Romance scams mentioned on Yahoo

[wayne]

Thanks to scallywag for showing me this.

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/22072010/389/on ... -rise.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Let's not mention the fact they plug their own dating site in the article

[Pinky]

What lying, scummy hypocrites they are (Yahoo)! I am angry there's not even a link to post a comment on that article. They know they'd be blasted into oblivion for that total bullshit! I would give them one line of praise, "Thanks for coming close to admitting Yahoo has a problem," but that's frikken it! Bastards!

Gee, can you tell I'm just a little annoyed?

Yahoo should certainly be aware that they are the number one, world wide facilitator of ALL scams on the internet. They know. And that crap is the best they can come up with? Personally, I think nothing short of nuclear warheads aimed at Yahoo corporate headquarters would get them to stop aiding and abetting scammers and be more effective at warning the millions of people who've been and will be victimized by the online scammers they make it so easy for.

I hate them. Now should I tell you how I really feel?

Oh, and one last thing to prove what morons they are, they give credit and link to romancescams.org - which is not a bad site but still not near as good as romancescam.com.

/rant

[Pinky]

You know, I'm just not done ranting over the insipid, lying bastards who posted this crap at Yahoo.

I have several Yahoo profiles that I have used for several years to bait and expose scammers. I have come to the conclusion that genuine and honest people do NOT use Yahoo. Every profile on Yahoo is a sham and a lie - including mine. Yahoo makes it so easy.

In their own defense they do recognize what lying scamming frauds they are and so this past week has seen the final closure of the free Yahoo personals profiles. They've closed and totally wiped out millions of fake profiles - including mine. This took millions of dead scammers profiles out of their database as well. Not the email accounts, mind you, just the fake profiles.

So for the past couple months Yahoo has been sending me periodic warnings that they were going to close my profile(s) and gave me plenty of opportunity to make new profiles on their new and improved dating site. From there you know they offer paid services - but there's not been one iota of effort made to keep the scammers out save this one pitiful and obscure article.

To make matters even worse, these arseholes at Yahoo advise this in their article:

"The first rule is to be cautious: stick to tried and trusted dating websites . . ."

Of course 'tried and trusted dating websites' is linked to the new and improved Yahoo Personals where they've made it much, much easier for the scammers to get you.

Is there and attorney in the house? Tell us, is a class action law suit against Yahoo a possibility?

Yahoo sucks.