Look I never said use of The Bat! x-mailer was conclusive proof of a scammer.
It is popular in FSU and East Europe.
Its just unfortunate the scammers I came across all used it and some people in other forums have told me that they have been scammed by scammers who use this software as there communications vehicle.
The fact that the girl, Elena I wrote too for 8 months ended up in a scammer database 2 months after it ended and I never put it there only confirmed my suspicions of her..she was a scammer and I wasted hundreds of dollars on her..how stupid I was not to pick it up sooner.
The thing has left a somewhat bitter taste in my mouth.
Elena can go f... herself if she is a real person or hairy boris or scam gang operative.
There is another girl in development now from Kharkov and I really think she is a real person.
I am being much more careful and wary now.
With the number of scam attempts each individual experiences one would be hard pressed to find statistical significance in the software being used . In my case, almost all scam attempts originated via Outlook Express, yet I know "The BAT" is more popular. I simply would not take the software used into account as a factor when estimating the probability of a scam unfolding.
One could even argue that someone who uses Outlook Express is better equipped than the rest because it requires more computing power, and therefore must be a financially sucessful scammer.
Speaking of the "Opera" browswer, just saw this article on slashdot.org this morning.
Opera released V8 of their browser, and have gotten 600,000 downloads in a couple of days. the CEO stated that if they download over a million in 4 days (that's this Saturday), he will swim from Norway to the USA, making a stop in Iceland to see his mum.
Perhaps someone can help me with a closely related problem. I now check all IP addresses of initial incoming emails from FSU "girls". When I see a "point of origin" from outside the FSU (usually, these come from the "good ol' USA"), I naturally become very suspicious! But I haven't been able to determine if this DEFINITELY indicates non-FSU origin, or if it is only one non-definite factor, among many. Can someone who really understands the "inner workings" of the email system explain the significance of my findings?
Hey Guys, nobody pointed this out,
The thing is whether the lady you write to is having a computer or not of her own / her friends to use !!!
If she says she is writing from an internet cafe, she CANNOT USE BAT! OR OUTLOOK EXPRESS ! I have found most Russians using The BAT ! and Ukrainian ladies using OUTLOOK EXPRESS. I do not know why this is.
If she says she is writing from the internet cafe, the X-mailer CANT be BAT or OE, because she cant download it into the computer she is assigned to for the moment, she has to use WEB-MAIL (the header X-mailer = WEBMAIL VERSION etc will be there ).
NOBODY ON THIS FORUM POINTED IT OUT, AS A VALID WAY TO DETECT SCAMMERS !
RAJ GOLDWIN
If a girl has a laptop and goes to any Wi-Fi spot she can get email through OE, Mozilla, Outlook, The Bat, Mail.ru, Hotmail.com it doesnt freaking matter, unless she says she doesn't have a computer.
Better is to grab the IP address, and do an IP Trace on it. A geolocational IP address tracer will give you the country, state and city, find out what host served that IP address.
First is to find out if she says she has a laptop. A scammer will say no, in order to make you feel she needs your help in getting one...
What about Microsoft Outlook, my Krivoy Rog girl has always used it, server IP is always the same and geographically traced/routed to Krivoy Rog..she claims to write from an internet cafe. IP trace shows isp is pretcher net in Dneproptrovisk, nearby major city 130 km away routed to and from server in Krivoy Rog. The server IP she sends mail up to is static and is in a batch range of reserved ip addresses for class c private networks.
Who is search through IANA..Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, international authority that assigns all IP addresses does not identify private owner of the private network she uses. The IP address is 192.168.88.195 and identified as part of a free mail address run by pretcher.dp.ua Any of you guys more learned than me shed some more light on this ip address. It is sent to the pretcher server "zeus" which has an IP address of 91.196.80.2 before it is sent from there to me. Krivoy Rog appears to be a proxy address from where it is sent to the pretcher net mail server.
I got a very big thankyou when she got her magnum darts set present from me on last Friday, sent to check her out..she says she has got the best darts set in K.R now..not much for me to buy and send it to the poor girl out of genorosity of my heart..I hope its a good move but gut tells me in long run, I will have egg on my face and feel stupid..time will tell here for sure!
I am very sceptical and suspicious..a small gift that she likes might reveal something more.
I feel like Professor Snape in Harry Potter 3 when he taps on the magical map of Hogwarts Castle held by Harry Potter with its contents invisible, when he taps it with the wand and says "Reveal" and the map shows him bull shit and insults him..this is how I feel about K.R girl..I don't know enough and I am unsure of her, I have no doubt she is a real woman from Krivoy Rog but what is actually going on in her mind and in the background, I don't know..I am just a suspicious dude when it comes to girls, especially ones that don't reveal there mysteries to me! I call her "mysterious girl"..it could be a very bad sign and by communicating with her and sending her gifts, I am going against "red flag" warnings and "gut feelings" and committing "cardinal sins in internet dating" but with no solid evidence ( actually really nothing to prove she's bad ) of any wrong doing or intent by her, yet!
She could be the greatest find of my life and bring me happiness rest of my life ( sure we would all love to think that but lets come down from the clouds and look at the girl and not the body ) if I do go visit her down the track or she could be the greatest scammer in disguise and I could really get hurt here..the pitfalls of risks of meeting fsu girls on the net!
I expect comments from jetmba, adman, nasfan..wtf? when I am going to see this girl?..make up your mind man!..,trouble is I don't have a one track mind, more than one track in there and I have not decided or indecided as to which track I am going to put my future train on!
Something further. I downloaded and installed more advanced new IP tracing software. The IP address of 91.196.80.2 is a mail/internet server located about 15 numbers up from where she does live in Krivoy Rog which is connected to a private network of computers, it is an actual internet cafe she uses in one of its main central streets..its registered and geo location is K.R with a local contact telephone and admin person registered.
An internet cafe is a private network of computers sharing one central mail and internet server with a static IP address on the internet and she uses the same computer all the time, she must reserve it at certain times as it has her free mail account on it.
The shared computers is like a sub-network seperated physically from the internet by the central server which assigns reserved ip addresses away from the internet for each computer connected to it.
Its a real internet cafe, walking distance from her apartment.
Its getting a little bit more encouraging, she claims she has no computer of her own and is trained as an accountant but does clerical work for one of the iron ore mining companies there that is state owned.
Time will tell if I am a dick head or not but some guys already think here, that I am a paranoid dick head but I won't mince words..the hell my ex put me through, nobody would have wanted to be in my shoes and thus I am naturally more reserved and cautious with women..hell I don't want to go through all the shit of divorce and failed relationships again..its not nice..its a horrid experience, the years 2002 and 2003 were "annus horribilis for me, completely" and I will never forget it..2 years of emotionally meat grinding shit, fighting over property, kids and contact in the courts...it wrecked my health!
Something further. I downloaded and installed more advanced new IP tracing software. The IP address of 91.196.80.2 is a mail/internet server located about 15 numbers up from where she does live in Krivoy Rog which is connected to a private network of computers, it is an actual internet cafe she uses in one of its main central streets..its registered and geo location is K.R with a local contact telephone and admin person registered.
An internet cafe is a private network of computers sharing one central mail and internet server with a static IP address on the internet and she uses the same computer all the time, she must reserve it at certain times as it has her free mail account on it.
The shared computers is like a sub-network seperated physically from the internet by the central server which assigns reserved ip addresses away from the internet for each computer connected to it.
Its a real internet cafe, walking distance from her apartment.
Its getting a little bit more encouraging, she claims she has no computer of her own and is trained as an accountant but does clerical work for one of the iron ore mining companies there that is state owned.
Time will tell if I am a dick head or not but some guys already think here, that I am a paranoid dick head but I won't mince words..the hell my ex put me through, nobody would have wanted to be in my shoes and thus I am naturally more reserved and cautious with women..hell I don't want to go through all the shit of divorce and failed relationships again..its not nice..its a horrid experience, the years 2002 and 2003 were "annus horribilis for me, completely" and I will never forget it..2 years of emotionally meat grinding shit, fighting over property, kids and contact in the courts...it wrecked my health!
I wander if I can change my user name here to "paraniod aussie" or some of you guys here might think "aussie dickhead" is more appropriate..ha..ha!
I don't what I am doing here..sometimes I get sick of surfing e-bay and buying stuff of it all the time so I come here and whine and write crap ( so some of you's think) or go and downlaod music or some porn or I am "son of borredffuka"!
Come on guys, stop picking on and insulting each other and lets do something constructive here in this forum, giving the right, sensible and balanced advice on fsu and foreign girls as a whole..everyone will have a different opinion and this is one of the most open and unmoderated forums to support it.
Somethings said about me wanting to go on sex trips to the FSU is utterly stupid for example..no Australian man because of time, distance and huge expense ( a trip and 1 month stay in Ukraine can cost about $8000 AUD, about 2 months salary before tax on the average income here ) is going to spend this on a fook trip there when you go to the local brothel and defrustrate yourself for about $120 for 45 minutes in a regulated by the state enviroment, yes licensed brothels are legal here where I live and regulated and inspected.
An Aussie guy will spend 8 grand going over seas to look for a wife and life long partner, thats what its about..not a fook trip!
I am going to follow up on my Krivoy Rog girl and arrange a phone call, yes she has given me her private home telephone number ( its a landline, not a cell number and I checked it and it rings but she is not home at the moment ) and address and wants to talk to me and I will see when she comes back from Mariupol next week, she was on leave from her work. She went to Mariupol to participate in a ladies dart competition on 7th September and to have holiday by the sea, she wrote that to me.
I will cautiously see where it goes, what language barriers there is and if she understands me on the phone for a start!
Aussie, I never thought you were a sex tourist. But with the amount of people who just skim through posts and jump way off to delusion island? It's easy to see how flakes creep into the marriage agency system and give the rest of us a bad name.
I will tell you honestly, the hottest girl I am writing to on here, mentioned it's her primary concern, because she had some joker leering all over her when the guy did finally come to visit her in person. She was pretty sure he was a sex tourist. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, maybe he was a simple flake that would never have had a shot with a girl like her in the US or AUS, most likely...
We like to think all girls are potential scammers -- they think we are all potential casual sex tourists...
If your girl is legit and she really is into darts and you got her that darts set? Your in like Flynn...
Agreed - each girl has her own take on language barriers. Some are fine with basic choppy words and phrases and using translator devices, and some aren;t and get flustered quickly.
Apal, I found Miss K.R is a reported scammer ( 4 reports on her but newest nearly 2 years old ), spidered 50 search engines with new software and found the scamming bitch.
It can not be trusted. Zebra does not change its stripes, not even after 2 years, once a scammer, always a scammer, like a thief, once a thief, always a thief!
She was kicked off a dating site for wrong doing and questionable ethics.
The plugs been pulled on that one and I don't feel bad at all..actually relieved to catch before I spent too much money on her.
The morals of Ukraine and FSU women on the internet, many questionable, very few can ever be trusted!
Without engendering trust, no relationship can ever happen!..oh they try to fool you to get you to trust them and hand over money.
What kind of girls ( some can go to such lengths, marry a guy on a fiance visa, come to his country, spend the necessary 2 years to get a green card or whatever and then dump him and clean in him out financially and never loved him, just the money ) can do these things to honest men and sleep at night soundly!
They won't be getting me..FSU girls are off my agenda. Don't want to get involved in that part of the world with ladies anymore and Miss Krivoy Rog was the last one!
I will have a break and look at Asian women,now, plenty living in Australia that are single or divorced, most immigrants here are from Asia nowdays and if you have to travel over to Asia its far less expensive and easier than FSU from Australia.
My recommendation to any Australian guys visiting this forum thinking about finding/marrying an FSU women..don't bother, there is far less expensive and better options than that and theres too much red tape with immigration of these women and most visa rejections with them, thats why they make up less than 5% of the annual fiance visas granted here annually.
The Bat E-mailer is commonly used by scammers and gangs but I agree its not conclusive proof of a scammer.
Its popular software, easy to use and inexpensive which was developed in the Czech Republic, I believe and is well liked by Russians etc.
You can easily set it up to work with FSU free mail servers and to send multiple e-mails and you don't need to be an I.T Specialist.
Cheap, user friendly, works with all free mail, multiple e-mails, built in intelligent designing of e-mails ( got foreign language spelling and grammar checker I believe )..its an affordable easy e-mail solution for our FSU comrades.
and makes it hard to trace e-mails to there real source..great for scammers as well as real people.
Its so good, I might even use it myself..better than microsoft shit!
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