All online dating sites suffer from dating scammers, 99 percent of the emails are hoaxes designed by professional Internet criminals says Elena Petrova the founder of Russian Brides Cyber Guide, Prweb.com Website reports.
Internet criminals use sophisticated scripts and custom-built software to contact thousands of male users of Internet personals, creating fake Russian women identities and requesting money for airplane tickets.
Once swindlers find out a contact they start bombarding it with dozens of emails promising love, passion, sexual pleasures or whatever the man wants. Alluring photos are always attached. Most of the men do not pay any attention to this but some of them do.
Those men think it is enough to exchange a couple of emails and to send some money for a ticket to meet the one. It doesn`t work like this— fiancee never comes.
Dating scams may be huge. One group of criminals arrested in Russia made more than $1 million by stealing from its victims. Although it is not always Russian scammers, an American man was jailed for conducting a Russian brides scam and defrauding more than 250 victims.
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