The Background
Due to my long term involvement with this Russian Bride phenomenon (7+ Years) I’ve witnessed many things and not always from the Former Soviet Union. There was even this young lady, or so one would presume, that was from Jakarta Indonesia that somehow got a hold of my email address and she started on this very cute courting gimmick and I just played along to where she reached the point of telling me she had been in a relationship with some Arab Prince who died and he left her all his wealth and she needed about $10,000 to pay for a lawyer and travel to Saudi Arabia to claim her inheritance. After that she would travel to the USA and we would live happily ever after with the Millions from the Saudi Prince… Yeah… Right!
So I can assure you that I’ve seen a lot of scams. This is part of the reason I’ve focused on just a few of the larger Foreign Women dating sites, as it is their goal to “Verify” the women on their sites as legitimate women looking for a husband. Additionally some of these larger sites support full video chat so that you can physically see the woman in real time on the other side.
But, even with all those safeguards, the scams still exist and even with all my experience I fell victim to a scam myself on one of the biggest sites. It was bad enough to spend all the money that was spent, but the bigger loss was a waste of precious time.
The System Flaw
Even though these larger sites have many rules and regulations, which includes the verification of the women, the problem is these “Clearing House” sites are just that, a big umbrella over all these independent agencies scattered all over Russia and Ukraine. Unfortunately, many of these independent sites are borderline corrupt and when they can see the money they can make from connecting these beautiful women with foreign men, they begin to push the corruption envelope.
Trust me, these agencies know EXACTLY how to hook a man with one of their women and they exploit it as much as possible. The sad thing here is, what might start out as an innocent connection with a real women who is serious in her intentions, they can see the peaked interest in the woman and the dollar signs fill their eyes. When this happens, they hook the woman by giving them a percentage of the take as well as keeping all the gifts. Then if the woman tries to finish pursuing the relationship they will blackmail her. I’m 100% certain this is what happened in my case which I will talk about shortly.
The other thing you need to know, especially since I’ve been to Ukraine, is that all these little independent agencies advertise in the local papers and elsewhere looking for the most beautiful women to start relationships with as many men as they can Once they hook a guy who will spend the huge sums of money to communicate with them, they isolate the woman which feeds to the believability of the relationship. Prior to meeting Katarina I saw one new girl on the site and I struck up a conversation with her in chat and just 5 minutes into the conversation she said;
“This is the easiest job I’ve ever had…” I said “WHAT?” and she quickly changed the subject and after I reported this to the umbrella agency, her profile was gone in a matter of days.
I did a test recently by creating a secondary profile on one of the sites with very little information in the profile. In the span of just ONE Day that profile had over 500 letters, which is just insane as no one can deal with that many letters. So there are flaws in the umbrella site that they need to control. One interesting thing came out of this experiment… One of the women who I’ve known for a long time and who claims that she “Loves Me” and wants to move forward in marriage was one of the women who sent a letter to this dummy account. That alone should tell you a lot.
