Scams

The success with Internet dating has unfortunately spawned many forms of scams. And because of the anonymity that people are able to operate these scams on free dating sites has only encouraged every scammer there is to try and dupe the unsuspecting. Unfortunately for the newbies and the uniniated it is easy to fall for the scams. I've witnessed every scam going and many men write to me about how they have been scammed and the various forms they take. Please take a moment to read the information and advice below so that you are not the next victim.

There are now literally 100's of personals dating sites allowing you to join for 'free'. You probably know the big ones I'm refering to. For legal reasons I am not able to post sites that I believe turn a blind eye to scams. These sites are not free. Sure, they allow you to post your photo and email address for free. But should you wish to contact anyone you will be required to pay a monthly fee, usually $15 a month by credit card! Hardly a free site? Be very cautious when you sign up for these types of services as many of my clients have told me they have great difficulty in cancelling their memberships to such sites and thus their credit cards are continually charged month after month.

Now you've signed up on one of these 'free' sites, sent your credit card details to them and now have full access to their database of profiles. And believe me they have quite a large database. Of course they do! They allow anyone to post an advert for free. Some of these sites have 100'000+ 'members'. These websites have absolutely know method of verifying the details of the people joining. That beautiful 25 year old woman could be Uncle Bob posting a picture of a pretty lady from an anonymous email account. You really do not know who you are contacting!

A lot of the women from Russia who scam men use these sites. They can't join our network because we require every lady to visit our agent with proof of identity which will be their internal passports. Russian people have 2 passports. An international one and a national one. When someone marries in Russia they will have their internal passport stamped and when they divorce too. It's very difficult for them to dupe us and operate a scam. And they don't bother when they can join a free site with an anonymous email address and wait for the unsuspecting men to email them.

The scams from these women usually follow a set method. First off they will reply with absolute joy and happiness that you wrote to them, after a few more emails they become very serious with you and are completely head over heels in love with you! They will then move onto explaining how difficult it is to write to you via email as the costs are high and can you please help them with these costs. If you agree you are asked to send them money by Western Union. Now imagine if you have a picture of a very pretty lady who is getting literally 100's of letters a week from men on a free site she will be getting money from some of these guys. If she can get 1 guy in 20 to send her $20 a month she is on a winner. $20 is not much for you but the average wage in Russia and Ukraine for a lot of people is $100 a month. These women are making a lot of money!!

A lot of the scammers will go quiet for a while to the men they are writing to. And then out of the blue they will write to about a horrible accident they or a family friend has had. It's usually their mother who has had to go into hospital and so on. Yes you'd be surprised how many men fall for this!

Agents in Russia who do not have websites of their own post profiles of their women on these 'free sites' too. So you'll end up sending personals emails to what you think is the woman on the photo ad. But after a few letters you will receive a letter from the agent asking you to send money by Western union to continue your correspondence. In fact it's quite possible that you have not been writing to the woman in the photo ad but the secretary in the agency! Once you send them money many of these agents then contact the women and tell them about your 'correspondence over the past weeks' and invite them to continue if they are interested!

There was an agency in Ukraine made up of about 8 married women who posted bogus pictures of women on these free ads sites and waited for the emails from men to come in. And they did by the bucket full. These women had a nice little set up with men sending money by Western Union regularly thinking they were in correspondence single women when in fact it was a group of married women. They were caught when one man visited and insisted on meeting the women he had been writing to. Needless to say the women posted on the sites were bogus and their pictures were probably taken from a magazine. This agency now has it's own website and continues to be closed but reopens under a new url often.

Something else we see often is profiles from our sites that have been stolen and posted on the free ads sites. We have caught a number of our Russian ladies appearing as single women in the US and Canada! There is little we can do but ask the sites displaying them to remove them.

Another scam to avoid is the women who say they can get a visa to visit you in the US, Canada or the UK for example. I've read of women asking men to send them $1000 to pay a travel agent to arrange their visa's and flights. Guys these women will not get a visa! But they will keep your money and you won't here from them again!!

My advice to you is not to send money to any woman you have not met in person. Seems obvious enough doesn't it? If you don't send money you don't get scammed! You have been warned!

After reading this you may be put off contacting anyone. But for every woman that scams there are 1000's that are genuine, honest and sincere. Of course not every person listed on free sites is a scammer as many people have had success with them. But please be sensible and use your big head not the little one! If something seems to good to be true.... it usually is!

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