Once upon a time, there was a USSR. Sure, Stalin was a butcher, but short of Stalin, the system worked. But this system was hated by I have yet to meet anyone from former USSR, Russian or not, who is not disgusted at the very mention of Gorby, and how a liberal bought into west's "Evil Empire" and tore their world apart. Now, you see why these ladies prefer to scam you, over running a relationship with you. Fiance.com is amazingly free of scammers, but there are friendship/ dating websites, where every ad in any of the former USSR countries turns out to be a scam. Here's some indicators:
1. Guaranteed reply to every letter
2. Replies seem to have nothing to do with your letters
3. They look and dress like models, but don't even have a phone
4. Early references to money problems, such as no computer at home, expensive internet cafes, etc.
Lady Jane,
That is if you are a lady, you're obviously a 'wind-up merchant' because in all my travels to USSR, indeed to former communist Eastern Europe, I have not met a single person who complained regarding 'tearing their world apart'.
You're talking total sh1te, the internet has brought about a new criminal activity and if you think that your so precious USSR has the monopoly on this then you need to take a reality check. I, anyone, could post some pretty female pics on literally any dating website pretending to be a lady and take money from the guys who insist on thinking only with their penis, every nation in the world is doing this so just what makes you believe that your so special USSR is so f*cking clever?
I'm not disagreeing with you Martin, but my wife is from Eastern Ukraine and pines for the days of the FSU. This clashes almost daily with my conservative political outlook.
Good call Martin...it would be very awkward for an FSU citizen, or any other for that fact, attempt to scam me without a computor...whoever thought they had a monopoly on this market is delusive and get's an inflated ego from such delusion's.
I admit the "mentality" in all attempted scam's on me from FSU citizen's is the same...very transparent,very immature and very easy to see...just as LadyJane suggest's. Who involved gender as a determining factor for scammer's?...it is men and women alike in a virtual world.
Short of Stalin.....A very large short.If the system worked it would still exist.Many people look back on "the good old times".Penis is not the only part of a man, Martin,add a heart.It amazes me that anyone tries to justify theft.Thievery and deception is universal from the beginning..anyone want an apple.
Anyone heard from Martin_UK lately?
The system would exist, but Sams wanted to put a Walmart in Moscow, so they used your tax dollars to destroy this system.