The Russian dating scam has hit Match.com.  Match.com is certainly not the only online dating site to be hit by the Russian dating scam, nor are dating scams limited to Russia or Russian women, but they certainly seem to be the front-runners.

Here’s how it works: a beautiful Russian woman, complete with beautiful Russian woman pictures, contacts her target through an online dating site. She starts a charming, and rapidly deepening correspondence, gets her target hooked, and then it comes: the request for money. There are variations on what the money is for, but usually it’s for a plane ticket.

In one such example, recently reported by the Register, a man using the Match.com account name of “HotLips” recounts his experience with a Russian dating scamstress, explaining that “After some correspondence, ’she’ confessed that ’she’ actually lived in Omsk, Russia. This was all accompanied by some very nice pictures of someone. Anyway, the sordid story continued and ’she’ decided she loved me so much that ’she…’

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