Russian Bride Scam: Analysis, Business Impact & Recommendations

This report provides an overview of the Russian bride scam, a scheme where scammers, often posing as attractive women from Russia or Eastern Europe, target lonely foreign men through online dating platforms. The scam involves building a romantic relationship, feigning financial difficulties, and soliciting money from the victim for various fabricated reasons, such as travel expenses, medical emergencies, or visa fees. The report outlines the phases of the scam, from finding and grooming victims to extracting money and eventually disappearing. It also discusses the relevance of the scam to modern business, highlighting the unethical practices employed by scammers and the negative impact on online businesses and their brand image. The report concludes with recommendations for businesses to enhance security measures, verify user identities, and monitor online activity to prevent such scams and protect users. Desklib offers a platform for students to access similar reports and solved assignments for academic assistance.

Russian Bride Scam
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report over viewed about the Russian dating Scams in which a female grab the
attention of the lonely foreign man and he gets acquainted with an attractive single girl over the
internet. These females are usually from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc. In this, the female falls in
love with man then slowly by many means she tries to get the money from him. She asks money
related to the various issues which she supposedly suffering. The man who is totally in love with
that girl will determined to provide them with money so that they both can meet. In this
assignment, it is all about the Russian dating scams where girl trapped the lonely boy to get the
money from him. In addition to this, the overview of the topic discussed that there are various
phrases in which the girl step by step trap the boy so that they can ask for money. To trap the boy
in the bait, the female make various issues so that they able to give money as well as totally fall
in love with her. These are scammers of Russian community which used the internet in wrong
way to do the business and to gain money. For this, the girl uses various social media platform
such as Facebook, dating sites, Myspace and other popular websites.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEFINITION...................................................................................................................................4
OVERVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF TOPIC ..............................................................................4
RELEVANCE TO THE MODERN BUSINESS............................................................................5
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION...............................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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DEFINITION
This topic states that the girl grab the attention of the lonely foreign man then predicts
that she is fallen for him then makes the plans to meet him. Then suddenly, money issues arises
and ask financial helps from the man so that they able to help with her travelling charges. There
are various types of issues which arises from the girl (scammers) in travelling such as passport,
visa, tickets, travel insurance, money to pay off loan, sales taxes on her apartment, emergency
medical expenses, bail money, ransom money etc. (Vagi and et.al., 2013). If these also not
enough they can ask for the luxury items such as cell phones and clothes. Here, the girl act like
she is very poor can't afford the house, mobile phones but truly loves him. Through which more
men gets attracted. Moreover, the victim of the scam never realizes that behind all the seductive
pictures and behind all the love and passionate letters hides a misanthropic, artful, and sleek
mastermind of the crime. These scammers do the dating on the big, popular websites so that no
one able to understand the real intention of the scammers. There are some phases of the scam in
which she finds the victims then attracts him by her photos. Then in second step, she grooms the
victims so that the victim fully gets in the trap of that scammer girl (Leen and et.al., 2013). Third
phase is about the asking money so that she able to meet him and for that she asks for money by
stating various issues in her life. If the man gets trapped then she takes money from him and gets
disappeared.
OVERVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF TOPIC
The Russian dating sites are popular and it scam the Russian single boys in their love and
grab their money. Under this scam lonely foreign or Russian men get acquainted and familiar
with the Russian girls over the internet platform. Over the internet female will pretend to fall in
love in with him and thus, she will get down and pretend to make travel plan to see her Mr.
Right. After some time she will unwilling ask him for the financial help. If the guy send him the
money then she would ask him to send money again and again (Belot and Francesconi, 2013).
Moreover, the lady will continue to fake the male friend regarding the difficulties such as she get
robbed or may have injured or sick etc. the girl will keep flames of his love by continuous
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chatting over the email and phone and she also send the erotic fantasies of her. Basically there
are four phases of scam that is-
Phase 1: Finding the Victims
The first stage in the scam is that Russian girls searches the single men from different
countries such as USA, Europe etc. through visiting their profile on the websites. In addition to
this, some time scammer also focuses on using social media sites such Facebook, My space or
other website for finding the victim for scam.
Phase 2: “Grooming” the victims
After finding the perfect victim scammer groom the victim by talking and send images of
her. She also groom the victim through telephonic conversation and talking regarding their
wildest and erotic fantasies. The Russian girl will also engage in writing letters and email to the
boy.
Phase 3: Asking for money
After grooming the victims scammer has established the deeply love within the victim
and become eager to meet him. The scammer ask regarding the visa amount so that men can send
the necessary amount in their account (Muscanell, Guadagno and Murphy, 2014). Most of the
scammer claims that travel operator has not accepted the credit card and they are forcing to
transfer the money.
Phase 4: Milking the victim for money for as long as possible
After the visa and ticket scammer will wait for some days and will tell the love one
regarding their dreams, supposed love, their meeting plan as well as their future plan to marry
him.
Phase 5: The disappearing act
The last phase in the scam is disappearing act under which the Russian girls quietly get
vanish after acquiring the visa money. Scammer will get out from the relationship by claiming
regarding their illness or workload etc.
RELEVANCE TO THE MODERN BUSINESS
As per the structured study, in present case study of Russian Bride Scam cover number of
unethical aspects. In regard to modern business the organisations need to consider various
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activities that promote ethical aspects in the business (Blue, 2015). It has been noticed that the
mostly scammer used to create dating profiles on Yahoo and Match.com. It means the scammers
were performing unethical practices by accessing diverse online websites. It has created a
negative impact on these businesses because the increased ratio of scams has influenced the trust
aspect among service users.
It was one of key responsibility of businesses to ensure that the subscribers on websites
are not fake so that ethical practices can be promoted. It has been noticed that the scammers were
used to contact victims through emails (Whitty and Buchanan, 2015). In this respect, it was
essential for businesses like Yahoo to ensure that email subscribers are verified and content
sharing does not any kind of unethical practice. It has also impacted the brand image of online
portals in negative manner. Moreover, the internet is one of most commonly used medium to
have sharing of information. But these kinds of scams has created negative outcome the sector
and created various issues. For example, the ratio of service user on Yahoo has decreased after it
has been identified that scammers were using Yahoo services. It has created negative impact on
the modern era of businesses and forced businesses to create frameworks for sustainable
development.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
As per above statements, it can be concluded that in Russian Bride Scam the girls were
involved in various unethical practices. In this, the scammers were used to ask for money by
focusing on reasons like passport, visa, tickets, travel insurance, financial solvency money, sales
taxes, emergency medial expenses, ransom money, etc. It has impacted overall society in
negative manner. Moreover, the scammers were using various online brands to communicate
with victims like, Facebook, Match.com, Yahoo, etc. These kinds of aspects has impacted the
businesses in negative manner (Blue, 2015). It has also created negative outcome on the brand
image which was not beneficial for the organisations.
In addition to this, it can be recommended that the businesses like Yahoo, facebook and
other social networking sites the business firms can design security system. It is necessary for
management to establish system in order to ensure that the subscriber is verified and he or she is
not involved in any kind of unethical practice. Moreover, monitoring system and feedback
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system is also beneficial for the organisations as it facilitates in creating positive environment.
With an assistance of this, fake profiles can be blocked in order to meet provide better
prevention.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Belot, M. and Francesconi, M., 2013. Dating preferences and meeting opportunities in mate
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Blue, V., 2015. The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online. No
Starch Press.
Leen, E. and et.al., 2013. Prevalence, dynamic risk factors and the efficacy of primary
interventions for adolescent dating violence: An international review. Aggression and
Violent Behavior. 18(1). pp.159-174.
Muscanell, N. L., Guadagno, R. E. and Murphy, S., 2014. Weapons of influence misused: A
social influence analysis of why people fall prey to internet scams. Social and Personality
Psychology Compass. 8(7). pp.388-396.
Vagi, K. J. and et.al., 2013. Beyond correlates: A review of risk and protective factors for
adolescent dating violence perpetration. Journal of youth and adolescence. 42(4). pp.633-
649.
Whitty, M.T. and Buchanan, T., 2015. The online dating romance scam: The psychological
impact on victims–both financial and non-financial. Criminology and Criminal Justice.
pp.174-200.
Online
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through:<http://www.russian-dating-scams.com/scams/first_things_to_know.htm>.
[Accessed on: 16 June, 2016].
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