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This is the alphabetical listing of agencies and names of known Russian scammers involved in dating fraud. The name of the person where the money is sent is the key issue in a scam, and different photos may be used. Also, the same set of photos may be used under different names. Most known scams appear to be run by the same few groups using different names and photos. Photos used in a scam not necessarily belong to the scammers, and may be simply downloaded from the Internet.

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Listings are given in alphabetical order according to Surnames or Agency names

A: (Aa-Al) A: (Am-Az) | B: (Ba-Bl) B: (Bm-Bz) | C: (Ca-Cl) C: (Cm-Cz) | D: (Da-Dl) D: (Dm-Dz) | E: (Ea-El) E: (Em-Ez) | F: (Fa-Fl) F: (Fm-Fz) | G: (Ga-Gl) G: (Gm-Gz) | H: (Ha-Hl) H: (Hm-Hz) | I: (Ia-Il) I: (Im-Iz) | J: (Ja-Jl) J: (Jm-Jz) | K: (Ka-Kl) K: (Km-Kz) | L: (La-Ll) L: (Lm-Lz) | M: (Ma-Ml) M: (Mm-Mz) | N: (Na-Nl) N: (Nm-Nz) | O: (Oa-Ol) O: (Om-Oz) | P: (Pa-Pl) P: (Pm-Pz) | Q | R: (Ra-Rl) R: (Rm-Rz) | S: (Sa-Sl) S: (Sm-Sz) | T: (Ta-Tl) T: (Tm-Tz) | U | V: (Va-Vl) V: (Vm-Vz) | W | X | Y | Z

Babenko, Alla - Kiev, Ukraine

Phone: 38-097-995-1300.
Address:
Email: al_la_@list.ru

Details: Initiated contact through date.com, and was requested to respond to her email, instead of through the dating site. Supposedly just graduated from University in English translation, which her English was not very good, claims to have a sister, Marina. Gives a sob story about her Aunt having heart problems, and 2 weeks later, she dies. Then requests money for all expenses to come to you, but when i suggested that i go there first to meet her, i never heard from her again.

First reported: Dave

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Babenko, Yuliya - Ukrain/ Kiev 

Phone number: +380 50 358 87 85 , +380509971618,+380955470197 

First reported: Nail 

 

 
Babikova Yulia  - Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Area, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address 1: 8,13 Botkin Street 455020
Email: yulichka@mail333.com

Details: Initiates contact, thru either FriendFinder or Match.com. She pretends to be only child, from poor family, a sickly grandmother, Falls in love quickly, Begs for visa and ticket money, claims she is coming as soon as she the gets VISA ! Ask $1000 dollars through Western Union.

First reported: Yube

 

 

 
Badyagina, Natalia (aka Maria Belyaeva, Maria Perepelkina etc) - Ulan-Ude, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address 1: Russia, city Ulan-Ude, Petrova street 90-100
Address 2: city Ulan-ude, Russia, Petrova street 92-107
Email: nataliabl@pochtamt.ru, bodnat@rbcmail.ru

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad, or by placing own ad on the same sites.  Informs that she can obtain visa to your country  asks for money for tickets, then for insurance. 

First reported: Paul Indiana

 

 

 

 
Bagdasarova, Eugenia - Ivanova, Russia

Details:  Met through Matchdoctor.com. Typical scammer. Request money for visa, passport and air ticket at the end.

First reported: Jason

 

 

 
Baholdina, Irina - Belyy Yar, Khanty-Mansi Russia

Email: cranberry@kosino.net

Details:  She posted an add on Match.com with a local address. I email her and then see got back to me and said a friend set up her profile on Match.com. Asks for money for airfare and visa. 

First reported: Kfan

 
 
Bakulina or Haustova, Svetlana - Maikop, Russia

Email: beauty77@inbox.ru

Bank Details
Western Union MENATEP
PROLETARSKAYA, 449 MAYKOP, 385020 (7)(8772239299
Use Svetlana Haustova for sending money.

Details: Started contact from americansingles.com. Fell in love in 3rd letter. Didn't answer questions. Requested money for a phone. The same time I was reading "9 rules to not be scammed." Thanks to ELENAS MODELS informations i avoided to be scammed easily from that lady.

First reported: Hayssam

 

 

 
Baliuc, Irina – Chisinau, Moldova 

Agency: flirtru.ru

Details: Uses Prewritten letters when you don't write back. Gives prewritten letters to all my email addresses. Sometimes she makes phone calls to improve her scams. Asks for money for visa and airfare.

First reported: Frazil

 

 

 
Balytska, Iryna Bogdanivna - Rogatin Rohatyn Ivano-Frankivs'k Region, Ukraine 

Postal address: 18 Shevehenko Street or Krushelnytskyh, 1, Ukraine 77000
Phone number: 011380343521504

Details: I courted Iryna for over a year (02/01/2005-04/05/2006). I had sent her money through Western Union in March 2006 in the sum for the $350.00USD for her physical and her Kiev Embassy visit. That was the first time I had not sent money through Lvivbrides.com. She took that money and ran. They condoned her fleecing of my bank account and excessive cell phone use. I cancelled both. They where not very helpful. No friends or family (cell numbers) will speak about her including her mayor Uncle ‘The Honorable Volodymyr Husak – Gusak’. (He runs the town of Rohatyn and is involved in the ‘Budgetary Reform’ of the Ivano-Franskovskaya region). That is funded by USAID funds. I found out that she attempted to leave the Ukraine twice though US Educational programs and once through another customer at Lvivbrides.com. She is trouble. The entire situation is trouble. I never saw the village of Rohatyn. I was to never go there as per Lvivbrides.com. I would suggest that anyone stay away all together from these people. I have MANY documents, names, and contact details.

First reported: David

 

 

 
Balty/Berezovski Elena (aka Mnushko Svetlana) - St.Petersburg, Russia

Phone: 7-812-535-2791
Email: elena_xx78@yahoo.com

Details: Initiates contact through the personals sites. Falls in love, asks for money to come to USA for a visit ("visa and tickets" scenario). 1. Iuri Berezovski (claim to be her dad) 2. Svetlana Mnushko (claim to be her mom)

First reported: zoorapa_2000

 

 

 

 
Baranova, Albina - Chita, Russia

Address: 28 Artamonova 64, Chita 394010, Russian Federation

Details: Typical visa and airfare scam.

First reported: Sam

 

 

 

 

 
Baranyuk Irina - Odessa_Ukraine

Address: Gen.Petrova 1 art.9 Box 42 65065 Odessa Ukraine
Email: disain@easy.to; odessa2003@walk.to

Details: Requests money for continued correspondence.

First reported: To die 4

 

 

 
Bartsev, Aleksey - Orenburg, Russia

Address: N/A
Email: aleksey_ru@pisem.net

Details: Be carefull with this guy, I got screwd up by him in Oct. 2002. He will ask for money to bail him out from pending military service, he mentioned to me about his tribulation with his family because he is to be a gay, and will contact you via yahoo personal.

Also I did see his photo under Alexander Yakolev aka. Sasha, a typical visa/airfare scam.


First reported: Willie

 

 

 

 
Basilova, Irena (mother - Larissa Basilova) - Moscow, Russia

Address: 109444, Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7095 174 68 29 

Details: She was asking for money every month. She got between $ 400 - 6-- on a monthly basis for 16 months plus IBM laptop and clothes. Avoid the subject with marriage. Her mother Larissa Basilova hired an Egyptian criminal called Ragab Abuhimela, who stole my money while being in Moscow staying at the Rossija Hotel - Red square...They stole $ 12000 and my compaq laptop togther after putting a seditive on my tea...

First reported: The victim of Irena Basilova and Larissa Basilova

 

 

 
Batstrakova, Ekaterina - Kazan, Russia

Address: Kazan 467000, Dekebbristov 169 flat 62, Russia 
Email: bastr_kat1974@mail.ru 

Details: Contacted from Yahoo Personals. After a few letters, started requesting money to visit as her family is poor.

First reported: Ron

 

 

 
Batsman Victoria/Victoria Potapenko/DJNatasha

Address: Levtchenko Block,13A,91, Lugansk, Ukraine 
Email: vica@vega.cci.lg.ua ; djnatasha2002@rambler.ru 

Details: Uses prewritten letters. Starts hinting about money from the very first letter. Wants money for translations and correspondence.

First reported: Atlantis

 
 
Bednova or Chigrintseva, Larisa - Votkinsk, Russia

Address (Money transfer): Moscow, mira st 14 apt 8
Email: sweetlarchik@yandex.ru

Details: Ask for money for visa fees etc. I found letters word for word from Larisa Chigrintseva to someone on another scam site that she sent to me with my name at the top....

First reported: David Y.

 

 
Bel Tour - Brest, Belarus

Phone: may give you a phone number of mobile phone with an autoresponder
Email: bel_tour_brest@hotmail.com

Details: The non-existent "tourist agency" promises to provide visa and tickets for a "Lady", asking for money for visa, passport, certificates, tickets, and insurance - altogether $1200-2000. You correspond simultaneously with the "Lady" and "travel manager" (Vasille Bondarev, Alena Halas etc). Money are to be sent to the name of the "travel manager" via Western Union. You will be given very detailed information about the flights including time of arrival and numbers of flights, and possibly sent a scanned copy of "visa". Letters are written in good English.

First reported: Tony Crowe

 

 
Belorykova, Olesya - Omsk, Russia

Address: st.Gaseka 24-73, Omsk,Russia, 644109
Tel number friend: 007-9136-100952 (most of the time out off reach)
Tel number travel agency: 007-3812-412146 (I don’t know if they are involved)

IP Address for Computer: 194.67.231.22 (important)

Email: gentile28@mail.ru

Details: Very convincing and caring but after all she turned out scammer just like every others.

First reported: Rudie

 

 

 
Belova, Eleonora (aka Lida Koshvenko)- Odessa, Ukraine

Phone: no phone
Address: Odessa, Ukraine
Email: visio333@beep.ru and others

Details: Places ads on the popular personals sites. Falls in love with you within a few emails. Then her mother is "hit by a car", and asks for money for the operation. May be a variant: asks for money for ticket and visa to visit you. 

Pictures used belong to the international photo model Leticia Casta.

First reported: Tom Johnson

 

 

 

 
Belousova, Ekaterina - Chelyabinsk, Russia (aka Lubov Bazhenova, Orenburg Russia )

Phone: no phone
Address: Chelyabinsk, Russia
Email: katy5555@pisem.net

Details: Asks for money for ticket and visa to visit you. 

First reported: Norm

 

 
Belya, Ekaterina (aka Ekaterina Belyh) -  Narva, Estonia

Phone: no phone
Address: Tallinn Rd. 9 - 26, 20303 Narva, ESTONIA
Email: katy5555@pisem.net

BANK DETAILS
Name: Snoras Bank
Address: 7 A.Vivulskio, LT-2600 Vilnius 
Swift: SNORLT22

Beneficiary Account: 336710671
Beneficiary Bank: AB bankas Snoras,
Bank code: 260101758
Intermediary Bank: Acc. 200-297-36
Harris Bank International Corporation, New York
SWIFT: 668785 HATR US 33

Details: She wrote to me on Date.com. She wanted to come and visit me but needed money for airfare. After transferring the money for the tickets, she said her ticket was robbed from her and I never heard from her again, and the profiles on the date.com website vanished.

First reported: Mtchme2
Second reported: Mark

 

 
Belyaeva, Maria (aka Maria Perepelkina, Natalia Badyagina etc) - Tyumen (or Ekaterinburg), Russia

Phone: no phone
Address 1: Russia, city Tyumen, Petrova street 92 - 107
Address 2: Russia, city Tyumen, Petrova street 90 - 100
Address 3: Russia, city Ekaterinbourg, Belinskogo str. 149-89
Email: mariabel@hotbox.ru, maria_2000@krovatka.net, maria_2001@hotbox.ru

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad, or by placing own ad on the same sites. Claims to be a virgin (usually 27 years old) who lives with her mother. Works as a cashier in supermarket and earns $40 per month. Informs that she can obtain visa to your country for $350 with the help of "firm" in her city, then asks for money for tickets, then for insurance. Write about her sexual dreams about you.

First reported: Max Randall

 

 
Belyanina, Ekaterina (Katya) - Seversk, Russia

Address: 636070, Kommunisticheskiy prospekt 65/11, Seversk, Russia
Email: Kapusta@mail15.com or Kapusta2004@ukrtop.com

Details: met her on date.com. Sent money for visa and airfare via Western Union. She was to take a train from Seversk to Moscow to pick up her visa. She was then to fly to LA, then to my home town. Did not hear back from her.

First reported: DR

 

 
Belyh, Ekaterina (aka Kate) - Narva, Estonia

Phone: no phone
Address 1: Postal index 20303, Narva city, Tallinn Rd., 13 apartament 3, Estonia
Address 2: Tallinn Rd. 25-8 20303 Narva, Estonia
Address 3: Latvia Riga , Mascavas street, 220-C, appartement 137
Email: Karamelka275@Alabama, rina24@pochta.ru, Kate24@pochta.ru

Bank Detials:
Beneficiary's Bank: A/s Akciju komercbanka "Baltikums" M.Pils iela13, Riga Lv-1050,Latvija
Swift Code: CBBRLV22
Account No: LV81CBBR1310165100010

Details: Initiate contact saying she wants friends from USA. Use pre-written letters. Same old visa/ticket scam

First reported: So.Crates
Second reported: Dom
Third reported: Mad2
Fourth repored: Joe
Fifth reported: redtime21

 

 
Berdink, Inna  - Lugansk, Ukraine

Email: innas_go@mail.ru

Details: She never answered any of your questions at all and by the second letter her agency was requesting money for translation and internet services because "Unfortunately her account is over and she can not reply to your letter". This is the same letter that all of the women posted by this agency send to you and is an obvious scam. The money is to be sent to Olga Kupinskaya, Manager of agency Caprise or Inna Berdik by Western Union. I again wrote back to her over a month later with the same introduction letter and recieved the exact same pre-written letter sent to me before.

First reported: Roland

 

 

 
Berezena, Tatyana  - Kazan, Russia

Address : Pskovskaya 17, Kazan, 420123, Russia

Details: Asks for money for airfare and visa.

First reported: Chris

 

 
Berezina, Julia (aka Tatyana Sidulova)  - Novosibirsk, Russia

Address : Novosibirsk. 630075, Khmelnitskogo 12-76, Russia

Bank Details: Rosbank. Russia. Novosibirsk. 630105, Lineinaya 47/2

Details: Asks for money for airfare and visa.

First reported: Stephen

 

 

 

 
Berillo, Elena  - Ekaterinburg, Russia

Email: ely2003@bk.ru

Details: Initiate the contact through the Australian yahoo personals web site. In the third email she completely falls in love with you and wants to spend the rest of her life with you. She had organised a flight but needed $700 from me to pay for half of the airfare as she only earns $150 per month. Never allow you to talk with her. She insisted on sending her money through the western union money transfer system.

First reported: Almost sucked in

 

 
Berkova, Elena  - Nikolaev, Ukraine

Phone: 380512417809
Address: Lazurnaya 52b, apt 151 Nikolaev, Ukraine 54058
Email: postotak@bk.ru

Details: Meets you in person to convince you that she is real. Said yes to all proposals from many men at the same time. Requested money for airfare, visa, clothes, expenses and gifts, etc. 

First reported: hurtnmad

 

 
Best-Ladies.Com

Details: It offers in marriage, girls who turned out to be porn models. They took money from me for phony telephone numbers and email addresses. Photos were taken off of Russian modeling sites. Once they had my money, they would not communicate anymore. One girl they listed had a bad phone number and email address and the owner apologized, saying there was no other number, but they continued to offer her number for sale for six months afterwards.

First reported: Donald

 

 

 
Bezruchko, Lena (aka Gulnara Inucheva)  - Lugansk, Ukraine or Kirov, Russia

Email: alenapetunina@mail.ru

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad, or by placing own ad on the same sites. Asks for money for airfare and visa.

First reported: Max Randall
Second reported: Ake

 

 
   
Bezruchko, Natalya - Nikolayev, Ukraine

Address: Kosmonavtov str. 142/158 54031
Phone: 380979545909
Email: nata kuva1 u-ni@yandex[1].ru

Details: She is on the Russianladies.com site ID:72020889. Requested money for her to visit you. Can't come the first time because there was a Ukrainian Election. The second time, she can't come because her mother was scared. Then she request money for computer to communicate with you.

First reported: Kalervo
 

 
   
Blinova, Julia – Cheboksary, Russia 

E-mail address: julia2006@gawab.com

Details: she made contact, after 5 prewritten letters she was in love, she also made mistakes in her letters. so I did a simple google search and found a scam profile on her on another scam site 

First reported: Rob
 

 
 
Blokhina, Tatyana - Yoshkar Ola, Russia

Address: Yoshkar Ola, Druzby st, 87-55, 424039
Phone (Internet Cafe): 8362 631143

Details: Contacted through American singles. Called every morning. Said she need money for visa, tickets and money to leave the country. Scammed $3000.

First reported: Tony C

 
   
Bocharova, Tatiana – Moscow, Russia

Her email: mias1gar@yahoo.com

Details: 4 emails sent to me about how she wanted to come to England to work and live, sent me photo and then asked me for money to be sent to her for plane ticket.Never answers a question you ask her. Another Scam, as her photo has been used before on a different name

First reported: Jay

 

 

 

 
Bogatyreva, Kieve Russia

Address: 424000 Mari El, Ivan-Kirlya 17"B"-93, Russia
Email: RedRose005@mail.ru, Innakiev@yahoo.com, Kiev@ukraintours.com

Details:  Asks for money for airfare and visa to marry and she has to go Moscow for a modelling job and after that she has to visit to her parents at Novosibirsk.

First reported: Jim

 

 

 
Bogdanova, Marina Anatolievna - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Russia

Postal Code: 720028
Street Address: 7district 33home 26 flat
International Phone Code: 996-312
Home Phone: 457422
Mobile Phone: Not Available
Email: gold-field-of-love@rambler.ru
Agency: russianbrides

First reported: Rod 

 

 
Bogomolowa, Elena - Murmansk, Russia

Address: Lenina prospekt 18-3, Murmansk, Russia
Email: natalya@vic45mail.com

Details: Typical scammer. Request airfare and visa money to visit.

First reported: coachmj

 

 

 
Bohlodina, Irina - Belyy Yar, Khanty-Mansi Russia

Email: cranberry@kosino.net

Details:  Asks for money for airfare and visa. 

First reported: Kfan

  

 

 
Boiko, Svetlana - Lugansk, Ukraine

Address: ul. Rechitskoye shosse 85-24, Gomel 246012
Email: svetlanab@omen.ru,  svetlano_bouko@hotomail.com

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad, or by placing own ad on the same sites. Asks for money for airfare and visa. Claims to have bought plane ticket, just before her departure, her mother becomes ill and she cannot come to see you.

First reported: Alfred

 

 

 
Bolbat, Volha - Minsk, Belarus

Phone: claims to don't have a phone
Address: Skoriny Ave., 145, ap. 201, Minsk, Belarus

Details: One of the names used by Minsk group. Acquaintance usually originates from a personals site where you placed your ad, and she responded. Writes personal letters, answering all your questions. After 2-3 months informs that her aunt working at University may help her to come to USA including her in student exchange group, and asks for money for visa and tickets. Doesn't stop writing after receiving the money.

First reported: Lawrence Marshall

 

 
Bolkova, Olya – Civilsk, Russia 

Agency: filipino friend finder

Details: posted ad on filipino friend finder. heard from olya and marina on same day. by second letter, she was talking about how deep our feelings were becoming and of marriage! she never responded to things talked about in letters or to questions asked. i sent one letter with nothing but a paste of info about hunters in the world of warcraft online game, and next letter, no reference to it at all, just more of her growing love. lol! so, she must have a pre-set group of letters that
she mass-mails to those she has on the hook and never even bothers reading what is sent to her. that should be a flaming neon light clue to anyone when that happens. look for it. by the way, one picture of her is on your site under Prohorova, Olya - Cheboksary, Russia with
similar details, especially the $440 wanted for visa. here are the payment details i finally got today:

Amount: 440USD

INTERMEDIARY BANK: Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas, New York
ABA:021001033
S.W.I.F.T.: BKTR US 33

BENEFICIARY BANK:
Hansabanka, Riga, Latvia
S.W.I.F.T.: HABA LV 22

BENEFICIARY NAME:
MAKSIMS ROGOVS

BENEFICIARY ADDRESS:
Riga, Latvia

BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT/IBAN:
LV60HABA0551000279461

DETAILS OF PAYMENT:
For Olya Bolkova

First reported: Neal

 

 

 
Bolsheva, Lilian - Voronezh, Russia

Phone: +7910249293
Address: Lilian Bolsheva, Ul. Lizykov D. 56, Kv. 285, Voronezh, Russia 394088

Details: Responded to the personal ad and demanded to buy her pocket computer from America. Because you didn't buy it for her she makes you feel that you are greedy, cheap and unmanly.

First reported: John

 

 

 

 
Bondarenko, Elena, aka Banderenko - Lugansk, Ukraine

Email Address:  bondarenko_elena@inbox.ru (new), elena@milena.lg.ua (old)

Phone: 380-642-951054
Address: Ukraine, Lugansk, Vatutin Street 93/51, Zip code 91040

Details: Asks for $100 per month to continue communicating. This woman advertises by herself (I suspect) and even responds to e-mail but involves other people when it is time to start some serious business called communication. She appeared on match.com under whitelily_2001 and golden_rose. Her co-conspirator is Yelena logvinenko who operates the successful juggling of phones and answering different customers. She has a person(s) stationed at the phone number 380-642-951054 in Ukraine.  Based on who is calling she will say Elena is not available/sick/traveling and asks you to write an e-mail.

First reported: Lawrence Marshall

 
 
Bondarev (Maiden Name), Andrey (AKA Andrey Churikov) - Ulyanovsk, Russia

Address: 432046 Russia, Ulyanovsk, Telmana street, 3-50

Site: http://thirsting.mail333.com (Contain his picture)
Email: Imobiz@gay.com thirsting@mail333.com and and_reyka@front.ru

Details: Contacted through Gay.com. Gay Scammer, use the same tricks. Requested money for his visa, and air ticket to America.

First reported: Henry

 

 
Borisenko, Ludmila  alias Yulya Borisovna

Phone: claims to don't have a phone
Email: box11111@yandex.ru

Address: U.L.Yaroslava Mudrogo 5/13 Flat3  Belaya Tserkov Ukraine 2456400. 

Details:  Asks for money for visa and tickets. 

First reported: Daniel

 

 
Borisova, Alena  - Cheboksary, Russia

Email: borlena@rbcmail.ru

Address: Kadykova Street, 36. ap.138, Cheboksary, Russia, 428000

Details:  Initiates contact, uses prewritten letters. Asks to visit you but states that she's short of money. Asks you to help out. 

First reported: Bastian

 

 
Borisova, Oksana  - Cheboksary, Russia

Email: borlena@rbcmail.ru

Address: Kadykova Street, 36. ap.138, Cheboksary, Russia, 428000

Details:  Initiates contact, uses prewritten letters. Asks to visit you but states that she's short of money. Asks you to help out. 

First reported: Bastian

 

 
Boukhtiyarova, Olga  - Donetsk, Ukraine

Phone: 380623852527
Address: OLGA BORISOVNA BOUKHTIYAROVA SLOVATSKAYA STREET 1,app.92 DONETSK  83012 UKRAINE

Details:  Asks for money for visa and tickets. Stops corresponding later; you are informed of her being in an accident and asked for more money by the agency so they can organize for you to visit her.

First reported: Octavio Nadal

 

 
Botvinkina, Tatiana ("Tanya") Kremenchug, Ukraine

Phone: claims to don't have a phone
Address: 1905 str. 4-40 Ukraine, Poltava region Kremenchug

Details: Places ads on popular personals sites; often listed as residing in USA. Requests moeny for correspondence in the first letters. Claims to have a small daughter.

First reported: CSG

 

 

 
Botvinkina, Tatiana - Kremenchug, Ukraine

Email: ksusha_785@pochtamt.ru

Address: Kremenchug, Poltava area, Ukraine.My adddress - Pervomayskaya str., 7-68.

Details: Places ads on popular personals sites; often listed as residing in USA. Requests money for correspondence in the first letters. Claims to have a small daughter. 

First reported: J. Bravo

 

 

 
Boyko (Boiko), Olga - Donezk, Ukraine

Phone: no phone
Address: Bobrova str.21,  app.47, 83012 Donezk, Ukraine
Email: nt234@ukr.net; m1491992@paranoia.itl.net.ua

Details: "Visa and tickets" scam. Initiates the contact through a personals website, falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and tickets. Prewritten letters. Calls you "Dearest Prince", and herself "Your princess".

NOTE: different pictures may be used

First reported: Josesph MacLeod

 

 
Brikman, Natalya (aka Natalya Brigthman and Natasha) - Lugansk, Ukraine

Phone:  
Address:  
Email: nataly_blue@ukr.net; sun_nata@hotpop.com; natasha_b@hotpop.com

Details: Always send out standard letter and never give answer to your questions. After a couple of mail she needs 100$ for the translations cost to English. She makes you trust her by crying and later ask some more money for different reasons.

First reported: Peter

 

 
Bronnikova, Olga - Syktyvkar, Russia

Phone:  N/A
Address:  20 Stavrapolskogo, 320a
Syktyvkar, 167610 
The Russian Federation

Email: N/A

Details: Visa/ticket scam 

First reported: Muggs

 

 
Bronnikova, Olga - Vorkuta, Russia

Phone:  N/A
Address:  Russia, Vorkuta 169912
Street Sadovay hause 9

Email: olyaloft@Mail.ru

Details: She contacted me on GenXPeopleMeet.com. 

I sent her money via Western Union@Vortuka, zipcode 169912, Gagarina,6A, Ukhtabank 
Total scam $4500.00 plus all I spent for her to buy food, birthday presents, & to fix up her room with new linen, etc, etc. She is detailed in her letters and has many pictures to back up her life style. 

First reported: Scammed to poverty

 

 

 
Bulatova, Ekaterina - Cheboksary, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address: Russian Federation. ZIP 424003, Zarubino ST. 20A-9
Email: Ekatertina2003@rbcmail.ru; ekaterinabulatova@rbcmail.ru

Details: "Visa and tickets" scam. Initiates the contact through a personals website, falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and airfare. 

First reported: Phantom

 

 
Bulatova, Ekaterina - Omsk, Russia

Phone:  7-3812-245797
Address: 20 partsezda 25 – 7, 644029, Omsk, Russia
Email: Buravleva@mail.ru  or  Buravleva@netbox.ru

Details: Requests money for travel expenses and visa 

First reported: 2die4

 

 
Burkova, Natalya – Cheboksary, Russia

Postal address: 628031 Russia Cheboksary Konakova 75-28
Phone number: unknown
Agency: www.seekingyou.com

Details: Contacted by this girl sent a lot of pictures and requested money

First reported: Fermin

 

 
Burmistrova, Nadezhda – Volgograd, Russia 

Postal address: Kazanskay Street, #12 (False address)
Phone number: Never gives personal phone number but that of agencies, one of them blacklisted

Details: Span of Relationship: One month

I met Nadezda Burmistrova at American Singles. She posted a personal with her photo. The personal was quite strange, since the information provided below her fake address, which she put as Tucson, Arizona, seemed to be pasted excerpts of other American women’s profiles. She even mentioned having a baby, saying in her profile, “my son is the world to me”, but in one month of correspondence, she never mentioned the missing child and she also lied about her city of residence, which was Volgograd, Russia, not just a stones throw away from my personal address, but across an ocean. 

I should have been leery of this dating ad and avoided correspondence with her altogether, but I’m a failed romantic and I was attracted by her picture, so I sent her an email through American Singles with my personal email address. She immediately sent a return message offering to show me her pictures and then sent me a detailed letter at my outside email address about her family and personal life, even mentioning a past relationship with a boyfriend. 

She described in her initial email mostly Russian pastimes, which made me believe her to be an immigrant who had moved to Tucson from Russia. She insisted in her profile that money meant nothing to her, “BALONEY”, that she does not care about a persons job and the money in which he makes, which in scammer talk means: “ looking for anyone who can easily be played into a confidence game”. Watch out for these clues for I did not realize until almost too late that such words do make sense to a scammer, since a smart or well-off person, would be able to sniff a confidence game at its onset. 

At first, I am still unsure if I am being scammed, so I first ask if she is living in the US as an immigrant, for her pictures show her in Russian dress. She finally tells me she is living in Volgogard, Russia and did not want to tell me initially, since she did not know my person. Well, thanks for lying! I get very skeptical of her after this so open up another email account and start sending emails to her from the other one to see if she is a mass scammer. She fails the mass scammer test by giving detailed answers, even including my name throughout the letter, instead of just the header, like mass scammers do. 

Therefore, I continue writing to her about romantic pastimes since in her profile she lists great romanticism as a trait she desires in a man. She sends many pictures, which look as if a hired photographer had done them, but her own personal appearance is modest and attractive, but not revealing or of a model character. She never sends me nude pictures with a sensual innuendo. 

Within five days, she is calling me darling in her letters and after about four days of correspondence, I tell her I want to visit her in Volgograd, but tell her it will require two months to acquire a passport. Nadezda has a passport, so she offers to travel to my country, so I oblige, and wait for her to finalize paperwork with her agency. She requests from me 950 USD for airline tickets to my airport for she does not make enough money to cover this expense. She gives me the address of her agency as requested and it turns out to be at the top of a BLACK LIST. I tell her this and instead of vanishing, like most scammers do, she returns an email in which she states she is deeply offended. I ask for her sincerity and tell her I will not pay Black Listed agency, so she signs up with another one, which is not on a blacklist and has a verifiable street name in Volgograd. She goes through paperwork and requests again 950 dollars. 

We are nearing the end of our month long relationship and she has fallen madly in love with me, especially after we are about to break up. She gives me the decision to continue or break relations, throwing in a story about a serious relationship she had with a previous boyfriend that ended sourly when she witnessed him cheating on her with another woman. I tell her I want to continue the relationship and am committed to her. All of a sudden, she is flaming in love with me. I make one final call to finalize the money transfer, but the phone operator, an expert on frauds, persuades me to back down. Therefore, I end the transaction, a godsend for me, and send her an email that I cannot complete money transfer due to the risk of fraud. SHE ACTUALLY ANSWERS MY EMAIL and states she does not have the funds to finalize contract with her agency. 

So I go through a private investigator to get final confirmation on the home address she gives for receiving payment. They discover she does not even exist and the address is a phony. Thanks to the investigator I saved 950 dollars in paying a professional scammer. These scammers get smarter and smarter

First reported: Edward

 

 
Burmistrova Nadezhda - Ulyanovsk, Russia 

Mailing address:
Street Soviet the house 3
Ulyanovsk , Russia, 432063
E-mail address: konctance@yahoo.com

Details: She has sent me numerous photos and after I said NO to the first attemt to get money from me, her emails suddenly became more erotic- telling me that when we meet she wants to take a bath with me, and wanting to know what I prefer in ladies lingerie.

Her first attempt was for $100.00. Now, several weeks later, it is for 
$1050.00.

First reported: Bob 		 

 

 
Bushkova, Nadya - Yoshkar Ola, Russia

Address: Petrova Street House 18 apartment 82, Yoshkar ola, Russia

Details: She uses several last names. She spoke of sex in her very first letters to me. Very graphic sex. She claimed if I would buy her a computer for $800.00 US and have phone installed in her flat for $500.00 I could view her naked and in sex acts. I questioned her on her address and asked her to send me documents showing where she lived and the University she attends. She panicked and I did not hear from her for again.

First reported: Thomas

 

 
Busyigina, Anna (aka Anna Ribakova) - Novgorod, Russia

Address:  3/24 BARMALEEVA, ST-PETERSBURG, 195009, RUSSIA
Email: annakisscool123@inbox.ru

Details: Found her on Datadate. She didn't give her phone number. She sent me about half a dozen emails, and in the last one, she told me she was in love with me and hinted that she wanted to visit me. Airline tickets and visa scams.

First reported: Robert
Second reported: Scott

 
 
Butkova Vika (AKA Vikoriya Mostovaya) - Lugansk, Ukraine

Address: 9100 Ukraine, Lugansk - Sovetskaya St. 94.9
Phone: 380642 333288
Email: vika_gojman@rambler.ru

Details: Involved in scam.

First reported: Brandon E.

 

 

 

 
Bykova, Ekaterina - Novgorod, Russia

Phone:  
Address:  Russia,629041, city of N. Novgorod,
street of Lenin 15-7
Email:  

Details: She initiates contact says her father died in the war and mum died soon after. Lives with aunt. Claims to love you after a few e-mails the says she has a friend in a travel agency. Can get a visa for $350 but can't come to me as she earns only $60 per month. I suggest to help and next e-mail has all details with Western Union, ten digit number and Alfa bank details 

First reported: MJ

 

 

 
Bylkova, Ekaterina (aka Natalya Usolova) - Russia

Address:  St. Kutyakova 82 apartament 54, Saratov city, 410000 Russia
Email:  kat_byl@mail15.com, kate29@pochta.ru

Details: Initiated contact through yahoo personals. Her English was terrible. Shortly after she's fallen madly in love you. If the girl asks for money and barely knows you then it is a scam. So maybe six e-mails later she says, send me $440, so I can come to see you in the US. I can't get the money from relatives etc.

Same name, same addresses, different photos.

First reported: arkaxow
Second reported: Semour
Third reported: Trolhunt

 

 

 

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