What
should you do if you are scammed?
Were
you Scammed?
Take
a second and think about what may have just happened. This is a very
important step. What did happen? Are you sure you were scammed? This
might seem to be the dumbest question but in our opinion it should be
asked. All of us see things differently. How many times with work or
family has something happened that was completely misunderstood by others?
Women write to many men because it is the wise thing to do. Whether
they will admit it to you or not. It is because many men write; proclaim
their love and two months later stop writing at all. According to a
1998 report to the US INS only about 4% of all the women posting on
the Internet actually marry and move to the US. We imagine other countries
share similar numbers or lower. So the women do what is best and write
to others and learn about them too. Sometimes a woman is writing to
several men and decides to stop writing to others because she has found
her love and maybe it is not you. Don't think that your gifts sent to
her or time invested means you were scammed. In love and life these
stories play out every day. So while the chances are if you think you
were scammed you were, step back and try to re-evaluate your situation.
Once you proclaim her a scammer you could effectively eliminate her
chances of finding love abroad. Good if she is a scammer, terrible for
her if there was a misunderstanding.
Contact
us!
Contact
us! Send us all information you can about her and your situation. Select
our Submit your Scam link and complete the information. We do require
some minimum information for every submission so please review our form
and be as complete as you can with your information.
Contact
the Agency you found her on.
Contact
the agency itself and report her. Reputable agencies will make sure
that any woman that receives repeated complaints is removed from their
listings. Be clear about what happened and that you hope she will be
removed. Realize that one complaint is not always enough. It is hard
to accept, but they do need some validation and the only way they have
this is by receiving valid complaints from multiple customers. They,
the good agencies, do everything they can and even at one complaint
should begin to observe her more closely. It does them no good and only
hurts them if these women are with their site. Of course if somehow
the agency is involved this notification will fall on deaf ears. If
you use MS Outlook, Lotus, Endura or any email program that has a calendar
function set yourself a weekly reminder to follow up with them. We regret
the the number of agencies taking a very aggressive stance against scammers
is very low but with your pressure and ours that will change.
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