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Don’t get scammed, get educated ! Understand scammers and you’ll understand their tactics and how to avoid them…Part 1

Variations on scamming practices often use Russia as a front, in reality they may be from Nigeria, Ivory Coast or Senegal to name but a few.

A definition of scamming – To deceive someone in order to receive money

We live in a risk averse society nowadays – dating involves risk, dating in the local pub, nightclub or discotheque involves risk, relationships involve risk and dating a woman from another country and culture on the faceless internet involves even more risk, however we must take a chance because the alternative is to live life as a virtual recluse and where’s the fun in that. Dating is the ultimate in gambling, risk assessment and damage limitation, where the stakes are high but the rewards are even higher….don’t be afraid or paranoid, be wary and careful.

Let’s begin this rather lengthy topic with a few basic fundamental principles to help us understand exactly what the dating industry and its customers are up against :

• Scamming is not new, it is as old as mankind itself.
• Scamming is inextricably linked to the internet and therefore the internet dating sites.
• Scamming is either really easy or unbelievably difficult to deal with, let alone eradicate.
• Scamming is not going to go away any time soon – with every new measure of protection comes a countermeasure of avoidance, this is the very essence and nature of crime.
• Scamming nets potentially enormous amounts of money and therefore attracts and becomes interlaced with other criminal networks engaged in myriad nefarious activities.
• Scamming is here to stay – accept that fact and we can all work around it, customers need to be given plentiful advice, the authorities in every relevant country need to be informed, the dating blacklists need to be encouraged to become more accurate and reliable and the very dating sites themselves need to improve substantially.
• Customers, subscribers, members, clients …..you must educate yourselves !

We have divided this topic into bite size pieces, each one examining one important factor concerning the proliferation of scamming techniques throughout the online dating industry today, in particular focussing on Russian, Eastern European and countries of the former Soviet Union.

Variations of scamming practices

How to make sure you’ll never be a scammers victim !

Scammers ( those individuals intent on separating you from your money ) operate as seemingly invisible entities.
They may be :

• Single girls or in reality guys and married couples.
• Fake internet dating websites surreptitiously compiling vast databases with e-mails and personal information.
• Small highly mobile groups or individuals supremely adept at hit and run tactics on vulnerable people and their credit cards then disappearing into the night.
• Well-educated computer programmers and hackers at the top of their profession hiring out their services to provide almost undetectable or deliberately misleading breadcrumb trails of “evidence” to any would be investigator.
• Fake or even genuine travel agencies using their legitimate businesses as a front for money laundering.
• Western Union insiders ready, willing and able to make payment to a person without the required identification ( although at the time of writing Western Union has made this practice harder than it has ever been before ).
• Serious international organised crime syndicates – wherever there is money, these guys will be found.

Single girls or in reality guys and married couples.

A single girl or guy operates from home, alone under a thin veneer of public respectability, intelligent, well-educated and well informed. A profile will be set up on a site where the “victims” are plentiful. A seemingly genuine correspondence will be started, patiently waiting, developing trust and confidence from their intended target, slowly pinpointing weaknesses, vulnerable character traits and weak links in the psyche. All your letters will be replied to, on time, in detail giving no indication of anything being amiss. Photos will be given in abundance. The sting will come when the “mark” is ripe, often 6 months or so into correspondence subtly suggesting a lack of money, gently offering hints that the relationship is under threat unless something is funded.

Once the money has been received the “relationship” will dwindle, slowly like a flickering flame with the “victim” steadfastly convinced that a potentially beautiful relationship floundered due to the pressures of distance dating or other fairly mundane reasons.

If a married couple is operating this scam then it will be harder to recognise, each letter will be carefully judged, assessed and interpreted by one sex, then replied to by the other sex with a full insight into the “victims” mental and emotional state with photographs in any position requested, happily posed for by the wife and photographed by the husband.
The “mark” will never be dropped like a hot brick…the sure sign of a greedy, lazy, new or just hopelessly inept scammer.
These guys are clever and difficult to recognise, often with a sociology / psychology based education the “mark” will often be convinced that they offered financial assistance entirely of their own accord and that at no time were they ever asked for money, such is the skill practiced by this particular brand of scammer.

Psychological manipulation, patience and subtle machinations are the tools of their trade, they will never “earn” a fortune but then they will never be guilty of a crime either. If you give money of your own free will, without duress and you are of sound mind – what crime has been committed ? To date, accepting a gift offered freely in good faith and without any strings attached is not a crime.

These scammers work within the legal law …..“if you’re going to break the law at least know which law you’re breaking”.

Protect yourself – a brief guide !

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