Wessman, I'm not sure if this is a scam or not, at least the situation is a rather suspicious one. One thing I can assure you of, Internet cafes or clubs work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. the have 2 shifts a day usually, and each shift lasts 12 hours.
NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER EVER EVER send money to a woman you have never met before!!!!!!!!
You're setting yourself up for a nasty fall and when you find yourself scammed, embarrassed and alone you will, like many others before you, start making blanket statements about how all FSU women are scammers just because you're too stupid to recognize one who is.
Your mother may be a saint, but she raised and abosolute moron with no street/internet smarts whatsoever....and don't blame her, either!!
This is all your fault...
DONT send a dime. If you do, dont say we didnt warn you. Take it from those of us with the experience. NO WOMAN will ask you for a dime without meeting her face to face first. Mark my words, I tell you the truth.
Hello, my name is Lilia. I’m the manager of marriage agency “Fortune” which is located in Kiev and affiliated with Anastasia. When message from Steve appeared on this forum Olga from Anastasia got in contact with me and asked for a copy of this lady’s passport. I do repeat for everybody that before a registration of a new lady-client and putting her profile on the Anastasia website we check lady’s passport and take a copy if it. So, I sent a copy of Lana’s passport to Anastasia. After they’ve received it and checked all data, which were the same, they called me and asked to call Lana and find out if she knows Steve. Lana agreed that she knew him but according to her words it was a pro forma marriage and he knew she attended a marriage agency and was not against this. But she doesn’t want to show her private life on the whole world and that’s why, she doesn’t want to reply Steve on this forum - that is the reason why I’m writing this. Concerning everything, what was said above we can come to a conclusion: we do exactly what we promise to our clients- we check ladies information before putting their profiles on the web, we meet these ladies personally to make sure they look as on their professional photos, we translate & deliver the letters. In order to stop all this I will ask Anastasia to delete Lana ID 60524 from their site. After all I think it’s wrong to call Anastasia a SCAM. Steve, I think after receiving a copy of Lana’s passport, which Anastasia is supposed to send you by email, you’ll change your mind about the whole Anastasia system.
Wessman somewhere i read the same kind of story that you are trying, i'am not very much expecting results for you unless the police wants to do something about it. (which they don't comment from a agency from the ukrain was "the ukrain police think it is a good thing to take money from those rich westeners".
Towns like lughansk and personaly i believe yoskar-ola are completley taken over by the organisations, so postoffice won't help, telephone agency won't help, bank airports and others don't help definition even if they are sympatatic.
Russians have zip codes just like you maybe that is a way of finding out which Berezvoka she lives.
I've a question about money sending.
The general rule of thumb seem to be never ever send any money, or never ever send any money unless you've met the girl and know to trust her.
But some girls might be for real having problems paying for internet acces or stamps, in one of the succes stories on the internet the man mentioned that he almost lost his girl when he mentioned these rules to her.
How to recognize truth from fiction? (O.k. i know you are in truble if the agency writes or e-mails you on behalf off there girls especially if they charge a bundle (like $70 per month for the girl or several dollars for them to write to you))
Does anyone have experience with Northern Palmira from sint petersburg?
http://www.northernpalmira.com/index.asp?exe=letter_preview there last line on this page is:
"The forwarding of the letter with the reply to You - FREE OF CHARGE " If i understand correct the lady does not earn any money from it but also has no cost from it. (delivery times are very reasonable)
Ron, My only exception to the rule about not sending money would be if I have already agreed to visit the woman and she needs money for continued correspondance. And that meeting is no more than a couple months away and letter fees are reasonable. I would have also had to talk with her via telephone. I could still end up be scammed but not for much. Too many people are out looking for scammers instead of looking for women. There are many good stories here about men finding their one and only. Try reading some of those.
Ron,
I would make no exceptions, unless like Dale says, you have irrefutable proof about the lady's intentions, existence and willingness to involve her immediate family in a continuing correspondence and phone communications with you and after a 3rd party (P.I) verification of all facts given to you about her.
As I said many times before "No tiene la culpa el chancho por ser chancho, sino el que le da de comer"....It's not the pig's fault for being a pig, but the one who feeds it.
If the idiotic and naive men who send money to these people took the bare minimum of precautions to avoid being lured into these scams, scammers would be forced to find a different line of work.
Every single one of the women I currently or have ever corresponded with knows without room for misunderstading that I consider cash gifts disrespectful and detrimental to the future of any potential intimate or serious relationship that may develop between us because they create undeserved/unearned financial dependency on her part.
And if any of them tries to disagree with me by presenting what they consider valid arguments, I simply ask them to arrange a conversation with their parents (via independent translator) to discuss the topic openly.
The last request has discouraged two women already from making any financial approaches.
Simply explained, the parents of an honest woman in FSU and many other parts of the world would never stand for the shame caused by asking or accepting cash or valuable gifts from a foreign man nobody in the family have met yet.
Pro Forma marriage? What the hell is that? Is that like kind of pregnant? Maybe that was the marriage I had, it must have been, my wife liked having sex all the time, but it wasn't with me. Maybe that defines pro forma. Next thing Fiance.com is going to have a legal department for our forums!!
Steve please enter rehab and get off the dumb ass pill addiction.
Well, you are able " to discuss beautifully " Russian women!!!! If Russian Russian women such bad also deceive you, what for you get acquainted, come and meet Russian women? Search for women in your country and do not touch Russian, if they such bad.!!!! How you can understand the Russian woman and condemn her{it}? You lived in Ukraine or in Russia? You know about our life? The Russian woman unfortunately has no opportunity to pay many things (tickets, a meeting....) If we had worthy life we would not humiliate ourselves and did not ask you money to road or other things. You come to Russia and wish to meet the beautiful Russian woman who will be for you the cheap housewife in your house and you will have sex. At the first meeting you save on caring and your behaviour very incorrect. How you can write for the whole world about the woman and humiliate her if you know her only a few days? Where your man's advantage???? You speak much and discuss women. You take a detached view of yourselves better and understand inside yourself.
Mimoza are we having a bad day on the PMS train?
Most of the fellows here don't accuse the women of Ukraine and Russia as being rogue women. I think you need to step back and read more threads. First of all it is not in my character to humiliate any woman.You must have obviously had that happen to you.And you sure don't know what a gentleman is. I sure as hell don't need a housewife or cheap sex. Hell if I want that I can go to the local pub spend 100 bucks and it's done. As for understanding your life in your country, I have a clue. I have been to shitholes in my military career that were former communist nations. Try Berberra Somalia, if you think you have it bad where your at. I really don't give a damn what my Russian or Ukrainian lady can afford. If she's interested in me and wants to make my life happy she will have more than she will ever need in love and comfort. Before you accuse a lot of these guys here you better have you shit squared away and your act in order. I know myself and a lot of other gentlemen here are not going to travel half way around the world to blow smoke up someone's ass!!!!Secondly I take it as an insult to the lady I'm communicating with!! She is not looking for a better way of life. She's looking for someone to treat her like a lady. Make her feel like a woman. So evidently something is missing in her life. So Mimoza sit back have a beer pop a Midol and relax.
If you want to be treated like a lady act like one. Also your thread annoys me as bad as the guys that come here and whine about getting scammed!!!!!!
mimoza, you write:
"You come to Russia and wish to meet the beautiful Russian woman who will be for you the cheap housewife in your house and you will have sex."
-movies and news media perhaps suggest that ...(and agree with you [?])
-but life and reality is a bit more varied...
let's get past stereotypes...
-and not all russians sit down on nothing and dance while they drink Vodka...
(and about those bears in the streets...)
1. She is a He, just another Ivan "the not so terrible" mad as a constipated bear that his girlfriend left him for a western man that now treats her like a lady and gives her love, security and safety in his country.
or
2. she is butt ugly 135Kgs russian woman with a behind the size of a british double decker bus (we all know not all russian women are astonishingly beautiful) who is sick and tired of watching the beautiful young women of her country find love safety and satisfaction in the arms of a western man while she is only able to go home with the last drunk in the bar at the end of the night.
which one are you, Mimoza?....Inquiring western minds want to know
sounds to me like the ex-dragon has emigrated!!!....now there is a thought,maybe some enterprising person can arrrange an exchange program between east and west........LOL.
lol@thread.....I think there is too much paranoia about being scammed...in three months I met 5 Russian girls, not one of them(or any girl I corresponded with) ever asked for money, they were all lovely, genuine girls....now I guess I went upmarket and picked girls with high intelligence and good jobs. I nver corresponded with anyone who wanted to leave their country per se, just those that couldn't find a decent man..I have to point out, that Svetlana, who I intend to marry is probably in the top 30% income in her country, that makes her relatively better off than me:-))))....I agree totally with Toad, don't send money to anyone you have not met, or who asks for it. I have to say the scam thing is, I feel a little overblown, their are bad eggs everywhere, but they are in the minority, in my case, I would say, never try to con a con
here here trad.........it's been said many many times before,and the scamming angle should never be taken lightly,but like most guys if you think with head instead of other parts then the chances of it happening to you are greatly reduced.