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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 | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Efimova, Lidiya - Kazan, Russia Phone: no phone Address: Gorkovskoe shosse 43/1, abonementniy jashik-42. 420004 Kazan Russia. Email: lidiaefim@front.ru  Details: Quickly fell in love.  Requested money to come and meet.  First reported: Xerxesse
Egorova, Tatyana (Tanya, Lubov Koroleva (Luba), Nadegda leontyieva (Nadia)) - Yoshkar-Ola, Russia Address: Yoshkar-Ola, Russia Details: Write poetic letters and very romantic. Ask for money to come to you. When requested money is sent, she disappear. Now listed at American Singles site, singlescrowd.com and meetic.fr. First reported: Richard

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Phone: no phone
Address: 

Details: Typical "visa and tickets" scam. Falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and tickets via Western Union. Sends copies of air ticket and visa. The day she is supposed to arrive her mother calls and informs you she has had an accident and will not be able to travel

First reported: Wink

Address: Gertsen st, 78-16, Russia, Samara, index 152637
Phone: 011 78362964022
Email: egoshina_1967@land.ru, egoshina_1967@list.ru

Details: For the first 8 months she sounded normal. Didn't mention about money and doesn't answer all questions. After sending money for tickets, she vanished. I never heard from her again.

First reported: Yukamar

Email: julia@sadko.net

Bank: Lesosibirsk, United Bank- Eniuseisk, 114 Gorkogo street

Details: Julia will not answer a lot of question asked of her but will send many photo of her. Several letters later, she will start to fall in love. She tell you she has good or bad you decide. that she is coming to visit you. she will tell you she applied for visa, and she paid for the fastest more costly method to get the visa in 2 to 3 weeks. then she tells me about seasonal flooding and may loose power. After all of this then come the request for $ 375 US$ and a copy of her visa, and a flight schedule. Now she will say she used the same company and cried out a deal for a cheaper ticket, accepted and reserved the flight.

First reported: Ed C. USA

Email: EKATERINA_LOVE@INBOX.RU

Details: This girl meets people in chat rooms and tries to scam them out of their money. It was too good to be true.

First reported: Billy F.

Listed on: www.findsomeone.co.nz
Email: ekaterina1975@bk.ru, Kisik04@bk.ru

Aliases:
Anastasia Fedorova/Nastya from:- Syktyvkar
Eketarina from:- Kemerovo
Ludmila Shakirova from:- Kazan
Natasha Machihina from:- Cheboksary
Natalia Komarova from:- Chelyabinsk
Ekaterina Moskvicla from:-Krasnodon
Musa Voroma from:- Perm 

Details: Well known Scammer trying to scam still.

First reported: Michael H.

Address: Russia Perm Lenina 24-31 614028

Email: Milashka_123@front.ru, ladyruss_679@mail333.com, lady_ekaterina_572@front.ru, mariya_www@hotbox.ru

Details: Initiates contact. Falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and tickets. The photos used are from totally different person.

First reported: Johnny

Email: for_you1@mail333.com

Details: Contacted me out of the blue, progressed rapidly, asked for $

First reported: Duke

Email: N/A

Details: She contacted me through date.com e-mail. She included her address. Her picture was tempting enough for me to write her back. We exchanged few letters. The quality of her English varied from  one message to another. Her letters were very romantic. I wrote that I would come to visit her, and then she's stopped responding. 

First reported: Duke

Details: Contacted me from either Date.com or Friendfinder.com. Did a mistake with name addressing. Found her on blacklist.

First reported: Thomas

Details: I caught on to the "form letters" where none my questions were answered. Sent a lot of pictures.

First reported: DLG

Phone: 38 (067) 604 7481
Email: orhideablok@inbox.ru

Details: I met her on a marriage website called cherry-blossoms.com. She started out legitimate then fell in love fast. Then wanted to come and see me in America.

First reported: James

Phone: no phone
Email: lastochka26@rbcmail.ru

Details: Initiates contact. Typical "visa and tickets" scam. Falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and tickets.

First reported: Bob

Email: lenulya77@mail.rus

Details: Don't give any address, or phone number, madly in love with you.

First reported: jim

Address: 422010 , apt B15, town Arsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Email: box652@newmail.ru

Details: Typical "visa and tickets" scam. Falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and tickets.

First reported: Jim

Phone: no phone

Details: Initialy I wrote to 5 girls and then after a few more letter I narrowed it down to one, Nadya. I thought that the relationship was going well. I joined a message group that has members who are/have girlfriends and such who live in Yoshkar-Ola and I found out through them and then a former employee, that they are scamming. I found out that Nadya was not a participating member of the agency. For all I know now, she never went to the agency. I ended it quickly.

First reported: Goblin

Email: kseniya_e@front.ru
Address: Respublika Mari-El, Yoshkar-Ola, Mashinostroiteley 26, abonementniy jashik 92, 424003.

Details: I have sent this woman $1400 for visa and tickets and passport. Now all the sudden she needs more for her sick mother.

First reported: Once Bitten -Twice Shy

Addresses: 
1. Cheboksary 428000, Charles-Marx's Street 56-92 or 66-92. Of course it is a fake address. 
2. Cheboksary, street of the world 80, apt. 145 
3. Lobachevskogo the house 21 apt. 15 Index=42000
Cities: Cheboksary, Kazan,Novocheboksarsk, Yoshkar-Ola, and Novosibirsk
4. Novosibirsk, Russia with a name Olga Semyonova on the agencyscams.com

E-mail addresses: 
juliette_s@inbox.ru. She writes to XXX from UK and her name is Julia. Julia is on the scammers’ list on the stop-scammers.com
horashay@yahoo.com. She is now writes to XXX from USA. She tries to set up the place to meet
sireniti09@rambler.ru. She is writing now to XXX from Australia and asking XXX to send her money through the Western Union
larika_006@inbox.ru. This is her email address she uses to write to me
anit_a81@mail.ru and her manager's email: alian_99. Found her on the stop-scammers.com. She is Anna and from Ukraine. She write to XXX from Greece

Details: I have been scammed by this evil woman for $4900. I received 100+ letters from her.

First reported: Manny

Phone: no phone
Address: Usenbaeva 6/15, Bishkek

Details: Falls in love after 3 emails. Works in conjunction with a fake agency requesting money for a type of 'travel package'.

First reported: Joey

Phone: N/A
Address: N/A
Email: kotenok110@bk.ru

Details: She never directly asked me for anything but hinted about money several times. I suspect it was only a matter of time before she started asking. I saw her picture listed with a different name on this site. 

First reported: John