Of course always remember that www.easilyfriends.com is free we will never ever ask you for any money and neither will anyone else here at www.easilyfriends.com and so if someone does ask for money ignore them, block them and report them.

We want your experience on www.easilyfriends.com to be fun, safe and above all have a happy ending.

Here is what was in The Guardian and if you want to you can read it here for yourselves.

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Scam watch: Online dating fraudsters are only after one thing …

OFT warns against scammers who build fictitious profiles on dating websites and befriend other users before asking for cash

Con artists on dating websites may ask for money to cover urgent medical treatment for a family member

Romantics should be on their guard against internet dating scams that can not only rip you off financially but also break your heart.

The latest scam alert from the Office of Fair Trading warns that the increased potential to meet people online is being used by criminals to con people out of their money.

“Romance fraudsters” target singles columns and dating websites to search for victims. They create fictitious online profiles and send out unsolicited emails or letters, often with fake photographs, using the trust they build up to persuade their victims to part with large sums of money in frauds that can go on for years.

These typically involve the scamster telling their victim they want to meet them but are stranded without the money to travel or cover visa costs. They may also say that they or a family member require urgent treatment for an illness.

The OFT says in one recent case a British national was kidnapped after travelling to west Africa expecting to be met by someone with whom they had established an online friendship. The individual had no idea that the online ‘friend’ was the fictional creation of a criminal group. The victim was assaulted, imprisoned for four days, and was released only when a ransom was paid.

“All fraud is destructive but dating scammers are particularly ruthless as they abuse the emotional trust and attachments that people invest when looking to meet someone,” says Heather Clayton, senior director of the OFT’s consumer group. The OFT says dating site users should take the following steps to avoid becoming victims:

• Know what you are paying for and what the dating agency promises to provide in return.

• If you receive any requests for money, be suspicious, even if you have known the person for a number of weeks.

• Be sceptical and ask yourself simple questions, for example, “Why am I the only person who can help them, when I have just met them?”

• If you meet somebody unknown to you, always meet in a public place and take a friend with you for support if you are unsure.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) adds that if you do decide to travel to meet an online friend, particularly if you go abroad, tell someone trustworthy where you are going, plan regular contacts and agree what they should do if you miss a contact.

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You don’t have to spend your days on holiday, the lap of luxury or indeed have any of the trappings of the rich to have a relationship that will last forever.

Money, fine things, the mortgage paid off etc., help as does a good job and a secure future, but to be absolutely honest you don’t need money to love someone, in fact that practice I believe is called the “oldest profession in the world.”

Which is why it is a shame that so many people these days seem to think that the only way to happiness in any form is through riches, it isn’t. If you talk to couples who have been together for a long time they will, if you know them well enough talk about the times when they didn’t have two pennies to rub together and of course laugh about it.

If you worry more about the fact that your next partner might not have two pennies to rub together than whether he or she is kind, caring and loving, then your next relationship and the ones that follow will be a chain of disasters.

Try to think beyond the flat screen TV, a car that is less than two years old and all of the other rubbish that is so short term, if you want a relationship that lasts and will last forever then you have to think about things that won’t wear out like love, kindliness, caring and to be honest the things that make a relationship last.

So even if you are poor by others crazy standards you can walk off into the sunset together but it might not be a Caribbean one, but if you are both happy walking off into a Caribbean sunset would just be the icing on the Diamond Anniversary Cake wouldn’t it.

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Ok Ladies and Gentlemen the weather is bad everywhere and I thought that maybe as we are all stuck somewhere and possibly getting a bit down it might be time to have some fun.

Here are ten things that you shouldn’t say on a date, and indeed most of which you should never say to anyone ever.

I hope that the snow disappears and we get back to normal soon, stay safe out there.

You look good, is that one of those wonderbras?

I can’t say I know this restaurant, I have never been here before but I saw that they had a “two for the price of one deal this month.”

Do you have that feeling that they are watching you?

Oh! I am a very spiritual person, in fact I have a native Indian Spirit Guide!

No I won’t thanks, my doctors say I shouldn’t drink while I am on these drugs!

Well I didn’t mean to show everything because when I had dropped my trousers that scared the Jehovah’s Witnesses enough but when my underwear hit the ground, well I have never see anyone run that fast.

You can trust me!

I really liked your brother and the rest of your family, are you adopted?

Call me, your will call me won’t you, you won’t forget to call will you?

It is nice to get out of the house and of course to talk to someone, although I never seem to have anything much to say.

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Are you single and have been for a while now? If so it is entirely possible that you have started to wonder if you will every get a partner and form a long lasting relationship and when that happens you start to think that maybe dating is not the answer and should you even bother?

Well take heart and think about this for a moment. If there was some sort of supreme being and he or more likely she made all of the decisions and with the benefit of his or her amazing intelligence pair us all up based on how well we would get on, what colour our eyes were, what we liked and so on would that work or would he or she make mistakes, some of the cleverest things in the world like say for instance computers make mistakes just take the Lotto computer it must make mistakes because it has never chosen me.

Without dating and happily dating websites such as www.easilyfriends.com we wouldn’t have the fun of finding the person we rather like the look of, chatting to them, going on a date and slowly over a period of time discovering that we really like this person, surely dating is much better than being paired off just because we appear to be compatible.

Isn’t it a good job that we are human because sometimes the people we end up with are nothing like the stereotypes that computers suggest, which of course is why dating sites like www.easilyfriends.com are so much better than dating agencies who favour computer dating, computers should only date themselves shouldn’t they?

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Now the reason that is good news is that the more people men and women on a dating website the better and so I strongly suggest that you visit the site and get dating, it is the only way to find a partner and of course it won’t ever cost you a penny, now or at anytime in the future and that is because www.easilyfriends.com is a site that is and always will be free.

Between you and me I don’t think that they would mind if you clicked on an ad here or there while you are doing what you came for but they exist to find you a date, enter a relationship and most of all be happy, what a nice bunch of people they are!

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Whether you are in a relationship or looking for one, I suggest that you make 2010 a new beginning and that is because there is nothing more exciting for couples than to do different things and surprise each other, with flowers, treats and of course in the bedroom.

If you aren’t in a relationship and sadly I know that a lot of my readers both men and women have yet to find that special partner who is out there waiting to complete their life, it is time to look at yourself.

Think about the people you meet, on dates, casually and in general, try and analyse what you like about them and then compare that to your ‘ideal’ person.

We all have ‘idea’ people and of course because they are imaginary we endow them with all sorts of attributes and talents, but sometimes we might be guilty of imagining that our perfect partner who we have carefully constructed exists, they don’t, they never have and frankly they never will.

We all have deficiencies, are capable of annoying ourselves with our little ways let alone our partners so no one can be perfect can they.

So think about what you liked in the people you have met recently and try to create a ‘perfect’ partner who is a little more realistic and you never know you may actually have met him or her already, you just didn’t know it yet.

Write to me with your thoughts you can find me here most days www.easilyfriends.com.

Let’s make 2010 a new beginning for everyone and then we’ll all be happier at the end of the year!

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Hello all I only made two new Year’s resolutions this year and they are to help everyone I can to find a partner and to answer more of your questions about relationships.

In both of these endeavours I am going to need your help, the first resolution to find you a partner will require your help and the second requires your questions, so let’s get started and make 2010 the “Year of the Successful Relationship.”

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First I would like to say that I hope that you are not going to be alone this Holiday Season, there is not much worse than tat, and I promise you I know, I have been there and although it was a long while ago now I still remember the loneliness, the talking to yourself and the wondering whether you should bother to cook for one.

Honestly I promise that together you and I ad of course www.easilyfriends.com will do something positive about you being alone soon, that is of course if you have joined up to www.easilyfriends.com it is free and easy to use and will never charge you anything.

It is the fact that www.easilyfriends.com is free that I like it they want to help you and not help themselves to your hard earned cash.

So we are nearly into another year and after the fireworks have faded and the parties finished you will have a whole new year to focus on and we are going to find you a partner and turn your friendship into a relationship.

A lot of people have recently written to me asking the where I think the best place to meet a new friend would be and I have to say now after all of the information that has been passed to me from the people at www.easilyfriends.com I have to say that the internet is probably taking over as the place to meet people of both genders.

Obviously you have to be careful who you talk to but meeting someone on the internet is like meeting someone on a train or in a bar, what do you really know about them? Not much is the answer. Ok you’ll say at least in a bar or on a train you will be able to see the person you are talking to but have you heard of skype and webcams yet?

Webcams are very handy and you can use them to have a face to face conversation with anyone anywhere and of course skype is like www.easilyfriends.com free to use which is great.

So I would like to suggest that if you are at a loose end this Christmas and New Year that you get yourself online, treat yourself to a webcam and a free copy of skype and get chatting to people.

And of course unless the person is in an internet café then you will be able to get to know more about him or her just by listening to the surrounding noise if there are children ask if they belong to the person you are talking to, if there is anything sinister or odd about the room the person is talking to you from then they might be the same and you will get to know much sooner than if you met this person in the street, in a bar or on a train.

Use technology to get a date and when you are on the date use the same safeguards you always use a lot of people are doing that these days.

Happy Christmas to all my readers.

Abigail

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63% of women say that the a man says ‘I love you’ first.

11% of all men believe that finding a life partner is important.

6% of all women are looking seriously looking for a life partner.

40% of all women consider that a man’s education is more important than whether he is handsome or not.

34% of all women believe that a deposit on a home is a more significant sign of commitment than an engagement ring.

29% of all women spend more time shopping than they do looking for life partner.

As a rule people either men or women go on 100 dates before they marry.

8 out of 10 singles believe that the first kiss is a very good indication what their rest of any relationship will be like.

Everyone here at www.easilyfriends.com would like to wish all of you a Merry Happy Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!

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Actually that is probably the wrong headline for today’s article because I was going to start this article by saying that I thought I would give you a day off from percentages and suggestions and I mean, to I promise!

On a Tuesday I usually spend some time looking at dating sites, dating blogs and indeed all things dating, to see what my competition is doing and I have to say that I think that most of them have missed the fact that this is the season of goodwill to all, including ‘men.’

What is wrong with my fellow female dating ‘experts?’ Why do they seem to hate men so much? Really the number of dating blogs with the word ‘bastard’ in is just frankly astonishing and to make matters worse the word that follows ‘bastard’ is men!

Come on ladies please give men a break, unless you are considering either living as a celibate or as a lesbian, we sort of need men, and if you don’t, then the rest of us do and that means that we have to stop putting men down and worse calling them names. Please try to remember we are grown women and not in the second or third grade.

Men are not all bad you know! If you have had a bad one then I am sorry for you, but you are/were unlucky because for every bad man you have known there is a bad woman as well.

Which leads me to the real point of this blog. Try to remember why we seek the company of a partner, we do it because it makes us feel better basically, no other reason. If someone is not very nice they will demonstrate that side of their character and you should get rid of him or of course her. But never give up hope there is someone out there for you, you just haven’t found them yet.

And remember that labelling all men or indeed women as bitches or bastards does no one any good, all men and women aren’t bitches or bastards, they are simply your potential partners.

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