Seeking love online is now very popular across the whole World, why? It presents so many new and exciting possibilties, but remember it also presents the same possibilities to those that would part you from your money. Do not misunderstand me Online Dating is a fantastic thing that has bought joy and happiness to countless thousands of people Worldwide. No, simply be cautious, take care and use common sense.

Unfortunately Former Soviet Union countries and particularly The Ukraine are way up there in the black lists. So how easy is it for scammers to continue their practices? Ok just to be 100% clear scamming is a form of fraud, cheating, or dishonesty.

How easy is it to perpetuate scamming? It's ridiculously easy. We cannot blame the internet, it is as it was intended to be, a free and open channel of comunication Worldwide, without distinction of borders, or frontiers. It is available to all, without discrimination, selection, or bias. No the onus is on us the users, we must use common sense and be careful and we have the intelligence to do that do we not.

What do you need to become a scammer? Actually very few skills and a computer with an internet conection? Put the photo of a drop dead gorgeous woman on the net, pad it out with some wonderful words and that is it. Yes I know it`s too simple, but believe it, or not, it really it is that simple.

The collapse of the FSU was when it came sudden and dissordered and for many extreme finacial hardship set in. Yes there are a, a minority that have become rich, or even super rich, but in general these are materially speaking poor countries.

Equally, as is now clear, a surprising number of very beautiful women live in these countries and so scamming began. My area of expertise is The Ukraine and within this country the phenomenon of scamming maybe started in Lugansk,, a quite small city, way down in the south east of The Ukraine, it is an area, that until recently was famous for its mineral wealth and mining.

I know this city, I have visited this city, is it special within The Ukraine? Are the ladies here more beautiful than elsewhere? No, it is just another Ukrainian city. My friends from this city tell me that the practise of scamming began about 10 years ago, within Lugansk and these guys made a lot of money.

What did it take, it was so easy. How easy is it to post online a photo, a photo of a beautiful woman? Yes its that simple and were there an internet connection, it could as easily be done from the Artic circles, as from Paris, or London; find some nice words to say and that was it. Guys the world over began writing to these women, sending money, gifts, it was a dream come true, it was too easy.

Whilst quite clearly scamming is both moraly deplorable and unacceptable, we have to realise that the FSU countries do not share the same material benefits that we in the West have become accustomed too. The one asset they have and had was an enormous pool of beautiful women. The victims? How were they able so easily to dupe, or rob so many, so quickly? They offered dreams, often unrealistic and unrealisable dreams and played upon such human emotions as the need for love, or lonliness. The guys caught out were, in general guys from the West, guys from the relatively rich countries. Suddenly the beauty of the women of The Ukraine had a value, became a saleable item and the Internet made it possible.

A delicate subject, but none the less an important issue is who was to blame for this phenomenon? Was it the scammers, or was it the guys that were so easily fooled and deceived? It seems to me to be a 50/50 situation and if you are a guy that has been duped, I am sorry, but that is how it seems to me.

Now the plain fact is that The Ukraine and other former Soviet Union countries are very rich in beautiful, cultured and very intelligent women and for a variety of reasons they are open to finding a man from without their borders. How to find and contact one?

There are now some very successful and huge dating sites worldwide. These sites are now huge with millions of users around the world and it is largely due to their, efforts, profesionalism and integrity that online dating is now mainline and socially acceptable. Why should you not seek your Russian, or Ukrainian lady from these sites? Due to their own success they are all automated and self registering systems and whilst I know they have very stringent built in safegaurds and controls, a clever scammer ( and most are very clever) can slip through and into their system? They are dependent on trust, on good will and upon honesty and whilst they have both stringent and strong safeguards, they cannot within their systems police their membership.

Russia & The Ukraine have to be considered as distinct and apart, in part due to the poor reputation they have (in my opinion unfairly) aquired and it is only through a very personal one on one process of verification and validification that you can feel both confident and secure. A Ukraine based dating, or matchmaking agency that physically interviews each individual lady, photographs each individual lady and establishes the authtenticity of each individual lady before allowing them to enrol. There is quite obviously substancially more work in a tightly controlled Dating Agency in which each woman is personally interviewed before being accepted and this will be reflected in the membership fees. Equally if you need to find your soulmate at no cost a Russian woman is not for you, as the very cost of visiting her and helping move country will not be cheap! No with a good Russian, or Ukraine based Agency at least you can be sure that it is the real thing. So you pay your money and you make your choice.