Sammy J.

John B is quite correct, this is a total scam but I would disagree that it is clever, they are not that good. In my case I deserved it for not having my attention on the job.

Contact was made through a reputable dating site, the pictures were good and not too many. After a number of interesting email exchanges she suggested that we use her personal email address for ease and speed of use, I agreed.

After a few more emails she suggested using a special site that did online translations of all the messages. As JB states it is only 0.06 euros per word, innocent enough...

A man can only register on the site at the invitation of a woman, and she has only two invites! Then the scam increases, the site charges a membership fee and then to translate her messages to you and vice versa. The messages begin as short notes but she will ask a lot of questions which require a long reply. She will carefully avoid such things as talking via the net or anything else that would expose her identity [or is she a male?]. The translation costs can rise astronomically.

Just for fun I told her the date and time that I would land at Minsk airport and at which hotel to meet me but that was completely ignored. Being very busy I just dropped her down the box 13 hole but still the messages kept coming.

Checks were run on the site, it is well protected and nothing can be copied for verification elsewhere. The site used for translations is named Online-Translate but do not bother searching. It is the same outfit as Lovestories. Love and the translations are abysmal. Some sentences are by a person that cannot speak fluent English and some are machine generated, possibly google and some sentences have a mixture of both!.

Reverting to the reputable dating site it was found that her profile was suspended by that site.

Asking questions on the scam site [Lovestories. Love] brings on a dose of insanity. Any straight question will NOT receive a straight reply and resembles a chat with a mentally disturbed person that cannot concentrate on the matter in hand.

Naturally the scam sites Lovestories. Love and Online-Translate, are very short on contact details or company names and addresses. I have a crew working on them but have every certainty that the sites are run from a dirty back room somewhere in the Ukraine and at the first sign of exposure they would very quickly move to another dirty back room.

There was a small amount of credit in my 'translation' account and some was used to contact some other advertising females on the scam site and one actually replied in English. To date I have been too busy to follow it up. The staff in that dirty back room must be very busy as well...

Should anyone like to know more I will only charge 0.05 for every word in the messages
WHAT A DEAL! Ho ho ho ho hohohohooho...

Thats it for now, if it turns out that she is a male and he is tracked down then he will never write another scam message...