If you find a beautiful Russian woman, who is thirty years younger than you, who tells you that she is desperately in love with you after you just met her for the first time last night, you should be a little suspicious.

The overwhelming majority of Russian women seeking husbands abroad are honest in their intentions. They want to have a reliable partner, happy family life, and a stable future. They are not going to marry a man just to divorce him in a couple of years after they get to where they want to go.

However, you must be aware that there are a few barracudas out there who are willing to take advantage of your sincerity. To avoid an unhappy experience, use your common sense.

For some reason, some men who are shrewd in business, enough to amass a small fortune, seem to check their brain at the hatcheck counter when they come to Russia.

Men are always shocked when a gold-digger takes advantage of them. A close examination of their behavior frequently yields the following observations:

They often act like big shots, throwing money around, dating women thirty years younger, bragging about their accomplishments to impress the women they meet.

They are like peacocks that try to display their plumage in order to attract a mate. When they meet a gold-digger, they are surprised, even though money is exactly what they were advertising. Then they act victimized by the innocent looking girl who took advantage of their offer.

All men are guilty of this at times. Let me make some recommendations: Don't brag or exaggerate about your personal circumstances. She will find out the truth as soon as she gets to your home.

If You Lead With Your Chin, It Makes It Easy For Someone To Take A Punch At You.

I sometimes think that when a man says that he has been taken advantage of by a gold-digger, that this kind of circumstance did not happen by mistake. As the old saying goes, hockey players and chess players don't hang out together.

There are all kinds of people that are out there in the dating world. There are women that are jerks and there are men that are jerks.

I have heard stories of men who are addicted to the tours because of the gigantic ego stroke it gives them. They take advantage of the ten to one ratio of single women to single men at the social to bolster their self-image.

They like to feel superior to the local population of Russians because of their relative economic superiority. They brag about themselves and throw money around to impress others because of their low self-esteem.

They toy with women's hopes and aspirations to get married without being really serious about commitment. They pick the most gorgeous runway model they can find to parade as a trophy wife, or arm candy, in front of their friends.

A guy like that probably deserves a gold diggera woman who is his moral or spiritual counterpart.

Elena Petrova tell this story:

'A professor from an American university told me that he met a couple of men on board a plane to Russia who flew there for a "marriage tour". He characterized them as "bad". He said they were arrogant, obviously had problems with health, and were drinking too much.'

'One of them complained that he was previously married to a Russian woman but she left him a year after the marriage. The professor said he felt sorry - for the woman -- because she had stayed with this man for the whole year.'

'He said that he would have run away from him in a couple of days if he was her. And this guy was intending to find another lady for marriage in Russia - again, twenty to thirty years younger.'

The other male specimen who gets taken advantage of by gold-diggers is the ones that literally are mentally or socially challenged. They either don't have a brain, or don't use it, or they are three nuts short of a candy bar.