These dating sites are often used as honey traps by overseas scammers who make a lot of promises but in the end start telling sob stories and then start asking for money. Apparently a lot of women will give a perfect stranger money, believing the story they tell. One lady on one of these sites gave some guy about 150 thousand dollars! Stay away from 'em. Many of the scam calls come from Africa.
Contacted me first on Facebook, said he owned his own solar energy company. Website looks fake. When pressed to do a Skype call he avoided it by saying he didn't know how. Said he was a widower with 1 child and 2 grandchildren. He said his wife died of leukemia and his father died in fire in Budapest Hungary. Said he was from Canada, said his name was Szabolcs Laszlo Dicso but now lives in Troy Michigan. Called me one Sunday and said his employee had been a car accident. I asked if this was a romance scam and he said he had heard of that and avoided the subject. Also said he had a lot of sad stories, because I was persistent and kept telling him I was not working nor did I have any money he began to say he was stressed and called one morning and said he needed to rest and I never heard from him again after 3 weeks of texting everyday. These people are good at what they do because they target lonely women and know all the right things to say. They usually have facebook profiles with stolen photos and they contact you randomly on facebook and ask for a friend request, read your page and then start messaging about all the things you have in common because they have read your facebook page. BEWARE! If someone is professing their love for you sight unseen nine times out of ten it is a scam or a nut!.