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The scheme of the scam was wonderfully simple. On the Internet were placed photos of beautiful girls that were claiming to look for foreign husbands. Brides from Russia are so popular in the world that there were no problems with men looking for relationships. Correspondence via Internet lead to the desire to meet in person. Gullible grooms were sending future wives from Yoshkar-Ola money for travel expenses.
And this was the end of the correspondence. A citizen of USA applied to the Ministry of Home Affairs complaining that a Russian woman received from him more than 2000 US Dollars in a fraudulent way”, – says the press-secretary of the Department “K” of the Ministry of Home Affairs Anatoly Platonov. After receiving numerous complaints detectives of the department “K” arrested 4 people in Yoshkar-Ola. The most interesting thing is that it was not the women that were corresponding with foreign men but the 2 guys.
