Sugar Baby Scam: Safety Precautions for Sugar Daddies and Mommas
Thousands of American guys fall prey to romance scammers every year. Sugar daddies are extra vulnerable since you expect to pay for getting what you want. Let’s go over the common schemes and safety precautions to keep you safe from scammers and help you have fun without risking your savings.
How to Tell If a Sugar Baby Is Real?
You cannot be 100% sure a sugar baby is real until you meet in person and go your separate ways after your first successful compensated date. Scammers hone their skills to create realistic profiles with plenty of (stolen or generated) photos and videos. Without video chat, you can never know if the person you’re chatting with looks anything like their profile picture.
Still, there are a few ways to minimize risks and check if the sugar baby is real:
- Ask pointed questions about her profile phrased differently and spread over a few days. If the responses are always different, an SB is lying and might be fake.
- Ask an SB to shoot a specific short video and upload it to her profile. For example, have her film herself in the bathroom mirror in the morning. You’ll see her without makeup and filters, and scammers will find many excuses to ignore your request.
- Arrange your first date as soon as possible. Scammers will keep taking rain checks and rescheduling since they aren’t interested in actual sugar dating.
Use these tricks to distinguish between real sugar babies and scammers, and stay safe.
Sugar Baby Scam: Common Types
We can hardly call advance fee requests scams. Sugar babies can ask you to send them money before you meet in person, but that’s just as likely to be an honest mistake as an attempt to steal your money. If you’re immune to such unreasonable requests, you can still fall prey to other common sugar baby scam types, so let’s review them to help you mitigate risks.
Investment Cons
You wouldn’t take investment advice from a girl or guy offering sexual services, but scammers can share “secret insider tips” they got from other sugar daddies or mommas. Their offers will usually be good enough to entice you but not too good to be totally unrealistic. If you follow their advice, the money will usually end up in scammer accounts, and you’ll never see a return on investment, never mind the initial sum. And when you start asking questions, sugar babies will start ghosting you.
The moral of the story is to leave investment advice to brokers and ignore crypto offers that sound too good to be true. They are usually nothing but inventive ways to steal your money.
Phishing Schemes
This type of scam requires more technological know-how, so it’s less common but even more dangerous. The scammer’s goal is to lead you to a fake website to steal your banking, cash app, or PayPal information. With that, they can access your accounts to drain them and leave you in debt.
It usually starts with a sugar baby offering to switch from a dating platform to a private messenger or texting. Some SBs promise to unlock exclusive explicit content if you follow the link and confirm your payment details. The premise can be different, but the link will lead you to a fake page that looks exactly like your online banking or cash app. The moment you input your details, criminals will use them to steal your money.
That’s why most sugar dating platforms, including ours, recommend you use built-in chats to negotiate arrangement terms and disable active links in the chat. After all, aside from phishing sites, dangerous links can also lead to malware download pages.
Blackmail Scams
The riskiest of all sugar baby scams, blackmail can also have serious repercussions for your life outside the sugar bowl. It starts innocently enough with a few questions here and there about your job, family, or sexual fantasies. Sometimes, sugar babies will swap nude pictures to spice things up until you meet in person. The trouble is they can use AI-generated or stolen photos while getting their hands on your pictures. With the information you share, they can threaten to publish your explicit shots, screenshots of your chats, and other details of your arrangements. In the wrong hands, this information can cost you your marriage or career.
The biggest issue with blackmail is that you can never be free from it. You can pay the scammers off once, but they’ll return for more money over and over, and you’ll never be sure they lost access to incriminating details about you. In the end, you’ll likely lose money and have to face the consequences of the leaked information either way.
How to Avoid Sugar Baby Scam
Although romance scams are pretty common, they are also easy to spot, especially if you know what to look for. But even if you miss the red flags, following these safety rules will keep you out of trouble:
- Do not share your full name, address, work email or phone number, SSN, and financial details with sugar babies.
- Do not wire money to sugar babies before your first meeting in person, regardless of their sob stories.
- Do not follow links to third-party websites, especially if they use shortened URLs.
- Do not share intimate photos and videos with sugar babies you’ve just met, especially if your face is in the frame.
- Do not take investment advice, especially regarding cryptocurrency, unless you’re 100% sure about its source.
Remember to block any suspicious members and report them for potential fraud to our support team. Their accounts will be suspended or deleted to keep the sugar bowl safe for everyone.
Final Thoughts
Do not let scammers ruin sugar dating for you. Use your money to pamper real sugar babies and get the joy and companionship you crave in return. Remember our tips, and do not ignore the red flags, and you’ll be safe.
