E-mail Order Bride: Score or Scam

Online dating is one thing. Online engagements are another. Especially when the blushing bride doesn’t even exist. How would you ever consummate the marriage?

A Canadian man in love with an imaginary Russian woman has helped Yekaterinburg police arrest a couple behind an Internet scam that cheated love-struck foreigners out of thousands of dollars.

Hey, listen, I’m not knocking internet dating. It’s a great way to meet people, especially if you have a busy career and aren’t a fan of the bar scene. But I don’t believe that anyone can really be in love without having met, face to face in the flesh. And to become engaged without having met? Nonsense. And, possibly, a hop, skip, and jump into bankruptcy.

Be wary of anything that seems too good to be true. Typically, it is.

Canadian Helps To Bust False Bride Scam [The St. Petersburg Times]

TAGS: Mail Order Bride
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   MeShell said:

   I hear of wonderful matches made online, do you know of any real success stories?

   Posted at 07:09 PM, on June 6 2005

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