Sugar Daddy and Sugar Momma Scams

With this web page and associated videos, I will try to walk a magical tightrope in order to warn people of sugar themed scams, while minimizing functioning as a blueprint with which to conduct such scams.
Sugar daddy and sugar momma scams are very common.
Sugar daddy and sugar momma scams are examples of social engineering.
This one web page and the video embedded within it on their own will not cause sugar themed scams to end, but hopefully the combination can warn some people.
As the job market continues to deteriorate, I expect that sugar daddy and sugar momma scams will continue to increase.
A given sugar themed scam may or may not employ the words:

• Loyalty
• Sugar

Sunk Cost Fallacy

If you have a friend or family member who has fallen victim to a sugar themed scam, the sooner that you make him or her aware that it is a scam, the better.
The more money that he or she loses to a scammer, the more resistant he or she will be to stop communicating with scammers.

If You Are A Man

• You should be highly resistant, if not outright immune, to sugar momma scams.
• You should understand that anyone online posing as a woman who wants to pay you for companionship is a scam, regardless of whether the person contacting you does or does not look like any of the photographs that he or she may have provided.
• If you are a gay man or a desperate straight man, there are entire scam websites filled with fake profiles of people purporting to be gay men with high status jobs looking for a significant other.

If You Are A Woman

• You should still be extremely skeptical if someone represents to want to be your online sugar daddy.

Regardless Of Your Gender

You need to be aware that:

Alaye

Alaye is a word in an African language that has come to mean:
"I am a scammer too. Instead of wasting time communicating with each other, let's focus on victims."
A very reasonable guess on my part is that on dating websites that are scams, profiles have an indicator for whether a given profile is for a scam user or a victim.
That indicator would not be displayed to victims, but it would be used so that victims do not chat with other victims, and scam profiles communicate with victims, not other scam profiles.

Website Registrations

Checking when a website was registered will not help you identify all scam websites, but it will help you identify many of them.

An Embarrassment Of Riches

While typing this web page, I created a profile on a dating website, intending to attract scammers in order to help me grasp the scale of the problem.
Your experience may or may not be different from mine, but I received even more replies from scammers than I was expecting.
This version of this web page would have been significantly delayed if I had taken the time needed to read through them all.
If I had decided to play along, at some point they likely would have referenced:

I am not law enforcement, and I am quite likely not even living in the same country as most of the scammers, so there would be no point in playing along.