http://i.imgur.com/EWwAWgk.jpgUkraine: Reinforced alertness.
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Well. I am from Ukraine, and I came to America five years ago. Basically, it is not safe to visit Ukraine period. You can get robbed in the middle of the capital. The police is corrupt.. For example if you get stopped for speeding, you just give the guy a bottle of vodka and you are good to go. You know what I mean? Ukraine is where the freedom is in my opinion. Go anywhere, do anything. Crime rate however is very high. For example where I was from it wasn't that safe to walk around with a cell phone outside. I am sure it is the same way right now as it was before. If you go outside make sure you don't have any electronics with you.. It will get stolen on the first day.. I am not trying to scare your or anything, but that is just the way it is there. By the way, I was living in a city called Zaporozhye.
Danger signals
These presented to you are dangerous situations, those of tricksters and with risks of rip-offs:
The Ukrainian girl after a few contacts will ask you for money for the visa.
This is a 99% con trick after you send the money she runs away and you will not be able to contact her again.
Don't send money, in general these requests are around about 300/500 Euros or dollars but could also be only 100, don't send money.
The Ukrainian girl after a few contacts will ask for money for her mother who needs to buy expensive medicine. This is a 99% con trick, after you send the money she runs away and you will not be able to contact her again.
A wedding agency gives you an appointment with Ukrainian girls only saying that they have agreed to meet you, of which you have only seen them in photos. You arrive for the appointment and don't find the girls in the photos. We will call this a deception instead of a swindle but you have paid money to the agency and you will get to know only girls that are in the agency and not the beautiful ones you have seen in the photos.
Websites that sell e-mail addresses
Attention with these sites, it's very probable to be cheated (50% but not the fault of the sites) from letters very feminine but written by men or also by women that live on one's sentimental wits to swindle money from its victims.
How to behave oneself, to invite the girl to present herself near a web cam to see her while talking on the telephone or to say that you have a friend in that town who could meet her.
Never give information of credit cards
I believe that this rule is well-known by all but it is always better to remember it.
Personal and Weddings Agencies
This is a particular key, rich of uncertainty.
There are many serious agencies and as such not serious.
From those not serious the major dangers are:
- Professional escort girls that make the lure
- False appointments with non-existent girls
- Appointments of love that work out to be payment appointments
- Fixed payment without resulting in a meeting.
Advice is always to rely on agencies with premises also in your country of origin or with secure references and documentations of true and real experiences.
Edited by rbp, : No reason given.