Anti-scam. What is scam? Anti-scam strategy

Anti-scam. SCAM? What is scam? Is it really so important to know?

In this case anti-scam knowledge is your weapon.

Scam is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person usually with the goal of financial or other gain.

Some years ago these words "scam, scammers" weren't that familiar to people. Internet, technology itself, and Internet Dating weren't so widespread and developed. But with time the methods of scam become more and more sophisticated, scammers' stories become more and more pitiful, but the most dangerous thing is that scammers not just trim money of someone, they sow feelings of disappointment and diffidence in the hearts of people. Emotional aspect of the scam issue is the most severe. The cases of scam breed anger, hate and fear for serious relationships.

So who are those people who are as cynical as to play with someone else's feelings and emotions?

It may be a surprise to you but scammers are not only women or dating agencies. Most often it happens so that you're deluded by a man, may be even a man from your country (read a story), or a family or a group of people (read a story)

There are even criminal groups (not only in Russia but also in the US) who earn their living by scamming men online.

Scammers often use stolen photos, publish them on the web, invent profiles and then wait until a victim writes to the girls or vice versa, most often scammers are the first to contact men. Of course it's not convenient for people involved into internet scam to answer all the letters in details if they have hundreds of fake profiles online and hundreds of men contacting each fake lady. Scammers use prewritten form letters or even use special scripts that imitate correspondence and you can spend several months chatting with a machine instead of a pretty girl. The girl you see on the photos in this case knows nothing of you or these swindlers and has nothing to do with the fraud.

It may sound ridiculous but some men send thousands of dollars to scammers because they can't realize that they are involved into online scam.

The most frequent money requests from scammers that you may render as scam red flags: :

A girl needs money for her poor ill granny, daddy, sister, her operation etc…
a girl wants to travel to your country but she has not enough money
she has some acquaintances at the embassy who can help with the USA visa for money
there is a travel agency, which can organize a trip to the US
she got in a car accident
she owes money to Russian Mafia

There are so many examples how women can deceive men just making a hint that they need money.

The second kind of scammers is agencies-scammers. In this case the agency provides fake profiles (Read an example story). It can be profiles with stolen photos or profiles of women who are not actually interested in dating (models, clients of photo-studios, girls who were just shot in the city streets). Then the agency settles the correspondence with not existing women, agencies staff writes love letters to clients and the agency gets money for the correspondence, gifts and flowers delivery, travel services.

Sometimes agencies working with real women-clients, but forging correspondence, have a good reputation especially among women, since they (women) don't need to do anything. They don't write letters and get to know their "fiance" only when he has already come to their country being in love with her image from love letters, forged by the agency. Women are even ready to pay to such agencies. If the lady likes the man he will never know that he was deceived. However how deep should be the confusion and disappointment of a man, who finds coldness and aversion from the girl's side after hundreds words of love and admiration, addressed to him on behalf of the girl.

In the case of collusion among the agency and its women-clients the fraud is very hard to reveal, as well as the scam of girls who act by their own, getting gifts and money from a man but then suddenly refusing to continue the relationships. But does a girl deserve to be treated as a scammer just because you were as careless as to wish to spend money on her but then your relationships just didn't come out? Not all the men act with dignity after the breaking up. That's why the girls who cannot be in fact blamed for deliberate fraud get onto Black Lists. On the black lists you can also see the photos of those girls whose fault is only in that their photos were stolen from some site and used for scam by someone else.

For the sake of justice we need to say that not only women appear to be unfair players at the dating scene. Dating sites are often used by men whose aim is far not to find a bride. Such men also appear on their own black lists. Here is one of the examples - http://www.livejournal.com/users/antidate/

So what are the rules that should be followed by all men in order not to become a victim of a fraud?

Read here how to choose a reliable girl.
Read here how to choose a reliable agency.