Posted by so on June 4, 2005, at 2:06:09
In reply to Re: The Judge and the Jury... » Tamar, posted by jay on June 2, 2005, at 18:20:43
casual sex can be groovy, if the groove is right, but these singles web sites can harbor some dark shadows. Some are legit, but the more grandiose the promise the more one needs to examine risks.
I'm not talking unsafe sex risks - I'm talking scams. Try a Google search for "Russian Bride Scam". Read some of the letters posted on exposé sites. Lonely people sometimes can exploited because of their needs.
Think about it. Women who want sex can find it as easy as visiting the corner bar - cheaters can find secret liasons at a bar in a nearby town. How likely are women who want to cheat on their husband to post pictures on the Internet, with an open invitation to cheat? Maybe, but that could also be a risky way to go sneaking around. What if the husband or his private investigator were to find the pics?
There are plenty of other reasons a person would post a picture of a woman and claim to be that woman looking for sex. One can learn about a person's personal details, needs and desires, then the information can be used in further exploits. Prosititution rings can use such information to locate people who might be responsive to solicitaiton -- maybe you reply to a cheating wives site and soon start getting e-mail from an "escort service." Information can be used to construct fraudulent identities which can them be used to exploit others. Imagine your identity -- and that picture you sent the supposed would-be cheating wife --being used to solicit payments from a woman seeking entry into the United States -- in a sort of reverse foreign bride scam. And should the unfortunate Mexican woman contact you to see what happened to the $1500 she sent, the next day maybe a man contacts you claiming to be her husband and accusing you of cheating with a woman you never even contacted. How likely would you be to start unraveling the details of that mess, after being the one who started it by offering to cheat with some stranger? Most people would more likely want to forget it all. Or maybe a half dozen letters to a supposed cheating wife could lead to simple blackmail -- "I'm going to sue you for alienating my wife's affection, but I will settle out of court..."
Now that you've made the choice that is right for you, you can congratulate yourself for all the potential hassles you avoided.
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