Things to Be Aware Of

• You may get calls and/or e-mails from all over the US and possibly from other countries

• You may get e-mail from adoption agencies

• There are lots of scams out there

• foreign facilitators who say they have friends at Russian or other Eastern European orphanages, who want your money
• women who pretend to be pregnant
• some adoption facilitators (recent twins case and others)
• Flags to look for: http://www.abcadoptions.com/scams.htm