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These sites offer great services and are also involved in scam prevention.

 A Foreign Affair  is a large, well-organized foreign marriage agency based in Phoenix, Arizona featuring Russian, Asian, and Latin women.  They offer many services including introductions and correspondence with foreign women as well as romance tours.  After registering at A Foreign Affair, you will have a mailbox on the website.  You will begin receiving letters from women. The women may be interested in you, and select you to receive their introduction letter.  The ladies are likely encouraged select a lot of men to send their introduction letter to in order to increase correspondence – or, the agency sends you the lady’s intro letters on their own, or both. You can also send letters to ladies you are interested in.  All translations are handled by the agency.  It costs $7 - $10 to send and receive letters.  But before sending a letter to a lady, however, you have to buy her “virtual” email address, which is basically the right to send an email to a lady on their website.  This right costs around $12 per lady, but costs can be reduced if you join their site and pay a monthly membership fee.  The letter writing / translations / delivery is how they make most of their money outside of the tours, and it’s a big business for them.  They have 200 new women each week, 40,000 in total.  About 60% of their business comes via referrals.  Read about A Foreign Affair’s membership options here.  This site costs you more than Elena’s Models, but if the lady you are interested in is only on this site, then by all means, use the site’s services.  The site and business is located in the USA, and has had lots of media coverage, and even a movie has been shown on the Discovery Channel about them and the phenomena of Russian Brides.  They are one of the largest group romance tour operators, and have local agencies in the cities where they offer tours.