From past work in call centers, with all telesales. I see more younger men, and more older women working these types of jobs. I think its almost a toss up, depending on the scamA confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; or sale itself, might depend who works the job better. In a fund raising (legit) center, there were more women that did better with explaing how the funds for places like MADD were used, men were too pushy in that type of work. As with main cold calling sales work, men were the tops and women were not as agressive as needed to make the sale.

Truth be told, I think it pretty much evens out. I thinks there are both girls and guys out there who are just in it for a easy ride and nothing else.

I really am not sure. I have seen a lot of older men on tv who seem to get scammed by women posing as a love interest, like on the Dateline special "to catch a scam artist".

I believe older guys are more prone to this happening to them!
Especially if the guy has met a thailand girl {most commen}
These older guys are absolutely stupid to think that a young 20 something tai girl would fall for a 70 something year old man!
Even family members carnt convince the older man that whats happenning is wrong!

Although I never really thought about this before , I think Gotten is right about this. It may seem that mostly it's women who suffer from the treatment meted out to them from the men, but I too feel it evens out in the long run. It's sometimes shocking that someone could do this to a person they had once held close to their heart.

I might have seen more girls scammed by more guys, the guys I have seen scammed by girls really tend to get their heart ripped out and handed back to them. I had a guy who was a friend of mine who tried to commit suicide when he realized the "love of his life" took him for a ride. Perhaps girls get over it faster or easier...or maybe not? What do you think?

I watched one of those specials. It seemed like it did happen more to men than women. If I recall correctly, there was only 1 woman profiled and then the rest were men. I thought it was a little far fetched that the women would actually look like the pictures they sent to the men. They must really be looking for love to blindly accept what the scammer was saying without being suspicious.

I've seen more women scammed though I think it probably is about even, but I see a lot of women getting scammed and taken for a ride especially on holiday when you have animation teams in a hotel, a lot of my friends have been ripped off by animators that flirt with the women, the women go home with feeling inlove as opposed to just a 'holiday romance' the animators then ask for money, clothes etc and the women fall for it believing they are the only ones, I know at least 4 of my friends that have been used in this way.

I would have to say men. Maybe women for the number of times they get scammed, but men lose a lot more money, time, and possessions when they get scammed.

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ForceField

I think there are scammers in love on both sides of the gender fence. Older men who are amazed that some pretty young thing is doting on him... when all the time it's just for his money. And women who are scammed into thinking its love when he's just using her for sex. Of course, it can happen the other way around too. I think its one of the worst things to do - play with another's emotions.