Love and deception on dating sites

Marina Kokhanova, the author of the novel "Scammers Like You оr / or Love is a Deceiving Country", tells about online dating, love and fraud, as well as about the book itself.

David, 50, Romano di Lombardy. Regione Lombardia. Italy:

"My love! We're terrified here. Please, I need your prayers. We are in a very serious problem and we need God's intervention.

The engine compartment, where the ship's brain is, is a very serious problem. We do not know what to do, but nearby, we have just received information that there are sea pirates from Indonesia blocking the sea, and they are 312 km from us. It is not safe and we are afraid of a pirate attack.

We have called for a rescue team, but we have yet to get a response from our headquarters. Honey, my problem now is my money (430,000) four hundred and thirty thousand Great British pounds that I was carrying in my cabin safe. I don't want them to be stolen from me in the event of any attack.

I wanted to use this money to buy oil in barrels from Australia to supply a company in Mexico, and I already had a contract. I don’t know what to do now?

Please, I want to send you the money quickly, so only you can help me to secure it in your place while I have a chance to meet with you. I know that we have not met each other, but I trust you and I know that you will never disappoint me. I learned to accept life as it happens.

I have contacted a security firm and they are asking for information by which they can find the recipient. Honey, please send me your information quickly so that I can send you money immediately through the security company: your full name, address, phone number, e-mail.

The person who loves you! "

Such impressive letters are often received by women who decide to find their soul mate on dating sites. The very plot of the letter, you see, is already a story for a whole book. After talking with a number of such people on dating sites, I decided to write a book.

The basis for the plot of the book is the very correspondence with the scammers, I tried not to change their author's handwriting - to give excerpts of letters and messages as they are - with machine translation errors, with all the incredible twists and turns of events that occur in the lives of these men.

But the book itself is not only the stories of scammers, but also the story of how women believe scammers. Surprisingly, on the same Internet you can find a lot of stories of real women who believed and began to help, primarily with money, to solve the problems of people who were practically unfamiliar to them.

The heroes of the novel "Scammers Like You оr / or Love is a deceiving country": Gavin, Martin, Jean and Ken.

All these men, fictional characters, they are unreal in life, although they carry on active correspondence on dating sites. And the photographs of these men, which you can see on the pages of the book, in fact, have nothing to do with them. The photographs show other people, masks behind which the true "heroes" are hidden. Their real faces are not so easy to see.

So who's in the photos? - readers often ask. The photographs that scammers pass off as their own can be either photographs of ordinary people, or photographs of actors, frames from films. Scammers always hide their real faces.

The men in the photographs are always handsome with Hollywood smiles, very often in military uniform.Fraudsters like to pose as the military, as this helps explain to them the fact that money on their account very often needs to be sent to countries in Africa or Asia, although they themselves introduce themselves as Americans or British.

Here is one such story - the story of a fictional character who could have been a military doctor, but turned out to be only a fraud from Ghana:

NEW ZEALAND. GAVIN CLIFFORD

On February 22nd, a warship moored in a drizzling rain on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island — 1,300 miles in a straight line from New Plymouth.

A warm gusty summer wind was blowing. The pilot, who had come aboard half an hour earlier, ordered the release of three couplings of the anchor chain, and now the ship was slowly sliding towards the dock, slowing down with a huge anchor.

Gavin Cole, the military doctor of this ship, before mooring, changed his everyday medical clothes, namely a shirt and canvas trousers, for a snow-white, tight-fitting figure of his stately figure, the uniform of a military naval doctor.

He thought that it was very good that they arrived at their destination during the day, which means that in the evening it would be possible to eat on the shore without the smell of salt and sea. With such pleasant thoughts about the upcoming dinner, Gavin quickly made his way to the deck.

Muffled, barely audible sounds were heard: the splash of water and the creak of a tree somewhere below, and from above came the melancholy cry of birds rushing about unknown origin, perhaps albatrosses. He involuntarily recalled, once in his youth, the lines he had read, which remained in his memory for many years: "The voice of the port is the voice of loneliness."

He thought: "How many ports, which I went to meet during the twenty-three years of my service, spoke to me in this voice?"

In general, my book "Scammers Like You оr / or Love is a Deceiving Country" is a novel with elements of a detective story. A book that can be read on the road - in the airport lounge, on the train. I didn’t write something hard to read, the book can be taken as entertainment. However, I would still like to draw attention to the problem of Internet fraud, tell women about the dangers that can await them on dating sites.

Tell about a problem that is rarely mentioned. But this problem is urgent, and especially in our country - in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine. Many victims of Internet scammers live in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Many of the women, having become victims of fraudsters, also find themselves in debt - they owe the banks, for the loans they have taken, their relatives, for the money they borrowed. Not to mention the moral damage - single women on dating sites are looking for love, but they are faced with deception. Fraudsters remain elusive.

The book "Scammers Like You оr / or Love is a deceiving country" can be presented to your mothers and sisters, work colleagues, acquaintances and girlfriends - all those who are in search of their soul mate on dating sites.

Perhaps, after reading this book, women will not be so gullible. Forewarned is forearmed. After all, the book "Scammers Like You оr / or Love is a Deceiving Country" was written on the basis of genuine materials of virtual correspondence of one of the many women in the real world and her multifaceted correspondence partners - men of the virtual environment.

If you open the e-mail box of many women in the world, then it is possible to find a large number of letters from potential candidates for "serious" marriage relations, and if you look deep into such correspondence, you can open a whole galaxy of modern scammers on free dating sites, or otherwise. called scammers.

The book "Scammers Like You оr / or Love is a Deceiving Country" can be found at the following links: