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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

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 - Ukraine, 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

Berezina, Tatyana - Read also about Pirogova, Luba

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

*The name was changed to protect identity
** Pseudonym


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