Believe us or not, but even such harmless way of communications, as Internet chat room carry a lot of danger for your purse, especially if you are wealthy and single. Yes, the main field for scamming is various dating agencies, which suit these purposes ideally, but some scammers prefer chats as quicker and safer place for fooling people.

Yes, chatrooms are a good hunting ground for various criminals. They act by contacting a possible victim, pretending being a woman (it is even unnecessary to actually be a girl for the scammer), who looks for a husband from U.S.A. or other wealthy countries. After several "intimate� discussions the victim might provide her with his e-mail address and, after this happens, chat becomes unnecessary. Victim starts exchanging letters with his "future-bride�, receiving her pictures (these usually have nothing in common with the scammer), etc. All this has only one dangerous purpose of getting money from you! There can be a number of ways for doing that; the girl can, for example, ask you for money, which is necessary for making her a visa for arriving at your place. If a careless and simple-hearted person sends the required amount of money, he can be almost 100% sure he won't get them back, as well as he won't see the bride.

In case you refuse to send money or upset the scammer in some other way, it is very possible to get an e-mail message with a virus inside it. One more way of revenge is adding victim's e-mail address to the Spam-database. This will result in getting dozens of unsolicited e-mail messages.

All in all, as you can see, scammer's activities do promise a lot of benefits for singles, but in reality they lead to various problems. If you still want to find that "special person� through chatrooms, try using our advice: if you exchange e-mail letters with a girl from chat, in parallel with that try searching additional information about her by yourself. Use every tool that can be useful: scan various dating databases, write to different agencies, etc. Believe us, this is worth it.