Hello everybody. I joined this site several weeks ago and placed a short post to introduce myself. I had intended to post again with more details but every time I logged in to this site I was sidetracked by all the information and posts on this site.
If I had to sum up my experience so far with one phrase it would be “luck favors the foolish”.
From the start I was lucky. I originally posted my profile on match.com with no intention of looking for someone in the FSU. One of the first responses I received was from a “person?” from the FSU. This turned out to be a scam. It was a very poor and inept attempt. After just a few short letters I received a message that this person had won a lottery. This same message was sent to me 4 different times. My reply was always the same to this message. “Please check your message this is the same message as the previous one” The next new message I received was that “she?” was traveling to Moscow to arrange a visit to me. The next letter I received she ask for 50 euros because her lottery winnings were not quit enough to cover all the expenses.
This was either a poor attempt at a scam or I had been writing and receiving letters in my sleep.
(if that were the case I wish I had copies of them because they must have been very very good).
All of this made me curious about scammers. When I began to research this on the Internet I immediately ran into the MOB business. After extensive Internet research and reading both the negative and positive I decided to give it a try.
I posted my profile on Elena’s models. Suffice to say that if anyone needs proof of why WM are looking for ladies in the FSU all they have to do is compare the results from my Match.com profile and the results from Elena’s models.
I began writing to ladies in different areas of the FSU. After a while I had narrowed this down to several very nice ladies. One special lady in particular had caught my attention. I decided I needed to travel. (With a little prodding from my future fiancé’s friends)
Please understand that the only other country I had been to before was the U.S.A.’s good neighbor to the north, Canada.
Flash forward to my first trip. I arrived at Simferopol in the late evening. I entered the airport building and immediately hear someone pounding on a glass window and saying my name. It was wonderful to see this beautiful lady waiting for me. Within minutes I was in a car traveling to Yalta. This was one of the few times I had doubts about what I was doing. It struck me as we were traveling that I could be going anywhere.
The driver believed speed was needed and it was a rough ride to Yalta.
Thinking back all this could look like some black and white Hollywood movie.
Picture this. Scene 1 a plane lands , it is late at night and it is a little foggy and misty . After leaving the tarmac and entering the airport I am greeted by a beautiful woman with an exotic accent. I am immediately rushed into the night in a waiting car.
Actually if this were a movie about me it would be more of a comedy than suspense.
Everything turned out to be wonderful on this trip and on my next visit also.
My fiancé made all of the arrangements for everything on this trip. She did a very good job.
I know that a lot of people reading this can see how lucky I was.
If I were to correct a few things about how I did this they would be:
A shorter correspondence time.
A more concrete backup plan.
I was very lucky that everything worked out the way it did. I see now that there were many places that I could have gone horribly wrong.
Like I wrote to start this post”, luck favors the foolish “and I can see where I had many opportunities to be the fool. My luck was to find someone who I can trust completely.
As I wait for the K1 visa I realize that the easy part is over and that the hard part will start with her arrival. I plan to use the resources of this site to the up most advantage.
I would like to thank Wayne, Scott, Ken and Dave for welcoming me to the site.
Take care Russ
