I have heard about Internet scammers who scam online service companies. It is quite common with the services where one pays to download some information from a company's website, and then, after having downloaded it successfully, the client claims that nothing had been downloaded and that he wants his money back. There are also scammers of a different kind, which I often discuss in my articles. It's when a Russian woman-scammer corresponds and communicates online with a sincere, unprepared man, and step by step she makes him pay for all her pleasures and desires.
Though I have to deal with scam stories quite often in my relationship counseling practice, I have never been scammed by anyone myself. Recently, this happened to me for the first time in my life. It feels especially unusual because in my situation the scammer is... a man. Read full story on our