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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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Phone:  38-0572-23-32-55, 38-050-63-77-964
Address: Constitution's Square 3 Flat 6-A, Kharkov Ukraine 310003
Email: irishka007@hotmail.com

Details: She has account at Blossoms.com and when she meets with you, she used all your money.

Reported: FedUp

Address: RUSSIA, ST.PETERSBURG, 197349 2-ALEKSEEVSKAYA
Email: Tamara202@mail.ru, mila15@inbox.ru, sunraise@mail.ru, stpt2002@km.ru, oksana920@yandex.ru

Details: Met her in real life. Really good and clever scammer.

First reported: Carl S.

Phone: +7 8124 311785, 812 115 36 03
Address 1: 5-17 Shkolnaya, St Petersburg, 197183 Russia, 
Address 2: Russia, St.Petersburg, 197349 Novokolomyazsky 8/10-284
Email: petrograd03@inbox.ru

Bankers Trus Co., New York, USA
Swift Code: BKRT US 33
Account: 04-097-778

Baltiyskiy Bank, St.Petersburg, Russia
Swift Code: BABJ RU 2P
In Favour: Malenkova Olga
Account: 42301840601001308511

Details: A real person living in St Petersburg, Russia. Eager to meet men at her native city, and promises to marry to them, asking money for dentists, sick mother in hospital, tickets to come to visit you etc. Invites different excuses for delays with her trip, such as "her girlfriend stole the money", she herself is sick etc.

First reported: Anthony 
Second reported: Frank

Phone:  
Address: Kirova street 8-23
Chelyabinsk Russia
Email:  

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

Reported: Pablo

Details: Ticket scam

She wanted to visit me  so, she went to a travel agency call World Travel Agency. They sent me info about her flight here and was cheaper than what I could get.  So I sent $988 to this Pavel Polulyah to order the plane tickets.

Reported: Rich

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: This person scammed me for over 3,000 dollars. She was very good & patient. Contacted me by yahoo personals. Thank you for this web site it helped me a lot , I only wish I had looked into it before it was to late.

First reported: Bryan

Address: Lenina street house 14 apartment 3, Ohansk, Perm, Russia

Details: Typical Scammer

First reported: Calvin H.

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

First Reported: Terry

First reported: Craig

Details:  Asking for $690.00 US, for travel to Dallas, TX. She said she would enlist in a US Exchange program to learn the english language in the US. We communicated for approximately one month before she asked for money. I decided to check the scam pages and there she was... I will include a few more photos of her. She initially contacted me through the Yahoo Personals on December 17, 2004. She deleted her profile 3 days after she contacted me.

First Reported: Almost Scammed

Address: Bryansk, Russia
Email: mar_wefa222@mail15.com

Details: Initiated contact. Pretended to be from England. Then told later that she's from Russia. She falls in love with u. She wanted money money for the Visa, Passport & Travel Arrangements etc.

First Reported: Adil

Address: Kazan, Russia

Details: Noticed her from your site. Thanks for the opportunity and thanks for your work well done to help us .

First reported: Campos

Address: Charles Marksa, 25 Apt 8, Odessa, Russia
Email: MASHA019@RAMBLER.RU

Details: Tells of betrayal by men in Russia. Lives with mom and dad. Uses Prewritten letters when you don't write back. Gives prewritten letters to all my email addresses. Found me thru old Absolute penpal request.

First Reported: JAC20902

Address: 29-19 Nekrasova street, Kirov,Russia

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

First Reported: Stuart

Phone:  
Address: 10-5 Stahanovstev St.Simferopol City Krimea Ukraine 95033
Email:  vitalina111@hotbox.ru

Details:  Typical visa/ticket scam.

Reported: Allen

Address: Krasnayarsk (Moscow), Russia
Email: aleksey_05@list.ru

Details: Responded to a Substantive Profile on Yahoo. Like all the others, requested money for the visa and ticket. Writing Style different in every paragraph.

First reported: Jim

Phone:  
Address: tatarstan,yelabuga - st. proletarskaya 45-24
Email:  vitalina111@hotbox.ru

Details: She wanted money sent western union and she said send it in her mothers name, Evgenia. She emailed me 2nd a half months wanting money for visa, airfare and insurance. she got money. Told me her mother had accident couldn't come for 2 months and no more emails.

Reported: Berry

Email: masha99@nm.ru

Details: She is already in love after 5 emails. I actually joined a website called singlesnet to meet people local. Somehow this person contacted me from my profile. Profile states Kentucky and Asian.

First reported: Dough

Phone:  
Address: Street of the world 12/2, Surgut, Russia, 976054

Email:  lastochka_2002@female.ru; jazzlover_1969@yahoo.com; kanareyka_980@female.ru

Details:  Requests money for visa and airfare, proclaims her undying love for you.sks for money.

Reported: Denis

Address: MONTAZHNIKOV 43 APT 21, Orenburg, Russia (Fake Address)
Email: kristina_motya@inbox.ru

Details: She contacted me from Yahoo Personals. She is also on Match.com. She wrote my name on the sign so she is real. She sent usual romantic letters and request money for her to visit. She never write again when i said i'd visit her.

Note from R-Scam.ORG: Viewers please note that the second photo is not really her. Notice that her head has been cut and pasted on to the picture to show you that she is real. Also notice how the color of her face doesn't really match the color of her hands and her face is more blurred than others.

First reported: David

Phone:  
Address: Kirova street 8-23
Chelyabinsk Russia
Email:  

Details: Initiates contact. Correspond for a few weeks before she says she received a phone call from the university saying she needed to pay more money ($370 US). She tells me if I send  her money she will continue to write me.  

Reported: Randy

Address: 677009, Omsk, Russia

Details: Found her on ORIGIN International Dating Club. Known Scammer.

First reported: CC

Address: Omsk, Russia
Email: konfetka99@pochta.ws, Sweet777@pochta.wa, tasty13@pochta.ws

Details: She found me on HIV dating site. Call on the phone. Didn't give her number. Didn't talk about sex. Speaks good English. Fell madly in love within a week. Asked money for travelling, visa, accommodation and preparation for the wedding.

First reported: Jay
Second reported: Betrayedbutwiser

Address:  Russia, Nachalovo
Email: nadezhda@masdav.com

Details: Typical Scammer. AKA. Tatyana Kuzminyh. Met through Yahoo personals. 

First Reported: Fooled once

Phone: none
Address:  Russia, Ekaterinburg, Lagernaya
35-176.
Email: russiangirl4@yandex.ru

Details: Never answer questions. Withing a few emails, she fall in loves, hinted that she doesn't have any money and finally said she needs to come to USA to be with you.

First Reported: Bluewee

Phone: 380- 642 530173
Address:  Alekseeva 34/45, Lugansk 90040, Ukraine
Email: Lesya_mel@mail.ru

Details: Use pre-written letters, hardly answer any questions. Ask money for correspondence and translation

First Reported: Frank

Phone: 011-7-352-257 77 44
Address:  M. Gorkogo street 17-80, Kurgan, Russian, 640000.

Details: I was scam out of $300 to meet at the airport. She asked for $40 more for Taxi. I knew there is a scam and told that I will give you the money in Moscow. She said now or not. I called her, she answered in Russian then a man talked in Russian

First Reported: Kragan Scammer

Address:  Russian Federation, Artemovskiy, Mira Street 19, Apartment #4
Email: neolochka@yandex.ru

Details: Some pictures she sent of hers are sometime different girls. Don't answer question. They claimed that in order to acquire a "tourist visa" they needed $300.00 for the foreign passport, visa, medical exam, registration, etc.

First Reported: Inyourface
Second Reported: Bill

Address: Gagarin str. 12-45, Kazan Russia.

Details: Met at Cupidbay.com. First requested $300, then $150 to buy her mobile. Then insisted to get her a visa. Tried sending her flowers but florist said that she doesn't live there. She is listed at cupidbay.com, 12meet.com, mate1.com, russianeuro.com. All the sites said they are not responsible.

First reported: Andrew

Address:  
Email: mailto:ki@rbcmail.ru

Details: Typical visa/airfare scam. Falls in love with you, wants to visit you. Asks for money

First Reported: Baxter

Phone: 00380677320780, 00380654314580
Address: 28 Grigoreva street, Ukraine Crimea. 98600 

Email: larisamuh@hotmail.com

Details: Asks money for visa, airfares and other costs. When specious, she doesn't reply messages and answer phones anymore.

First reported: Rockyboy

Address: Addresses on file: 12-22 Sovetskaya Str. Murmansk Russia 183010; 12-22 Lenin Str. Murmansk Russia 183002; 25-99 Gagarin Str. Orenburg Russia

Verified Banks of Use: Gazprombank 161 Turkestanskaya Str. Orenburg Russia 460021 Petrovskiy Narodny Bank 6 Egorova Str. Murmansk Russia 183038 Alfa Bank 1 Dimitrov Str. Novosibirsk Russia

Transfer System:  Western Union request MTCN or Money Transfer Control Number.

Email(s): marfa_2000@krovatka.net; marina_465@yahoo.com; marina777@krovatka.net; marina_8732@pochtamt.ru

Details: They will make first contact,  a false address is given. Love is declared and money will be requested to proceed in efforts to obtain a visa and transportation to the United States.

NOTE: multipy sets of photos can be used

Reported: Mike Baxter

Phone: +7 8124 311785
Address: 5-17 Shkolnaya, St Petersburg, 197183 Russia 

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

First reported: Mike

Address: Vatutina str. 9, apt. 14, Novosibirsk, 630078, Russia.
Email: tanichka@mail333.com, Tanuchka@mail15.com, tatanika@front.ru

Details: Contacted me through Friendfinder.com. She wrote about love starting from the second letter. Said both her parents are dead. Request money for visa afterwards.

First reported: Fox Mulder
Second reported: Rik

Address: Street: Gagarina,8, Apartment 17, Sayanogorsk, Russia, 665600

Email: olgw@yandex.ru, ole_nka@pochta.ws

Bank Details: MOSCOW BUSINESS WORLD 
LENINGRADSKII MIKRORAION 22A, SAYANOGORSK , 655600

Details: Typical Passport/Visa/ ticket scam 

First reported: VIC
Second reported: Tom
Third reported: Jerry
Fourth reported: Michael
Fifth reported: David O.

Phone: 0038 642 54 7511, 0038 642 63 60 97.
Address: Shevchenko area, 27, flat #51, Lugansk

Email: milaya82@inbox.ru

Details: Typical Passport/Visa/ ticket scam and hospital fee for accicdent. Falls in love with you. Wants money for correspondence, etc. Use Western Union. Always hint that she needs money. Very convincing Scammer

First reported: Bob

Phone: 07 812 2456704
Address: 1-Murinski pr.15-16 St Petersburg, 197183 Russia
Email:millan@hotmail.com

Details: Needs money for travel with student-organisation.

First reported: Gunther

Phone: unknown
Address: Elite Brides - International Dating Club 164900, Russia, Novodvinsk, Novaya street 16.

Details: Just after one email correspondence, the agency requested money for more correspondence and join the agency which don't even have a website at the time.

First reported: Sam
Second reported: Brigante

First reported: Matt 

Phone: 07 812 2456704
Address: 1-Murinski pr.15-16 St Petersburg, 197183 Russia
Email:elenbest25@yahoo.com; NEVATOUR@yandex.ru

Details: Asking money For visa and airfare.

First reported: SRP

Phone: no phone
Address: Socialisticheskay 20-A 33 Volgograd Russia 400074
Email Address: anna_molchanova1@mail.ru

Details: Initiates the contact herself through popular online personals in response to your ad. Informs that her cousin borrowed money from Russian mafia and needs your help to pay them off so that her cousin isn't harmed. She asks for the money to be sent through Western Union.

First reported: Kevin

Details: This lady assures you that irrespective of age difference and without contacting you by phone,it is her lifelong wish to be married to you .Requests funding of Flight insurance costs of 900USD as she cannot obtain this either through family or work.

First reported: W. 

Address: MARI EL , JOSHKAR-OLA. LESHPAY STREET, BLOCK 112, APT 27
Phone: +7906 - 139 -30 - 42

Details: I was contacted by her initially, and after 7 emails declared her LOVE for me, and wanted to come immediately to live with me in England, and asked me to send £350 to her at western union site in Russia. When I told her that I would not send money, she never replied again.

First reported: Dave S.

Address: 27 Makisimova Street, Kazan, Russia
Phone: 011 7906 139 3042
Email: moronovanata1977@mail.ru

Details: Works for ministry of trades needs money for visa, tickets total $1600

First reported: Donald

Phone: no phone
Address: Penza Lenina,18 440620, Russia 
Email Address: rose_fem@female.ru; Girl_w_interest@female.ruemale.ru

Details: Starts by her initiating contact through personals website. She never gives her phone number.  She starts asking for money for a visa and wants you to wire her the money through western union. Don't be fooled. 

First reported: Eric C

Address: 17 Sportivnaja St, Zarechnyi, 442960, Russia, 424033
Email: meshokk@mail.ru, Krasicc@mail.ru

Details: Typical visa/airfare scam. He contacted me through gay.com and fell in love very quickly. Complained of loneliness and persecution of gays to gain sympathy. He even acted as though he were afraid I was a white slaver to distract me from thinking he was trying to scam me!

Details of another scam: I have been scammed of almost $4000.00 by Aleksandr Moskalev
We have been e-mailing each other for over 1 yr. Same scam story that is on your site now. I sent him money for visa, air far and $2000.00 to show customs for travel. He had me send money western union to his so called Aunt that is a veteran and clamed that he could get the money that way tax exempt.
Her name is ( Kislukhina Ekaterina ) in the same city.
After sending him the money he claims he was robed after getting off the train in Moscow.
I have contacted Western Union fraud dept and have filed a report and will be contacting the FBI as they have requested. 

First reported: Bruce
Second reported: Paul 

Phone: no phone
Address: Russia, 685015, city of Magadan, Pushkin street, 23-34

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 on visa B-2, then asks for money for tickets, then for insurance.

First reported: Eric Jones

Email: olyawonderfullove@yandex.ru

Details: This person contacted me from LoveandSeek.com. I sent a letter from another email address and another name and she responded to me with the same letter as she did when we first met, along with the same pictures.

First reported: C. S.

Phone: 78432929951 
Address: Kramatorskaja 11-23 Russia
Email: natasham@newmail.ru

Details: I sent her 983.00 and I tried to obtain information from both  embassies and waited month, the news came about two days after I sent  that she had never received or applied for visa. The touring agency  that I was supposedly working with was:

Travel agency Global Turs 

Address:  Russia, Kazan
Street 9 Sverdlova (420107-I don’t know what that is)

I met her on www.absoluteagency.com  I didn’t send her the money. She tried like hell.

First reported: Gary