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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

Sabatovskaya, Katya Ekaterina - Novosibirsk Russia

Address: pass Working 14-23 Novosibirsk Russia 630058
Email: katik03@rbcfmail.ru

Details: Fall in love with you. Wants money for a visa and airfare. Money is supposed to send through Western Union. The address of bank: ALFA BANK, 1 DIMITROV street, NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA

First reported: Keith

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Salnikova, Ekaterina Evgenevna - Yoshkar-Ola, Republic Mari-El, Russia

Email: kasal@aport2000.ru, Katusha-2000@yandex.ru

Details: Says that she lives alone with her mother; her aunt works at Moscow airport, and can get discounted tickets to your country. Claims that her aunt has an acquaintance in the Embassy who will help with the visa. First asks for money for visa ($350), then for tickets ($800-1200), than for insurance ($400-500).

First reported: Tim Ventura

So far 2 different sets of pictures were used under this name

Samilkina, Natalia

Details: Requested money for correspondence. Fell in love after the 2nd email.

First reported: Dave

Sapozhnikova, Vera Vladimirovna - Ivanovo, Russia

Address: Ivanovo Ivanskaya Oblast. 153043, Kalashnikova Street, house 112, apartment 54.
Email: Ivera@pochta.ru

Details: She contacted me and apparently fell in love immediately, she would avoid some questions and of course had no phone. But somehow acquired a visa through a friend. Helped her buy a ticket, sent her $800 thru western union but then she needed $1000 to exit the country.

First reported: King

Saveleva, Alextina – Cheboksary, Russia Postal address: Fedotova 15-67 zip: 428010 Details: Informed me that ske would be able to pay some of the exspenses but needed me to pay the other halh. Also as I mentioned that I would pay for the airplane ticket at the airport she stopped E-mailing me. She wanted $500 in cash plus airfare. First reported: Unknown

Savelyeva, Alina - St Petersburg, Russia

Address: PO Box 23 Sestroretsk-1 St Petersburg 197701 Russia.
Phone number:' (007) 812 4340752
Mobile: (007) 911 7552291
Yahoo Meesenger profile: aljasun
Email: ALJASUN@YAHOO

Reference on www.most-beautiful-russian-women.com: 6734

Details: Had no history of scamming. She appears on www.brides.ru (reference 250840) plus several other European websites including www.agencyoflove.com/L115722 www.bemylove.net/profile/L115722 http://entrust.ru/profile_i.php http://euorlovelness.com/cgi-bin/
index.cgi?c=wsm&id=2097. www.absoluteagency.com ID A5108040

First reported: Chris

Savina, Svetlana – Biysk, Russia

Postal address: flat4 number 14

Details: she emailed me. very beautiful appears to be very forthcoming with information about herself. wants to travel to USA Canada or England and claims to want a tour guide and to meet a good man.is quite warm and funny but is previously blacklisted.

First reported: Scott

Savinceva, Elvira - Ekaterinburg, Russia

Email:

Details: Typical visa/airfare scam. Falls in love with you to quickly then asks for money.

First reported: Ace

Note: Different sets of photos used

Scarlett Visa and Internet Agency (also known as Dynasty Visa and Internet Club etc) - Ekaterinburg, Russia

Address: Krylova St., 26 620034, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Email: agf@scarlet.telenet.ru
Managers: Dmytry Baklukov, Galina Suvorova, Oksana Degtyareva, Ekaterina Mochalova
Web site address: http://www.scarlet.telenet.ru

Details: Non-existing agency. Ads of pretty girls are placed on popular personals sites. When answer the ad, you find yourself corresponding through an agency in Ekaterinburg. The "agency" promises to fly the lady of your interest to you, asking money for tickets and visa, and giving you deadlines when money should be paid, or "her visa expires". They write good English, and pressurize with deadlines very well. You may be requested to send money on the name of the girl of your interest or one of the "managers".

Most often connected with Alena Fedorovskaya scam

First reported: Gregory Williams

Scheglova, Svetlana - Leningrad Region, Russia

Phone: 7-8136121875
Address: 187000 Lenin street house 37 flat 51 Tosno Leningrad Region Russia
Email: estatosno@mail15.com

Details: After wiring the money to her bank account, never heard from her again.

Bank Details:
Swift code bank: sabrru2p
Name of the bank: saving bank of the Russian (severo - Zapadny office) St Petersburg
Account number is 42307978255385000011
Account name: Olga bordovskaya tourist agency Esta Tosno

First reported: Antonia

Schukina, Natalya - Mari El Republic, Russia

Address: Russia, Mari-El, Zvenigovo, 424789 Sovetskaya 23-25
Email: natalya_schukina@pochta.ws, natyshuk@pisem.net, netshut@mail333.com, netshut1@pisem.net, natali@pochta.ws

Details: Initiated contact from internet dating site, and after 2 emails she falls in love with you, and want to come over to marry you. She keeps asking money for visa and airfare to visit you. She keeps changing her email.

First reported: Cagan
Second reported: Dennis

Schukina, Stalina (aka) Tatyana - Vortuka, Russia

Address: Vortuka, Russia

Bank Details: Western Union
Ukhtabank, Gagarina, 6a

Details: Typical visa/airfare scam.

First reported: Blaine

Sedih, Natalya - Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

Address: Yoshkar-Ola 424000, Sovetskaya Street 153, Russia

Details: She fell in love very fast and wrote nearly all the time about love and devotion, didn´t answer questions about personal life and circumstances. She told me very fast about the "prices for visa and ticket", I should send money through Western Union and she will come very fast.

First reported: Tom

Sedyh, Pavlina – Pisklovo, Russia

Postal Address: 15/1 Pogranichnaya Str, Pisklovo, 457159, Russia
Phone number: Unknown
E-mail address: aaaarrree@yahoo.com

Details: I was contacted through a Yahoo Personals ad. She seemed very straight forward if a little shy, at first. Over a month's period, she used a very subtle approach to start the online relationship....very believable, with a combination of claimed morality, and dedication...even included details of her girlfriend Svetlana's birthing experience and related stories of her parents' present day lives back in the Ukraine. Eventually, talk of a meeting occurred and her willingness to come to the U.S. overcame any logic I had in the matter...lol! Asked for passport, visa, and insurance money to the tune of $220 U.S.D., which I sent to this address:
VNESHTORGBANK
LIBKNEKHTA 2
CHELYABINSK
454092

The next day, she sent an email with details of a flight from Moscow to my home state, complete with departure, lay-over, and arrival times....said the ticket for $1074 U.S.D. would need to be paid in cash, sent to the same address as the visa money or else the reservation could not be guaranteed. At this point, I finally realized I had been taken. Sad, but true...and apparently, not so uncommon!

First reported: Darrell

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

Phone: +7-812-5999204

Details: click here

First reported: Felix Steven

Semyonova, Olga aka Golubina, Anastasiya (Nastya) - Cheboksary, Russia, Maria Evdokimova, Julia, Anna - Ukraine, Kitty

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

Senok, Valentina

Details: Typical visa/airfare scam. Met her through merrydate.com from Ukraine. She wants to marry you and want to move to USA to live with you. She requested a lot of money for the scam.

First reported: Steve

Sergeevna, Irina Komelina (AKA Winter, Wintera)

Email: solnce@pochta.ws, winter@pochta.ws

Details: Long letters about nothing, without my name, failed to answer questions. She stopped writing after I asked about these abnormalities, but then returned later with a strange letter asking for money. Emailed to different profile of hers, she used the same emails to reply and didn't remember me.

First reported: Chris S.

Sergeeva, Natalia aka Stepanova, Olga – Cheboksary, Russia

E-mail address: nataliasergeeva@bk.bk

Details: First scammed me for visa and plane fare, then $2000 USD for customs to let her out of the country and then $1500 for customs to bring a expensive family relic that was left to her. All lies and has returned my email after asking for my money back.Is now trying to get on to other sites to do the same again.

First reported: Greg

Sergienko, Lucy (AKA Lyudmila) - Kremenchug, Ukraine

Address: 15-85 Managarova, Kremenchug, Ukraine, 39608
Phone: +38 0536 71 57 32
Email: trinity@sat.potlava.ua

Bank Details
Name of accountholder: Pyaranits Lyudmila Sergienko
Account #: 1001139594
Passport #: KH 372579 04/04/1997
Account #: 29091799262290

Privat Bank
38 Pervomayskaya Str
Kremenchug Branch
Ukraine
SWIFT PBANUA2X

Details: I suggested that she should take some money for corresponding as i do not wish for her to spend her hard earned money corresponding with me. I transferred the money and she disappeared.

First reported: Oliver

Severchkova, Elena - Odessa Ukraine & Anastasia

Address: Odessa, Russia

ANASTASIA
Manager: Valentina
Phone: 658530
Mobile: 8 050 6585444

Details: Anastasia is the biggest dating scam company working in USA. Requested a lot of money for no service. I travelled by myself around Odessa after paying $1,270. Elena Severchkova did tell me I was not to cause problems or I would be in Danger from Valentina and this women was very dangeruos. I all I lost $5000 U.S $$$$

First reported: Dale B.

Sevostianowa, Vera - Kazan, Russia

Details: Never asked for money initially. The person who I chat to is not her but someone else. She said she will arrange a trip for you to come to her. After being sent the money, no reply from her again.

First reported: Steve

Shabalina, Ekaterina (Katya) – Tambov, Russia Postal Address: 22 Pushkina Street, appt # 58 Tambov, Russia 392018 E-mail address: name_katya77@yahoo.com First reported: Mike

Shabalina, Irina - Zelendolsk, Russia Phone number: 0078362218969 First reported: Maqsood

Shalakhova, Olga – Kazan, Russia

E-mail address: lopushok06@rambler.ru

Details: She contacted my brother through a dating site she managed to get $2,000.00 AUD before i intervened, she was then asking for another $1300 USD so she could get through customs. I manage to convince my brother that this was a scam and he did not sent the last amount she asked for. I hope this can help others she may try to scam

First reported: Brenda

Shamova Kseniya - Read also about Ivanoca Anna

Shashkina, Diya (Khamdiya) - Moscow/Pasadena, Russia

Postal address: 453 W Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91103
Phone number: 626-568-3048
Agency: russianladies.com

Details: This woman is living in Pasadena, on a tourist visa. She is very broke, so will hit up men very quickly for money (second day of relationship). I lost $1000 very quickly to her, and then she stopped communicating with me. She seems legitimate, but takes the money and runs--and then acts like the victim. Classic stuff. Don't even bother--you'll regret it!

First reported: Lyle

Shaygardanova, Valya - Saransk, Russia Address: N/A Email: N/A Details: Visa and tickets scam First reported: Andy

Shestakov, Andrey - Krasnoyarsk
Russia

Address: N/A

Email: pimskii@yandex.ru

Details: Visa and tickets scam

First reported: Michael

Shmatenko, Anastacia and Liza - Odessa, Ukraine

Address: Odessa, Ukraine

Email: anastacia16 <anastacia16@yandex.ru>

Details: Typical "visa and tickets" scam. First she went by Anastacia Shmatenko in Odessa, Ukraine. www.city-of-brides.com/ listed again is Liza Shmatenko in St. Petersburg, Russia www.city-of-brides.com/

First reported: Different name, same game

Shoolha, Yulya - Lugansk, Ukraine

Address: Ostraya Mogila,149/84,Lugansk, 91000, Ukraine

Email: yulya_@carolina.gq.nu
2nd address: yulia@carolina.gq.nu
Now her address is carolina@pochtamt.ru

Details: Requests money for visa and airfare.

First reported: Karlk

Shpinova, Tatiana Vitalieva - Moscow, Russia

Address: Bratislavskaya St 14 Apt 542, Moscow, Russia

Email: Ttatt!3@yahoo.com, tatianasev@yahoo.com, skatbowl@yahoo.com

Details: Requests money for visa and airfare. After claims that she can't come to you because she has a daughter. Said she will give back the money. Rapidly she get more problems and need more money. Ask again to help her with money and promise to come to you. All the money goes to her but she didn't really showed up to you.

First reported: Scammed by Tatiana

Shportenko, Valentina - Cental' naya, Russia

Address: 21 Cental' naya, Russia, 163523
Email: valdevse@poschta.ru

Details: Contacted me through imatch.com. After two weeks she was claiming to be in love with me and asking me to send her money for a plane ticket. Use pre-written letters too.

First reported: Mark S.

Shukiriova, Elena - Norlisk, Russia

Email: elenarus_09@front.ru

Details: Typical visa/ticket scam.

First reported: Javier

Shulepova, Svetlana (AKA svetlana halturina) - Kirov, Russia

Email: rusalochka@ukrtop.com, rusalkasveta@mail.ru, rusalkasveta@ukrtop.com

Details: Over a period of 6 months has taken a total of 3800 dollars from me.

First reported: anonymous

Shustova, Irina - Lugansk, Ukraine

Address: Lugansk, Ukraine
Email: iri_chka@mail.ru, ir_a_shust@hotmail.com, ir_a_shust@ukr.net

Bank Details:
Beneficiary Account: LUG-6762715600039687
Name: Elena Lopatina
Bank of Beneficiary: First Ukrainian International Bank, Lugansk Branch, 14, V.Shevchenko Str., Lugansk, 91000, Ukraine.
SWIFT code: FUIBUA2XLUG
Intermediary Bank: Bank of New York, New York, USA
Acc.no: 890-0372-478
SWIFT code: IRVTUS3N
Deutsche Bank Trust Compani Americas, 1 Bankers Trust Plaza, Floor 16, New York NY 10015, POB 318, U.S.A
Acc.no 04-182-366
SWIFT code: BKTRUS33

Details of Payment: Private Transfer
LUG-001107
USD-3551-10

Details: Very good made up story... she made initial contact, I answered... she needs money for translations of letters and phone, and for photos.

First reported: Leroy
Second reported: Ake

Shustova, Nataliya

Email Address: nataha28@yandex.ru
Details: Asks for "Visa" money, and then a letter or so later mentions needing possible help with monies for an airline ticket. Pressure, time wise, get it to her, due to her, sent by Western Union by a July drop dead date due to her having vacation in July and the Visa Agency, which she never names directly, has a deadline in which she must have the money in by or else she will not be issued a Visa in time to make a visit to me in the US. She claims to be in and out of the hospital due to some illness, as yet unnamed it appears that is the setup for her eventually not being able to "make her flight" she will come down with some illness at the last minute after all monies are sent.

First reported: John Keer

Sidorov, Irina - Ioshkar Ola, Russia

Phone: 7836 2400 039
Email: Russiankidock@mail.ru.

Details: First she wants you to think she is deeply in love with you and wants to meet you so badly she can not stand it. She gives you an account # and a name of Parhomenko Ekaterina that is a manager at BIN Bank of Mari El Yoshkar Ola. This is so she can purchase her Visa and Air line tickets. The account she uses is 42301840414000001727.

First reported: O-Bee Wan

Sidulova, Tatyana (aka Julia Berezina) - Novosibirsk, Russia

Address: Khmelnitskogo 12-76, Novosibirsk 630075, Russia
Email: tata3331@yandex.ru

Details: Initiated contact. She ignored any questions I asked her indicating that she did not even read my return Email's. Finally, she requested money for visa and airfares.

First reported: Denby

Skorenko, Larisa - Kremenchug of Poltava region, Ukraine

Phone: no phone
Address: 1905 str. 4-40, town of Kremenchug, Poltava region, Ukraine
Email: lora@star.sat.poltava.ua

Details: Asks for money for correspondence via email, $80 per month. Tells about her daughter Nika (Nica) a lot. After receiving the money via Western Union first time, sends 1-3 letters a month. Places personal ads at popular personals sites.

First reported: John Russel

Skvortsova, Anzhela – Cheboksary, Russia

Postal address: Puskina the house 21 apartment 15
Index: 428034
Agency: www.meetidealmatch.com

Details: Scammer makes contact through agency and after introductory email states she is a lowly paid teacher receiving $190 per month and sometimes pay is late in coming.
The next email she has fallen madly in love and addresses herself as tigress for added impact. The following message she asks for bank account details followed by the usual it is best to send the $1,000 through Western Union at Cheboksary. I asked her for HER bank account details but she does not have a bank account?

First reported: Alan

Slephunia, Yulia - Lugansk, Ukraine

Address: Yuzshnyi Bl. 4-B 59, 90040 Luhansk, Ukraine
Email: perchinochka@mail.ru

Details: Once again she or this agency post many of her profiles on MatchDoctor ( yulia_s , Juliasha , Julia817) and also Dating Letters (S815307) with different ages, heights and weights on a free web site like MatchDoctor and after a couple of letters try and get you to send money to them for the lady to use their internet and translation services. The lady does not answer any of the questions that you ask her in the first couple of letters and just skips over them and writes anything and is coming from a pre-written letter.

First reported: Andy

Smirnova, Ekaterina (aka Elena Novikova, Svetlana Kashkova, Ekaterina Derevyashkina etc) - Salekhard, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address: Salekhard, North Russia

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. Write about her sexual dreams about you.

First reported: Bobby Raffle

Smirnova, Ekaterina - Surgut, Russia

Email: lastochka_2002@female.ru; koroleva_086@pisem.net; nataha28@yandex.ru
Address: 564900 Russia, Surgut, Lenins street 24-5

Details: Asks money for visa and airfare, wants to come visit you. Pledges her undying love... Says she has an uncle in Moscow who is an Aerofot pilot and will help her organize a visa. Says her father was a military commander from Irkutsk and was killed in the Chechen war 3 years ago. Says she joined agency because her ex boyfriend dumped her for another woman and she no longer trusts Russian men.

First reported: Sam

Smirnova, Ekaterina – Volgograd, Russia

AGE: 26
HEIGHT: 1.76
E-mail address: ekat129@rambler.ru
Postal Address:
400015
Russia
Volgograd
Batova str. 3, ap.27
Telephones:
8442-71-32-67
cell: 7-903-372-72-77
Agency: www.bride.ru

Details: She was asking me for money from the very beginning as she wanted me to pay her travel to Spain, but she prepared an intelligent strategy to all my questions, so I trusted her. When she received my 900 hundred Euros,she vanished, no more e-mails, no more phone conversation, etc. etc.

Working on my investigation, I discovered that Ekaterina Smirnova was also registered with profile and photos at "www.allbeauties.net" another Russian dating agency

First reported: Jesuias

Smirnova, Irina - Kurgan, Russia

Phone: no phone
Email:

Details: Typical "visa and tickets" scam. Initiates the contact through a personals website, falls in love with you, wants to visit you, asks money for visa and tickets.

First reported: Rufus

Note: Two or more sets of photos used with this name.

Smirnova, Irina Antonovna - Vladimir, Yoshkar Ola, Cheboksary, Russia

Postal address: russia , VLADIMIR , Gagarina 7-49, postal index 600000
Agency: American Singles

Details: She needed a little extra money to pay agency for Visa, Insurance, and Flight. Needed money for passing US Customs, Money got stolen, then a little more for new flight, flight was booked then cancelled, then a story about being detained for trying to smuggle a "cultural icon" out of the country, etc. Money was sent via Western Union and was never picked up where she said she was.

First reported: Matthew

Smirnova, Ludmila - Balakovo/Cheboksary, Russia

Phone: no
Agency: Yahoo Personals

Details: She started writing to me a letter saying that she liked my profile. By the 5th letter of saying things about herself about a man deceiving her in the past and me saying things about myself to get to know each other, she says she loves me. Then she started asking for money for a visa: $400.00 and money for plane tickets $1500.00 saying that she was earning very low income ( about 200.00 per month) on a fitness facility. She gave me this address:

Russia
Balakovo 456000
Street Lenina 65 apartment 42
Smirnova Ludmila

I sent her flowers through Russian Flora.com and they said that nobody lived in that address with the name I provided to them. I e-mailed her about it and she said that she was living with her grand parents and then gave me this address:

Russia
Cheboksary 428022
Street Dekabristov 169 apartment 25
Smirnova Ludmila

Then she said that mail in Russia works really bad and whatever I send her will not reach her, so I sent the people of Russian Flora again to the new address because they have a service of taking a picture of the delivery and sending it online, but again they reported that nobody with the name I provided to them lived there. Then I stopped everything.

First reported: Omar

Smirnova, Olga

Bank Details
Name: ’’Money Gram’’, AVTOBANK NIKOIL
Address: 17 FILATOVA STR, KRASNODAR, RUSSIAN FEDERATION 350038

Details: Typical Scammer.

First reported: Randy

Smirnova, Polina - Odessa, Ukraine

Email: polinas@tekom.odessa.ua
Address: Odessa, Ukraine

Details: Met on freepersonals.ru. Typical scammer requests money for passport / visa for marriage.

First reported: Nathan

Smirnova, Polina - St.Petersburg, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address: St. Petersburg, Sizova 20-1-287, 197349 Russia

Details: Typical soap opera drama requests money for passport / visa to come to Canada for marriage, then says she was in a car accident and then stops replying to emails.

First reported: Greg