I do not like it when people take advantage of others. It doesn't make you any smarter than another person when you get their money from them. I think that it is even sadder that there is a market for helping people avoid being taken advantage of. There is something cyclical there, and that is not good, either. I see an opportunity however, to help in a general way without asking for any remuneration. Also, I do not like the over-commercialization of the Internet, and I certainly do not appreciate fraud in my personal life. First, I will provide you with a list of links to commercial ventures that have some free tools that I respect. The only real disadvantage of this method is that you will eventually have to ask for more specific (and costly) assistance. Also, the free lists provide scammers with tools, too. Once their e-mail addresses and pictures become sufficiently widespread, they will simply change the address, and use new pictures.
The first place is the first one that I used, and this is pretty much how they want the link to look becuase they have their tools laid out that way:
Russian women Black List- photos and names of reported scammers and scam agencies.
Here is the place if you want an alphabetical listing.:
Alphabetical list
Russian Scam This is a nice website, too.
Everyone is responsible to help themselves. Here are some tools that you can use to help yourself. First tool that anyone learns to use is their brain. I suggest that you learn to use yours as well as you can. That is not an insult, it is simply a suggestion. Scammers will give you a portion of the truth. They will use traceable means of communication, and they will also certainly mess up along the way with, or without your help, or mine. So then, a few truths about scamming:
If you feel that you must write to a person in a foreign land, be prepared to go there at a second's notice. (I am telling you that a scammer will stop writing to you in most cases if you insist on going to meet them there.)