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I would never recommend this site to anyone. I had a horrible experience from a man who claimed he was from Redwood City who told me he was in Australia on business. He appeared to say all the right things and I was led down a path of deception. He said he was due back in the states in 2 weeks but had to make a quick stop to China to check on some project he was involved in. I then got an email from him indicating that he had been in a terrible car crash and was in the hospital. He asked for my phone number because he had been "thinking of me" and just wanted to hear my voice. I wondered how he was sending me an email since he said his laptop was destroyed in the crash. This all occurred when the swine flu epidemic hit and I was very concerned for his health as the hospital was quarantined. Long story short, he did call me, the phone call was brief, interrupted by the "nurse" needing to attend to him. A couple of weeks later he was out of the hospital but could not return to the US because his wallet and passport had been "lost or stolen" in the car crash. He told me he was using calling cards to call me and had borrowed money from business associates. I decided to save him money I would call him. However, I noticed a discrepancy in the time difference, he was telling me a completely different time then I was aware of. He then asked me if I could send him money so he could get back to the states, I said I could not, couldn't understand why his company couldn't get him back or why he had no credit card. Later when I got my phone bill I found out I had been calling Nigeria! I was pissed at him but also mad at myself, I have friends in Europe and other countries and didn't think to check the country code I was using. There is a site you can check to view hundreds of photos of these con artists, they use real people photos that they get from model sites and also from places like facebook and myspace. I don't trust this site and quite frankly for the most part, almost all the dating sites have jerks on them. I did contact the site and his ad was removed but he has shown up on many other sites.

Pros
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Cons
Lots of photos of fake people