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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

FSU internet dating got new spots.

Said Leopard to Baviaan,.. ‘Where has all the game gone?’
And Baviaan winked. He knew…’The game has got into other spots’…
(Rudyard Kipling “How the Leopard got his Spots”)


My Dearly Beloved… well I didn't suppose to start our conversation in such a manner but while thinking over FSU Internet dating I found out that it highly reminds me one of Kilpling's stories – to be exact, the one about the Leopard and his spots – and I'll try to explain you why.

Some time ago I was highly pleased with the situation around FSU e-dating: no prominent fraudsters appeared recently, no men reported of being scammed out of big monies. I supposed it had happened so just because on-line daters began to pay much attention to safety dating tips, and information about scammers was easy to be found and posted all around the net.

But in spite of this tendency some disturbing feeling has appeared. No way a scammer rejects to swindle. There are no fraudsters in the world to let easy money fly away. So, a new type of the dating scam was surely created. But can we define it now? If we don't get any new information about dating criminals and the number of matchmaking agencies and FSU dating sites increases gradually, can we deal with it as with a new kind of fraud? Let's check this spot up.


The spot One. The fraud changes its shape.

And the Leopard scratched his head and said,
‘It ought to be … Zebra; but it is covered all over with
black and purple stripes. What in the world
have you been doing to yourself, Zebra?
Don’t you know that if you were on the High Veldt
I could see you then miles off?..’

‘Yes’, said the Zebra, ‘but this isn’t the High Veldt. Cant’ you see?’

‘I can now’, said the Leopard…
(Rudyard Kipling ‘How the Leopard got his Spots’)


It is common knowledge that no one wants his profit to lessen. Especially the owners of fraudulent FSU dating sites, and swindlers themselves. That's why the scam has turned from a money request for airfare etc. to a common membership (letter translation etc.) fee. And it is easy to be explained why.

To get a money transfer, a fraudster should work day and night trying to persuade a foreign victim in honesty of intentions, send dozens of photos on the very first demand, and wait for at least a couple of months till the time a swindler can finally have the cash in hands (I don't think that nowadays, after reading all those horrible stories on the pages of anti-scam sites like Uaprofiler, someone would send $1500 or more to a total stranger after 2 hours of a video chat or after exchanging 3 letters). So the old way of scamming requires much time, ability and energy to convince a foreigner of the truth of feelings. Also if we add that the percentage of dating scam victims who are ready to transfer money to their virtual brides is very close to zero, it becomes rather clear that it's quite useless for fraudsters to spend much time and skills for long correspondence, as the result of it can be too low to gain some noticeable profit.

What should a smart fraudster do in such a situation? A true scammer would change a way s/he uses to swindle and start sending tens or sometimes even hundreds of profiles to different dating sites to get an assured part of fee for so called letter translation, flower and present delivery etc in numerous affiliate programs of matchmaking agencies. A common letter translation (read ‘writing letter on behalf of a bride’) is from $1 to $7 per letter, a phone translation (read ‘a fraudster speaks with a foreigner on the phone’) is from $2 to $7 per minute, a video chat (read ‘an Internet model is sitting, and a scammer is talking’) is from $5 to $20 per minute etc. And a scammer shouldn't wait for months; the payment for such a service is monthly and quite regular till the time when a dating agency supposes that its affiliate is into a dating scam. But such things don't happen too often, and it is clear why.

There are 3 main types of on-line international matchmaking companies, having the only difference between them in payment, i.e. a goal of payment. All of such companies provide a list of potential partners, but to get in touch with a woman you like, you are gently offered to pay: 1) a subscription fee; 2) for a direct e-mail address and contact information; 3) for each letter you send to her, and her responses. Additionally there is some fee for a video chat and present delivery (if a web-site has an opportunity to provide such a service).

In spite of what type of a Web site you have used (or is using now), there is always a possibility to become a victim of a fraudulent agency, personnel of which posts the ads of non-existing women, having used the images of photo models or just common beauties and bogus biographical data. It is clear that the more women a foreigner finds attractive on the pages of on-line catalog, the more he will pay to the agency for its service, – no matter what for: either a correspondence, or an address, or a membership, or a video chat.

On the other hand you should understand that it's rather hard to check information about people, who registered their ads at the Web sites of matchmaking companies. For being sure in their client's identity, it is necessary for a dating company to keep a whole department of private investigators and even cancel a possibility to register for some categories of people - the unpopular actions, which could lead to a price rise for services and as a result to a reduction of quantity of possible clientele, and, of course, to a smaller profit.

And as we mentioned before, no one wants his profit to lessen, so this spot leads us to another one.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Weekly reviews§ 231


Aleksandrova, Anastasia

Location:Kamyshevka or Moscow, Russia

Contacts: coolsaint265@yahoo.com, dyimovochka@yahoo.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2600


Meteleva, Ekaterina

Location: Omsk, Russia

Contacts: katya85m@rambler.ru

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2612


Tatyana

Location: Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Contacts: dobro.tatyana@gmail.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2657


Svetlana

Location: Lugansk or Skadovsk, Ukraine
Contacts: kiskakiska123@gmail.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2659


Zapirova, Elena

Location: Krasny Chikoy, Russia

Contacts: pearl23sea@yahoo.com ,lovve25jasminne@yahoo.com, crystal23llove@yahoo.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2661


Dibrova, Anastasia

Location: Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Contacts: plinceska1@rambler.ru

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2660


Marina

Location: St.Petersburg, Russia

Contacts: marinama39@yahoo.de

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2632


Maria

Location: Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Contacts: mariyaselyu@yahoo.com, mvasilkova17@gmail.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2658


Victorova, Olga

Location: St.Petersburg or Pavlovsk, Russia

Contacts: olenkaviktorova@yahoo.com, olga.viktorova@yahoo.com, olga.viktorova@yahoo.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2662


Zharikova, Angelica

Location: Cheboksary, Russia

Contacts: anzhelikasen@gmail.com

http://www.uaprofiler.com/profiles/profile.php?id=2572