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Russian-detective.com offers advice on Russian dating scams. This has been a growing phenomenon over the past few years, and is not just limited to Russian scammers.

Some go the route of spamming the same emails to thousands of addresses, others set up fake profiles on dating websites. The aim is always the same – to make the unsuspecting male fall in love as quickly as possible and part with his money.

The scam usually involves asking for money for one of the following reasons -

- passport, visa, tickets, “travel insurance”
- internet cafe / marriage agency expenses
- presents for herself and her family at holiday times
- luxury items (cell phones, clothes, etc)
- emergency medical expenses for the girl or her relatives (illness, car accident, death in the family)
- car accidents (the girl borrowed a car and wrecked it), apartment expenses (rent, repairs)
- bail money / to pay fine to trying to take some item of value out of the country
- ransom money / financial debt to mafia

Russian Detective offers all the advice you need to be aware of these dating scams (not only Russian). They also offer an investigation service, which is available in 3 steps:

Step 1: Checking the Internet to see whether the letters you are receiving have already been used in scams before. This step alone will weed out about 80% of the scammers. Cost: $52

Step 2: Performing an Address Bureau Check to verify this person’s full name, date of birth, and the latest registered address. That will confirm that you are writing to a real person, not a fictitious story character. Costs: $75 in Russia, $85 in Ukraine.

Step 3: Performing a flower delivery to this person’s place of residence in order to take a picture of the recipient (with the flowers). If all other checks have failed to indicate any scam, this last part will provide you with an opportunity to verify that the person on the pictures is actually the person who is corresponding with you.

Step 1 actually seems like a bit of a scam itself. Check the internet??? Can’t the person who thinks he might be being duped do that himself? That’s how a lot of people end up here on Highena – by googling a snippet of an email they’ve received.

Anyway, apart from that, Russia Detective is a great source for being vigilant against dating scam emails and dating site scammers.

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