Wow, this sight sure is an eye opener. I already sent $1100. I went for it hook, line and sinker. She sent her address and ever a copy of her passport. I told her I wanted to pay here in the US but she gave me the song and dance about the travel agency could process the visa much faster. She answered my ad on Yahoo. She is 31 and I am 53. She fell in love and wants to come visit, bla bla bla. Yes I was dooped. I just sent the money a few days ago. She says her parents are selling their garage for 500. to pay for the rest of the ticket. I think she is going to try for more money. I understand now she can't even get a vistors visa in Russia to travel to the US. So her whole story is a fake baby pictures and all. Is there anything I can do to make her think twice next time she try this scam. The copy of passport sure looks real. Is probaby not possile she is being scamed by travel agency. Is it? Is there anything I can do besides adding her to as many Black lists as possilble. Thank for your advice
You can sue her and take her to court. As a matter of fact, I do that for people just like you. Please send me $1200 to get started with the lawsuit. We will fix her scamming ass!
And please send me $1800 and I will tell you what not to do...
No, seriously, there is something you can do. Next time tell her you have sent the money, and tell her to go pick it up.. But of course you haven't sent it... She will get back to you telling you there was no money for her.. Then tell her you must have read some of the numbers wrong, give her a new reference number, this time with one number changed, she will go back again, and once again, no money... You can go on like this for a while, at least you have the pleasure of knowing she is standing in a line for some time waiting, and also she will feel kind of silly when there is no money for her at all.. I don't think there is much other to do, except report her to UAprofiler.com or something like that.
I know some guy reported a woman directly to Putin, telling she had received money, and probably haven't paid taxes for it... She got arrested..
I am sure some of the native speakers can explain this better to you...
Twilli,
I admire and appreciate your ability to take this crappy experience and share it openly with the forum.
Don't mind the jokes...at one point or another, we all met a scammer who tried or did fleece us of some cash.
Chalk it off to another life lesson learnt.
The most important thing is to keep from labeling ALL FSU women scammers just because one got your number.
If you look back on my posts you'll find one that explains how I narrowed down the list of ladies I considered non-scammers and fairly compatible.
Without agencies, with language skills, etc etc etc...
And I still ended up with initial correspondence to more than 400 ladies.
Good idea, Ditto...maybe I should offer it to some agency, lol.
Better yet...I could list every name with photos attached, frame and hang it in promiment spot in my house to remind Lena who her competition was.
On the other hand, she could do the same to me, lol...it's not like she didn't have men to choose from.
When I was in Ukraine in 2003, I stayed in the Kharkov Hotel for 8 nights. Directly underneath the Hotel was a Internet Cafe. I spent 1-2 hours most evenings in there.
I witnessed every time, many many beautiful YOUNG ladies in groups of 2-3 sitting at a rented Puter and writing, lots of giggling and discussing. I wish now I had of had more guts and bowled up to these chicks and asked if I could help with their English dialogue they were communicating with. I could see English was what they were reading and writing, with some difficulty too.
Now - I looked as Western as you can get. Blond hair (heaps of it N()R, sorry) my dress, complexion and of coarse my ancient !!
Not one of these many little groups I saw even did a double take look of me. I am not bad looking and dress smart etc. So I wonder what these little beauties were up too ???
The old saying "if it looks to good to be true, it probably is" notice I said probably, not all of the beautiful ones are just in for a free ride.
I am going to shut up now, and let this hair-thing just pass... Or else I am afraid I have to comment it all the time... hush... shhhh... not a sound... shhhh
Let it die a natural course N()R. Let it drift away silently - like a fine stand of hair falling to the floor.
I am a very brave man, when my challenger lives 14,000 miles away he he he :-)
I really meant you no offense before,Nor. I will not allude to the subject of which I write,except to say that I am not shallow and superficial,so it is not something that matters to me---by the way,I used to shave for years,and in this time I also got 2 tattoos on my head. I wrote what I did out of experience. Many women like a clean shaven man,and my experience is that stubble bristles!! I loved the feeling of Santa Anna wind on my pate,and how sensitive and alive the follicles felt when exposed to any weather condition. I also loved when my lady friends would rub it like Buddha`s belly. Definitely a very errogenous area,and when covered by proteus material--something to love--on a woman!! I believe women,and only women should glorify this money guzzling accoutrement!!
If evolution is a fact,maybe we will all be hariless,fingernail-less, have top-heavy heads,and resemble ET in the next millenium!! Maybe-just maybe if we are lucky-we will reabsorb all of our excretory materials and be like a "closed-loop-system" ( plumber`s talk) dependent on photosynthesis for nourishment,with sweat (urea) as the only waste by product to vent the system. Maybe we will evolve to a state where we need not have a woman to procreate--only mitosis!! Ok-I`m waitin to get picked on now