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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
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