Online dating does not lose its popularity from year to year. In this way, girls and boys meet, not only from different countries and cities, but also living on the same street. Among the inhabitants of dating sites, there are various types of scammers who want to have fun or profit at someone else's expense. Several simple ways will help you protect yourself from disappointment, and your wallet from a burglar.
It is necessary
- a computer
- the Internet
- photos
Instructions
Step 1
For correspondence with new friends, register a separate mailbox. Thanks to the letters sent to your mail, you can find out in which city and country the interlocutor lives. How true is the data, he declared himself on the site, and in personal communication.
Open the received letter, go to its properties -
on Mail.ru the properties are located in the "More" tab, then - "Service headers"
On Yandex.ru, open the "Mail Properties" tab
Step 2
Opening the properties of the letter in the Received: from line, look for the IP address - this is the unique identifier of the device connected to the Internet. The IP address looks like a notation of four digits from 0 to 255, separated by periods, for example: 65.54.190.36
Step 3
You can get information about the IP address on the address verification site, for example:
To do this, copy the IP address from the properties of the letter and paste it into the "check" field. A fraudster, conducting correspondence from one IP-address, can impersonate five at once, with different photos and names.
Step 4
Check out your new friend's photo. Fraudsters often take photos stolen from social networks or other dating sites. Save the sent photo on your computer.
Upload the photo to the Google Pictures search engine.
Step 5
Search engine "Google" "Search by image" will give links to all similar photos, their location and size.
Step 6
If you only have a photo posted on a dating site, it doesn't matter. Open the profile, save the image by right-clicking on the photo, select "Save as …" from the drop-down menu.
If this is not possible, make a "Print Screen" of the screen by pressing the corresponding key in the upper right corner of the keyboard.
Open the standard picture editing program "Paint" and insert the image. Print Screen takes a snapshot of everything on the screen. Crop the photo to remove any unnecessary items.
