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Yeah Kitty you have to be VERY CAREFUL who you converse with online!! !

Online dating can be rewarding and produce good results (lead to marriage) but it is also risky because of catfishers and criminals!

I did try a dating site, way back when I was single. But I didn't get on with it. I got talking to a man but he wouldn't reveal himself until we knew each other more, and he wanted to do it on Skype. But once I saw him live on Skype I didn't fancy him at all (not saying he was ugly or even unattractive or anything, he just wasn't my type). So I very gently told him that I didn't want a relationship really, and he got nasty and sarcastic. I quickly deleted my account after that.
I joined another dating site, where I got talking to another guy. But his profile picture looked a lot like Indiana Jones, so obviously wasn't his real picture. It died off after a while and I gave up with dating sites altogether.

Most dating agencies have that type of two-tier system in play. Some have a three-tier system for the ultra-wealthy/very famous people. It works in favor of the business owner to make the potentially high paying customers happy in their dating choices. You can think of it as a version of natural selection using certain criteria of human nature. I am not saying that it is right to do, but it does happen in this world.

Doctors (being medical or other types) can struggle finding dates just as much as anyone else. They often have to deal with people assuming that they are automatically rich, but that might not be the case at all. You never know what types of debts someone might have to deal with in their private life. They might be leery about others seeking them for their money (gold digging). They could be lacking social skills to the point that asking someone out becomes too hard to do (or they lack the time to spend doing so). Some professionals cannot relate to others outside of their career, so they are very limited on their dating choices.


As for the OP:
Please be careful on what you do. Protect yourself from harm in this situation. It may likely be a scam in some way. I wish you the best and hope it works out for you.

They will use what they can find. For many scammers, the Internet would seem to be the most likely place to find pictures to use. After all, if someone in Pakistan is wanting to use a picture to portray an American doctor, it would seem likely that the best source of pictures available to him to choose from would be from the Internet.

Also, are you saying that Google does not index social networking sites?

And what would this person be hoping to scam her out of I wonder
As far as I can see she's living in a hostel with not very much else

I would think if this person was a scammer they'll find all this out pretty soon and move on the the next person

Good luck kitty but please be careful and try to not give too much info about yourself away

One common one is to act as a money mule.

They will get the person to accept money and then wire it to the scammer. They may also receive packages of various products which they then send to the scammer.

The most likely would be for her to receive packages from scam victims who think they are returning money that was accidentally transferred to their bank accounts. They often tell the victims to conceal the money between pages of a book and send it to an address where the money mule picks it up. The money mule then takes the money out of the package, put it into their bank account, and wire transfer that amount to the scammer.

Even if you don't have money, you can still be useful to a scammer. And if or when you get arrested, you are on your own.

This:

contradicts this:
If scammers were able to steal other people's photos then Google would be able to use them in an image search.
IOW if they're publically accessible for stealing they're publically accessible to Google and will show up in searches.

I think Blitzkrieg means someone on a site like Facebook might save someone else's photos that they posted on their timeline on to their phone then use that photo as their profile picture on a dating site.

I'm not sure if photos like that are able to be found on Google?

You might have a point. I did several image searches for my nephew that appeared on Facebook and didn't find them. I did see some photos on Facebook, though, so it isn't absolute.

That said, you don't know if you'll find it until you look. If it is there but nobody looks, then don't expect a lot of sympathy.

Oh yeah you're right
I saw that one on telly where there was a woman in London and she was disabled and she was just taking parcels for someone and getting paid for it and she didn't even know what the parcels were

She got herself into a lot of trouble over that

Yeah

There is another potential possibility to consider. Someone can take a picture of a person and then modify it using AI enough that it does not register a hit on searching engines. For example, one could take a frontal picture and move it enough that it no longer appears to match the initial picture. It would appear as a separate picture of the same person. Scammers would be able to use that in their scams rather easily to show someone that they are portraying to be.

When my mother got scammed by a romance scam many years ago, mules were used to receive payments from her and then transferred the money on to others in the scam. I tried to stop it early on, but my mother went behind my back to contact the scammer. She was considering suicide when the scam was discovered by her bank, after the scammer had taken $15,000 off of her and sent her a forged check to cash. She was to send the money from the check to a mule. The police never caught the scammers, but got some of the mules who did not know that they were doing.

If it's anonymized faces you're after, try this - it generates a unique AI face on each page refresh:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

Them scammers are scumbags

I hope this isn't the case for kitty

Yeah, that is what I meant.

A private photo on a social media website wouldn't show up in a Google search, but a scammer could have been on the friends list of someone who had their photos set to private, but as a friend would have access to those photos/could download them, which non-friends cannot.

See my response to Tamaya.

I meant the stealing could be done privately whilst a scammer was on the friends list of someone on social media who had their photos set to be 'friends only' (not available to people who aren't their friends on social media or on a Google search).