The good news is that there are millions of sincere honest singles who dream to find love and to be loved.

Unfortunately, there are dating sites, marriage agencies, companies and individuals on the internet who will take advantage of your good intentions. We specifically created this area to help educate you about some of the frauds and scams that are out there.

Do not spend your time, money and feelings on scammers!

Popular Strategies and Scams that many Online Dating and Marriage Agencies use to Rip you Off!

Large affiliate networks. Many marriage agencies claim to have thousands of women seeking men for marriage. The truth is that many of these organizations don't really have their own members. What they have are "borrowed" profiles that they were given to post on their own site and then sell addresses. The company that provides all the profiles to these "marriage agencies" gets a commission for all addresses sold.

Most of the Latin and Russian brides websites are "affiliate websites" which means one central company sets the marriage agency up with a website and then provides them with all of their female member profiles. Or, the agency's site links directly to the central provider's website as an affiliate member.

These affiliate "agencies" have never met the women on their service nor do they know how old the women's data is. Also, the same girls get posted all over the internet on hundreds of "different" websites which makes things very competitive for you since most of the attractive women have had their address sold time and time again to many men before you found her.

We wish to emphasize that affiliate programs are not a bad thing. However some of these programs have become so large that that they "pollute" the internet and dominate the search engine listings. Many of the top listings while doing an internet search just take you to different affiliate sites belonging to the same large dating corporation.

Not only does this waste your time, but it prevents you from finding the numerous quality sites that may be lower in the search engine results. The smaller agencies can't compete with the gigantic marketing budgets of the large dating corporations. The result is that you wind up with a "perceived" choice instead of a real choice.

Dating review & dating directory disinformation. Taking the affiliate empire a step further, enter the dating review site or dating directory. These are sites that list hundreds of dating sites and their reviews about what service is the "best." Of course when you click on the links to visit all of the "top-rated sites," they are the sites with the highest affiliate commissions and guess who gets the commission. The owner of the dating review sites.

There are few good dating directories and review sites out there, but the majority of them are designed to generate affiliate commissions, traffic, and leads to their own sites.

---This is not a bad thing, just know the truth about why a site gets "top-rated."

Fake members. Many dating sites are given databases containing 100's and sometimes 100,000's of outdated profiles and photos taken from other dating sites to help them get started.

Many of these large networks NEVER delete their members. It doesn't matter if they cancelled their membership or even if they have died. You may find your profile someday on numerous other sites that you never joined. The only way you'll know is if a friend or family member joins the service and finds your photo with a different name.

A former employee of one of the largest dating networks claims some of the profiles on thier service are over 8-years old and the owner of the company refuses to delete them! They even sell your personal information to the highest bidder so you can recieve spam and advertising offers. This site claims to have millions and millions of members.

---We dont' use these tactics. What you see is what you get.

Billing fraud. It is common for dating sites to offer a trial membership for a cheap price that will convert automatically to a recurring monthly membership fee if you don't cancel it in time. Month after month, your credit card continues to get charged and the information about how to cancel can't easily be found on the website. Some even decide to just charge your credit card several months after you've cancelled your subscription knowing most people will not notice.

---Latin Love Search is 100% free and we don't have any reason to use fake members or trick you into buying a membership.

Spamming. When you signup and become a member of some of these large affiliate sites, not only are they trying to get your money but your Email address and personal information is sold to spammers to send you countless Emails such as sexual enhancements, mortgages and credit card offers.

---We will never sell your personal information. Period.

Visit my homepage scam. This is a very common scam mostly on the adult sites. You'll receive an Email from a member asking you to view more photos of her. She gives you the location of her homepage and tells you how she can't wait to chat with you.

You visit her homepage and it has some sexy photos of her along with a personal message that says in order to keep her site from being accessed by children,she uses a special service to restrict access to the rest of the content on her site. Of course the service she uses requires you to provide your credit card number.

Thinking this attractive woman is actually interested in you, you go ahead and click to get verified, where you are taken to another page belonging to a service that will give you access to her webpage. You enter your info and it says the service is free while enrolling you in a recurring monthly subscription to more adult sites because you couldn't find the small text in their terms and conditions that you agreed to.

You then have access to enter the girl's site and you see all sorts of revealing pictures of her and a sexy message. Once she has received her commission by the company selling "verification services," you'll never hear from her again. Well, actually you may hear from her (or him pretending to be her) but under a different name, identity, and photo trying to get you to buy access to another one of their sites. An example of an age verification service commonly used on these sites is Sexkey.com. Read how their program works, very interesting. They'll even host your scam site for free!

Moral of the story is this--if someone is trying to solicit you to visit thier personal homepage to contact them, there is a very high chance they are trying to scam you.

Marriage agency scams. The most common scams usually originate with the marriage agency itself. An example would be an agency posting a 2-3 year old profile of a beautiful female member on their homepage so you will want to buy her address. They continue to sell her address even though she's been married for a year and has a baby.

---Latin Love Search operates in real time similar to a dating site, you can see when a verified member has logged into our system. This helps you make contacts with active members and not outdated ones. Also, you can see who is online to initiate a real time chat and the date and time of your correspondences. No more waiting for letters to get forwarded by an agency.

Another popular scam is the agency may send you a letter or response to your letter from an attractive girl. They make money each time you write by charging you for translated letters to and from the girls. Some agencies are very "slick" and have the "girl" solicit money from you to pay for her airline ticket or visa. Our advise is to always visit the woman first in person. NEVER SEND MONEY until you have at least met in person and have personally confirmed the woman's identity. This is easy to do as you can request she provides you with a copy of her passport, birth certificate and other information. Just tell her you need these items so that you can initiate the process for her visa.

Girlfriend scam. This involves a woman pretending to be your girlfriend. She triesto solicit money from you for various things. This same scam happens everyday countless times in the United States and all over the world. Again, make sure you visit her in person first. If you aren't willing to travel to meet her first, you are better off dating someone locally.

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Latin Love Search.
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Latin Love Search upholds the highest standards of honesty, integrity and customer in the business making us one of the premiere international dating services on the web. We are proud to report that we have not had any reports of scammers or fraud since our launch in 2004.

This is the number one reason that you should join Latin Love Search and experience an international dating site the way it was meant to be. Real people and real connections!

The best advise we can provide to you is NEVER SEND MONEY to someone you don't know!

No singles are allowed to post profiles with the intention other then to seek a personal relationship.

No commercial service allowed to promote their business on Latin Love Search.

No singles are permitted to post fake photos, photos of other people, models, actors etc. on Latin Love Search.

By joining Latin Love Search, all members agree to the Terms of Use NOT to send money or ask anybody they meet on the site to send them money.

IMPORTANT: Latin Love Search does not endorse any members who list with us. We do not make any representations as to individual character. It is the responsibility of each member is to determine the character and acceptability of any prospective companion. Latin Love Search CANNOT be held responsible for any events that transpire through use of our service.