How? First you receive beautiful letters, with promises of eternal love and fidelity, and then start to inform you about the problems and asking for financial help. The scheme, as you can see, are most simple, even primitive. Requests occur differently, as well as the amount/sums. It all depends on impudence of the swindler and its representation, with whom it corresponds and how rich and gullible you are.
Usually a pretext for similar requests become a payment via the Internet, telephone conversations, the help to sick relatives, children, parents or, eventually, payment of the visa and a trip to favourite tour site. And feeding a quivering hope to find happiness grooms a person to lose vigilance because the warm feelings aspire to help the beloved. The first request is followed not seldom by the second, then the third. But what disappointment of potential grooms when they understand that they have been deceived!
Then your letters don't get answers anymore, often they come back, not having found such address, nor for the girl to be found, which besides appears not to be a girl at all, but the real scammer - cunning guy.