Just a little warning to let you guys know about fake women on fiance.com. I started correspondence with Alexandra from Odessa on May 11th, and we exchanged several emails. Then on June 2nd, "she" sent me almost the exact same letter as the 11th! I'm attaching the letter contents at the end of this post.
Also, I was corresponding with another woman, and in one letter she said, "you told me so much about yourself, but unfortunately you did not ask me many questions." In my next letter, I asked her a ton of questions, but "she" completely ignored them all and sent me a canned letter. My advice is to find another site, but if you must stay here, only correspond with women who have private emails. That's just my two cents.
LETTER WRITTEN ON 5/11
Hello Shaun!
Thank you for your compliment toward to me and my small daughter! I was very glad to receive your answer. Who knows, probably this is really destiny....
You wrote me very interesting letter.I am in search of my soul mate too. I only start to learn a lot of things about you. At first what I think about you it is that you are very open and sincere heart ( I hope it is true). So I will try to be the same with you.I will try to answer to your questions and tell some more about me.
START OF CANNED LETTER
Yesterday I was going with my friend and my Larra outside. We walk a little bit and seat in one bar on the street Deribasovskay st. that is very old and popular, everybody from old USSR know this street, there is no car (on this street it is forbidden), a lot of trees, cafe or bars outside, a lot of people walk here. There is you can find a big gallery of pictures and to order your portrait on this street. It was very nice day - very sunny and worm, we seat and talk, a lot of our dreams. I can tell you that I am dreaming. I want to have near me man who will be my husband who will be my protection and help me about my wishes. My wish is to have a place, may be something like a art studio to make a pictures, oil paint and some sculptures, when I am doing this work I feel myself very relax and successful in my life, I only need sometimes to do this when I have free time. I think that I can make it good. I want that my man understand me.
.....I don't know what kind of question to ask you, so you can write me
everything what you like.
END OF CANNED LETTER
Dear Shaun, please, write me more about your work. I think, you have very interesting work, which give your a lot of pleasure. I'll be very happy to get to know more about your life, your friends and your family.
I hope to see your next letter.
My best wishes to you.
Sincerely Alexandra.
LETTER WRITTEN ON 6/2
Hello dear Shaun!
Thank you for your warm and kind words toward to me and for your compliments toward to me and my daughter! Your words touched by my heart!
I like your letter and it's was very interesting to get to know about your mother and your life. I think, that you are have very kind heart and every girl or woman must to dream to have a husband or friend as you are. I very glad that I have now such wonderful friend as you, dear Shaun!
I would like to apologize for the delay in writing. But I hope you are understand my situation and my busy time with my small angel... I hope so.
Of course, I like children very much and I dream to have still more children in my happy family, in my happy life with loving husband.
AS about my friend Alla, we are write to each other very rarely, if to be honest we are see to each other probably often. You know, its not easy to write letters to each other for me and Alla visit to our country every year.
Normally people never write something very private
to each other when they have to correspondence, they start to know each other only "after..
START OF CANNED LETTER
Yesterday I was going with my friend outside. We walk a little bit and seat in one bar on the street Deribasovskay st. that is very old and popular, everybody from old USSR know this street, there is no car (on this street it is forbidden), a lot of trees, cafe or bars outside,
people who walk, artists who sell a pictures and make a portraits. It was very nice day - very sunny and worm, we seat and talk, a lot of poetic words was trying come to my mind but it was impossible to write something because every time my friend disturb me with some talking (of course now I remember nothing but I am not very sad).
If to ask me about my dreams of my life. I can tell you that I am dreaming. I want to have near me man who will be my husband who will be my protection and help me about my wishes. My wish is to have a place, may be something like a art studio to make a pictures, oil paint and
some sculptures, when I am doing this work I feel myself very relax and successful in my life, I only need sometimes to do this when I have free time. I think that I can make it good. I want that my man understand me
and understand my sometimes crazy mind (I think all of us is a little bit crazy).
.....I don't know what kind of question to ask you, so you can write me everything what you like.
END OF CANNED LETTER
I hope to see your next letter.
Shaun,
Thank a lot for the warning....Just by reading your letter I know the girl’s name is Alexandra Makarova, and she claims to have a “little angel” named Larra. Am I correct? I have just started communicating with her, and here is an excerpt of her second letter:
I think, that your profession is also very interesting and expecially this is great that your work bring you a lot of pleasure and enjoy. I think, it's very big happy. And this fact that you are studing is alos very good, because I think everybody much to try to be perfect in life, to receive more knowledge and don't afraid to study during all life time... I think so...
Of course, I am very interesting in learning of another languages and another cultures. It's very interesting to me and I dream to travel in another countries one day and to see by my own eyes their people and cultures.
I hope for the continue of our acquintance and for our correspondence.
I would like to tell you that I am dreamer. I want to have close to me a man, who will be my husband, who will be my protection and who will help me in my wishes. My wish is to have a place, may be something like a art studio, to make a pictures, oil paint and some sculptures, when I am doing
this work. I feel myself very relax and successful in my life, I only need sometimes to do this, when I have free time. I think that I can make it
good. I want that my man will understand me.
She added a couple of things to answer to a couple of questions I asked her, but it is obvious that she is madly cutting and pasting. I don’t know if you have noticed yet, but if you try to look for her profile, the system will give you an error...However, just yesterday I replied to her second letter and I received a receipt that she had read the letter. She contacted me, so I guess she thought I look dumb or desperate enough to fall for her scam.
It is kind of funny though, when she asked help with her wish to have a studio....I replied in my e-mail....”anything is possible here in America, as long as you are willing to work for it” so I doubt she will contact me again.
I will keep you inform if she contacts me again, please do the same; I am very curious as to what her purpose writing this letters is. Money for mom? Since she is “so close to her” money for her daughter? Lets find out.
Dax, eli_manning,
please read posting about fiance.com system on this forum.
every time when you have a suspicion about the ladies registered on fiance.com write to the customer service. we remove such ladies immediately. we will investigate. also, as a member of the site you have all necessary tools to realize who is worth of writing who is not. if a Lady send you similar letters, stop writing to her definitely and report to customer service.
it is possible that her agency mistakenly sent you the same letter. your membership allows you to read ad write messages unlimited, VIP membership let's you to see how many letters was written to another member.
you can send any information in your letter. they are not edited but fiance.com so, invite her for a phone conference, ask for her mailing address, ask fiance.com customer service to check on that Lady.
main idea, do not be disappointed keep communicating. fiance.com helps you.
again read forum, all concerns abut the process, tips and tricks are answered, discussed here.
Eli, you are completley wrong, this is the site where you are least likely to be scammed, you have tried and hung this girl in public, what big men you are. Of course initial letters are going to be similar, do you think they have the time and the money for translation for long letters, they will get more personal when they have narrowed down their choice, she maybe a scammer, maybe not not, but why didn't you just quitely asl olga to investigate?
yes, before claiming that somebody is FAKE, investigate. you have all help here to do it. or stop wasting time on a lady that write yours similar letters. or her agency. fiance.com usually removes such ladies, agencies from the system after complaints
LOL! Dudes.. This girls has contacted me as well. This is too much. Is it THAT hard to write a simple email? I will be watching this with you guys. Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you Olga! But I cannot report anything until I know for sure she is a fake.
Trademan + Olegnay- As I mentioned in my prior post, you cannot find her in the system anymore. For all I know she might have already been removed. As far as talking about her, we are just being cautious; we have the right to do so. If something like this doesn’t raise a red flag, I don’t know what would. I will not just move on until I find out exactly what is going on, and not only for me, but for every person on this site. If she is legit, we will find out, and if she is a fake we will too; but if we were to move on and she turns out to be a fake, someone is going to get rip-off. And since I don’t want that to happen to me, I am going to do whatever I can so it doesn’t happen to somebody else. So, once Again.....Thank you Eli, and we will get to the end of this.
Groon...Did you get similar e-mails too?
Before you assume things about soeone you should at least try to make sure you have it right. I was just suprised that of all the women on here this one managed to hit all three of us. And thanks for the uncalled for insult. I appreciate it alot. A winner in my book. I can fire back some nice insults of my own but I will show a bit more class.
Dax: yeah I did. Doesn't mean a whole lot but it is something to watch. You are right to be cautious.
Now for the rest of you guys. I have a question. I noticed there is some template option for your emails to these women. Howmany of you use it? And if you do how do you use it? This thing with this girl has me curious.
No dax, you do not have to slander her in such a public forum, that is what Olga is here for, are all your letters to other girls all so different, surely they won't be if you are telling them the truth, now turn the tables, and how would you like your letters on display accusingly?
I am a member of this site and a member of a direct competitor of this site.I have been writing to 3 girls on the other site. Since I now know where I will be traveling to, I thought that I might write a few women from that city on this site to see if anyone catches my attention. The very first girl I checked out on this site is blacklisted on an anti-scam site. My question here is ,Are we suppose to be the detectives for this site or are they very lax in their investigative depatment. The EASIEST way to spot a scammer is to check the antiscam sites. Yet this girl's profile is posted here without that even being done. I understand that most scammers won't be caught until we open our mouth, but I don't understand why girls' profiles are listed here without being checked out on anti-scam sites first.
Tradman,
Slander is the act of saying something false or malicious that damages somebody’s reputation...Is questioning the veracity of a person’s intentions slander? I don’t think so. I call it precaution. I have not been scammed yet, and I want to keep it that way. With respect to my letters, yes, they are different. I don’t lie about who I am or what I am looking for, but I do not cut and paste exerts of my letters. She does, is that a crime? Of course not; but once again, it is a red flag I cannot ignore. As far as posting my letters for public view...personally, I couldn’t care less. I don’t know about you, but I never write things I could ever be ashamed of. Nonetheless, I understand your point of view though; I am not irrational. But just like I said before, there are different ways to protect yourself, and your way and mine differ considerably. The number one reason people get scammed all over the world in an infinity of ways is “trust”...And I am sorry if it is offensive to you, but if I a girl was to take some of my money for being so trusting, I am sure you wouldn’t be willing to respond for her, would you?
my first few letters are very similar, thats the way correspondance starts, I also think that trust is something to be lost, not to be won, this girl has not asked you for money yet has she, how are you being scammed, you think she may be a prospective scammer, how is she going to harm you till she asks you for money. now Dax, I admit I have been lucky, and no-one in 4 months has asked me for a penny, if you are getting bad vibes about her, then fine, I just think your enquiries should be discreet, also I have nothing to hide either, still I am not sure I would want a private letter, with private feelings, posted on a forum, has nothing to do with having anything to hide
Eli, Dax,Groon
There is no need to get into a fuss with Trad over this. If you read through the threads on this site you will find that it is not customary to post a suspected scammer name or ID or letter on here. If you do you, will get blasted by those who have been here longer. Only if it is agreed and proven that she/he is not legit would that be accecpted. So take a chill pill.
Man,
It is understandable, thanks for the advice.
Trad,
She would not be able to scam me, just for the fact that my skepticism about life in general is such, that if a girl was to convince me she needed the money for whatever reason, I would deliver it personally, and only after corroborating she is telling me the truth of course. We just come from different schools of thought Trad, and I believe exactly the opposite...I believe trust has to be earned.
I respect you opinion though, so please do not be offended.
I am not offended Dax, either by this thread, or your comment about toothbrushes::)))Nothing wrong with a healthy exchange of views, I would just prefer innocent till proven guilty, I do not mean to offend you either, I am arguing my point of view and you are entitled to yours, but it's not personal