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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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Please remember that we are not a law enforcement agency and do not investigate or prosecute criminals. Only authorized law enforcement agencies can prosecute your offenders. To have them prosecuted, you will need to make an official statement to police and lay charges.

If you want to make sure that the person you communicate with is not a scammer, we advise you to read the Anti-scam manual.

Listings are given in alphabetical order according to Surnames or Agency names

A: (Aa-Al) A: (Am-Az) | B: (Ba-Bl) B: (Bm-Bz) | C: (Ca-Cl) C: (Cm-Cz) | D: (Da-Dl) D: (Dm-Dz) | E: (Ea-El) E: (Em-Ez) | F: (Fa-Fl) F: (Fm-Fz) | G: (Ga-Gl) G: (Gm-Gz) | H: (Ha-Hl) H: (Hm-Hz) | I: (Ia-Il) I: (Im-Iz) | J: (Ja-Jl) J: (Jm-Jz) | K: (Ka-Kl) K: (Km-Kz) | L: (La-Ll) L: (Lm-Lz) | M: (Ma-Ml) M: (Mm-Mz) | N: (Na-Nl) N: (Nm-Nz) | O: (Oa-Ol) O: (Om-Oz) | P: (Pa-Pl) P: (Pm-Pz) | Q | R: (Ra-Rl) R: (Rm-Rz) | S: (Sa-Sl) S: (Sm-Sz) | T: (Ta-Tl) T: (Tm-Tz) | U | V: (Va-Vl) V: (Vm-Vz) | W | X | Y | Z

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Address: Dekabristov 54 Apt. 26
Kazan, Russia 467000
Email: oksana_sik2004@mail.ru
anastasiya_lim@pisem.net

Details: contacted me through yahoo personals. Fell in love quickly, asked money for visa and ticket.


First reported: Charles 
Second reported: Phil

Phone: # 66-37-29
Address 1: 628401Samara, Street Nagornaja, the house 15 apartment 35
Address 2: 22 Nagornaja apartment 17
E-Mail: cth_345@land.ru

Details: Falls in love with you and she trusted you and she wants to visit you. Again she needs money to come to you. Money transfer was asked to make to the follwing Bank address.

Bank Account: Inkas BANK, Aminieva, 1 443-125

First reported: Speedy
Second reported: Darrell

Phone: no phone
Address: 14 Lospite Str
01202, Kiev, Ukraine
Email: TenderHearts@mail.ru

Details: Wants money to pay off her account at agency. Wants money for visa, airfare and travel costs.

First reported: Bruno De Klerk

Phone: no phone
Address: Mayakovskogo street 25-73, City Syktyvkar, Russia
Email:  

Details: She never asks about you or your life but falls for you after 5 letters. Claims to be a Doctor in a hospital. Initiates contact through the personals website; falls in love, requests money for visa and tickets.

First reported: Smarter then her

Address: Kosmonavtov st., 80-70, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Email: olenka22@rbcmail.ru, solnichko2004@land.ru

Details: Uses pre-written letters. Don't answer any of your question. Uses a photo of American Actor - Jessica Alba, star of Honey (movie) and Dark Angel (series). After a while, she pulled the trigger by asking the money to come visit you.

First reported: Johnny

Phone: N/A
Address: Russia 646973
Central'naya,House: 12

Email:  

Details:  Typical visa/ticket scam, uses the story about the Old Rubble of which she found.  Illinois. Uses  western union agent in Omsk,Russia. The address,and name is: GazPrombank, Magistralnaya,2  Omsk,Russia 644088.

First reported: Stevan 

Address: Kazan 467000. street Dekabristov 169 flat 62, Russian Federation
Email: alin91@yandex.ru 

Western Union Details: Osenkova Marina, Russia, Kazan, AkBars Kremlevskaya,8.

Details: Contacted me through Yahoo personals. Falls in love after two weeks. Sends picture with each email. Asks for $390 for Visa and medical insurance.

First reported: Tim P.
Second reported: Mr. KGB

Email: Nastaya@Maxxim.org

Details: Relationship over net, than wants money so Russians will let her on plane. Uses photo of US VISA. 

Details from another scam: Details from another scam: I was first contacted by this subject on January 11, 2006, through match.com. She contacted me. She first said that she lived in San Francisco and then said that she lived in Russia and is a Surgeon there. She fell in love with me after four e-mails. She then requested money for a trip and a visa $990. She uses an Agency called "Satellite-Travel" Agency which I could not find through the Russian Yellow Pages, among other resources. I then went to your website and noticed that two other people had reported her. 

Details from another scam: 

E-mail address: divoflower@yahoo.com
Address: Irkutskaya region
Baikalsk
Lenina street 55-54

Details: I just found her in your website under the name Osipova Anastasiya. To me, she used a different one, Margarita Vasilyeva. She contacted me on 10/3/2006 through Match.com. 

Her profile was saying she was in Sacramento, CA but when I replied to her email, she said she lives in Baikalsk, Russia. She used the email address divoflower@yahoo.com

She said the same story as to the other guys. That she is a surgeon and she makes very little money there. She fall in love after 4-5 letters and she said she can't wait to come to London. She said she went to a travel agency for visa/ticket and next day I received a letter from them where they asked me for $960 for her expenses to travel to UK. When I denied to send a penny, she just dissappeard.

First reported: Mike
Second reported: David
Third reported: Simon
Fourth reported: Tony