RUSSIA
They buy short memberships on friendship/ dating websites, and bombard every western male on these websites with love letters, in hopes of receiving money wires.
UKRAINE
Lady or ladies agree(s) to your visit, agency makes money off your auto rides, interpreters, furnished apartment rentals, and your beloved receives her cut.
ROMANIA
Cab rides that turn out to be more expensive than ones in Zurich, Switzerland, where cab rides are known to be the most expensive in the world.
BULGARIA
Luggage thefts, often arranged by hostels or cheap hotels. It happened to me in Hostel Mariot-M (see mariot.20m.com).
TURKEY
A friendly guy on street talks you into visiting cheap bars with Romanian girls or expensive bars with Ukranian girls, where girls box you in your booth, and champaign keeps coming, until the bill adds to $800.
USA
Against all odds, you do find love abroad, US consular official denies her a fiancee visa, writing legal grounds on papers, and telling her different reasons verbally.
ROMANIA
A man on street starts walking and talking with you, you both are confronted just a few steps later by another man, who flashes a police badge, asks you to hand over the money you changed with the known counterfitter, "arrests" the other man, and takes him away.
CHINA (NORTH)
You're in bed with a prostitute for $10. Door slams open, a Ghengiz Khan appears, accusing you of sleeping with his wife. You pay $200, grab your clothes and run out the door.
Many a scammer exists on "so called" reputable dating sites such as match.com
I had an experience with a woman that was from the UK but travelled to Nigeria for work and was going to come to visit me in Australia from there. Unfortunately, as I was new to the match.com and internet dating site thing, I fell for the scam and unfortunately lost some money.
My advice is to pay close attention to any inconsistencies. For example, if you ask her to get a photo taken today, just so you can see her, and it becomes a problem for her to do it, chances are its a scam.
Under no circumstances should you send money to anyone you have just met on a dating site, especailly via services such as western union. Beware if teh girl wants a western union money transfer paid to someone elses name (like an agent etc). Thats another sign.
As I read elsewhere, if she is keen on sex etc after the first few emails/converstaions, its probably a scam too.
If she suddenly is involved in an accident, and needs money to pay medical bills etc before she can come to you, then dont fall for it. They will try anything, including getting friends to pose as doctors etc. This happened in my case (but I didnt send any money). Use resources, do searching on her name, the place she is staying at, the hospital she is in etc. If its a scam, you will have trouble finding the names of things she is mentioning.
As I have only just found this fiance.com site, its hard to pass any judgement on it, but from what i see so far, it looks ok. There are many beautiful ladies here.
As with most things, just be careful, and if you come accross any inconsistencies, even little things that dont seem right, then its probably a scam.
Just for interest, do a search (google or whatever) on "internet dating scams" or "nigerian scams".... It will really open your eyes. There are many good tips to help point out scams and even picture/name databases out there that list known scammers....
I wonder if there are any nice Russian ladies that would like to come to Australia ??
The only world's capital city where parking your car anywhere is 100% free for 100% of the time - and after 5 months it is never touched, stolen or damaged (contrary to what happened to me in posh suburban West Sussex (UK).
Some web sites make the girls respond to so many men no matter if they are interested or not. If they don't respond they will be taken off the web site. There are enough web sites that you pay a monthly fee and can e-mail all the ladies you want.