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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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Details: Wants money to be sent for travel arrangements

First reported: Hedd

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

Email: belok_77777@front.ru

Details: Wants money to be sent for passport and visa

First reported: Waikiki

Phone: no phone
Address: 98-25 Gagarin Street
Penza Russia
Email: svetik13@pochtamt.ru

Details: Her letters immediately began stating to me how much she loved me and wanted us to be together. Questions, never get answered. Letters finally progressed to the "asking for money stage", money she said was to pay for visa, etc.

First reported: Flyinbrian

Email: nastya1974@land.ru, waitYou555@mail.ru, Irina111@bk.ru, nastyahochet@list.ru, nastyahochet@list.ru
Address: Solnechnaya street, house 37, apartment 12. Voronezh 394010 Russian Federation

Details: Met through Tickle matchmaking. Initiate contact and fall in love quickly. Typical scammer, never answer questions and after only a month, she started asking money to visit you.

First Reported: Brian
Second Reported: Paul
Third reported: Not_the_1
Fourth Reported: Jim R.

Address: Russia Sergach Sovetskaya street, 7, 23.

Details: Contacted from Yahoo Personals. Sent her flowers but the florist said the address and the name doesn't exist. Requested money for visa, passport, tickets and insurance

First reported: Charles B.

Email: N/A

Address: Chilonzar- 19 house-41 flat-83.
seria: ca. Tashkent Uzbekistan

Details: Asked for money

First Reported: Sad man from England.

Phone: no phone
Address: Respubliki Street #49, flat 57, Tyumen, RUSSIA 625003
Email: Maria_28@hotbox.ru

Details: 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. Write about her sexual dreams about you.

First reported: Jay Harrysmith

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

Details: Sick grandmother, no visa, fall in love, scammed money.

First reported: Andy

Address: Russia, Kazan, str. Volkova h.65 fl.38
Email: Olga55@nm.ru

Details: Typical Scammer.

First reported: Vaughan D.

Phone: +38 0552 322025, +38 05039655449
Address: St. Mira 43/II Pl.20, Kherson, Ukraine

Details: After sending money for visa and ticket to visit you she disappeared.

First reported: Sergio

Agency: gay.ru
Yahoo Messenger ID: alexandr_hadjarov
ICQ Number: 233-226-531
ICQ Nickname: alex8310

Details: Was contacted on gay.ru. Gave a sad story how his parents where alcoholics in the Ukraine and he left them both and went to Russia when he was still a teenager (Claims he is 22 now.) Shows picture claiming he is at work -- clamined he had the same profession as myself. Then in later correspondence after noticing a wedding ring on his finger in a picture, when questioned on this he said oh yes he is married but she lives in another part of the city with a different guy. Married her for a job. Now claims he has no job, and when asked about his continued inquiries about wanting to come to the U.S., what his wife would think "says I asked her and she is ok with it". 

Continued to put off saying I would provide money for plane tickets/visa. Then received another sad story email about health problems. Has chronic ear problems, but no money to go to the hospital. Needed this right away. Did not respond. Now received an instant message on Yahoo Messenger addressed to "Oleg" about money problems and can he help (sent it to the wrong person by accident). Then I got another sad story about money problems and that he has to sell his computer to pay for bills, requesting help and a possible loan.

Typical tickets & visa scam. When that does not work, tries any other sad story to get you to send him money. Stories do not add up or match.

First reported: Rob

Phone: no phone
Address: PETROVA, Juliya
Ufa, Bashkortistan
Lenin St 15, 76

Details: Initiates contact, ignores all your questions and after only a few letters, proclaims her undying love for you. Soon enough, that is followed by the typical visa/airfare scam.

First reported: Phil

Address: Yerevan, Armenia, at 4th massiv, 19str, 274/37
Email: kroshka_777@land.ru, katenka212@yandex.ru and then at petrova-katya@rambler.ru

Details: I was scammed $1,500 for a visa and travel expenses which I sent through western union to yerevan, armenia. I sent the money to a David Martirosyan who is supposedly this women's uncle. His address given to me was in Yerevan, Armenia, at 4th massiv, 19str, 274/37. I met this woman on friendfinder.com. I sent her money for a visa to the USA to come and be with me. After I sent the money, she disappeared and never heard from her again.

First reported: Darrin

Phone: no phone
Address: 24 lennina st Ekaterinburg 620025
Email: mariya_www@hotbox.ru, ladyruss_679@mail333.com

Details: Initiates contact, ignores all your questions and after only a few letters, asks for money for visa to come visit you. 

Use the same letters as Natalia Vohmentseva came from the same net. Both asked for money and replaced the money with notices of undying love and devotion. Both had no fathers.

First reported: Spud
Second reported: Ernieh
Third reported: Don

Address: Gusino, Russia
Email: natalya@vic45mail.com

Details: Visa/ticket scam. She contacted me through friendfinder.com

Bank details: PROMSTROYBANK 
OKTYABRSKOI REVOLYUTSII, 9
SMOLENSK , 214000
Phone (7) (081) 2239465

First reported: Captain

Address: 23 Avgusta st 44-33,  61072, Kharkov, Ukraine
Phone: 380675795691
Email: alisagerus@mail.ru

Details: I initiated contact with her from EveKiss.com. By the 5th letter she mentioned that she wanted to meet. She requested money for the correspondence. When she received money, never heard from her again.

First reported: SOS

Phone: no phone
Address: Lenin Street 58, 34, Kirov, Russia 610000
Email: alenapetunina@mail.ru

Details: Pictures and street address are almost identical to Gulnara Inucheva and Lena Bezruchko already in your black list. But her name has changed. Asked to pay for the Internet Connection, House Rent and visa/ticket to come to me. Then she vanished without warning.

First reported: A. Fool

Phone: no phone
Address 1: Gagarin St. 5-15, Volzhsc, Russia
Address 2: Russia, Nizhnekamsk City, 443001,Sovetskaya street, 10 apt 28
Address 3: Pichugina St. ap.48, Kurgan, Russia

Email: Nat.18@mail.ru, tbdeva@mail.ru, sweetbabe@yandex.ru

Details: Same picture is listed on many agencies with different names, addresses, and dob. Haven't yet ask for money but hinted that she wants to meet you.

First reported: S.H.

Phone: no phone
Address: Cheboksary, Russia, Petrova street, house 10, apartment 19.
Email: bergirina@yandex.ru

Details: Poor Russian girl looking for serious relationship. Like every scammers, she falls in love with you and want to spend the rest of her life after corresponding 1 month. But she did not use pre-written letters. She hinted a lot that she needs money. But then finally she asked money to visit you.

First reported: Law123

Swietlana Pitulko, 15A Shkolnaya Street, Apt 13, Kremenchug, Poltava Region, Ukraine, 39625            

Telephone: 0038(05366) 67373            

Email: Sunshine7@ukr.net     

Yulia Sorokolat, 145 Kotlova Street, Kremenchug, Poltava region, Ukraine, 39169

Telephone: 
0038(05366)64612 home 
380679068844 mobile
Email: 
moonlight11@ukr.net 

Details: Never requests money directly. Let's you come to visit her. Rents you a dump of an apartment that you have to pay for in advance. Requires you to pay her friend $30 for a few hours of translation, everyday. And requires you to pay a 'taxi driver' $20 everytime you travel a few blocks.

First reported: Bengi

Phone: N/A
Address:  11 Pushkina, 310
Tolyatti, 344045 Russia

Email: N/A

Details: Letters are typical phony letters. visa/airfare scam
asks for money. wants money sent to: 
ALFA BANK REVOLYUTSIONNAYA, 2A 
SAMARA , 445024  

First reported: Not even close to being stupid

Phone: N/A
Address:  11 Pushkina, 310
Tolyatti, 344045 Russia

Email: N/A

Details: Visa/ticket scam

First reported: Not even close to being stupid

Phone: no phone
Address:  
Email:  

Details: Usual airfare and visa scam, falls in love after a few emails. She doesn't answer many questions.

First reported: Jamith
Second reported: Fred

Address: Kirov, Russia

Details: Contacted her through cupidbay.com. After a few letters, I confronted her and she did not write anymore but her Travel Agency still contacts. With the same name as I knew her, Anastasia Podoplelova , but now she is blond.

First reported: Danny

Phone: +380512558732
Address: Prospect Oktyabrskiy 45,apt. 69, Nikolaev 54018, UKRAINE

Details: Meets you in person. The next day you met her, she said she lost her wallet and also a lot of money. And one woman took her money and never gave it back so she needs money and you ought to help her. Then when you leave Ukraine, she said the relationship is over.

First reported: Mr. Helsinki

Phone: no phone
Address: : Leninsky Prospect 24-3 300600, job address Sovetsky Street 100, Tula, Russia 300600.

Email:  svetka_111@pochtamt.ru; svetka_1111@pochtamt.ru

Details: She says I love you after only a week and a half, and wants to up and move to you after two weeks. Her letters start focusing only on sending her money and her coming here. Prewritten letters are used. Claims her uncle works at the airport and can obtain a visa easily. Claims her father died in the war in Chechya. 

First reported: Victor

Address: Pushkina, street 54-19, Kazan, Russia
Phone: +7 927 68 14 567 (Mobile)
Email: verunchik@rambler.ru, veronika_me@list.ru

Details: Found her through www.countrysinglesconnection.com (her username - ftok567). She contacted first. Hinted that she is poor. Sent money for a phone, clothes, visa and ticket.

First reported: dontB1

Details: The usual way, after 2 weeks she fell in love, wanted to visit and asked money for visa and ticket. Uses non-existing address. Never answer your question. After I agreed to send the money she only wrote about "When will money arrive?" in her letters.

First reported: Tom

Phone: No phone
Address: Lebedeva str 64-21

Details: Initiate contact and after 3 months of everyday e-mails wanted to come to visit you and wanted to pay for the trip herself. She e-mailed a fake visa and claimed to need only 396usd to completely pay for the trip. When money was sent she disappear.

First reported: 97roadking

Email: olyapfr@hotbox.ru, olyap@pochta.ru, bolya1@front.ru

Agency accepted money: Tristan Agency (Tristan_agency@land.ru) run by Viktoria Godun (chief manager)

Bank Details 1:
Intermediary bank: Deutsche Bank trust company Americas, New York
S.W.I.F.T. BKTR US 33
Intermediary account: 04182438
Beneficiary Bank: Sampo Bank, Tallinn, Estonia, 
SWIFT: FORE EE 2X
Beneficiary Name: Viktoria Godun
Account: 335635930003

Bank Details 2:
Intermediary bank: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, New York
S.W.I.F.T.: FORE EE 2X
Beneficiary Name: Viktoria Godun
Beneficiary  Address: Tallinn, Estonia
Beneficiary  ACCOUNT/IBAN: EE873300335635930003

Details: Already send $440.00 to the above account and now they are telling me, that I should make a wire transfer for $1,534.00 USD for airplane tickets, to make possible the travel for Olya. 

First reported: German
Second reported: William
Third reported: velladimier

Phone: 011 380 552 535047
Address: : Kherson, Ukraine 49 Gvardevskii Divisii 18 5 40

Details: She asks you for money for English lessons and then money for her to meet you in Odessa. 

First reported: MR

Phone: 8 9053032880
Address: Kirpichnaya 1–1 Samarskaya Oblast Chapaevsk 446115 Russia
Email: prelest31@yandex.ru

Details: All the photo’s she sent are from the Russian singer Ansu. Convinced she is honest. She said she will pay for herself for the trip to see you. Meanwhile she wants to go to the North, where she would win $ 2000 for working two months. I sent her $ 400 and $ 850 for the hotel. The money was stolen on the bus.

First reported: Bestdanny

Address: Russia, 640014, Kurgan st. Gagarina 11-20
Email: prelest31@yandex.ru

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

First reported: Jerry

Address: Pobedy str. 66-546, Kharkov, 61204, Ukraine
Phone: 38 067 711 26 24 (Mobile), 380572304188, 380572367465, 00380677414217
Email: npronkina@ukr.net, Kkrotal@vk.kharkov.ua, natapronkina@mail.ru, biglint@bigline.net

Details: I noticed that i've read same as her emails before. I went to www.stop-scammers.com and compared her letters to Veronika Nikiforova’s letters and found there were the same phrases in them word for word. These are real girls, that have real lives. This scam combines fact with fiction to make the scam believable to fool the victim. I do not believe they are the brains of the scam but they are willing participants.

First reported: Oliver
Second reported: Scott S.

Phone:  
Address: : Kolomenskaya str. 9, apt 733, Moscow, 115142,Russia

Details: Pledges her undying love to you. Asks for funds to come visit you. Loses your money in casinos or elsewhere, asks for more. Her friend begins correspondence with you pledging her undying love. When the day finally arrives to meet, she never shows

First reported: Andy

Details: She met you in Odessa to gain your trust. She requested money for correspondence and an airfare to Moscow. She never showed up at Moscow airport.

First reported: Ken

Details: Fall in love immediately. All letters are extremely one-sided, never referencing upon the previous letters that you sent to her. Then after just a few weeks, she gives you a 7 day deadline to financially assist her in obtaining  visa. Reassure you that she loves you.

First reported: Gerando

User ID (LuckyLovers): 105985
Screen Name: lena41d

Details: Met her at LuckyLovers website. Smooth and patient. Email you everyday. Requested money for correspondence, and travel.

First reported: Mark S.