How to Avoid Scammers

How did scamming start and where did it come from? This is really a silly,or nieve question, would we ask, where did theft come from, or why are some people dishonest? No of course not and ultimately the internet is available to all without discrimination, the good and the bad, the honest and the dishonest. In this context, an absence of scamming, or fraud online would be to say the least strange, or unusual. The real question is how to protect "yourself" from it.

It is an undeniable fact that The Ukraine and other FSU countries have gained a bad reputation through the actions of scammers, but what percentage of the populations of these countries have been involved? In reality a very small number and can we even be sure that these actions have come out of these countries? The truth is we cannot know. 1 person can easily if he, or she wishes post 100 distinct photos and profiles of beautiful women across the net, yes it really is that easy. The truth is scamming will never be erradicted. It is too easy and there are too many people looking to hear that which they want to hear, despite logic and reason dictating that the responses they receive are both unlikely and beyond belief. So far as there are people (mostly men) wanting to believe the improbable, the unbelievable and the impossible, it will continue? Scamming is yet another widely accepted online word, much as geek and surfing the web, but lets be absolutely clear scamming is attempted theft, fraud, or deception.

How easy is it to perpetuate scamming? It's ridiculously easy. The problem is that the internet has been from its inception a channel for the free and open exchange of information worldwide and as such is open to all, the good, the bad and the ugly, without distinction.

What do you need to become a scammer? Actually very few skills and a computer with an internet conection? Put the photo of a drop dead gorgeous woman on the net, pad it out with some wonderful words and that is it. I know that it surprised me to realise just how easy it is for someone, anyone to perpetrate this fraud, but believe me it is.

The collapse of the FSU was when it came sudden and dissordered and for many extreme finacial hardship set in. Yes there are a, a minority that have become rich, or even super rich, but in general these are materially speaking poor countries.

It has become increaingly clear that an incredibly huge number of very beautiful women live in these countries, but equally there are a lot of smart and highly computer literate people also and there you have it. The beginning of scamming from the FSU. My area of expertise is The Ukraine and within this country the phenomenon of scamming maybe started in Lugansk,, a quite small city, way down in the south east of The Ukraine, it is an area, that until recently was famous for its mineral wealth and mining.

Lugansk has now become famous both within The Ukraine and among many men across the world, why? It was the address used by so many scammers over the years. Is there something different, or distintive about Lugansk? The noticable distinction is not that these ladies are very beautiful, no it is the fact that there are so many of them and as any visitors soon realises they are everywhere. It can be quite a shock for the guy on his first visit? There is nothing special about this city. There are many bigger, better and more beautiful Ukrainian cities. No it simply became the first city to be associated with this phenomenon. My friends from this city tell me that the practise of scamming began about 10 years ago, within Lugansk and these guys made a lot of money.

What did it take, it was so easy. How easy is it to post online a photo, a photo of a beautiful woman? Yes its that simple and were there an internet connection, it could as easily be done from the Artic circles, as from Paris, or London; find some nice words to say and that was it. We men have always been attracted to a pretty face, a finely shaped female body and so in the early days it was jackpot time. The beauty of the ladies posted on the net led to a swarm of interest and traffic and the recipients, men or women (who will ever know?) could not believe their luck and soon the money began to pour in.

Whilst quite clearly scamming is both moraly deplorable and unacceptable, we have to realise that the FSU countries do not share the same material benefits that we in the West have become accustomed too. The one asset they have and had was an enormous pool of beautiful women. The victims? How were they able so easily to dupe, or rob so many, so quickly? They offered dreams, often unrealistic and unrealisable dreams and played upon such human emotions as the need for love, or lonliness. The guys caught out were, in general guys from the West, guys from the relatively rich countries. Suddenly the beauty of the women of The Ukraine had a value, became a saleable item and the Internet made it possible.

Who is to blame, the beautiful women, or the gullible guys? It seems to me to be a 50/50 situation and if you are a guy that has been duped, I am sorry, but that is how it seems to me.

Now the plain fact is that The Ukraine and other former Soviet Union countries are very rich in beautiful, cultured and very intelligent women and for a variety of reasons they are open to finding a man from without their borders. How to find and contact one?

There are now some very successful and huge dating sites worldwide. These sites are now huge with millions of users around the world and it is largely due to their, efforts, profesionalism and integrity that online dating is now mainline and socially acceptable. Why should you not seek your Russian, or Ukrainian lady from these sites? Due to their own success they are all automated and self registering systems and whilst I know they have very stringent built in safegaurds and controls, a clever scammer ( and most are very clever) can slip through and into their system? They are dependent on trust, on good will and upon honesty and whilst they have both stringent and strong safeguards, they cannot within their systems police their membership.

Russia & The Ukraine have to be considered as distinct and apart, in part due to the poor reputation they have (in my opinion unfairly) aquired and it is only through a very personal one on one process of verification and validification that you can feel both confident and secure. A Ukraine based dating, or matchmaking agency that physically interviews each individual lady, photographs each individual lady and establishes the authtenticity of each individual lady before allowing them to enrol. There is quite obviously substancially more work in a tightly controlled Dating Agency in which each woman is personally interviewed before being accepted and this will be reflected in the membership fees. Equally if you need to find your soulmate at no cost a Russian woman is not for you, as the very cost of visiting her and helping move country will not be cheap! No with a good Russian, or Ukraine based Agency at least you can be sure that it is the real thing. So you pay your money and you make your choice.