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ABOUT RUSSIAN SCAMS
Dear Gentlemen!
As more and more Western men seek life partners in the former USSR, the quantity of male victims is rising. They fall prey to scammers - individuals or groups of people who, using the internet, defraud money from too naive persons. I would like to share with you some tricks used by these dodgers.
Classify the scammers in 2 categories:
Scammer-loner: a person who works alone and operates on his/her own.
Organized groups of scammers. Matrimonial services and bands using such services created especially for scam.
1. Let's begin with the first category. Here is the usual situation: a man (M) finds in the internet a female (F), contacts her, they begin to correspond and in a short period of time they become "friends". After exchange of several letters M feels more and more sympathy and affection for F; her letters become necessary to him, he wants to communicate more and more often with her, they begin to plan their personal meeting... But all at once he is suddenly informed, that:
her internet providers will disconnect her from the internet since she needs to pay them $70.00 ($397.00; $1015.00, etc.), and today in a bus (subway; store; market, etc.) a thief stole (she lost) her purse with all her money.
or - her Mom (father; son; sister, etc.) needs a very expensive surgery and she has gone into debt $150.00 ($500.00; $812.00; $1210, etc.) for this surgery, which means she cannot afford internet now since the internet connection is very expensive (she must sell her computer to cover the debt, etc.).
or - the computer which she uses for communication with M belongs to her girlfriend (or to the firm where F works, etc.). Her girlfriend has married a man from an another city, is going to sell her computer and to move to Murmansk or NY (or today F was fired from the firm).
...and so on. The result of all these misfortunes is one: the communication of M and F will become impossible in the immediate future if she doesn't find a certain sum urgently. She cried all the night and just doesn't know what to do; she can't imagine how she will live without his tender letters, blah, blah, blah...
Can you guess what M does after he knows such sad news? Right, he runs at a peakneck speed to the Western Union office and sends her several hundred dollars for computer, internet connection, surgery of her Mom, and financial support for his robbed loved one. It is his second to the last, but most expensive virtual contact with her. The last one is his message to her with the control number for the Western Union service. After that F disappears forever. Her mailbox in @mail.ru; @hotmail.com, etc. which she no longer answers, and in several months the account is closed.
The described situations can slightly vary, but the following moments are always presented:
F is very beautiful, intelligent, feminine, friendly, understanding, fluent in English, young, tender, and can not find "her soulmate". At least, M likes F very much;
F shows M that in her eyes he is very attractive; she never has met such an interesting, romantic and intelligent person. They have a lot of common; her thoughts and feelings are congenial to the M's ones in every trivia;
the internet connection she uses does not belong to her, that is why she uses a mailbox in some free service like @hotmail.com;
F has some financial difficulties, but she is a pride person and never tells M about them. She just once unwittingly made a unintended mention of them, but if M insists her to tell him about her financial problems, she softly but aggressively stops this discussion - it is HER problems. If he doesn't pay attention to this subtle allusion about her problems, at some point she can repeat it (accidentally), but it is not really necessary. Already, M knows that F is living a low standard of life, modest salary ($20.00 or $30.00 per month), maybe a little child who F loves immensely... and she is sure that M knows that.
the misfortune (impossibility of further communications which can be eliminated if M sends F some money) happens suddenly and surprisingly, like a bolt from the blue, just as M has become accustomed to her letters, when everything seems to be wonderful, when they begin to exchange of very intimate and tender plans and wishes... Money is needed is needed all at once.
2. Groups of people, which create virtual matrimonial services especially for scam or use already existing services for that purpose.
Some people happen to not use the services offered by the agency. They just bought the addresses of the girls and wrote to them directly, but their letters weren't answered. Why? Nobody knows. Maybe the girl just didn't like him? But I can tell you that it could be also that the girl just didn't exist at all!
It could be that these shootings come from the marriage agency itself, or from groups of independent photographers or cinematographers who sell those pictures and films to the various marriage agencies which do not realize that they are crooked. Both possibilities are absolutely real. The result always is the same: the final customer pays money for his contact with a non-existing lady.
Now, what to do? How do you know if your virtual girlfriend and correspondent is a scammer?
And one more thing, don't trust agencies with doubtful contact data. You should be able to get without any trouble the agency's phone, fax, and postal address. Its e-mail address should not be placed in any free service like HOTMAIL.COM or MAIL.RU. For your money they should present the full contact data of the lady, at least her postal address. Their offer of usage of their mail forwarding, translation and other services should not be forced upon you. You must have the possibility to use the ones rendered by an another provider of them contacting the lady of your interest.
I want to tell that big agencies which operate from overseas have many more individual women scammers than local agencies which publish women from their own area of operation. Big American, British or German marriage agencies usually publish their ads in Russian newspapers and receive from all over the former USSR many letters with pictures and data of ladies looking for life partners. Sometimes they work through their affiliates who do not have to prove honesty.
Big foreign agencies are not physically able to check if this or that lady is a scammer, whereas the temptation to publish a nice pretty girl who undoubtfully will be sold many times is very big for them. That is why if you buy an address from a big long-existing international agency this DOES NOT assure you against scammers. And the more the percentage of young, pretty "sellable" faces you see there, the more risk you have of being scammed. In contrast, small local agencies usually are in constant contact with their ladies-clients and although their ladies maybe are not so beautiful and numerous, their catalogs and biodata are as a rule much more reliable. Of course, such an agency's e-mail box should not be located at YAHOO.COM or MAIL.RU server...
RUSSIAN SCAMMERS
Scammers. We would like to give out the common line about scammers and how to avoid those.This is a new important topic often dicsussed at Internet. Majority, who are not scammers do REALLY live, they don't lie. How to make a real choise is this lady needs a real material help or she just want to "milk" you having no idea to marry you?
Internet scammers. You never know, who is under nice picture in the Internet. It's better if some agency keeps responsibility for a lady and she is at least is a real one. But we heard stories about pictures taken from some Russian models, then published in the Net. Scammers create profiles at dating sites using those pics. You never suspect that you can chat and exchange love e-mails to an English-speaking bearded mature man, who can present himself as "Olga" or " Elena". Some of those are don't care to ...Money you sent to FSU are deposited to "Olga's uncle" account or to his girl-friend's name, by name Olga. Then you never will hear from Olga again.
Solutions: In this case, if you have doubts some "model pics "are used, try to encourage the lady to take her recent picture in some special surrounding. If she is a doctor, ask her to send you a pic in a white gown. If she likes flowers, ask her to take her pic of the background of a blossoming flower bed....etc. Some sofisticated men can do collages, so look carefully to a pic, try to find out how naturally does it look.
If you lost your money being sent to a scammer, it's some problematic to return those. Our advises would help you a little, but the main problem is in treatment to Internet crimes in former USSR...
So first of all you should prevent yourself from being scammed.
Are you asked for money to help if she is sick and is in hospital? Or her relatives got troubles with help? Try to find out is it truth. Ask her, what hospital she is at, what is her diagnosis, what a name of her doctor. Then tell her that you have found trusted people in her city to take care of her, who will be visiting her and buying all necessary medicines and all she needs. Then see what she will respond for and make your conclusion. In this case you offer your help but you know how this help is spreaded. If the case is real, it's easy to find people who can deal to. For example they could be some other, non-involved marriage agency she's not listed at, or her agency if you trust people working in. Ask you friends visited FSU and who contacted honest local people.
You should take suspect if since second letter lady swears she is in great love with you and will be loving you only until death. The human nature is the same world-wide and most of ladies realize that an Internet is an Internet and a real relationship is a real relationship. Perhaps she is an extra-romantic or simply submits her great love to several more men.
The scam agencies. Perhaps you were not so" lucky", to write an e-mail to several ladies published online in some agency and to get absolutely identitic responces from all the ladies! Some light differences defining their age, height, weight and profession might be present. Yes, sometimes it happens, agencies write down letters instead of girls. A lady comes, pays pretty good sum for a membership, leaves her photos and then just waits a call from an agency that a man is ready to come. Most of serious agencies never will take a married woman to a site, but she manages to hide it. If you find a lady announced by marriage agency as divorced, but she is still married - aware of!
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