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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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Lapicheva, Nelli (aka Inna Adamova) - Minsk, Belarus

Phone: + 375 296 20 70 80
Address: Kirova 3-71, Minsk 220050, Belarus
Email: luna@infonet.by

Details: Claims to be a manager in a travel agency. Asks money for Internet, or for visa and tickets to come to your country. Usually works through placing her data at international dating agencies. Money are to be sent via Western Union.

Using 2 sets of photos (blond-haired and dark haired).

First reported: R B

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Lapova, Elena (aka Elena Proleeva)

Email: prelest31@yandex.ru, lenkas26@mozhno.net

Details: I was contacted by this lady when I went on to Love.com. I figured something was up when she never answered any of my personal questions. Finally she asked for money.

First reported: Rick

Lapova, Elena - Isheevka, Russia

Address: Isheevka, Russia, street Novokombinatovskaya house 34

Details: She had a 1704 ruble found worth a lot in America so she would bring it to me in America if she got airfare. She offered to spend all her savings on visa and and $160 on airfare I just needed to send the other $620.

Reported: not easily scammed in USA

Lapteva, Elena - Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Phone: +7-8362648742
Address: Mira, house 68, appartment 71

Details: Ask money for English courses

Reported: Riquet

Lapteva, Evgeniya - Omsk, Russia

Phone: N/A
Address: N/A

Details: Visa/ticket scam

Reported: Rod

Larisa, Radchenko - Poltava, Ukraine

Phone: unknown
Address: Ul.Chapaeva 56-23, g. Poltava Poltava region Ukraina 32650

Details: Ask money for correspondence and translation.

Reported: Riquet

Larkina, Nataliya (aka Natty) - Lugansk, Ukraine

Phone: +38 - 0642 -539706
Address: unknown

Details: Ask money for correspondence and translation.

Reported: David - anti-scam agent

Lativa, Riga aka Lubimova, Svetlana aka Kososplova, Yulia - 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

Lazareva, Tatyana - Dniepropetrovsk region, Ukraine

Phone: 38 056 796 52 28
Address: Lenina street 47/12, 52500, Sinelnikovo, Dniepropetrovsk region, Ukraine
Email: taeka@pisem.net

Details: Ask money to buy a mobile and after that the phone was robbed by a teenager after work. Uses an actor's photo from TV series "Roswell".

Reported: Mnedal

Lebedeva, Anna - Lugansk, Ukraine

Email: anka_li@mail.ru

Details: She has a profile posted on a free web site like MatchDoctor and then her agency wants money for her letters and translations. No questions are ever answered in her letters that you ask. She talks about how she has a low salary in her very first letter. After 2 letters in which nothing is ever said or any of your questions are answered the request for money letter is sent saying that her account is over and that you must pay in order to continue letters to her.

Reported: Patrick

Lebedeva, Darya - Read also about Ivanoca Anna

Lebedeva, Nadya - Kazan, Russia

Phone: +38 - 0642 -539706
Address: Ibragimova st, 45.423620, Kazan, Russia
Email: nadya123678@yandex.ru

Details: Initiated contact to my profile of millionairematch.com. Exchanged a few "what stuff do you like to do" emails. Received email saying she was getting VISA, had money to travel, money for hotel and wanted to visit me. But ask for money after.

Reported: Sammy

Lekunovych, Nataliya (Angel) - Kherson, Ukraine

Address: Str. Kutuzova, 8, fl.410, t. Kherson, 73034, Ukraine
Email: angel@tlc.kherson.ua

Friend's Name: Mariya Kisyel
Friend's Address (for sending money): Stepana Razina 73, fl.14, t.Kherson, 73013, Ukraine
Friend's Email: vitalia@tlc.kherson.ua

Details: Requested money for her alleged surgery.

First reported: Big Daddy

Lena

Email: matrena1965@mail.ru

Details: Avoid questions. Quickly mentioned lack of money and finally request money for correspondence and said she wants to visit you.

Reported: Alex75

Lena - Balaklava Ukraine

Phone: unknown
Address: unknown
Email: happystr@pisem.net

Details: Ask money for correspondence through the following bank:

Bank Account: Western Union, St.Stroitelnaya 39/44, Sevastopol, Ukraine

or USD (Message types MT-100) BENEFICIARY AND HIS ACCOUNT: 39018945087 / 29096946021001 Gavrilenko Elena, Pasport - AP-182337, SEVASTOPOL BRANCH of Ukrsotsbank.

BENEFICIARY'S BANK AND HIS ACCOUNT: USD 8900260947 UKRSOTSBANK, KIEV SWIFT: UKRSUAUX CORRESPONDENT BANK: BANK OF NEW YORK.
NEW YORK SWIFT: IRVTUS3N.

First Reported: Chris

Lena, Elena Sultaikina - Kirov & Novgorod, Russia

Phone: unknown
Address: Mosolova street House 114 flat 11
Email: beauty_lena@fromru.com

Details: Write poetic letters and very romantic. Ask for money to come to you. When requested money is sent, she disappear.

Reported: Abdul

Lenchik, Elena - Donetsk/Lugank, Ukraine

Agency: hotmatch

Details: met this girl on dating site hotmatch.com, falls easily in love and thinking if you, pre-written letters, pictures with no name but following numbers, and after 3 letter, her translating agency ask for money because she is in financial trouble. Goes to a university but doesn't speak english. No answers to you re questions and so on. Changing name and profile several times, but with same pictures.

First reported: Stephan

Lepehina, Tatyana – Russia

Details: I have been in correspondence with a young Russian girl from a small town called Zelenodolsk in the republic of Tatarstan.
We have exchanged over 30 emails and many photo's, when we first met she contacted me, I never found out how she got my email address from.
She told me that she was a nurse in the emergency Dept.I informed her that I have many letters from Russian girls but they are scammers, she said that was so sad and she was just looking for love! We spoke about our family's ect. And she invited me to visit her and to stay at her apartment I was do to visit at the end of this year.
I have been searching the web to find out all I could about traditions etc. And had really fallen for her, she told me that her parents were happy for her and she did not want any money from me and not to send her anything of value as it could be stolen in the post as there is alot of corruption in their postal system!
While searching this site I found my Girl but under another last name! with one of the same photo's she had sent to me! Well I was very hurt and emailed her and told her of this site, I said that I did not believe that it was true but could she offer any explanation? I told her that I still loved her and it must be a mistake! ! ? That was on 28/5/2006.
I have heard nothing from her since and I just wanted an answer!

First reported: Mark

Lepina, Anna - Moscow, Russia

Details: This girl in her pictures has black hair and gray eyes she contacts you through a dating service and sends several pictures as you correspond. She claims to be from Molochny the town somewhat close to Murmansk it's the typical visa / ticket scam.
What makes her different is it will take about six weeks for her to ask for money.She does it in a convoluted way which is what threw me off guard.When you offer to send her a ticket through Aeroflot she seems receptive to the idea but in a letter that follows she then tells you that doing it this way she will have to travel to Moscow to get her visas and that this will cost more and take as much as three months.She claims to only know about western union because her aunt who lives in Moscow suggests it as an alternative to speed up the process.She claims to be so anxious to come see you then she begs you to use western union as this will make it possible to arrange the visa,tickets and medical requirements more quickly .Supposedly an agency called MINVA , Murmansk international visa agency will provide her with a package dealt for the visa and ticket but she must pay cash so you can't deal directly with them. At first she asks for the money for the visa , then the ticket and then she claims she made a mistake and only bought a one way ticket and claims she needs more money for the roundtrip portion or she can't get the visa as the US government requires a round trip ticket to provide for INS guidelines. She will go to the trouble of getting the airline company's flight numbers and dates correct.Where I tripped her up was when I asked for a reservation code although she gave me one , Aeroflot told me, when I called to confirm her flights as I was beginning to smell a rat, that not only was she not on their computer but that the reservation code she gave me made no sense to them at all. A tasty bit of information for you is that you cannot get a visa until your ticket has been purchased. All in all she got me for $1,500.00 through western union. I wished I had saved the pictures for you but I deleted them after I realized this was a scam. I was able to contact the bank she had me wire the money to but it became apparent to me after a couple of calls that this bank consisted of an older woman who spoke Russian only and a younger woman who spoke broken English who asked me to e-mail her and gave me an e-mail address that does not exist.
I hope this is of some help to you regarding adding information to the database please feel free to contact me should you desire any additional information

First reported: Paul

Leschinskaya, Tatiana (aka Olga Selezneva) Alekseyevna - St.Petersburg, Russia

Phone: +7-812-5999204
Address: Engelsa pr, 143-1-139, St. Petersburg, , 194358 Russia
Email: sss@peterlink.ru

Details: Says that she works in a travel agency, so a tourist visa to USA is not a problem, asking for money for the plane tickets. Sends many photos that become more and more erotic. Says she has her own money, and will pay half of the airfare herself asking for 300-400 dollars to be transferred to her via Western Union.

Reported: Steve Brown

Letyagina, Olga - Cheboksary, Russia

Address: P.O 141,Index: 428034, 9th Five-year Plan of Prospectus,House 2/3 êâ 118.
Email: olglety@rambler.ru

Details: Writes poetry. Fell in love, doesn't respond to anything of the letters. Use Same addess with Olga Svistunova.

First reported: Secret squirrel

Leznina, Evgeniya - Yoshkar Ola, Russia

Address: Russia, 612370, Lenina street 51 - 2
Email: Evgpodolskyh@mail.ru, evgmarsik@mail.ru

Bank Details:
Address: Yoshkar Ola city, Palantay str., 112
Name: Vneshtorgbank

Details: Contacted me through Yahoo personals. Typical scammer. Requested money for visa/ticket, etc.

First Reported: Don
Second reported: Steve

Lihtenvald, Natalia - Cheboksary, Russia

Address: Elgera street 1, apt.98, Cheboksary, Chuvashia, Russia 428000

Details: Visa and tickets scam

Reported: Byebee

Liolita, Julia - Vilnius, Lithuania

Email: liolita@list.ru
Address: Arkhangelsk, Russia

Details: Typical visa/plane ticket scammer.

First reported: Paul

Llona - Ekaterinburg, Russia

Address: Ekaterinburg, Russia

Details: She sent me 2 mails, told me how much she loves me, before she makes her next move, I found her IP address isn't stable at all, so I asked one of my friends did a little check up, found she's kind of mobile all the time, I started doubting, then I found out. She didn't get a chance to move on.

First reported: em2life

Lobacheva, Anna - Volgograd, Russia

Phone: 007 8442 381713
Email: anna70379@yahoo.com
Address: 400131 Volgograds Russia Alleya Geroev 5-36

Details: Without even knowing you, she asked for Internet fee and already asking to meet her at Russia

First reported: Ademaro

Lobanova, Svetlana – Surgut, Russia

Postal address: Apartment 34, 15 Enthusiast Street, Surgut, Russia.
E-mail address: svetlanaya79@rambler.ru

Details: She wrote to me through yahoo personals at first using a name svetopolka, then using her own e-mail address. We were sending letters over a month or so , getting really close ( I thought). I had fallen for her, she sent two pics with some of her letters. Then we agreed she should come to England to meet me on a tourist visa.She lived in Surgut which is far from Moscow where she needed to go to obtain a tourist visa. So she asked for £280 to help travel to Moscow and pay for visa, because no one had that sort of money in her family there. So I sent it via Western Union to a bank she said where she could pick it up from. We had spoke on the phone a few times, each time she phoned me because she said she didn`t have a phoneline in apartment, ( even on my mobile ). She sent me letter saying she had arrived in Moscow safely and was staying with a friend. All through this she was very polite and appreciative of what I was doing for her and sounded like she hated asking me for the money. Then she sent me a letter and rang me being very upset saying she needed £780 for a round trip for proof she was returning, before the Embassy would grant her a visa.I usually have good common sense in normal life and am weary of peop[le, but was blinded by the excitement of all what was happening. I started to wonder and sent her details of return flights which cost £420 and would buy them and send them to her, but she said she had to pay for tickets herself from there. Being stupid and nieve I sent money through Western Union again to a bank she had stated in Moscow. So I knew the original money was picked up in Surgut and this money was picked up in Moscow ( I thought this was real because she had travelled to Moscow ). The next few letters were good then she was in a state again ( crying on phone etc ) saying she needed a guarentee of £1500 to the Embassy so as she wouldn`t come to England as tramp etc. At this point I woke up out of fantasy land and e-mailed the British Embassy in Moscow about this, also e-mailed Home Office in England. I didn`t hear anything for a few days and with Svetlana saying she needed answer quick I rang the British Embassy in Moscow. I explained everything to them and asked about the bond or guarentee which they said they do not ask for that at all, and asked them to check if she had applied for a visa. They had no person on record of that name and told me it was a scam. I hadn`t heard of scams before then and was devastated. Then she rang me again so I told her everthing I had found out, and told her how I felt and what I thought of her, she still persisted in saying she was true and not scamming me. Also said she would return money. I haven`t received money after 10 days, also didn`t send me any letters until I said I was putting her photos and personal information on all scam sites,personals sites,Home Office, British Embassy in Moscow , Iterpol and Western Union etc.Then she rang me still sayiny she was true and needed £1500 for guarentee.I told her she wasn`t true and a scammer, amonst other things and she was not getting the £1500. I have not heard from her since and not received any money back, so thus she is now on this site and others to protect others hopefully.

First reported: Barrie

Loentyieva, Nadegda (Nadia, aka Lubov Koroleva (Luba), Tatyana Egorova (Tanya)) - Kaliningrad, Russia

Email: devushka@marry.ru, lubov@mailgate.ru, lenchik@mailgate.ru
Address: street Kirova, house 10, apartment 17, Kaliningrad, Russia, index 23600

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. Also Penpal site penpalgarden.com.

First reported: Glenn and Steve
Second reported: Richard
Third reported: LarryG819
Fourth reported: Robert

Lop3, Anna - Volga , Zvenigovo

Email: anna_lop3@pochta.ws
Address: Volga, Zvenigovo

Details: Anna contacted when she saw my profile. "Visa and tickets" scam. Initiates the contact through a personals website, falls in love with you, wants to visit you dying to be with you and wanting to marry you, asks money for visa and tickets. Prewritten letters. She sent same letters to Friend.

First reported: Eliseo

Loschilova, Natalia - Staroutinsk, Russia

Address: 623036 Russia, Staroutinsk, Sovetskaya, 23

Details: Mother died at birth father still alive. Works sells at a furniture company. She first contacted me through American Singles.com

First reported: Babosan

Love City Marriage Agency

Address: Lenina str. 123, Bishkek

Details: They offer a travel package for your 'lady' to come over and visit you. All documents including visa magically take 3 days after payment.

First reported: Mr. E

Lovelyrussiangirls & Meetabride.com

Details: They offer a three-day trial membership, after which serious billing begins automatically. They send letters from fake profiles.

First reported: Jim

Lopaskina, Anastasia - Russia

Email: north-beauty@mail.ru

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

Reported: Speedy Gonzales

Lubimova, Svetlana aka Lativa, Riga aka Kososplova, Yulia - 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

Luda - Odessa, Ukraine

Email: ludmila2004@pochta.ru

Details: After the third letter she fell in love already. Requested money for visa and ticket. She was gone after that.

Reported: Alex

Lugovenko, Mariya - Odessa, Ukraine

Address: Ukraine, Odessa(zip65004), street - osipova 46, apt.17

Details: Firstly said she hasn't got enough money to correspond. A car hit her mum and now she died at the hosipital. Because she used all the money on her mum she needs money. I was concerned enough to write several times after this letter but got no response when i did not send money. (Used a photo of a model)

Reported: Geoffrey

Lukovska, Larisa (Larisa Skorenko)-Poltava, Ukraine

Phone:
Address: 1-51, Kremenchug, Poltava, Ukraine
Email: assol88@mail.ru

Details: Gets close after a few emails. Ask money for her dating agency and has daughter name Veronika (Vera).

Reported: Rick

Lunina, Helen - Odessa, Ukraine

Address: Odessa 65000, Voroncovskiy per, 9, kv,33. Ukraine

Details: she started asking for money and I followed the route of saying no need I can arrange her passport, visa and plane tickets from this side, well never heard from her again as I thought.

First reported: Michael

Luppo, Zhanna (aka Larisa Dmitrieva) - Ivanovo, Russia

Address: Russia, city Ivanovo, 153000, Lenia str. 15.
Email: flower1979@yandex.ru

Details: Met on Yahoo.com Dating service. She wanted me to send money for visa and ticket.

First reported: Don

Lutzgina, Maria (AKA Olesya Melnik) - Perm, Russia

Address: Perm, Russia
Email: marialutzgina@yandex.ru

Details: Same as Olesya Melnik

First reported: Russell

Luzina, Elena - Omsk, Russia

Address: 22 Bluchers Street, Apartment 33, Omsk, Russia, 644045
Phone: 7 3812 692539
Email: lavalen@rambler.ru

Details: Ask for a lot of money saying she had no money and her computer provider needed to be paid to keep communication, and her computer broke down, also she had no money for food for her and her daughter. She scammed me for AU$1,500 overall. Met her at Free Russian Personals.

First reported: Brian

Lykova, Karina - St.Peterburg, Russia

Phone: +7 812 5400543
Address: 195221 russia, sankt-peterburg, poliustrovskiy 31-79

Details: I emailed the lady and received a reply with an invitation to call her. When I called her she immediately asked for $6000 to get a travel visa to the United States. I asked a number of questions of her regarding the Visa and none of her answers were correct.

First Reported: Gary

Lyubov, Platonenko - Zarechnyi, Russia

Address: Troeschina 30 Drajzera flat 125 Kiev Ukraine 02222
Phone: 011-380-44-515-3508
Email: lubov_platonenko@yahoo.com, lubuskap@gala.net, lubuska@gala.net, sweetkitten7_5@hotmail.com

Details: Met her on Foreign Affiar social in Kiev and over the course of six months we became engaged and her and her family worked me for as much money and presents that they could squeeze out of me.

First reported: Greg

Lyubov, Sharov - Kirova, Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Moscow

Address: Flat 32, House 72

Details: I started to correspond with this girl and started to make up hardship stories and evaded many questions that I put to her. I even send her a gift of A$200 from my own volition to help her. Then I wanted to go and visit her in Chubash Republic. She does not want me to go there and wants for visa and return airfare over US$3000. Does not want to present passport to Western Union and much more that is contrary to the local law. I do not understand why she does not believe me that for a visa to come to Australia it takes months and that sending money without her visa and passport is just not logical. I am thankful that she had a photo and profile in http://www.rsvp.com based in Australia and was living in Russia. The language keeps on changing and that the photo may not be hers either. I tried to talk with her in Russian and my Nigerian friend thinks they might be his countrymen using Russian girl's photo for visa and air ticket scam.

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