Geoffrey Edelsten hit by online dating scamNews from Herald Sun: FLAMBOYANT businessman Geoffrey Edelsten has been the victim of an online dating scam, with his photo being used on a fake profile on an international match-making site. The profile was posted on sugardaddyforme.com, an online dating service that helps people of different ages find love [...]

Oz online dating sites to go under scanner over scam complaintsNews from Newstrack India: Sydney, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 ANI Sydney, Jan 21 (ANI): Online dating sites in Australia are set to face tougher rules following numerous complaints about scams.   These matchmaking sites convince lonely hearts to part with thousands of dollars but fail [...]

Oz online dating sites to go under scanner over scam complaintsNews from Newstrack India: Sydney, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 ANI Sydney, Jan 21 (ANI): Online dating sites in Australia are set to face tougher rules following numerous complaints about scams.   These matchmaking sites convince lonely hearts to part with thousands of dollars but fail [...]

Oz online dating sites to go under scanner over scam complaintsNews from Newstrack India: Sydney, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 ANI Sydney, Jan 21 (ANI): Online dating sites in Australia are set to face tougher rules following numerous complaints about scams.   These matchmaking sites convince lonely hearts to part with thousands of dollars but fail [...]

Online Dating Scam: ‘Military Guy’ Steals Widow’s Heart and Nearly $ 500000News from ABC News: Esther Ortiz-Rodeghero was looking for love, but she found something much more ominous: a savvy online scammer posing as a military man who convinced her to fork over nearly $ 500,000 of her life savings. “I was so blinded by [...]

Ex-Wall Street Scam Artist Has Online Dating Profile—In PrisonNews from Gothamist: Angeloff’s prison look, and how he’ll appear to his “queen” Ladies: are you curious about online dating but too shy to meet anyone before 2013? Do you enjoy the idea of pinstripes as a metaphor for prison bars? Well, inmate #57431-053 AKA Ray Angeloff [...]

Author charged in Jewish online dating scamNews from Jerusalem Post:American author Mitchell Gross was indicted for allegedly scamming women he met on an online Jewish dating service. Gross, 61, of Marietta, Ga., pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges when he was arraigned late last week in federal court in Atlanta, according to [...]

Hundreds of thousands of Brits fall for online dating scamNews from io9: At this point, most of us know how to avoid Nigerian scams in our email. But a far more insidious scam seems to have hit Britain far harder than we ever thought — by targeting the dateless and lonely. It’s a far simpler [...]