A friend of mine got interested in meeting a Russian Woman as well after I married my wife from Ukraine. I knew he was interested and he expressed his interest to join me on a trip to Ukraine. Little did I know he had registered on sites to meet ladies. The other day he contacted me concerning ladies he had been writing to.
I stopped by his house early today and he showed me the emails. He was begining to get concerned about the ladies and said he found it very hard writing to them based on their letters.
He was writing to about 13 ladies. As soon as I saw the letters they instantly all seemed like FORM letters. It just seems the scammers have gone more to the form letter with
insert name here Right away my gut said these were fake.
So we began the process of googling email addresses.
This eliminated half of the ladies right away as scammers. Their emails showed on several scam websites.
6 down 7 to go.
Now I began to take phrases from letters and googled them.
4 of the ladies letters showed up on forums etc... My friend was even getting the letters in the same order. However some got smart enough to switch photos as to ones others posted with the same letters.
Shame I had to ruin the fun. he was only a couple of letters away from eternal love and famous trip to travel agency for a first time meeting in USA.
10 down 3 to go.
Now came time to look at email headers for the last 3 ladies.
IP address assosiated with 2 of the ladies had nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine. In fact they leaded back to USA.
However I know this is not an adzact science but from the letters I told him he could cross them off the list as well. The ladies asked in about every email if he enjoyed traveling which he had answered in at least 4 emails previously. These letters also never seemed more then a prewrite since they went no where and answered nothing nor mentioned one thing he ever asked.
12 down 1 to go.
Now the last one is tricky. Only wrote him one letter so far. The lady has a Yahoo.co.uk email address which usually makes me uneasy when they do not use .ru emails. I know some do this but I have found most to use other emails usually are the scammers. I wonder if this is because those who do so are not even Russian and could not even begin to navigate their way through mail.ru since they cannot read a word of Russian to sign up for an account.
My friend did write to her first and she commented on things he did say. We checked the IP address that sent the letter and it did come from Ukraine where she is supose to be. The letter was in my opinion overly friendly for a first letter. In letter she already called him DEAR. Already mentioned "I hope you will not break my heart" and a few other things I do not remember off hand I thought were too forward for first letter. However it did end in KISS TO YOU.
He will write this one with caution but soon too to say anything.
So out of 13 ladies he was writing we know 12 were scammers and 1 strong possible.
Taking information from here and using the internet it was Amazing to find out he was spending his time writing to all fake Women.
Needless to say he did not feel the same about this adventure by the time I left. I arrived to see my friend happy and excited about the possabilites in front of him to seeing someone completely lost. Although I did not like to see him this way I know if I did not help him to research before hand it would have been alot worse later.
I think at this point I will introduce him to some of my wifes friends.
