Safer Date – Overseas Lovers
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
By Yvonne Rice
I am a huge supporter of online dating and chat rooms, having researched more than 6,000 of them world wide and interviewed in excess of 5,500+ online daters. My expertise is in the entire industry which also covers the seedier sides – scammers and sexual predators. I have collaborated with Law Enforcement, Government Agencies, Governments and Communities in order to inform everyone of this unfortunate side to this world.
“Email-order” women or men usually come from poorer counties such as Asia or the Baltic regions—the Russian, Asian or Filipina brides, as they are known. These women and men seek a better life than the one they are living, and who could blame them for that? Unfortunately, a lot of these women and men are exploited, and the bad eggs outperform the good ones. It is a massive problem, and the Internet is rife with dummy “marriage agencies” and speculation of the Russian and Asian mafia involvement, scamming millions and millions of dollars every year from lonely men and women all over the world who just want a permanent partner.
The photographs they show you and sites they sometimes ask you to visit are very tantalizing about how beautiful and easy to get along with these women and men are. As the saying goes, “buyer beware”. There are hundreds of websites with “marriage agencies” on the Internet that will hook you up with your “perfect and beautiful email-order bride”. A lot of them are scams, but even the legitimate ones have people on them ready to scam you unbeknown to these agencies.
But how do you know, for example, that the girl you are corresponding with is a Russian beauty and not a fat, hairy, sweaty Boris? Or that the Asian princess who is in love with you is in fact not a big, fat Mamma who is pretending so she can scam money out of you? Oh? You have seen pictures? So you know they are real? Aaaah . . . well, treasure the memory of your money. You are possibly being taken for a ride. You think I’m joking, don’t you? Well, just keep an open mind about these “Rush’n-to-the-altar-to–marry-you” brides.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of stories of people being scammed around the world that the authorities know about, and they suspect there are as many that they don’t know about.
Here are a couple of questions you should ask yourself:
1. If this person is so destitute, how do they afford to pay for the Internet, even if it is an Internet café? These services are extremely expensive in some countries.
2. If they desperately need money, how have they survived all this time up until they met you?
3. If you asked them for money more than once, would they still want to know you?
So when you receive a contact from someone from overseas, picture this in your mind: picture them (or their Boss) sitting in an Internet café having a lovely, cool drink as they rake in the money from overseas victims. The reason they use an Internet café is not because they can’t afford a computer; they are driving Rolls Royce’s! It’s because if they use a Yahoo or Hotmail address at an Internet café, they are untraceable!
Please feel free to contact me if you need any advice. I am more than to help if I can. The more people that are aware of this – the less it will happen. Internet dating is a fantastic medium to meet new people and possibly find “the one” you seek – millions of people have – so can you. You just need to be aware and do it safely.
Stay safe and make good choices!
Smiles to you,
Yvonne
Yvonne Rice is a former Dating Agency Director and expert in the research of all aspects of the Single Lifestyle. She is a huge supporter of online dating and has researched 5,500+ Online Singles and over 6,000 Online Dating Sites globally. As a result of this research, she is also the Author of two books dedicated to being single and dating online.
Yvonne is also a consultant to various Global Law Enforcement and Government Agencies about Online Safety and Internet Scams that are directed at the Singles Dating, Chat Room and Social Networking Industries.
