This is the Blacklist [Page 1]. Here we post your stories and asscociated photos so that others can be warned about possible "scammers" The list will be reviewed and updated often. Any woman or agency featured here has the right to reply. If you can show us we're wrong we'll be happy to apologise and remove you from this page. We really would love to be wrong! If you wish to register a complaint please review our 'Scam Submission' form.

Women on this page:

Tatyana Krasina, Lubov Gavrilova, Larisa Stepanova, Marina Mikhailova, Raisa Adamova, Raisa Popova, Alla Aleksandrova,  Tatyana Kharchenko, Olga Sivkova, Cristina Vatavu, Svetllana Ivaschenko, Alena Federovskaya

Individual Caution: Tatyana Krasina, Lubov Gavrilova, Larisa Stepanova, Marina Mikhailova
ADDED: October 14, 2001
Updated: January 8, 2002 (5th update)

Name(s): Tatyana Krasina, Lubov Gavrilova, Larisa Stepanova, Marina Mikhailova
Date of birth: - ?, ? 1974

Address given:
(TK) street of a Victory 8-13; Krasnodar territory, city of Norilsk, Russia
(LG) street of a Victory 8-13; city of Habarovsk, Russia

Phone given: <none>

email:
(TK) Tanyha@fromru.com
(LG) lubov_22@rbcmail.ru
(LS) Larisagirl@rbcmail.ru
(Curt) lubovgav@pochtamt.ru
(JP) marina_465@yahoo.com +
(JP) marina777@krovatka.net
(Hank) mihmar@krovatka.net

Bank information supplied:

Read letters sent from Tatyana to David here
Read letters sent from Lubov to Scott here
Read letter sent from Marina to Jody here
Read a letter sent from Marina to Hank here

Scam:

Approached David on Friendfinder.com, her nick was tatyana401vah which is nowdisabled.

Approached Scott on OneandOnly.com

Davids Description of Warning signs:

1. She is very evasive when I ask her direct questions and tried to hit me up for money for a visa.
2. Her IP address was traced to a dial up account to Mpool.relinfo.ru (195.161.214.36) which was stated on a blacklist website that this is a common place of scammers. Also, this was traced back to somewhere near Moscow and not Norilsk where she claims to live.
3. Her initial letter to me stated that she was 27 and was from Orenburg, Russia. In her next letter she states that she lives in Norilsk.
4. She states that she is 27, but her pictures appear to be of someone much younger. (I believe that this is a pro at work using someone elses pictures.
5. Her pictures show forests, boats and lakes. This is not typical of Norilsk.
6. By letter #7, she states her undying love for me. (1 week after initial contact).
7. In early emails, I asked her direct questions and she never answered them.
8. She requested money to be sent by Western Union (very common among scammers)
9. She called me once and she had a deep voice, not one I would imagine from 27 year old small woman.
10. She mentions someone dying. This is a common attempt among scammers to develop sympathy.
11. She rarely makes comments about things that I wrote except in the first few lines of the letter. Tippoff that this is a cut and paste scammer.
12. Her last 2 letters are exact except for the first 3 or 4 sentences. (cut and paste)
13. Sent suggestive photos and email after initially refusing to send money.
14. Mentions how men treated her bad. (common among scammers- come to think of it, of most women)
15. After refusing to send money, I asked for the phone number of the hospital that she claimed to work at to verify who she was (I speak good russian). She refused to give it to me.
16. I claimed (falsly) that I could get her a visa if she sent me a copy of the passport that she claimed to have. This was a trick to see if she was who she said she was. Again she refused.
17. She approached me, common among scammers.
18. Claims to live near a garden of cherry and apple trees. They don't grow in middle Northern Siberia!
19. Never mentions anything particular about me in the middle of the letters which is typical of cut and paste scammers.
20. When she gives me her address, she doesn't give the postal code.
21. She mentions in letter #7 about wanting to know about my job. I told her much earlier than that. She doesn't read the letters.
22. Her comments about Western Union matches exactly what other scammers have typically written. "I think that it is most reliable and fast system of the remittances from one country to another."
23. She wants money sent to Alfa Bank, Ive seen this in several other letters by other scammers.
24. I have a method of determining if Tatyana is scamming other users from a different email address. But just in case she is monitoring these sites to see if she has been busted, I'd rather not say what it is, but suspicious individuals are encouraged to contact me at skycopp@hotmail.com.
25. In my final letter, I asked her to be honest with me and tell me more about herself (after refusing to give money). I never heard from her again.

Submitted by: David.
If you have any questions for David you may email him directly at skycopp@hotmail.com

3rd Complaint - December 2, 2001
Using the name Larisa Stepanova this time and using photos used for the name of Lubov Gavrilova.

My name is David and I have another AKA named used by Tatyana Krasina or Lubov Gavrilova. The name she used with me was Larisa Stepanova. She used the same letters to me that you have on your site. The E-mail address she used is Larisagirl@rbcmail.ru. I was in correspondence with her for about 7 weeks. Her address she stated that she lived at was the address in Norilsk. The pictures she sent me was the same pictures used by Lubov Gavrilova. I also refused to send her money for her application for a visa but she kept on writing me even after I confronted her about her true identity. Then she somehow said she received an invitation for an interview for her visa about 2 weeks later and was on her way to Moscow. That is when I knew for sure it was a scam. I checked with the US Embassy web site in Moscow and they do not give interviews for at least 25 days from the day you turn in your application. I also wondered how she got her passport, the money for her application, how she was able to get off work and her trip to Moscow and what she would live off of. I also talked to some people I know about attractive, young and single Russian women getting a tourist visa to the US and everyone told me it was impossible for her to get one. A few days later, she said she got her visa and it was very urgent for me to send her $730.00 for an airline ticket that her uncle had found. She also wanted me to send the money Western Union to an Alfa Bank in Moscow and that her girlfriend she was staying with, which she said to be Luba Gravrilova, would pick it up because The US Embassy had her passport and she had no ID. All the while our letters were going back and
forth about the visa and money, I knew it was a scam and played it out as long as I could. She finally quit writing about 3 weeks ago. Also, I sent her a letter last week at the E-mail address I gave you above about what I had found out about her and the E-mail address was still working. I thought I would let you know about this so you could add her the name she gave.

Complaint Update - January 8, 2002

I have some more letters and pictures from Lubov Gavrilova for you to post. Luckily for me Western Union stepped in. Unfortunately, I had already sent her 300.00 for a visa.

Its not the money that bothers me though, but the deception. These scammers have no idea the damage they cause. Their victims have told their family and friends that they're bringing home a Russian bride. We make monetary decisions based on these plans (jobs, houses, etc..) We scrape up the money to send to these crooks who think we are made of money.

Beyond that, I'm still interested in a Russian bride. But I'm not sure how to verify their identity.

The Lubov scammer initially contacted me using Match.com but her profile(Lubov12) was "hidden". Unfortunately, Match.com allows you hide your profile. Her pictures came with a .dat extension for some reason. But I just changed the .dat to .jpg and was able to open them. You will have to do the same I'm afraid.

The email address she gave me is lubovgav@pochtamt.ru

The bank name she gave me is:
GAZPROMBANK
161 TURKESTANSKAYA STR
ORENBURG
460021
RUSSIA
LUBOV GAVRILOVA

Thanks for posting this,
Curt

Complaint Update - January 8, 2002 (2nd)

Steve, I found a substantial scam running in Russia and Ukraine. This background research took me about 6 hrs a day for 5 straight days to confirm and compile.

Marina Mikhailova/ LUBOV GAVRILOVA Murmansk Russia

I am a 37 y/o single father of 1, I am a White American

My contact with this scammer came thru Yahoo Personals, she/it originally sent me a message on marina_465@yahoo.com, the rest of our contact was thru marina777@krovatka.net, we have exchanged 9 emails at this point. I stumbled upon her pic's on page 44 of russianwomen.com blacklist. She/it was under the name of lubov gavrilova. The story and wordings were verbatim of the 9 I have received.

She/it Claims to be working as a librarian in Murmansk and is a tutor in math and physics, I got suspicious when questions asked became vague or non-existant. She/it called my home 1 time and has a voice of a sewer rat, very grovelly and rough, not to mention sounds well used up.

Read the emails sent to Jody P Here

Additional Photos:

Tatyana - -	Lubov - -	Marina - - to Jody	Marina to Hank - -
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Individual Caution:Raisa Adamova, Raisa Popova, Alla Aleksandrova
ADDED: September 16, 2001
Last Update: December 2, 2001

Names: Raisa Adamova, Raisa Popova, Alla Aleksandrova
Date of birth: - (RA) listed September 4, 1974 and
(RP) listed September 5, 1974

Address given: Sovetskaya 65-32 ; Murmansk, Russia 183054
(Later found to be a false address). Same used for both names.

Phone given: <none>

email:
(RA) raisaadam_21@pochtamt.ru and
(RP)raisa_2001@fromru.com

Bank information supplied:
Send money to Western Union at:
Menater St. Petersburg
Lenina Av., 43
Murmansk 193038
Russia
Raisa Popova

Read letters Raisa sent here

Scam:
She emailed me first, expressing interest in getting to know me. Her interest level appeared to be a little higher than normal for not having known her long, but I let this pass me by, perhaps because I was being naive. But the letters were perfectly innocent, not seeming to try to grab me. She was very slick, pretending like she wanted to get to know all about me and taking her time about it. Only toward the end did she start trying to turn up the heat.

My first red flag was when I tried to have flowers delivered for her birthday and was told by the delivery service that the address did not exist. They cautioned me, and told me that they have received many false orders in the past. I highly recommend this service as they were courteous and very helpful (http://www.russian-gift.net/). I mentioned that it would be nice if she could come to visit me, and she said she would research the
information needed, and drew this process out over several letters. Finally she said that she could get a tourist visa for $260 and if I would send her the money, she would come as soon as possible. This was my second red flag, because this visa (the B-2) is practically impossible to get in that area of the world and certainly cannot just be bought. She gave me all the details about where to send money via Western Union and everything. I didn't respond for one day, and she wrote back again repeating the details and turning the heat a little higher about how she was dying to be with me and wanted to marry me. At this point, I wrote back suggesting that the Visa would be extremely hard for her to obtain and that perhaps I should come visit her and we could arrange to get a fiancee visa instead. I have not heard back from her which is strange as she was writing me every day except for the weekends.

Note, I was the first one to suggest sending money to help pay for something -- however I think the best scammers probably know that a man will offer this eventually and wait until they do to avoid raising suspicions. I did try to give her every benefit of the doubt, however she would never give me a corrected address (claiming she mistyped it but still not giving me the right one) and finally not responding to my last letter at all. The flower delivery service did not receive a response from her either when requesting her address.

I don't expect to hear back from her again and I will not bother writing her again, even to say anything about what I know. It will be better if she is not warned that she made the mistakes that she did.

Submitted by: Paul

SCAMMER ! Read second posting below.

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Second Posting on Raisa:
Updated: October 14, 2001

I was checking your site and saw Raisa Adamova and read the letters. I have the same letters from a Raisa Popova. The letters are the same but the pictures are different. I am forwarding all information that I have and the photos that she has sent me. Her email used was Raisa_2001@fromru.com My story is similar to the one you have posted.

John from Ohio, USA

Pictures sent to John are on the Additional Photo Page

Third Posting on Raisa using the name Alla Aleksandrova:
Updated: December 2, 2001

One day after posting an add on Match.com, I received an unsolicited e-mail from a Russian woman calling herself Alla Aleksandrova (also using nickname of Flawer) from Ulan-Ulde.

She sends a photo with each new e-mail and they are the exact same photos of the following women identified from the above web-sites:

Ekaterina Ershov of Magadan
Ekaterina Ershova, aka Natalie Derevyashkina
Raisa Adamova of Murmansk
Olga Halturina of Ulan-Ulde

After reading some of the posting by men who were scammed, I also note a verbatim letter sent by Oksana Ivanova to a guy in tennessee who was scammed (posted on www.womenrussia.com/blacklist.htm).

I have been talking to this woman for just over a week now and she is already telling me she loves me and wants to come to the USA. The first mention of money for a visa also came with the latest e-mail, although she has not come right out and asked me for the money. I imagine that will be tomorrow’s e-mail subject. Being the suspicious person that I am, this immediately raised a red flag and I started searching the Internet for info on scams involving Russian women. I had no idea the well ran so deep.

By the way, I have not sent this woman any money and I am debating whether to just let her know I am on to her, or to use the authorities to try to trap her. Surely this is some type of international financial fraud crime that the FBI or Interpol should be aware of…?

Individual Caution: Tatyana Kharchenko
ADDED: August 31, 2001

Name: Tatyana Kharchenko

Address given: Rabochaya street 15/7 ; Lvov, Ukraine.

Phone given: 38 0542 229603

email:
Tatyana75@Talkmatch.com
tanusha75@mail.ru
ukrtanya1975@mail.ru

Bank information supplied: <none>

Money sent: Western Union to Tatyana Kharchenko

Scam: <Total $400>
I had correspondence with her/it for about 3 months total. I met her/it on Match.com [username: Tatyana75], I haven't contacted them yet, but I will. I initially sent her $100 for correspondence, e-mail, and computer access. I sent it to her via Western Union to the name of Tatyana Kharchenko. I also sent her the confirmation number so she could pick up the money. The second time I sent her money, it was for English lessons, and for a foreign passport so we could meet in Poland. I sent her $300 via Western Union. The straw that broke the camels back was when right after I sent the $300, the next letter I received said that she would be away on a mission for work for two weeks, and would not be able to send any letters for a while. After about 3 or 4 weeks of no letters, I finally received a letter from her saying that she had been bitten on the hand by a sick dog that her aunt,(whom she was living with), had taken into their home. She said that she needed $180 to cover medical bills, or the doctors said she would lose her arm (yeah right). I sent her a letter telling her that I would only send money if she could provide me with proof of identification.

The next letter was from her "friend" Elena. She said that Tatyana was in the hospital, and needed my help. I sent a letter back asking for the name, address, and telephone number of the hospital so I could have my friend who speaks Ukrainian call the hospital and check on her condition. I have not heard back from them since.

I would want other people to know that just because you have talked to someone, do not let your guard down.

On a side note, I had been checking her profile on Match.com periodically to see if it had any activity while I was corresponding with her/it. Up until I said I would not send the money, it was inactive. Yesterday I looked, and it was active again. They are on the hunt for another victim.

Submitted by: Steve - USA

Individual Caution: Olga Sivkova
ADDED: August 28, 2001
Updated: January 04 2003

Name: Olga Sivkova also known as Irina Kalinina

Address given: Gertsnea str. 6-801, Russia
Phone given: none
email: sivkova@mail.com & irishka_2000@pisem.net

Bank information supplied:
Bank Name: Guta Bank
Address: 160 Lenina St. ; Magnitogorsk
Account number: 455### (on file)

Scam:
I don't have phone number or full address for her, though she said she worked for an accounting firm & used the work computer to e-mail. She never sent e-mail on weekends.

She contacted my friend at Kiss.com, she has no profile on the site but she's obviously a member cause she made first contact. She sent a number of pictures but I only have a few available tonight. She says she's a 30 yr. old virgin (yeah right). Her first request for money was to buy back her jewlery she had pawned to get a visa, & if she didn't have the money by Tues. she wouldn't get the jewelry back.

Once she got the $260 she said she was coming here the next weekend, then all of a sudden she only had enough money to get to Moscow. you can see the letter she sent below.

The first letter is the one right after she received the $260, the second asking for airfare. Talk about a bunch of BS! How he fell for this, with all his friends telling him he was being scammed (until they started liviing vicariously through him) I'll never understand (well not to sound sexist or anything, but he wasn't thinking with the big head that's for sure!) (: Please get her on your site, I know at one point she had a filled mailbox (70 e-mails) at Kiss.com cause he tried to send an e-mail to her at Kiss, so that means she's hitting up a lot of guys with this scam.

Read two of her letters sent here

Submitted by:
Kim (friend of the man that was scammed)

A note to new people searching the web or just a reminder to those with more experience, if she does not offer her address and phone number do not pursue the relationship. It is up to you to ask for it if you don not have it or if an agency has not supplied it. Don't even consider getting involved without this information. It's a big sign of trouble. While it is very possible for her not to have her own phone she should supply you with some number or a way for you to speak with each other.

Individual Caution: Cristina Vatavu
ADDED: August 23, 2001
Updated 4th January 2003

Name: Cristina Vatavu
Date Of Birth : 06/06/1979

Address given: Chisinau Moldova
email: krilldot@yahoo.com & kris_v@yahoo.com

Original Profile found at:
http://bride.ru

Tel : 03732 726612

Bank information supplied:
None supplied to antiscam.net

Scam:
This woman received numerous money transfers from me via Western Union over the past six months. The money was sent for the normal reasons (hardship, illness, lost telephone, etc.). When I tried to plan a trip to see her, she gave many excuses, and it became clear that she was only interested in money. When I told her that I would be unable to send her any more money, her communication with me stopped.

Thanks for warning others.

If you have had any contact with this woman, please contact me (Henrik's email on file)

Submitted by:
Henrik N.

Svetllana Ivaschenko . This is the girl that used to be on the front of the Absolute Agency site ! Doesn't say much for them..especially since they had been notified about this and did nothing for ages. They have now changed their front page. She's still listed with them though and no doubt happily scamming away. One of her ploy's is to tell you her parents are dead..she has nowhere to live and is staying with friends at the moment. But they can't let her stay and she doesn't know what she's going to do. She even talks about suicide!!! You'd never imagine it from this photo.

On the subject of Absolute Agency we have received many complaints about them and their misleading subscriptions. If you read their advertising they state that if you subscribe you will have full access to all the womens e-mail addreses and details. This is in fact not true! You will not have any more access than someone who doesn't subscribe! You are not given the womens details or e-mail address. In many cases you will write to a woman (through absolutes own system of course) only to get a reply back from another agency demanding yet another fee to write to "their" client!! This is completly unacceptable. Absolute have been notified many times about this and do nothing which leads us to beleive these "other" agencies are in fact part of Absolutes network. Our advice? stay well away from Absolute until they clean up their act and start answering complaints!

Complaint #2

Svetllana Ivaschenko - Yes here she is again folks...certainly a busy lady! Here's the latest letter we had in from a guy she recently tried to scam...luckily he found us before sending his money! She's using these two e-mails probably amongst many others. Svetlana24@talkmatch.com & si2001@ukr.net

"Beware, I have been in contact with a woman whose ad appears on Match.com. Her names is Svetlana Ivamshenko, and her photo is on page five of your known scammers. I was just about to make the biggest mistake I could have and Western Union her some money. I fortunately went to Hotbot.com, and typed in Russian Wife Scams. This site hit first and she is on page five. I recieved a number of emails, but she put the big bite on through the Instant messaging system. Her boss hasn't paid her, and wants to have sex with before he pays her. The landlord put her out cause she is five months behind in her rent. She wanted me to send her 336 dollars by Western Union. I told her I didn't know where one was near me in Maryland. She was so quick with her ability to locate one that I realized she was not a helpless little Russian woman. I sent her an email with your address on it, and surprise she never responded. I guess if you are lucky you read this before you made that mistake. I hope you did."

NOTE: I have written to Svetlana..or whoever she is and gave her an opportunity to reply to the above. Also I have contacted Match.com to report a violation of their services and I have reported her to Geocities because she has a home page there at www.geocities.com/my_secret_place_si2001
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Saul@antiscam,net

Alena Federovskaya
This picture is of Anastasia Smirnova, a Russian Fashion model. Her photo's are being used by someone who calls herself Alena Fedorovskaya . She uses addresses in Russia and the Ukraine.

To read the contents of the standard letter she sends out click here

If you have come across her or the letter please let us know.

Thanks go to Markus for writing to us about this woman and www.firstdream.com for also posting her on their own Scammers Blacklist.
REMEMBER..the woman your looking at is NOT the scammer..she's an inoccent model!

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