FBI Warns; Looking for love this Valentine's Day Don't fall for Instagram or Facebook romance scams, check them out first

SCAM ALERT: Feb 12th, 2025, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms urged users to stay vigilant about "romance scams" ahead of Valentine's Day, warning of unsolicited messages through its apps and other social media platforms, as well as general text messages. Scammers tend to pose as "attractive, single and successful individuals," Meta says. They often claim to have military, medical or business backgrounds, with photos either stolen from real people's accounts or generated through artificial intelligence.

Better Call Bill Warner Investigations for domestic infidelity and child custody cases, surveillance, stalkers, and and online dating background checks call 941-926-1926. FAKE, FAKE, AND MORE FAKE PROFILES at Bumble, Hinge, Tinder, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, the video chat app Azar, the League, Match, and others. Why Are There Fake Profiles On Dating Sites: Fake Hinge Profiles, Bumble Fake Profiles, Catfishing On Dating Sites, Fake Hinge Accounts, Fake Bumble Accounts. Jan 4th, 2022 A Texas man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping a woman he met on a dating app and holding her hostage for five days in his apartment — where he tortured and sexually assaulted her before she managed to escape. Zachary Mills, 21, allegedly picked up the victim on Christmas Eve and drove her to his apartment in Spring after the two exchanged messages on Bumble, according to court documents obtained by KHOU. Scammers use fake profiles to get with women online and eventually start the money train to them. The apps don’t create fake profiles, people do. DON'T SEND CASH! see https://wbipi.com/  

UPDATE Dec 10th, 2022, ROMANCE SCAMMER PATRICK GIBLIN GETS 5 1/2 YEARS IN PRISON. A New Jersey-based romance scammer who has allegedly conned at least 155 women out of more than $500,000 was sentenced to five and a half years behind bars, authorities said Friday. Patrick Giblin, 58, of Atlantic City — who has been busted repeatedly for swindling widows, disabled women and single moms — had faced 25 years in prison for his most recent fraud arrest, according to the United States Attorney District of New Jersey. The deceptive Don Juan, Patrick Giblin, has been to jail at least four times for scamming women he met through dating services, has escaped federal custody twice — and continued to pull the con while on the lam, according to local police and federal authorities. For decades, Giblin wooed his women with conversation designed to sniff out their emotional weak spots — then used charm and pressure to convince them to wire him money, ranging from $250 to $50,000 per victim, according to prosecutors from past and current cases. see https://wbipi.com/

With that said, dating apps don’t always verify profiles nor are they quick to remove fake profiles. They rely on crowdsourced efforts (user feedback) primarily which is why profiles are up for a few days before getting flagged. It’s up to users to flag profiles and flag them often. If you don’t, you are not helping the societal dating pool on dating sites like Hinge, OkCupid, Tinder, Match etc, a guy could end up with someone like Casey Anthony with out a background check. See below International News article concerning “The dangerous side of online dating” by Gretchen Peters Foreign Correspondent. GET A BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL MEhttps://paypal.me/wbipicom?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA // With as many as 40 million single Americans using online dating services or web-networking sites such as MySpace to look for love, it would seem that there has never been an easier time to find a soulmate online. The numbers are worrisome – and horror stories abound. In February, MySpace was forced to cancel 90,000 accounts on its site that authorities revealed were linked to registered sex offenders. It was a fraction of the 130 million users of the site, but a significant percentage of the more than one million registered sex offenders in the United States. BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL ME

 In April 2009 a Boston medical student, Philip Markoff, dubbed the “Craigslist killer” by the media, was arrested and changed with murdering a masseuse who advertised on the popular website’s erotic services section. Two months later Craigslist was hit with another scandal when it emerged that a North Carolina man used the site to hire a man to rape his wife while the husband watched. BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL ME
 

Bill Warner, a Florida private investigator who offers on his website to “sort out the winners from the losers” for a flat fee of $50.00, Bill Warner says running background checks on potential internet dates now constitutes more than 50 per cent of his business. “Usually the problem is that the man is married or he turns out to be one of these crazy stalker people that follows a woman for months,” he said in a telephone interview. “It’s shameful because it lulls women into a false sense of security,” said Mr Warner. “You get young naive women or the over-50 year olds who are recently divorced, they are often excited about meeting a new man and they make easy prey.” In some instances, the first date ends in violence. Last October, for example, police in Minnesota charged a 39-year-old man with raping a woman he met through the internet, after he slipped drugs into her drink that caused her to pass out. In other cases, the motive is financial. BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL ME
 

In many cases, Mr Warner said he would discover that men had joined a online dating site using a false name, a prepaid, throwaway cell phone and a phony e-mail address from free services such as Yahoo or Hotmail. “There are a lot of people out there who get jazzed up by disguising themselves,” he said, adding that nearly 100 per cent of his cases involved women being victimized by men. Industry experts say the website True.com is unique in the field for warning on its home page that criminals and married men who come hunting “will be sorry if they do”. The site recently sued a convicted sex offender in California who tried to register himself as an eligible bachelor. But True.com is one of the few online dating websites to actually run background checks on its members, even though a recent survey found that a majority of people visiting online dating sites believed that most did. Police in Tampa arrested a Tennessee man who was wanted for swindling a woman he met online out of tens of thousands of dollars and leasing a Mercedes in her name that he wrecked, leaving her with more than $60,000 in liabilities. BACKGROUND CHECK $50 PAYPAL ME.

 

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