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Now that people have caught on to the Florida Sting Scam, Police are going international.
Chances are; if you’ve owned an email account in the last decade, you’ve received hundreds of emails from generically named “Barristers” in West African countries informing you that a relative you’ve never heard of died in some horrific and unexpected way and you are the only beneficiary who can extract millions of dollars from the country.
The scam, which has been coined a “419 Scam” after the section of the Nigerian penal code to which it applies, has become so widely known and mocked that one would have to be an idiot to fall for it.
The same is becoming true with the Florida Sex Stings. You post or respond to an adult dating ad, you start talking with someone who you believe to be an adult, the conversations become more personal and sexual and then suddenly and unexpectedly they introduce a twist that they are a minor.
With the more notoriety that each scam receives, you have to wonder who still falls for them. Actually, not as many as used to, which is why the police have been getting creative by bending the rules and now going outside the country.
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Since the motivation behind both the 419 Scams and the Sex Stings are money (Nigerians get it from the targets and Police get it from taxpayers who fund the stings and from seized assets), it’s unlikely the scammers will stop anytime soon. The best we can do is bring awareness to the problem to help prevent more people from getting caught up in them.
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Most people caught in stings are not registrants though.
“Any RSO that frequent so called Adult Dating non Mainstream websites are asking for trouble.” Cops use your IM (Instant Messaging) accounts to setup Stings. When the popup comes on and you think you are talking with a Adult Women or Man, it could very likely especially in Florida be a Special Investigator. Once you agree to a date and meetup for sex with a minor you are guilty of a crime of solicitation of a child. It does not matter after the fact, you travel to any Location for a meetup. The cops have the forensics and records of your interactions. So if you say “YES”, lets hookup, you have broken the Law. My suggestion is to disable any IM Account you have and only use legit Adult Dating Sites such as Match.com and E-Harmony. Be careful, they are watching you.
Match.com and E-Harmony do not allow those on the registry to use their websites. It’s in their TOS.