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We all know about the hard luck sad stories to send them money. You know

what not to do and yes it can happen to you. Do research before committing for
most people are online and have an online identity. We always advise never to
put too much detail of you online though. Birthdates and addresses should

always be false if I may be so frank. Many scammers operate false companies to

collect résumés online where all your details are revealed. The scammers
advertise a job and invite you to send your bank account details also so that
they can pay your salary up front. Really, you should read my book Tricks of

Trade - Memories of a Rogue Lawyer in this regard. It is known as the Nigerian

419 letter and instead of money due to you (yeah sure as if you would be that
lucky) the latest one is job advertising.

I am more worried by the implications of slavery (the illegal transportation of
humans) by selling a person online as a wife and that person is then transported

to another country not really knowing or understanding what is happening since
many times there is a language problem. You know the stories and certainly I

found woman on the street working as prostitutes because of this very thing.
Others had jobs as waitresses and they are easy to recognise. We rescued a few

and send them back but obviously our funds are limited and I have not yet
convinced my clients to contribute more than what they do. We also had to

dominate a few criminals to release them to us which were the easy part.

Not every man is honourable and willing to court and respect the new wife once
she arrives and she is sometimes subjected to rape and worse. It is evil and

because of the nature of such acts anti-establishment and shady. Their
passports are taken away for "safekeeping" on arrival and they are held as sex

slaves or exotic dancers or whatever. I find that their embassies are so corrupt
that complaining is reasonably useless. It is a sad situation and generally a

mess.

There are organisations that are now investigating such manifestations and the

law will intervene if it knows about it and only if someone drives the process.

The problem is that many of these girls cannot return to where they come from
for shame on their families. Many don't qualify for political asylum and are afraid
of the police who should be able to assist because but do not because of

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