{"id":30581,"date":"2016-06-18T22:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=30581"},"modified":"2016-06-18T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:41:38","slug":"another-tip-for-finding-online-dating-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=30581","title":{"rendered":"Another Tip for Finding Online Dating Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year ago, I posted some tips on dealing with online dating scammers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today I discovered another scammer, so I have another tip: Reverse image search!<\/p>\n

Ctrl.org<\/a> has a Reverse image search. You upload an image, and the site searches the web for matches of that image.<\/p>\n

Here’s the situation: A year and a half ago, I “liked” someone’s profile on OKCupid, and was told that he had “liked” me. So I sent him a short message. Then he never was online again. I figured he’d found someone else, but why didn’t he delete his profile?<\/p>\n

Anyway, a couple days ago, he answered my message! But when I asked what the story was behind the year and a half absence, he said something about a long trip! Ummm, that’s a long trip.<\/p>\n

On top of that, though he’s answering more quickly than a year and a half, he’s not exactly forthcoming or eager to talk with me.<\/p>\n

And then I thought to do a reverse image search.<\/p>\n

Sure enough! His picture comes up — on a Romance Scam site. The original photo is from a modeling agency. (I had thought he was maybe a little too<\/em> good-looking to be real.)<\/p>\n

I strongly suspect he’s a scammer with multiple profiles and had let that one rest for awhile.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be doing this a little more often, any time I have any doubts at all.<\/p>\n

I’m now torn between triumph and frustration. Triumph that I figured out this guy. Frustration that someone who seemed nice — isn’t.<\/p>\n

But in the long run, I think I’ll go with triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year ago, I posted some tips on dealing with online dating scammers. Today I discovered another scammer, so I have another tip: Reverse image search! Ctrl.org has a Reverse image search. You upload an image, and the site searches the web for matches of that image. Here’s the situation: A year and a half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20],"tags":[353,377,352],"class_list":["post-30581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-relationships","tag-okcupid","tag-online-dating","tag-scammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}