Boy for Sale!!!

[Trixie]

Ok, I'll make this short, if not sweet...

Before leaving for Central Asia, I'd found a website called GayEgypt.com, an interesting little place. It has a message board for muslim cities all over the world, so I left a message, "Gay american tourist visiting Uzbekistan, etc." I had a few responses, nothing than bore fruit.

But, after returning from my trip, I received a response from a 30 year-old ethnic russian guy living in Uzbekistan.

He is an english teacher (and speaks english passably, although he, like most english teachers in the region, has rarely if ever met an actual native english speaker.) He is very cute, and would like to meet a boyfriend here in the US that could help him emigrate from Uzbekistan.

This is actually a worthy cause. Being gay is illegal in Uzbekistan, and being ethnic russian (the former colonial empire) just makes it worse.

I've been in e-mail contact with him for a while now, and he seems like a very nice young guy. And again... I have a photo of him, he's quite handsome.

But, this is a greater responsibility than I'm able to take on right now. So, I thought i might take it to the board. If there's anyone here who might be willing to help this young russian-uzbek guy emigrate, and provide him with a place to stay, please contact me directly. I will give you further info.

 

 

Matchmaker, Matchmaker,

Trix

[+ Hoover42]

Trix,

 

How confident are you that this fellow is genuine?

 

I've had a couple of email pen pals from far north eastern Russia who turned out to be scam artists, so I would be particualarly cautious about hooking up with somebody in that situation.

 

...Hoover

[Trixie]

Hoover, that's a good question, of course.

I can only go on my feminine-side-type intuition... . You would have to correspond with him, and decide for yourself. I can't say anything other than

I think he's a decent enough sort of guy. If you've already been in contact with other russian men, you're probably used to the "odd" phrasing they use, and can cipher out the intention from the weird language.

If you're interested, contact me, I'll send you his pic. You can take it from there.

 

Trix

[Guest zipperzone]

>Matchmaker, Matchmaker,

>Trix

 

Dolly Levi strikes again!

[Luv2play]

I would exercise extreme caution in an instance like this. There are many males from the former USSR who are dying to emigrate to North America as it appears to them to be the land of milk and honey. These men are not necessarily gay or even bi but put themselves forward as such because they realize that is the way they can attract gay American men.

 

I have had a personal experience in this regard and while I did not get burned financially too badly (merely a little scorched), I say Watch Out!! more than your ego may be deflated!(like your bank account). :-(

 

The moment I got into bed with this guy from the former USSR (this was 10 years ago when these guys were pouring over the recently opened border), I knew he was not even remotely interested in sex with a gay man. If you have gone to the trouble of sponsoring such a person, you will be mightily deceived and feeling exploited. But you have to ask yourself whether you were not really exploiting their situation as well!

 

Anyway, these "mail-order" brides (grooms?) are not necessarily what you might imagine them to be.;(

[happyguy2]

Dear Miss Trix,

 

We've all been taken from time to time. We are so often suckers for these sad stories. It's part of our nature, I suspect. So, yes be cautious. Especially since you might be dealing with the sort of con-artist who could do you serious harm.

 

I have been scorched, but only by those already here. Never in the out of the country variety. Nonetheless, some seem to know how to exploit our good nature. I was shown believable tenderness and sensuality. But the ever escalating costs of the messes in which these people find themselves (legal exploitation, immigration fraud to name but a few) left me no other choice but to put a stop.

 

Oh yes, and when I cut off the money flow, in the nicest of ways, guess what? Never heard from him again.

 

So I way, proceed with caution. There will always be deep within us a desire to believe, and to help. I just felt I had to offer you my own experience, if only to put forward another point of view.

 

hg

[eastbayguy]

A while back, someone dropped me a note on gay.com wanting to get acquainted with someone from the US. Said he was from a medium sized down in the FSU. We corresponded for a while. The guy expressed an interest in visiting the US and began asking for money for visas and so forth. I found out what the process was and explained it to him. He kept asking for money. Finally, I asked for an address to send some money to. (This is the good part.) When the e-mail with the address arrived, I Googled the address. Guess what! The address popped up as being the address of a known scam artist doing one of those "lonely Russian women want to meet you" type of scams.

 

Obviously, I sent him no cash. A few red flags had popped up prior to the cash requests though. No money ever changed hands.

 

Caution is advised to anyone being involved.

 

--EBG

[BigK]

>A while back, someone dropped me a note on gay.com wanting to

>get acquainted with someone from the US.

 

>--EBG

 

Has happened to me also. Long rambling letters for months. Very subtle...not directly asking for money. I figured all along it was a setup, but was curious how it would play out. One day I got an email response that was a duplicate of a previous response. Very clever scam artist slipped up. To end it I invited him to visit and told him I would reimburse the cost of his trip. Not another contact after that. :o :-)

[eastbayguy]

>Has happened to me also. Long rambling letters for months.

>Very subtle...not directly asking for money. I figured all

>along it was a setup, but was curious how it would play out.

>One day I got an email response that was a duplicate of a

>previous response. Very clever scam artist slipped up. To

>end it I invited him to visit and told him I would reimburse

>the cost of his trip. Not another contact after that. :o :-)

 

That's more or less what happened to me. I kept getting these impassioned letters talking about how tough life was in the FSU for a poor, aspiring student. Yet, the letters always seemed to have digital pictures attached of this or that, always of different sizes, resolutions, settings and so forth. Plus, a lot of the pictures seemed to be the same as from various tourist (and other) web sites.

 

I was pretty suspicious from the start that it was a scam, but like you, decided to play along. One clue was asking for a second picture of the correspondent and getting a photo back of an entirely different guy.

 

Decided to play further, see how it would end. The whole thing was sort of fascinating.

 

--EBG