Swindlers on italki Thareare a lot of online swindlers around the world, it is normal. However, we have to waste our time to handle them. It is too trouble. I had experienced a lot of related situation on italki. The swindlers I met almost are Americans, some of them are American soldiers sent abroad on a military mission ( they claimed), some of them are engineers send abroad for a contract. (They claimed). At the very beginning of the conversation, they will ask some private questions to make sure the communicator is single without kids. After that they will step by step to let the communicator know that their private information. ( Those should be fictional.) then they will check whether the communicator believes. If they got the positive results. They will show their real purpose, ask for money. It is hard to understand that why they like to spend more time on making up lies!! .