Detecting and Avoiding Russian Dating Scams

The growing concern around Russian dating scams begs the question; how can you detect a scam and avoid being a victim? While there are no guarantees, you can make yourself a hard target and scare off scammers. Here are some tips:

1. Dating Site: Use only reputable sites specialized in Russian brides and arranging meetings. Their fees help eliminate people with twisted intentions. Also, by using a credit card, a member leaves a trail that can be traced back to him or her.

2. Language skill: Typically, a Russian girl will not be a proficient English speaker, unless she is a language student/graduate or has been abroad.

3. Call her: Ask to give her a call. If she refuses to give you her number after a reasonable length of communication, makes excuses, or insists that you only call at a particular date and time, be very suspicious.

4. Non personal communication: Look for generic emails and letters. If she only refers to you by name in the greeting and never in the body of the email, that email might be going out to a bunch of guys (other potential victims). Ditto if you write about specific day to day things and only receive general responses.

5. Pictures: Having emerged from behind the iron curtain not long ago, technology in Russia is not yet of first-world standards. If the picture is magazine cover quality, something may not be straight. The same goes for the person in the picture.

6. Ask for pictures from real-life situations or even different phases of her life â€“ in the kitchen, with buddies, from a few years ago, with family, and other day to day situations. These would be hard to fake.

7. Visit her: Insist on visiting her in her own country. Tell her this is the only way to find out if the two of you are truly compatible. If she becomes elusive or cuts communication you know what that means.

8. If you are 50 years old or more and an attractive woman in her twenties or thirties suddenly shows interest in you, donâ€™t flatter yourself (no offense intended). Not impossible but ask yourself, why you?

9. If someone claims to fall in love with you after a few emails, be on guard.

10. Do not send her money for visa or air ticket! Insist on meeting her in her own country first. Donâ€™t be surprised if she disappears at this point, if she is not for real that is.

Remember, there are thousands of Russian girls who are sincere and of honest intentions. So donâ€™t let Russian dating scams deter you from going for what you want. Just approach the market with your mind as well as your heart.

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