Patience Akpan-Obong writes for The Punch, an online news site based in Nigeria, exposing the romance scams happening in eHarmony and other dating sites. She explicitly names eHarmony.
I never was comfortable typecasting entire countries as fraudsters. Here is finally insight from someone in Nigeria on what is going on in their nation.
Indeed, a friend got married earlier this year to a woman he met on eHarmony. They are both Christians and Nigerians. Another friend is currently engaged to a guy she met on this site. With these “success stories,” I pushed eHarmony on every above-30 single person I know. I fully and completely regret it now. It turns out that 419ers have moved their trade to unconscionable levels, using love and marriage as baits. Read the rest of the news article, dated 12 July 2008.
This article is of something that will never appear in eHarmony’s newsletters.
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