How do you have camgirl scams? There are two basic kinds of Camgirl Scams you need to be aware of. Each one has many variations and scammers are coming up with new ways to cheat you every day. But the old reliable con-games are the ones that still catch most people out, so educate yourself about the basic camgirl scams and stay safe out there!

What are the two basic kinds of camgirl scams?

I’m going to divide them into these two buckets and talk about each one.

  1. Scams where the camgirl is a scammer
  2. Scams were the camgirl is the victim

What? Wait… Is that how it works?

Yes it is.

Cam girls are humans too and as such they can be both the scammer and the scammee / victim.

If you are reading this then you are probably either a cam girl yourself, or a viewer of online live webcam girls.

Both parties are vulnerable to getting scammed, and at their heart, none of these scams are different from the Nigerian Prince scams or the Bridge for Sale. I don’t want to make light of this though, as it is tragic when some old and vulnerable person loses their life savings to a scammer.

Being aware of how the scams work lets you protect yourself. It also helps you to avoid looking like a scammer when you really are not. Somewhere out there someone really has a bridge to sell, and must be very frustrated that nobody will believe them.

A note on genders

I’m going to call the webcam performer “her” and the webcam viewer “he”. It isn’t always that way around, I know there is plenty of gay jerk-off male-to-male cam shows, and there are also a few of different genders but that’s the most common way so to avoid it all being “they” and you don’t know which one I’m talking about I’ll just use “her” and “he” for the provider and the consumer of the cam show.

Equally “cam girl” could be a cam boy, a cam trans, or anything in between.

Camgirls being scammed by viewers

Charge back scams

This is where a viewer pays the camgirl for something, but then reverses the charges later so he doesn’t have to pay anything.

Avoiding this is one of the main reasons that camgirls use camsites rather than working directly with viewers. The other reason is that camsites introduce customers to them, but a crucial reason is the avoidance of chargeback fraud.

Camgirls still get scammed on this one though because they get offered extra pay for some extra service, but the payment is one of the “outside” payment methods. The scammer will say it is so that she can get the majority of the money without the camsite taking their percentage cut.

But actually he is doing it because he knows he can get his money back.

Common ways to do it are:

  • Amazon gift cards
  • Paypal

People think, or state, that Amazon gift cards are an anonymous way to pay someone. And while it can help to hide your identity, and buying cam girl tokens with gift cards is a thing, it isn’t as simple as that.

Fake tips

Camgirls are also susceptible to dishonest viewers who use “fake tips” to cheat the girl into providing something from her tip menu without actually paying anything.

They will use a graphic that resembles the tip notification, typically simply by doing a screenshot clipping of it, then upload it to the emoticon system of the chat site. Then by using this the scammer can cause something that looks like a tip notification to appear on the screen.

New cam girls may be confused by this, though the more experienced will realize that the tip isn’t real. The clues that the tip is not real include; there is no tip sound, the model’s token balance doesn’t go up, and their tip-activated-sex-toy doesn’t buzz.

Pay now to earn later

Sign up for this wonderful new cam product, pay money to activate your account, and you’ll earn a lot more.

That’s the basis of this pay-in-advance scam and you’ll find many so-called cam studio agents who claim then can introduce a camgirl to a new and more profitable camsite.

But before the introduction, the cam girl is supposed to pay some fee, for registration or verification. All of which is entirely bogus.

No reputable cam site will ask a potential cam girl to pay money in advance.

If someone asks for this then you should run!

Viewers being scammed by Camgirls

Camgirls don’t like to talk about this because if they are honest then they don’t want the whole profession being tainted by an association with scams.

But really every profession has it’s scammers. If a medical Dr. can be a scammer it shows that being a professional doesn’t guarantee anything.

I really love you

No, she doesn’t.

Camming is a profession, sometimes a hobby, occasionally a vocation but it isn’t real life.

If a cam girl is honest she’ll say “I love it when you do that”, which means tip her but you can interpret as buzzing her sex toys, but it is easier to just say “I love you” even when it isn’t true.

Camgirls who are not native speakers of English find this easier. Words in a foreign language are just sounds, they don’t have to have any emotional impact.

Buy me an air ticket so I can visit you

Cam girls don’t meet in real life, if they did then they wouldn’t be cam girls.

When you meet a girl online and she wants to meet up with you, then you have to wonder what is going on.

Yes, there are very rare cases where real-life relationships start online, but it isn’t the norm and you should not presume it.

When she asks you to buy an air ticket, that’s just another way of getting money from you. Don’t expect to ever see her, or your money, again.

My mother is ill

Well, that’s sad, at least it would be if it were true.

Sympathy scams are some of the oldest around and for every “cancer recovery” Instagram influencer out there you’ll find someone selling a bridge.

Plucking at the heart-strings in fiction goes back at least to ancient Greece and other is not up on it today.

Stick to the emotion of lust and don’t let either sympathy or “love” get in the way of enjoying a cam girl show, but without any strings attached.

Join this site to talk to me

Although cam girls do move around from site to site, when you find one who wants you to join a site to meet her or keep up with her, particularly if it is via instant messenger or on a social platform, that just means she wants to get the sign-up fee for directing you to the camsite.

Most camsites provide some reward to people, be they webmasters or cam models, who introduce new customers. These rewards can be substantial, hundreds of dollars or more, and these motivate people to send new customers to the camsites.

That’s as the marketing programs intend, however they also attract cheats.

When a pretty girl on a free cam site or who has contacted you on Facebook or Instagram or Telegram and wants you to join that site to have hot sexy chat with you. Well no, it’s probably either a bot or a sweat-shop worker in India or somewhere else cheap who is paid to chat with you and get you to sign people up for profit.

If you do sign up for her, then again you’ll never see her again. If you ever saw her in the first place and it wasn’t just a recorded video you were watching.

Make a new account to chat with me

This is a minor variation in which a camgirl asks you to create a new account on the site you are both already existing so that you can be “special”, perhaps a member of her “team” or “gang”, or get some special access to status. The reason she does is that by using the referral code she gives to you she can get more of your money because she has introduced you to the site.

Only of course she hasn’t really, so this is a type of fraud in which the website loses, as does the person who originally did you introduce you if there is any such person.

Camgirl site scams

People worry about Flirt4free scams or Streamate scams, but really the scams are not related to any one particular cam site or studio. Everywhere in the world, there are dishonest people, and no company, country, ethnic type or gender is immune from them.

How can you avoid camgirl scams? Remember to keep your brain in the loop and not just your cock, or even your heart for romance scams, and treat

Have I missed some?