They tend to start love bombing within a week always starting with hey your profile caught my eye or hey beautiful/handsome. Always use terms like dear, my love, babe, baby

Regularly say they are widowed with a kid, significant other cheated or had an accident or cancer. They mostly say they are God fearing and want a partner who is God fearing. They rarely read replies that are “off script” just ignoring what you’ve said and still coming with the questions. Most answers that aren’t simple will be copy & paste paragraphs (they stand out a mile) and they ALWAYS ask have you eaten? It’s a thing that Nigerians say daily (I got one of them to admit this to me after showing me his real face in a video call

Their grammar is poor eg. that’s instead of that, common instead of come on, can we get to know ourselves more better is another favourite. They will also always try to move your chat to somewhere like google chat, WhatsApp, telegram, signal cos these are harder to trace. The gaslighting is next level and the manipulation will only confuse you so be aware. Some of them are good like really good their English is on point for days then all of a sudden you’ll get a sentence or a message that just doesn’t come across the way it should based on where they say they are from or what job they claim to do.

It’s usually us military, talking about fighting talibans in Syria or engineers on oil rigs, doctors working for the UN on some far flung continent and they ALWAYS say that they can’t call or video call due to operational security. Remember to be aware that they want gift cards (iTunes, Google play store, steam cards, Amazon gift cards) or crypto currency or cash app payments. All of these are sold within their network.

Broken phones or having to pay for data are another couple of go to excuses aswell as sending you their belongings, which come with a hefty customs bill, or receiving paperwork on their behalf, which is just an attempt to get your address. They are demanding always wanting to know where you are asking for pictures as proof of things they want to know or ask you to do so please never divulge real information to anyone you meet online cos it will be passed o others in their network or sold on the dark web. I know this is more than you asked for but these are all red flag points to look out for. I’ve been scammed and it was horrendous when I realised so if this paragraph can make someone stop and think stop and reverse image search even then it’s worthwhile

PEPEKKK