Appreciate- citronellas post- on scammers...they have infested most every social dating site.. She was SMART to pick up on the 'phrase/sentence structure..no amount of google translator- can hide that..and ,of course the other red flag is... 'oh..i DONT come in here very often' AKA- I WANT your email addy for my next scamming operation'..I spent 5 years in the balkans (eastern europe) updating their ancient power grids..so i know how they speak and I can spot the fakes in a second. Scammers arent confined to any one country,naturally..but there are a great many ' boiler rooms' operating out of the poorer eastern block countries,as well as eastern russia. (We won't even go into Nigeria lol). Remember the flags...the jumbled up sentences..the urgency to get you OFF the site and to give them your email,and the pandering for money "oh my mother has a vegetable cart..and it needs a new wheel" (lol)
You left out the boiler rooms in Barcelona, Spain, recently busted - AGAIN!!!
I also have my own domain names, and the ability to create multiple e-mail addresses. So I issue a different one to every organisation or person who requests my e-mail. If I get spam coming to that address, I contact the organisation, quote their "privacy policy" to them, and let them know of my displeasure in no uncertain terms.