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For a while I thought only the small internet dating site such as mine were targeted by Nigerian scammers. But I soon realized that all websites, not just online dating sites were afflicted with an element of scammers. Well how do I know you ask, I tell you how I found out.

I have been checking every IP address of new members for origin of country. Any IP from Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Ukraine, I block them from joining. I must say that I have done a pretty good job, because lately the scammers have been pleading to join my dating site, sending me emails to approve them. My logical conclusion is that nobody will plead to be accepted on a dating site when there are so many choices of online dating websites. Getting to my point, sometime ago I read on a dating website administrator’s forum that a site owner had discovered that the scammers was using their yahoo email password on the dating site. She got into the idiot’s yahoo account and changed his password. Well, it must have been the same idiot Nigerian criminal who joined my personals site. I traced the source IP to an ISP in Nigeria, tried the password on the yahoo site and I was in. The first thing I did was to change the password, then I monitored the emails for the next few days. This jerk was a member on every dating and social networking site I can think of. There were emails coming in from his Myspace account, OkCupid, facebook, and many more. The jerk even sent an email to his own account pleading “Please return my password to me”.

I started Cupid Post online dating service two years ago, I need something to spend my spare time with. After months of research and procrastinating I took the plunge and launched a completely free online dating site. Why free, well how else could I compete for membership given that the internet was saturated with dating websites.

Originally I decided to build a Windows 2003 server to host Cupid Post, but eventually I decided to go with Red Hat Linux 9. The reason for my change in direction was because Linux was free and came with a lot of other free software, such as PHP, Mysql, sendmail, ftp, apache etc. Well I had never used Linux before and was pretty strong on the Microsoft platform. But I decided that I could learn as I went along, fifteen years of experienced in information technology had taught me that the beast way to learn a program is to actually do it. I decided that this would be a good way for me to finally learn Linux.

Well, I downloaded Redhat 9, burnt the ISO images onto CDs and started installing it on my newly built server. After many versions of trial and errors I finally had it installed and configured just the way I wanted. It was not an easy task, I bought Linux books, and read many documentation on the internet. The end result was a server configured with Raid 1, tape drive, Apache, vftp, PHP, mysql, sendmail and squirrel mail. It took another month of work before I had the online dating website launched.

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