Ethical dilemma

A friend from Italy calls me today.
She is not italian but she's lived there since November 2009. Her voice sounds really worried and exiting. She ask to advice her situation. She's been finding a good job for already more than 1 year, but actually she faces to difficult search.  She is qualified and experienced in acting and she speaks two languages perfectly.


The economical crisis downgraduates everything, also the unemployment has become worst, mainly in arts and performance. Unfair opportunities raise up.  If you want your job and success in it, it seems you need more than a very good degree or qualification. Good looking and big motivation can help you. But it's not enought. So what else?Just right place, right person.
You have to be in the right place, know the right person and try to get your opportunity. It's will be not easy but if you are lucky you have the choise.
You are like my friend.
The right influent person can give her the right possibility. Get the job, now, without overnights spent to applaying to several potential jobs. Simple dinner and an interview can be fixed.
My friend's dilemma is: Do I have to go out for dinner with this unknown man (I can't catch the age), and arrange my next job and change my sad situation? The second point is that this Man is quite doggy, he would cheat her, for sure. His tone is flattering and unreliable. She maybe knows the dinner purpose, and she doesn't know the answer. She doesn't care about him: but maybe he can give the right key and why not. It is not about the man attraction, its not fisical or feeling matter. It's a ethical dilemma. Can turn in a job. 
Her other friends has told her: "Do it. And see what's happen. Go, why are you asking it? You are lucky."
What will be the best decision?
Is it an ethical dilemma or just italianish attitude?