Thanks for your reply, I can see you're not one of those naive girls. To me it indeed seems all too obvious, but the thought of a young girl falling for this is frightening. If only one girl reads this and opens her eyes my goal is reached here. I also got in touch with Couchsurfing to get all these fake profiles off, although that won't entirely eliminate the problem of course. You're right about the police only wanting to solve easy crimes. That became painfully clear to me once I get attacked by several armed men in Chile, which is luckily a long time ago and never got repeated: http://www.budgetbucketlist.com/valparaiso.html Curious about reading more of your posts!