Turn your bad experience into something postitive. We often hear that people do nothing when they have been scammed. They think there is no point and that nothing is going to happen to bring about justice.
But simply telling your story can help others as comments on this website and other dating scam websites will testify.
Staying in contact with the scammer is not advised by most authorities in this matter neither is the practise of scam-baiting which can teach the scammers new techniques.
You are advised to save all your chat messages (yahoo can automatically save every chat if you change the settings). Save email addresses and photos and the ID they were using at the dating site or other site.
Do not tell your scammer about this site as they can learn from it.
Here are a number of steps you can take:
1. Inform us
2. Notify the dating site.
3. File a complaint at the Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3)
4. Contact other appropriate organisations e.g. the police, Embassy. See the
Romance Scams Resources in the Links page above.
