Russian criminal duo jailed for online dating scam

Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2006. Two Russian citizens - Alena Fedorovskaya (27) and Vladimir Osipov (28) - were sentenced over online dating scam. The man was given 5 years and 3 months in prison and his female accomplice received a sentence of 5 years and 2 months.

Alena Fedorovskaya was an URFJI student. She masterminded a plot to make money out of foreign men interested in Russian brides. She asked her partner (Vladimir Osipov) to create a website with her photos and run an online advertising campaign.

Organised gang of conmans sentenced in Yoshkar-Ola

Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, 2010. Ten members of a group of dating scammers were sentenced up to 4 years in prison. They were active from 2005 to 2007 in the city of Yoshkar-Ola and its neighborhood Medvedevo where their multiple "offices" were located. 

The conmans hired around 15 employees to maintain conversations under fake female profiles with foreigners interested in dating Russian women. The emploees had been working in shifts to provide service 24 hours a day. The victims were lured into sending up to 4 000 USD to their supposed Russian "girlfriends" under different excuses. 

Suspect: Failed marriage led to holdup

The attorney of a man accused of first pointing a gun at a mailbox store owner and then barricading himself inside a Henderson bank on Dec. 3 said his client did it because "his wife left him to become a prostitute and he doesn't want any other men to participate in the Russian mail-order-bride industry."

Douglas McDonald, 45, had his preliminary hearing set on Monday for Jan. 3 in Henderson Justice Court, for his actions at the Bank of America on Horizon Ridge Parkway near U.S. Highway 95 and at a Postnet store on College Drive.

Three young women have been arrested on suspicion of fraud

Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2010. Three young women (aged between 20 and 22) have been arrested by the police on suspicion of fraud. The foreigners interested in Russian women had been contacting the suspects over Internet. The women used fake profiles and maintained affectionate conversations with victims who quickly fell in love with them.

The truth about Russian women

If a clever man (just like you!) is interested in getting a foreign bride and goes through multiple marriage agency websites or contacts some Russian (in our case) women on social networks, one big doubt might trouble him: why do all these women supposedly want to marry a foreign citizen? In fact, some men applying common sense would perceive it as something weird and even consider those women prostitutes. Marriage agencies and women in general perfectly understand all the awkwardness of this situation and they don`t want to be seen this way. They try to represent and advertise themselves as decent as possible. If you have already visited some marriage agency website, you might have noticed that there is almost always one large article titled like "why do Russian women want to marry foreign men" or something similar. There is usually a set of well known arguments in such articles and these "arguments" are myths. And even lies in some cases, if you will. I am going to prove it right now.