How to avoid of being scammed?

How to choose a dating agency?

1. Check if the agency provides contact information of their staff at their site. Try to contact them and get a quick answer to your question. Information about the owner of the company must be available for the customers. You should be able to contact the owner if you did not get an expected follow-up on your issues.

2. Check if the Agency has an office in your home country. - In case of serious problems you can lawsuit them. If such an agency is old and popular enough, you can expect that they are quite reliable.

3. It makes no sense if an expensive dating service accepts profiles online or by email and have no personal contacts with ladies through offices in their countries and cities. If their staff never met their ladies in person, they have no way to control their women and can't help you to visit your lady and serve you in her city. The local office in the city can invite another lady to a date in case something did not work out between you and your date. If your agency has a one client in every city or village your vacation can be ruined because of one unhappy date.

4. Be cautious with Free Online Dating Services! The risk to come across a scammer there is much higher. The reason is that everyone can create an account there absolutely anonymously using any e-mail and any photo. There are fake profiles at every famous dating site accepting profiles online. Usually online personals are not liable for the information placed by their visitors and do nothing to protect their clients from scammers and jokers.

5. Agencies-Scammers most often use Western Union to receive money from clients. Sometimes they use bank accounts outside of their countries. You should search for an agency that is able to accept credit cards payment using secure servers.

6. Ask the agency what anti-scam policy they have. See the managers' reaction.

7. Check the reputation of the Agency if possible.

8. Be careful with the agencies that publish provoking photos of ladies, photos of low quality, poor translation of profiles and letters. A marriage agency that cares about its reputation will never be involved in porno industry, won't use vulgar advertising for their business and always treat ladies with respect as well as men clients.Reliable companies value their reputation and hire professional staff.

9. Avoid the agencies, refusing to provide direct contacts to their ladies and not allowing their clients to exchange their contact information freely. Such agencies often forge the correspondence and you don't even have a chance to make sure that the lady knows of your existence.

10. Be critical about the agency promises that when you write to the girl or arrive in the city, best-looking ladies will be happy to meet you and immediately fall in love with you. Ladies are interested in meetings, but this is a free choice and an agency can never guarantee lots of immediate interest and affection.

There is one more but very important recommendation. When you decide to find a woman in Russia through internet Dating service don't be paranoid. Yes, there are scammers. But most real Russian women are honest and really searching for love. Don't suspect every girl of being a swindler, you can only harm yourself and hurt feelings of a good girl.

Read here how to find out if you're corresponding with a scammer.