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Olga Kravtseva, Tatiana Petrenko, Natalia Osyerdnikova, Tatyana Tsaregorodseva

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Individual Caution: Olga Kravtseva
Updated 4th Jan 2003

Name(s): Olga Kravtseva (and her "uncle" PENKOV PAVEL)
Date of birth:

email: kravolga@mail.ru, later changed to
olga_kravtseva@yahoo.com

Stay away of the woman with the name OLGA KRAVTSEVA (and her "uncle" PENKOV PAVEL). She lived untill April this year in Tashkent, but moved to Moscow (probably Lefortovo). Maybe she's a fashion designer and maybe she has already another location.
According a reply upon one of my requests on the site of "russianwomanlist" I received the following message:

"Hi, Sorry, Ben.
This women has been on various web sites under various names. She responded to my ad on the net with quasi nude photos. Yummi, but . . . . . Sorry all, this one is----dare I say it---a SCAMMER!!!!! Don't send money to dyevs you ain't met. 1 exception--unless it is to meet you in the FSU; if she doesn't show up, think of it as a good bargain: a few bucks gone today is better than many lost tomorrow. For all the pain, you got to love this stuff. Ernie "

So when in the future you'll meet her under another name, maybe you'll remember these pictures: By information from other respondents I learned that OLGA KRAVTSEVA is following always the same procedure (just as with me):
1) she starts email- communication with you through a connection in a cybercafe;
2) she invites you to take an account at Yahoo Messenger or another chatprogramm;
3) while chatting the connection is many times broken off or she doesn't come online as promised;
4) she let's you know that she's looking for own computer with better connection, but that she hasn't the
money;
5) when you offer to send money, first she'll refuse, but another time she'll accept; while she lived in Tashkent she used the bankaccount of "her uncle" PAVEL PENKOV in Afrosiyab Street. This man is NOT her uncle and the address is false;
6) after some time she'll inform you by email that the connection of her computer is cut off by the provider because she's can't pay the fees any longer; then follows the same procedure: first offer to help will be refused, not the second;
7) in the time that you don't have connection she's looking around for other victims with the same connection;

Be careful with this woman, it's a serious warning for everybody. She plays the game with only 2 or 3 persons at the same time, and she's making never mistakes.
She's a very good psychologist and is playing cat and mouse with her victims untill the moment that the connection is broken off forever. She doesn't come online with you any more (she's using in Yahoo several accounts) and she doesn't answer upon your mails.
In the communication with me she used first the emailaccounts: kravolga@mail.ru , later she changed to
olga_kravtseva@yahoo.com

The original poster of this entry in the Blacklist had a search performed by a Russian Lawyer to establish the womans existence. The search results were negative!

BANK ADRESS: R.UZBEKISTAN, TASHKENT, AKADEMIK YAHYO
GULOMOV STREET-95
SWIFT CODE: NBFA UZ 2X
ACCOUNT N: 508127
NAME: PENKOV PAVEL

Homeaddress of Pavel Penkov: 700029 Afrosiyab street 25/4 (which is false perhaps).

Sincerely yours,
Ben W Peters.

TANYA PETRENKO. As far as I know she's only on the Absolute Agency site...if anyone know's different let us know. Starts off the correspondance in perfect English..tells you your the first to write and that she was put on site by a friend. The "friend" later turns out to be a "Translator" called Olga.(bigi@cci.lg.ua). About five days into the correspondance you'll be told how poor she is and asked if you can help to pay the Translators fees. Actually as far as I can tell your writing to this Olga...if Tanya exists or not is a mystery but I doubt it. Your specific questions won't be answered and the correspondance will always be steered into getting you to answer questions instead. She had been removed from Absolute but is back again.! Her ID is A691933

Ukraine, 91000, Lugansk, Sosura street, 37.
Petrenko Tatiana.
tanya_petr@mail.ru (original e-mail address)

This woman uses the names Christina and Sveta and posts her ads on Excite personals. Sometimes she claims to be from Poltava Ukraine and also uses several other cities. I wrote to this woman on several occasions only to find out she is a consumate liar and scammer.

In one of her ads, she claimed to be widowed yet in another ad, she claims to be divorced. These 2 ads were places within 3 days of each other. Who knows, maybe she killed her husband in those 3 days thus the change of marital status. Here's her act:

In her first letter she speaks of life as poetry and always sends the same thing to everybody. Either her or the goons she works for are appearently too stupid to know how to check an IP address.

Her second letter is the lead up to scam as she describes how hard things are for her and her 'lovely daughter' and how she hasn't been paid in 4 months.

The third letter is the first of many requests for money. The more you buy the sob stories, the more she wants.

This woman is dangerous; stay away from her. All she wants is your money.
atb
David

Individual Caution: Natalia Osyerdnikova
ADDED: August 10, 2001

Name: Natalia Osyerdnikova [other forms of her first name: Natasha]

Address given: Tansikbayeva-2 10-65; Tashkent, Uzbekistan 700179

Scam: Natalia planned to meet with Douk in the UK saying she had her own special visa allowing her to travel for business as a Doctor. but in order for it to llok as a business trip she needed to purchase the plane ticket herself and requested $1300. Which by all accounts is double what should should need for a trip of this distnace anyway.

Please Read Doug's full email complaint here. So far one the the better follow throughs. Not everyone has the same contacts to help out but they sure come in handy if you do.

As of Aug. 10, 2001 Natalia was know to be posted at:
http://www.promemo.nl/gallery/personal/000060.htm
http://aprettywoman.com (ad #6268)
http://www.russian-brides-club.com/Personal72366.htm
http://www.natashaclub.com/profiles/personal/Personal72366.htm
http://www.russian-women-club.com/profiles/personal/Personal72366.htm

Submitted by:
Doug K - UK

Follow up:
We did contact Natalia asking for her reponse to the complaint. Her full response was the following:

Dear Mr. Steven Bradley. Thanks for your letter, but I don't understand the problem. I don't wanted to deceive a Mr. Doug. I can t to understand nothing. I don't want to have some problems with the police, and I have shok of it. Sincerely Natalya.

An additional email was sent to Natalia asking if she needed the complaint and all emails translated to Russian to assist. We have yet to receive her response. Doug comments that in all phone calls and letters they had not language difficulties.

Individual Caution: Tatyana Tsaregorodseva
ADDED: December 2, 2001
Last Updated: -----

Name(s): Tatyana Tsaregorodseva, Tatyana Yurina
Date of birth: none

Address given: 23-61 Kirova Street in Novosibirsk, Russia

Phone given: none

email: tata333@fromru.com

Bank information supplied:
Western Union Pick up at "Menate P/St. Petersburg," from a location called "Yoshkarola."

Initial Complaint:
Greetings Steve and Saul, and others!
I would love to have you add my scam story to your site. Once I saw the pics posted for Tatyana Yurina from Novosibirsk, on the "Blacklist," I knew for sure that I was definitely taken for $1800!!!

I was contacted thru kiss.com from a member "TNT2000." She called herself TATYANA TSAREGORODSEVA, with the address 23-61 Kirova Street in Novosibirsk, Russia. With the e-mail address tata333@fromru.com I was definitely intrigued. We struck up an internet friendship/relationship and it all snowballed from there. We exchanged pictures and letters. I was really thinking I was going to meet a nice attractive girl from Russia----if Tatyana only knew what I was thinking NOW!!! I didn't think much when I received a request for help with a VISA---$300. That was in the middle of October. Then I was going to buy an airline here to have her fly over----oh no the ticket "had to be bought there." So, I did some checking and found out it was $150 less for a ticket to be purchased in Russia, so I sent over $900--November 3rd. Then once I did that, she e-mailed me that she needed $530 for some kind of insurance to allow her to leave the country. I sent $600 on November 8th. Then 3 days after I sent the $600. I received the e-mail from her saying that the money had been stolen from her while she was in the Moscow subway. I contacted Western Union to see where the money was picked up----all from the same location---not in Novosibirsk and in Moscow as I was told---all through a Bank called "Menate P/St. Petersburg," from a location called "Yoshkarola." Western Union did do a little checking, and in the last 45 days there had been dozens and dozens of money transfers to TATYANA TSAREGORODSEVA from the United States. Western Union would not tell me who or how much---just the fact that they were indeed large transfers and many of them. Western Union would NOT list her name as a potential scammer. It seems all Western Union is---simply a tool used by scammers in this particular case.

I am not normally a stupid or gullable person---I'm in media and usually pretty savvy---but not this time. I wish I had found your "Blacklist" sooner----but unfortunantly it cost me $1800, and another $200 in Western Union charges. So---I am out $2000 to this scammer from Novosibirsk. I am including the letters she wrote to me, her photos, and after all this happened I got an e-mail---supposed to be from her mother---Svetlana. I have notified the FBI and will contact the Russian embassy here in the United States, but I want to warn any and all men---this woman IS A SCAMMER!!

Additional Information or Complaint(s): Read original letters written to JJ from "Tatyana"

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