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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

K, Olya - Lugansk, Ukraine Email: katerinka_sy@mail.ru Details: She has a profile listed on MatchDoctor uses the exact same address as a similar scammer from this agency Katya Y. Same letters, requesting money after 2 letters, not answering any question in her letters to you no matter how simple, will not give you her birthday or last name or anything else for that matter. First reported: Woody

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Email: flora_f6@smtp.ru

Details: Requests money for operation for her mother who was hit by a car.

First reported: Griffin

Address: Schastie or Lugansk, Ukraine
Email: Natasha_kapar@inbox.ru, alanochka@bk.ru

Details: Requested money for English Lessons, passport, correspondence, gifts and also to support her family. Never answer question. Refuse to give her information.

First reported: Bill

Address: 241037, Bryansk,Krasnoarmeyskaya street,158
Email: Olya_2004@pochta.com
Bank Details: Western Union Branch: MENATEP SPb-bank

Details: She writes letters telling you she needs money to come see you in America, that she has falling in love with you and cannot live without you.

First reported: Joe

Address: Gornaya str.-16, apt.-8, Chita, 672020, Russia

Email: svetisa@front.ru, svetisa@fromru.com, svetkin@fromru.com, svetkin@pochta.ru, coreyalgerer@yahoo.com

Details: Contacted through friendfinder.com. She fell in love and wanted money so she could travel to the U.S. to see me. 

First reported: Len

Phone: 011 7 391 299 6754
Address: 11-84, Soviet street, Krasnoyarsk, Russia 660111
Email: russianlady1972@mail15.com

Bank Details - Western Union
Address: Lenin's 34-85 prospectus, Krasnoyarsk, Russia 660131

Details: Inconsistent scammer. Uses typical scamming routine. Lost money for her to apply visa.

First reported: XXXX
Second reported: NiteProwls
Third reported: Dennis F.

Address: glavpochtamt, irkutsk, do vostrebovania, russia 664000
Email: ray-of-light@periev.net

Details: Normal scam, in a couple letters she say's she loves you and wants to come to you to be with you. apply's for visa and says she needs help with plane ticket. Want you to send money to western union. When you don't send any she tries to make you feel guilty with more emails till she realizes your not going to send any money. Then you don't here from her any more.

First reported: Blaine
Second reported: Burt

Address: Syctyvkar city, Lenina str, 24-5,R ussia

Details: She has not asked me for any money yet. She claims to be a dentist and sends lots of photos. She contacted me through yahoo personals and talks a lot about how bad Russian men are and how she wants to start a family.

First reported: Andrew

Address: ul.Levitana 7/1
Email: sveny@nm.ru

Details: She gives her phone number and has no problem meeting you in Ukraine. She says she wants to marry you, but strangely she is "too busy" to delete her profile from the web site, and each time you speak there is another "problem." Her parents are getting divorced, her university is too difficult, she doesn't have a passport to meet you anywhere but if you send $150 she can get one. Even though she is engaged, she still writing to someone looking for soulmate.

First reported: John

Phone: no phone
Email: sveny@nm.ru

Details: Quickly falls in Love, never answer questions directly. Scammed $5000  over 3 months period for many expenses (visa, airfares, accidents, etc.)

First reported: J.W.

Address: Spectrum (Tour Operator), 103009 Mocow, Centre Strastnoy Bulvar 8
Phone: 00 7 095 230 6448 (Work)
Email: villis1982@mail.ru OR spectrum@spectrum.ru

Details: I met this girl in Moscow international airport in May 2001. In February 2002 sent 250 pounds for air fare and visa but it was declined. In August 2003, sent $800 to go on a package tour to London but she went to Egypt instead as part of her job. In February 2004 again she didn't turned up. She always refuses to speak to me on the phone.

First reported: David

Phone: no phone
Address :

Email: kash123@yandex.ru; Sveti2000@inbox.ru

Details: Correspondence with Marina Karpenko. It was only after six months that I learned it was most likely Irina Sukhova or one of her accomplices from the Alliance agency.

First reported: Stuart

Phone: no phone
Address : IMPEXBANK CHELYABINSKIY Hours
71 LENIN PROSPEKT CHELYABINSK, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Email: magnolia@trjam.net

Details: Requests money to help pay for part of her airfare and visa.

First reported: Stuart

Address: Street Serafima Deryabina House 30, Apartment 208

Details: Contacted me through online personals site. #1 RED FLAG: Never respond to what you say. #2 RED FLAG: Fell in love within a week. Use pre-written letters. She's mentioning about the visa now.

First reported: Red Flags

Phone: no phone
Address 1: Bluhere 63-a, Apartment 173, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Address 2: Russia, Republic MARI-El, city Yoshkar-Ola, street Petrova, house 32a, apartment 178
Email: kash123@yandex.ru; Sveti2000@inbox.ru

Details: Very similar to Marya Belyaeva scam. 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. Writes about her sexual dreams about you.

First reported: Andy Luick

NOTE: so far 2 sets of pictures were used under this name

Phone: 380.44.478.10.90 
Address: Gnata Yuri Str., 3 Apt 61 ,Kiev,  03148, UA  
Email: ivolga_tk@mail.ru

Details: She contacted me via an e-mail from J-date, sending gorgeous pictures of her and continued on with poetic letters culminating in how much she loved me.  She ultimately asked for money for her plane ticket to be wired to a Western Union office in Krasnoyarsk.

First reported: Bill

Address: Russia, Astrakhan, 414000 Street. Lenina, 20, apartments 4
Email: lina@pochtamt.com

Details: Sent several letters. Request money to call you as she had no phone. I met her through "faceparty" a website where you can write to people from all over the world.

First reported: Billy

Phone: +79212144770, +78112128988 
Address: flat 1,house 4 prospect energetikov Kirshi the Leningrad region
Email: ivolga_tk@mail.ru

Details: She meets you in person, she asked about her money all the time. For the meeting she asked you to pay for it, and also ask to buy her new boots which costs $300. After the meeting, she again asked money for her divorce with her ex-husband. After that she again ask money to support her and ask you to pay for her trip to you. After that, no phone call, no sms, no letter, no nothing at all.

First reported: Tony

Address: 3 Volgogradskaya, apt.18, Kiev 03141
Phone: +38 044 469 41 20

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

First reported: Anonymous

Phone: 380.44.478.10.90 
Address: Gnata Yuri Str., 3 Apt 61 ,Kiev,  03148, UA  
Email: ivolga_tk@mail.ru

Details: This woman is a gold digger!! She lets you visit in her country and gets you to pay for absolutely EVERYTHING! But not just for herself, for her friends aswell.

First reported: Ant

Address: N/A
Email: marlene2004@gawab.com

Details: Asking money to give it back to her friend Beata.

First reported: Kais

Address: 634050, Russia, Tomsk city, Lenin street 30-20
Email: lanochka_k@mail333.com

Bank Details:
Name: Alfa bank
Address: Kirova SQ.,2, Tomsk, 634050

Details: Initiated contact by yahoo personals. After a few letters she claimed she was falling in love. She just recently asked to be with me ,her cousin works in one of the immigration buildings in Moscow she has asked for $350 for a K-2 visa.

First reported: Mark
Second reported: John

Email: maschenka1977@inbox.ru

Bank Details: AK BARS BANK, RUSSIA
KAZAN city, KREMLEVSKAYA street, 8, 420111

Details: She wanted $350.00 for a visa and said she wanted to come to the U.S.

First reported: Cheetah

Phone: 7 844 351 1870
Address: 40 Let pobeda 13-1, Volzhsky, Russia 404133
Email: Khnykina@mail.ru; hnykina@mail.ru

Details: Request money for visa and airfares to visit you.

First reported: Mark

Address: unknown
Email: irina980@hotmail.com

Details: Ads are placed on popular personals sites. When answer the ad, you find yourself corresponding through an agency in St Petersburg (non-existing agency Myriad of Hearts etc). The "agency" promises to fly Irina to you on a student exchange program, asking money for tickets and visa, and giving you deadlines when money should be paid, or "her visa expires". "She" may call you and ask you to call "her" at the agency phone number. Money should be sent via Western Union or MoneyGram on the name of "agency manager" to Ekaterinburg.

NOTE: different pictures may be used

First reported: Robert

Phone: no phone
Address: Krasnokokshayskaya 86-12
Email:  

Details: Request money for visa and airfares to visit you.

First reported: Mathew

Address: Lomonosova 34-67, 456200
ICQ#: 218617690 
Email: nicewoman004@runbox.com

Details: Contacted through Yahoo Personals. Typical "tickets/visa" scam. Says she loves me and wants to be with me, then asks for money. Also gives a website address for a little "kiss" video and attaches an .mp3 file of her voice.

First reported: Christian

Phone: no phone
Address: Saransk City, Russia, Lomonosova Street

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Declares her undying love for you after a few emails. Requests money for visa and passport.

First reported: Tony

Phone: no phone
Address: Sofia Bank, Chkalova 90, Samara, 443001, Russia

Details: Declares her undying love for you after a few emails. Requests money for visa and passport to come and visit you.

First reported: :Pelican

Email: roses372@hotmail.com
Address: 644109 RUSSIA, OMSK, MOTORNAYA 14, APT 3.

Details: Money request by western union on the scammer's name , she ask 460 $. Told her that the money will be made only to the travel agency, she get very angry and ended the correspondense.

First reported: DaBigEzy

Email: Girl_w_interest@female.ruemale.ru
Address: Russia Po box 424003, Chavayna bul'var(23-60), house23,apartment 60.

Details: Typical Visa/Ticket scammer.

First reported: Chad

Address: Russian Federation. 424000 Podolskih Kursantov, 4-99
Email: olya2004_2004@mail15.com

Details: Initiate contact through Yahoo Personals.

First reported: Jim

Details: Uses agency DBFV Agency Ltd. Trasferred money to the manager for translation/English lessons; visa, passport, and round-trip airline ticket; and the cost of operation for Irena's Kiryushina's mother. After all that they both disappeared.

First reported: Michael

Email: Girl_w_interest@female.ruemale.ru
Address: 440600 Russia, City of Penza, Lenins prospect 24-3

Details: Tells you how little her salary is and how she does not know how she will pay this months rent. Asks for money for visa and airfare. Says her brother can help.

First reported: Chad

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: Russia Ekaterinburg ul. Posadskaya 44/2-23

Details: Initiates the contact through personals sites. Seems sincere, suggests coming to visit you, with you financing the trip. Money needed for visa and airfare. Day of trip get an email about 20 hours after her supposed departure, written by her mother telling you that Julia was mugged in toilet in Moscow is in hospital and is going to die. And nothing further.

First reported: Done my doe

Phone: no phone
Email: lenochka@female.ru

Address: 4/66 Suvorova street Cheboksary 424006

Details: Initiates the contact through personals sites. Seems sincere, suggests coming to visit you. Money needed for visa and airfare. Once the large sum of money is sent, correspondence stops

First reported: Mustang

Address: KAZAN 420091, HIMIKOV 63 FLAT 163, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Email: SNEZHANA-KLENOVA@MAIL.RU

Details: Well known scammer with new names and address.

First reported: Dan

Phone: no phone
Address:  no address

Details: Falls in love is desperate to come and meet me. -mails were pre-written. Would not provide me with address or phone number.

First reported: Rbrtjlln200

Address: 618250 Russia, Gubaha, street Lenina, 11-15
Email: Selenulenka@yandex.ru

Details: Very convincing scammer. Does what you tell her to do to prove she really exists. Found out the she has been receiving money through Western Union from a lot of places. Asked money for round-trip ticket to you and for correspondence.

First reported: Gary

Address: 26 Pobeda Street, apt.# 43, Tver, 170023, Russia.
Email: kat_630000@mail333.com

Details: Initiated contact from a Dating Service. Falls in love quickly and couldn't wait to meet you. She requested about $850 dollars for her plane ticket to America. She said she would pay the other $430 or so for her VISA. 

First reported: John.S

Email: ekaterinagirl@pochtamt.ru

Details: Initiates contact through personals sites. Uses the same letters just changes a few words. Requests money for visa and tickets. Now listed at American Singles site.

First reported: Michael
Second reported: LarryG819

Phone: no phone
Address: 2702 13802 Tallin Estonia-Shevchenko 21 121151 Moscow-Vavilova 11 117312 Moscow

Details: Typical visa/ticket scam. 

First reported: Guido

Phone: +496-950-5068
Address 1: Pushkin 43-90, Magadan, Russia
Address 2: 107 Darvina Street, 22 Chelyabinsk City 454087 Russian Federation
Email: NATALIA2778@yandex.ru, elena1974z@yahoo.com, nat2002_russ@pisem.net, evgenya121@pisem.net.

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Informs that she can obtain visa to your country with the help of travel agency, then asks for money for tickets, then for insurance.

First reported: Lost Dog
Second reported: Charles

Details: Use Fake Passport

First reported: Thomas

Postal Address: zip 425210, Republic Mari El, Medvedevsky area, Post office Shoibylak
Address: Russia, Elabuga,street Lenina 12-2
Email: tanechka_2005@list.ru

Details: Invalid Address and requesting money. She is very aggressive in demanding money.

First reported: David G.

Phone: no phone
Address: 46 ORDJONIKIDZE STR, Tyumen, Russia

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Informs that she can obtain visa to your country with the help of "her friend" who works in travel agency, then asks for money for tickets, then for insurance.

First reported: Eric Jones

Phone: no phone
Address: 107 Darvina Street, 22 Chelyabinsk City 454087 Russian Federation
Email:  nat2002_russ@pisem.net, evgenya121@pisem.net.

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Asks for money for tickets and visa

First reported: Lost
Second reported: Powderhound

Phone: no phone
Address: Street Dekabristov 169 flat 62, Kazan Russia
Email: Kikimora1974@bk.ru

Details: Initialize contact through Yahoo personals. Found scammer details about her on web later.

First reported: Aaron

Phone: no phone
Address: Ukraine Lugansk 90040, Lenin street
245/4
Email: Kondrusova@hotpop.com;aurora@ukr.net

Details: Personal Ad placed on personals.ninemsn.com.au which uses
www.soulmatestechnology.com The story, she needs the services of the translation agency "Aurora", which also provides a wide range of services such as English lesson, flowers, postcards, or anything else. Very quickl Story was that she can no longer pay for the translation services of this agency. Payment details came from the so called agency "Aurora" for payment via Western Union. The receiver was to be the "Manager" Gelena Artemenko.  

First reported: Cautious

Phone: no phone

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Informs that she can obtain visa to your country with the help of travel agency, then asks for money for tickets, then for insurance.

First reported: Tom

Phone: 7 252-74-46, 232-00-59
Fax: 7 232-00-59 
Address: Novosibirsk, Russia 
Email: masha_k@mail333.com

Details: Initiated contact from Adultloveline dating site. Then the money for Visas questions and she answered questions about life in Russia and family. I think that everything is real, but after the money questions started, questions were not answered. Then money and money and money questions, then she has ticket money becasue grandmother has sold jewerly for her, but she needs insurance money. I know that she cannot leave Russia and I have to visit her. So I bluff about going to INS and tallking with Russian Visa Official and how he made me bring a picture and go through a scam artist book and my insurance company would cover her trip. She never wrote back.

First reported: Rey

Email: devushka@marry.ru
Address: street pushkina house 10 dzerzhinskiy 140056

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

Phone: 38-0692-440-393 
Address: Zharova 10-300 Ivanovo, Ivanovskaja Oblast, Russia 
Email: Irina777@souz.sebastopol.ua

Bank Details: Vneshtorgbank varentsovi,13 Ivanovo, 153000 

Details: Initiates the contact herself through yahoo personals. Ask to help pay for her tickets to meet you. Never return the letter after asking for the copy of her air ticket.

First reported: Samuel Long

Phone: 38-0692-440-393 
Address: Ostrykova 87-164. Sebastopol 99011 
Email: Irina777@souz.sebastopol.ua 

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Informs that she can obtain visa to your country with the help of travel agency, then asks for money for tickets, and airfare.

First reported: Irina777

Koryagina, Irina - Samara, Russia

Phone:  
Address: 443035 Samara Street, Nagornaya 124-42

Email: irishka_kmw112@pochtamt.ru; irina_n_xc464@fromru.com 

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Requests money for visa and airfare to visit you in your country. Also asks for money for a trip to Moscow to obtain the visa. Infomrs you she has recieved it, then disappears and never arrives in your country.

First reported: Shelby

Address: Druzhby street 24/15 Donetsk - 36, Ukraine.
Phone: 380622 239509
Email: allove@fm.com.ua

Details: Initiated contact through Interfriendship from Germany. Ask money to come to you. Uses fake pictures, the girl do no exist.

First reported: Christoph
Second reported: Otmar
Third reported: Ake

Address: Osipova 28, Apt 34 zip 65004
Email: myemail23423@yahoo.co.uk

Details: Uses the photo of International Model. Initiated contact. The e-mail appeared to come from Bride.Ru. I don't think the agency sent it knowingly. She includes several links to geocity websites that never work. The English is poor, the pitch is unsophisticated. In spite of quickly "falling in Love", she did not even use my name until a very recent letter. She did not directly answer many of the questions I asked. Immediately falls in love with me and wants to come out here. Asks for $308 for a visa.

First reported: Rob
Second reported: The punisher
Third reported: Chris

Details: Same as everyone, contacted through Yahoo personals. Falls in love after 2 weeks and wants $300.00 for visa documents and then wants $695.00 more for airfare.

First reported: Lemonkrate

Kososplova, Yulia aka Lativa, Riga aka Lubimova, Svetlana - Nizhni Novogorad , Russia

Meeting place = Kissndate.com
Her age = supposed 28 years old
Her occupation = Kindergarten teacher
Her phone number = was denied 
Her address = was denied

Details: Her photos are of Photos of Yulia Kososplova. started to understand this was a scam when I could not send her a gift. Luckily I was not played and have not been gone after by this person yet. Report it have fun. Ta ta

First reported: Paul

Phone: milka_uw@mail.ru
Address: Gagarina Bl 14-B, 90045 Luhansk, Ukraine

Details: Ira has a profile posted on MatchDoctor. After 2 letters a request comes for money as the girl's account is over. The money is to be sent to either the manager Angela Nedobega or Ira Kosova which means that someone with this name really exists most likely. The mailing address of this Bonita Agency is Alexseeva 4/15, 90040 Lugansk, Ukraine. The director of this SCAM AGENCY is Alika Uzanova. 

First reported: Bart

Phone: None
Address: Novouralsk, Russia

Details: She contacted my through American singles. She was supost to travel through istravel to Denver, Co. I sent her money for tour and to show custom for living minimum. She claimed to get mugged on the way home from bank, said she was at police for 4 hours making report.

First reported: Axminester

Phone: +79034076396, +79282605232, +78632957048
Address: Saratovskaya 5 ap. 29, 344039, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Details: She meets you in person and ask you to pay for everything. When she got enough money out of you she dump you. The one on the phone is definitely not her in person as the one on the phone can speak proper English. 

First reported: Janne in my story

Phone: +7-812-2453356
Address: Russia, St Petersburg 194100 B. Sampsonievski pr.80-3
Email: OKSY1977@yahoo.com, oksana_023@yahoo.com, bertour2@spb.cityline.ru

Details: Says that her mother (father, neighbor) works in a travel agency, and can easily receive a tourist visa to USA/your country, asking for money for the visa and plane tickets. Sends many emails (daily) nothing much personal but totally focused on her coming to the USA/your country. Asks that the money be sent via Western Union to Natalia Kovaleva, "her mother" (neighbor).

First reported: John