e-mail. He was fifty-seven and burly, with glasses, a fringe of salt-and-pepper hair, and a bushy gray beard. A decorated Vietnam veteran and an ordained minister, he had a busy practice as a Christian psychotherapist, and, with his wife, Barbara, was the caretaker of a mansion on a historic estate in Groton, Massachusetts. He lived in a comfortable three-bedroom suite in the mansion, and saw patients in a ground-floor office with walls adorned with images of Jesus and framed military medals. Barbara had been his high-school sweetheart—he was the president of his class, and she was the homecoming queen—and they had four daughters and seven grandchildren, whose photos surrounded Worley at his desk.

Worley scrolled through his in-box and opened an e-mail, addressed to “CEO/Owner.” The writer said that his name was Captain Joshua Mbote, and he offered an awkwardly phrased proposition: “With regards to your trustworthiness and reliability, I decided to seek your assistance in transferring some money out of South Africa into your country, for onward dispatch and investment.” Mbote explained that he had been chief of security for the Congolese President Laurent Kabila, who had secretly sent him to South Africa to buy weapons for a force of élite bodyguards. But Kabila had been assassinated before Mbote could complete the mission. “I quickly decided to stop all negotiations and divert the funds to my personal use, as it was a golden opportunity, and I could not return to my country due to my loyalty to the government of Laurent Kabila,” Mbote wrote. Now Mbote had fifty-five million American dollars, in cash, and he needed a discreet partner with an overseas bank account. That partner, of course, would be richly rewarded.

Continued:

In May, 2005, Worley went on trial in U.S. District Court in Boston on charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and possession of counterfeit checks. Worley’s overseas correspondents, whose real identities he never knew, disappeared, and were never located or charged. With them went more than forty thousand dollars of Worley’s money and nearly six hundred thousand dollars from the checks. Including credit-card interest, money-wiring fees, long-distance telephone charges, and the tax lawyer’s bills, Worley’s losses may have been closer to eighty thousand dollars.

Read the whole story here.

theproducer removed for posting indecent content

theproducer removed for posting indecent content including an add for asian men to star in his "movie".

Uses e-mail address stellahartfield@hotmail.com

Tha King removed for posting indecent content

Tha King removed for posting indecent content

Uses e-mail address: flippen_zachary @yahoo.com

hombre_lumbre removed for posting obscene photos

hombre_lumbre removed for posting obscene photos.

Uses e-mail adress: hombre_lumbre@yahoo.com

Marlons confirmed as Russian scammer

Marlons confirmed as Russian scammer (no photo).

Uses e-mail addresses: monaoswal@aim.com

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katen688 removed as Russian scammer

Uses e-mail addresses: kati636@yahoo.com and yupp79@inbox.ru

Sample e-mail:
I looked your page!!! I can understand, what you the person?! I think you will find in me interest!!! I search serious relations and I want to find in it reciprocity!!! There will be a desire, find out me!!!! I can send you my pictures and we can speak by phone!!!! Write on my address: yupp79@inbox.ru

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yupp79 confirmed as Russian scammer

yupp79 confirmed as Russian scammer.

Uses e-mail addresses: kati636@yahoo.com and yupp79@inbox.ru

Sample e-mail:
I looked your page!!! I can understand, what you the person?! I think you will find in me interest!!! I search serious relations and I want to find in it reciprocity!!! There will be a desire, find out me!!!! I can send you my pictures and we can speak by phone!!!! Write on my address: yupp79 (at) inbox (dot) ru

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nezabudka1978@yahoo.com confirmed as Russian scammer

nezabudka1978@yahoo.com confirmed as Russian scammer.

Uses e-mail addresses: nezabudka1978@yahoo.com and natalider2006@rambler.ru

Sample e-mail:

Hi my new friend!
My name - Natalia.
I was born in Russia, in 1978, in city Kazan on November 16, and now I live in native city.
My age - 28 years. My growth of 170 centimeters, my weight of 54 kg. I was never married also I have no any children.
. I shall try to answer all your questions, which interests you.
I speak well enough in English, sometimes I use the program of the interpreter, I think, which it will help to write to symbols to you. I shall send you a picture in mine next the letter.
At iay there is a small request to you:
I very badly am able to use the computer and Internet. I to you I shall be very grateful if you will write to me on mine e-mail.
With impatience I shall wait from you of the answer.
I very attractive lady. A photo I shall send to you if you will write to me
My e-mail: natalider2006@rambler.ru

I ask you write on this address

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