There was another famous story of an elderly woman from the United States who met a young man from the UK. They exchanged photos and fell in love over the course of a year. He saved all of his money and moved to the United States to be with her. Too bad that she sent him pictures of herself from 1960 and never mentioned that the pictures were over 40 years old. Needless to say, once he realized that she had lied to him for all these months, he was not exactly willing to go along with her scam. Love is void after that sort of deception.

So after hearing stories such as this, you might ask yourself why to bother with online singles at all. The fortunate reality of this is the fact that stories such as these are relatively rare, and most people are smart enough to not put too much stake in an online relationship until they have at least met the other person in a face-to-face setting.