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Is the Person You Met Online a Real Person or Sex Cam Worker?

Social media is the newest medium for robots posing as people in order to promote the services of sex cam workers.

No, it’s not your paranoia. Sometimes girls really aren’t that friendly. In fact, two of the most notorious and widely known dating sites for adults have had scandals involving robots posing as humans, or escorts using the sites to find clientele. So once you see that there is a web cam worker in front of you your thoughts are probably going in two directions. Either you’re ecstatically happy and thankful to find such a beautiful specimen or you’re deciding whether or not to continue the conversation.

It’s a humiliating end to your love story so here’s a few tips to decipher whether or not the person you’re talking to is a cam girl, or real potential love match.

Now it is true that some websites offer to review live cam sites for you, offering to verify “real girls.” Of course, if you’re on Facebook or Twitter and start chatting with a new friendly face, how are you supposed to know who’s real and who’s fake? (And not just talking about implants)

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But if the viral show Catfish taught us anything, it’s that people can fake entire relationships just to toy with you, and all the more so if they’re trying to make money.

There are many hired or independently working subcontractors who create profiles just to solicit interest on a cam site. In fact, Facebook speculated recently that up to 11 percent of its users are imaginary people, meaning about 68 million Facebook users.

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How to Spot Web Cam Girls

If you want to avoid web cam girls or other individuals not seeking a real relationship, pay attention to the warning signs:

· If they’re exceptionally beautiful, they should be a little harder to impress. If they seem enamored at you and are significantly more attractive than you, they’re probably fishing for something.

· If they have no specific interests or topics of conversation to share but seem to love flirting, they might be playing you.

· If they seem like they’re falling in lust or love with you in a very short period of time, they’re catfishing. Real relationships—even flings—take time.

· If they’re unwilling or always “unable” to talk on the phone, through Skype or in person, be suspicious.

· If they ask for money, at all, for any reason, just assume you’re throwing coins for intimacy.

· If they contact you randomly, out of nowhere, and for no apparent reason, they DO have a motivation and it’s usually not looking for love.


Real web cam girls are not necessarily a bad thing. They give you what you want, they’re sexy and they know how to satisfy you sexually, giving the illusion of intimacy. They’re expensive but they usually know what they’re doing.

You may find that professional web cam girls and boys, though not “real” in the sense of ready to travel across the world and meet your parents, are actually more likely to satisfy you than random Internet strangers who really only use Facebook and other social media sites as a way to kill time, with no sexual interest.

In addition, it’s far better to use a web cam girl service than get suckered into a Nigerian money scam, or fall victim to a stalker. Simply put, know what you want before you get involved with somebody online. Cam girls offer a service. Real people want real time investment in relationships and mostly offline.

Don’t get your heart caught up in empty promises. Be smart, be cynical and play a little hard to get. You will be happier in the long-run not falling for the mind games.

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