Internet Dating Fraud

Internet Dating Fraud Investigations and Prevention

Internet dating is increasingly popular with people looking for love and potential future spouses; because of the nature of the internet it is possible to find partners not just in the UK, but globally.

As online dating has grown, so have the number of instances of internet dating fraud, this type of activity is not just aimed at vulnerable single people and the fraudsters posing as military personnel or perhaps high standing company executives are often criminals from the uk and overseas.

These fraudsters are very clever and will always have upgraded, full membership profiles to appear genuine, they will devise stories that they need money now to travel to meet the potential partner or they are in financial difficulties so need to borrow money straightway. Recent cases of internet dating fraud have seen people lose in excess of £40,000 to internet dating fraud.

Contact Insight Investigations today if you believe you are being targeted or if you would like our private detectives to carry out a background check on your potential date to prove if they really are who they claim to be. This can help prevent you becoming a victim of internet dating fraud. Such investigations are wholly discreet.

Likewise there are others, whilst not intending to defraud financially, can be profiling themselves as a single person when in fact they can be married or seeing numerous partners whilst posing to desire an exclusive meaningful relationship. If they have been unprepared to provide a landline telephone number or an address then they may have such intention in mind.