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ooby_dooby: Hi jan, I like your new pic! You are correct. I guess as we age we all remember how wonderful it was to feel that puppy love and not so secretly wish to relive those heady days.

I wasn't slamming Russia. I have a very good Russian friend who I would do anything for and he would do the same for me I'm sure. I came much closer to getting scammed by a woman from Romania but that story is for another time.

In response to: A while back I was emailing a lady I met on here who said she was from New York. She liked my profile and sent me a flower. She was kinda young, very pretty and said she really liked older guys because they are more romantic. Ok so I figured WTH why not see where it will go. In her first replay to my email she said she really wasn't from NY but from Russia. No SH1T I knew she wasn't from NY by her horrible English. She wanted to come to the USA and get married ASAP. Learning this I told her straight out I would pick her up from the airport, provide her a place to stay, help her get a job, provide her with food, transportation and English lessons but I would not be sending her any money.
Two emails later she had already traveled to Moscow to catch a flight to Washington DC and sent me a copy of her complete flight itinerary. At this point I'm thinking maybe this is for real. oops, not so fast. Her next email she said that she didn't realised she needed a round trip ticket to get a visa and she didn't have the money for the return tkt. She needed $900.00 to pay for it. She said she spent every last ruble she had including all she could borrow from her family to get this far. At this point I felt it was time to remind her that I told her what I would and wouldn't do for her. I never heard from her again. Was I being cruel? Should I have sent her 900 bucks?

The other day I happen to be looking at a site I visit now and then http://www.womenrussia.com/blacklist_summary_a.htm#Archive1
And there she was using the name Alena Ovtchinnikowa. She told me her name was Iraida Anphalova. I decided to check that site under every letter in the alphabet and found her pics listed with no less than 22 different names from 10 different locations. Other guys had posted letters they got from her which were verbatim copies of the ones she sent me. One jerk actually sent her $1150.00 and a second payment of $2,000.00 The last he heard from her was a story she told him of how she was robbed on the street in Moscow and all his money was gone.

heidi2765: Is there a list to find scammers??? I know there is a list of filipinas somewhere?

ChrisMarie: So the stories vary a bit, but my experience with scammer are much the same. One guy lived in California but just flew to Nigeria to get his son cured there from a heart disease.
We chatted on and off for a few weeks before he asked me to cash in some cheques for him.
One guy was from Nigeria but acutally lived in Cambodschia and were ready to relocate.
And one guy wrote a flattering email telling me he lives in Wisconsin but is on his way to Africa on some contract or other.
We chatted once or twice and then I didn´t see him online for a few days. Next time I said hello, he actually asked me who I was and if we had chatted before.
And sure all the guys were good looking and much more younger than I am.
I´m really asking myself: Do I lokk that desperate that they think I´ll fall for every bull....they are telling me?
Or perhaps it´s because I´m blonde.
I just don´t know.
Problem is - and not only for me I think - that I´m very careful now and maybe "real" people who want to chat or might be annoyed.
But there seem to be a lot of scammers around and so I prefer to be
"better safe than sorry".

Oh..You were not being cruel. And I think there´s a better way to spend 900 bucks :-)

mike69spain: You want one?

Yes, there are many sites on the net that lists known scammer handles and letters they use for initial communication.

The common name for this has become 417 + something, the funny thing is that it is also an error code in web programming "expectation failed" .

Search the net...

ooby_dooby: Hi jan, I like your new pic! You are correct. I guess as we age we all remember how wonderful it was to feel that puppy love and not so secretly wish to relive those heady days.

I wasn't slamming Russia. I have a very good Russian friend who I would do anything for and he would do the same for me I'm sure. I came much closer to getting scammed by a woman from Romania but that story is for another time.

shimmi: Not being cruel man, unless you like throwing money in the toilet , I will give you my address and send me the money at least it be put to good use besides drugs or something, the same chick contacted me a week ago ,I know who you are talking about, sent her packin man, no simpathy for that crap , we spend our time and efforts on here because, we like the folks we talk to, we are lonely and don't like hangin in the bars anymore or would just like to meet a cool chick or fellow , depending on your flavor, to go out to a movie or dinner with we don't need that kinda crap on our site where we all work hard to keep it decent, they can just take their dumb ass to an alley in Saigon and have at it, WTH maybe thats where their emailing from.....you did right brother.....later

ooby_dooby: shimmi, just curious, what name did she give you? Here is just a partial list of some she uses.
Tatiana Anwarowa
Olga Burimowa
Olga Zaika
Anistasiya Melnik

COSMICDUST: This is a pretty transparent case, that one can spot out easily...How about if you run into a real pro and stay married 10 or 20 years, before you get robbed... What cathegory scheme that would be? Or have a Monica Lewinsky type play, set by Hollywood standards,to set you up? Any good looking woman with brains can take a man for a ride, anywhere, anytime, for as long as she wants if she only wants that. Thanks God there are some decent women on this planet also, but they are mostly taken.

ChinaS: Wow, do they have a blacklist for men by chance?

chriselle: But did you though about that - maybe they are not even women? :D I heard stories, where wery beautiful attractive woman writes long romantic letters, but behind it is actually a man. Story like you wrote is so familiar for one what is inrussianwomen site. And interesting, that they ask same amount of money.
So I think that if you really want to meet girl from another country you should go and meet her first.
I even believe that its like 24h work for them. It is like a sekt.
I get messages from nigerians too. I just laugh at them:) Its like a good soap from newspapers.
So first of all - ARE YOU SURE THAT SHE IS NOT HE!!! :)

Good luck with finding a TRUE love