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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

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

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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

Soboleva, Oksana

Email: oksik4u@yandex.ru

Details: She Is Aking Me For $1,500.00 Usd Dollers To Get Her Visa And Fly Her To San Jose California

First reported: Brian

Solodkova Olga - Voronezh, Russia

Email: olgazubilo@mail.ru
Bank Detail: Union in Voronezh: VORONEZH BANK, CHELYUSKINTSEV, 149, VORONEZH, 394006

Details: Typical Visa/Ticket scam

First reported: Jim

Sokolova Ekaterina/Galina (Murmansk),
Natalia (Murmansk), - Murmansk, Russia

Address: Sovetskaya 74, 23 Novosibirsk, Russia

Email: ekaterina1971@hotmail.ru

Details: Requests money for visa and airfare. Over the course of 3 month she has scammed me out of $6000.00 USD promising to come in America for marriage. All of the transfers were received in Yoshkar-Ola.

The last two times I sent her money it was through her girlfriend Svetlana Vasilieva

First reported: Limoman

Sokolowa, Alena - Sayanogorsk, Russia

Address: Street: Gagarina,8, Apartment 17, Sayanogorsk, Russia
Email: alena@globalpostmail.com and alena@mailterem.com

Bank Details:
- Bum-bank Nognova,62 nalchik,36000
- Promsvjaz bank Airport Shheremetevo,moscow,141410

Details: Typical scammer. Request airfare and visa money to visit.

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.

First reported: Daniel
Second reported: Simon

Solo'veva, Anna - Luganst, Ukraine Age: 23 Birthday: april E- mail Address: solovieva03@mail.ru Address: The Geroev Brestkoy Kreposty, block, 7, Lugansk, Ukriane, 91031 Details: Requested money for visa and tickets First reported: Pratt

Solohina Natalya - Saratov, Russia

Emails: natasha888@fromru.com or ptichka2003@fromru.com
Address: Lenina Street 76-34 Saratov, Russia

Details: Contacts you through a personal ad. With each e-mail, you would receive different photos, seven total, of what look to be a down to earth lady with a wonderful smile. The 8th & 9th letters were the setup letters, and then comes the needing money letter.

First reported: Cautious

Srendina, Marina - Arkhangelsk, Russia

Address: Lenengradski PR. 171-34 ZIP 163000, Arkhangelsk, Russia

Address: 1B/607 Kievskaya Street, Donetsk, 83490 Ukraine
Email: nefrit@ua.fm

Details: Initiated contact by wanting to be a friend with someone from USA. May use pre-written letter because she write to two people with same messages. She then asked for money for a visa and travel to Moscow. I told her she can not get a work visa into my country so she changed her story that her fathers friend can get one but it will cost $300.

First reported: almost a sucker

Star¸ Yulia – Novgorod, Russia

Age: 28
E-mail address: yulia_star@bk.ru

Details: She initiated contact through a UK dating site. Typical scam stories - lonely due to tragic family death and ex-boyfriend beat her. Emails are nothing but romantic and idealistic, doesn't answer questions, talks about friends Elena & Natasha (also see posting for Natasha Milenok - photo is of same girl) Claims to be a dentist. Was cautious to begin with but knew it was a scam after a couple of emails when she ignored all questions and her emails were just full of useless fluff with paragraphs sounding like they were copied straight out of Mills & Boon. Played her for 3 weeks after that and scam was confirmed when she made a mistake by signing off as Veronika (who she'd mentioned previously as a friend who owned a photo studio and took modelling photos for her) Wise up guys!!

First reported: Simon

Starchenko, Alena - Lugansk/Donetsk Ukraine

Address: 51 Chernomorskaya street, Lugansk, Ukraine 91006

Address: 1B/607 Kievskaya Street, Donetsk, 83490 Ukraine
Email: nefrit@ua.fm

Details: Typical visa/airfare scam. Answers your questions in detail though.

First reported: Whatever

Starodubtseva, Irina - Cheboksary, Russia

Address: Cheboksary, Russia

Details: Contacted me through Matchcom.She wanted me to remit $550 through Western Union for visa and passports. Once again she did not answer questions directly.

First reported: Getreal

Startseva, Svetlana - Loshkar-Ola, Russia

Address: Lenin Street 72-12, Rostov, Russia 664763
Email: kiska_svetik@bk.ru, prettypop@bk.ru

Details: Contacted from Singlescrowd.com. Wants me to send over $1028.41 for visa by Western Union. Fell in love with me on the third email. I knew I had a way with the women, but this is ridiculous.

First reported: Castlewade

Stella (AKA Svetlana, Nelly) - Donetsk, Ukraine

Details: I have paid her for a flight and supposed to meet her last week but never turned up.

First reported: Petr B.

Stepnova, Elena - Tomsk, Russia

Email: EKATERINA_LOVE@INBOX.RU

Details: Contacted me from dreammates.com. She fell in love after the 3rd letter. Then she had chosen me to marry and started requesting money over $1000. Never reads or answers any questions.

First reported: neverfell

Stepanova, Olga - Cheboksary, Russia

Address: Chuvashia, Cheboksary City Sverchkova Street 3-35 Russia

Details: Met through Girlsdateforfree.com.

First reported: Alex

Stepanova, Olga aka Sergeeva, Natalia – 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

Stepanova, Snezhana

Email: prastitytka3000@nm.ru

Details: Using form letters. Accidentally signed the following letter "Anastasiya". Has not popped the $$ question yet.

Second reported: Will

Stepanova, Veronika (aka Ludmila Domashneva, Julia Mirnaya) - Volgograd, Russia

Email: veronikast@list.ru
Address: 400066, Russia, Volgograd, Pushkina 16 - 33

Details: The same girl as Julia Mirnaya. When contacted to Veronika Stepanova, Julia Mirnaya response you.

Second reported: Brigante

Streltsova, Anastasya Georgievna – Kirov, Russia

Postal address: postcode 610000, street: 101 Lenina
Website: American Singles.com

Details: I was contacted by this lady through an Instant message on American Singles.com. I was suspicious of this as I had already been made aware of "scammers" having had contact from 2 different profiles on American singles
from Russia. I had been in e-mail contact from these 2 "different " girls sending me letters from the same IP address. Both of these girls also went to the "money" letter stage for help with travel. The use of "The bat" in Anastasya's e-mails also aroused my suspicions. The numbering of her photos was suspicious, photo 1.1 and 1.2 arrived with letter 1 , photo 2.1 and 2.2 with letter 2 and photo 3.1 and 3.2 with letter
3. All of her letters seemed to be "cut and paste", as the first 4 letters were all in different typefont. I have left these fonts from the original
e-mails. The money request comes in letter 6 and 7 , where she has lost her job and has no money for her food or rent and I am the only one who can help her. I suggested I could deliver the money personally as I had her address and
have heard nothing since.

First reported: Patrick

Streltsova Roza - Nizhny Novogrod, Russia

Phone: no phone

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: Rayvo

Sturmak Luydmila - Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine

Phone: no phone

Address: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Yudina Street 17/14, 49035

Details: Typical "visa and tickets" scam.

First reported: Edward

Second reported: Bobby

Sukachova, Elena (Lena) - Lugansk, Ukraine

Address: UL Kirova 5/1 Lugansk 91019
Phone: 99871-1253103
Email: secondhalf2004@yahoo.com

Details: After 2 weeks, she started talking about coming to me. Send money for her visa and airfare. Although getting a visa for a single woman a visa, she said she had a friend at travel agency. But her visa was denied and ask me to go there and marry her. When I said it'll take longer for her as a wife to get a visa, she said i did not want to marry her and stopped the contact. Although she's been travelling from Lugansk to Kiev, she's been contacting/emailing from the same IP address. So there I was, no girl, no money. $1,300.00 including Western Union fees.

First reported: Brian from Florida

Sukhova (Suhova), Anna - Odessa, Ukraine

Address 1: Ac. Zabolotnogo 34-38, Odessa 65117, Ukraine

Details: From the beginning, I have to pay for her correspondence with me. Meet you in person. After, her agency's manager said Anna wants to apply for fiance' visa and need to pay for it. After paying all the amount, she said she fell in love with someone else.

First reported: Sammy

Sungurowa, Yuliya Vladimirovna – Chistopol, Russia

Details: We carried on a correspondence for a few months. The first request for money was to pay for internet access. I made it clear from the beginning that I would not send any money overseas uner any circumstances. Again money was requested for visa and passport which I declined to send. I did offer to send her a ticket if she could obtain a passport and visa but I requested copies of them before I would. Her passport and visa are attached. I sent a copy of the visa to the US embassy and found it was a fraud. Here is the Embassy response and if contains a lot of useful information:

Surskaia, Natalia – Kazan, Tartarstan, Russia

Address: RUSSIA 420000
Tartarstan
Kazan
str.
Small Red 12/36
E-mail address: tomchina@mail.ru

Details: Her scam is airfare and visa , but she adds a twist.
When you offer to buy her an airfare and post it to her she says that she has paid a deposit to a travel agent.
The travel agent then says that they can only accept money from her.

First reported: Stan

Suslova, Julia (AKA Ulya, Uliya Kraslava) - Riga, Latvia

Address: Riga, Latvia
Email: afina78@mail333.com, julia17@land.ru

Details: Typical Scammer.

First reported: Ron

Suslova, Kate - Tblisi, Georgia

Phone: N/A
Address: Georgia, Tbilisi, Kaljku Street, 27/21, LV-1019

Details: Visa/ticket scam

First reported: Captaincrotch

Suvorova, Natalya or Natasha - Ryazan, Russia

Address: Ryazan, Russia
Email: natilenok101@rambler.ru

Details: She initiated contact through yahoo personals. Answer all the questions. Her letters were very sincere, kind, intelligent, not bad English. Then she fell in love and started asking for money

First reported: Bid Dreamer

Sverdlova, Natasha (AKA Nazarova, Natalia) - Dimitrovgrad, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address: Russia, Dimitrovgrad 433500
Russia
Email: N/A

Details: Asks for money for tickets and visa

First reported: Bob

Sveta - Kirov

Phone: no phone
Address:

E-Mail:

Details: Never answers any of your questions. Requests money for visa and airfare.

First reported: Mickey

Svetlana aka Anna/Riyna/Nadezhda – Russia

Postal address: Russian Federation, street Lenina 85, apartment 69
E-mail addresses: mailfrromme@yahoo.com, lapochka006@yahoo.com

Details: she found me, says through a penpal site i went on, BUT i canceled that account 6 months ago? that made me question er right there as being odd. then she mentioned about "me asking her to come to us" which i found odd, i never did, so i knew she was bringing it up in a starnge way, odd...then i had a gut feeling to look under scam sites, found her photo, then info anbout her scamming allot of people under tons of names. she still dont know im aware, and its
the 5th letter now, shes now starting to bring up money things, so its coming!

found her on:
http://www.anti-scam.org/cgi-bin/scamers-info
/comments.cgi?view=1190

First reported: Joe

Svetlana (aka Nelly)- Cheboksary, Russia

Address: Cheboksary, Russia
Phone: 79023580658

Details: Wanted to see me very quickly, promised to come visit. Insisted I could not just purchase the tickets for her, but must call the local agency that she uses at exact date and time, to purchase ticket/visa.

First reported: stay_informed
Second reported: be_ware

Svistunova, Olga - Cheboksary, Russia

Phone: no phone
Address: p.o. box 141 postal code-428034

E-Mail: jakomo171@list.ru

Details: she contacted me through myEmatch.com she fell in love with me after about 7 e-mails. she hasn't asked for money yet, but i was getting the hint that it was about to start in the last e-mail. she messed up and called me by the wrong name in the greeting of her last letter, so i googled her, didn't find anything concrete, so i searched her on yahoo, and found a string about her on a message board with a link to a picture of her on www.city-of-brides.com . evidently she was scamming a guy from australia for several months.

First reported: jmaze