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Iuliana, 20
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Alana, 27
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Irina, 23
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Lilia, 22
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Ella, 22
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Ekaterina, 19
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Elena, 31
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Diana, 19
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Sasha, 24
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Yuliya, 26
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Olga, 26
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Russian Ladies Dating Scams (Russian Bride Scams)
Who Are Russian Dating Scammers?
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Russian dating scammers are people who attempt to cheat sincere,
well-meaning men out of their money. There are great lists of such
scammers published on the Internet and the size of these scammer lists
continues to grow. I have compiled and published my own personal
Russian dating
scammers database
which contains names, aliases,
photos, letter, email addresses, street addresses and other info which
I've collected from individuals who have attempted to scam me personally.
Russian dating scammers are known to use multiple falsified Russian
ladies' names and aliases as well as various street addresses and
multiple email accounts. Some of the scams are run, not from Russia,
but from other countries as well, including the United States.
As often as not, Russian bride scammers are
not actually Russian ladies at all but rather they are men
merely posing as Russian ladies. This Russian brides scamming activity
is not only the work of individuals working on their own. These scams
are also carried out by groups of individuals and by "dating agencies"
which appear to be legitimate.
What Do Russian Dating Scammers Do?
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Russian dating scammers attempt to defraud men out of their money by
representing themselves as beautiful young Russian ladies (or ladies
from other FSU/CIS countries). The scammers fake having an interest
in relations with men who are typically of western countries. Their
plan is to take money from men by feigning romantic interest in them
and then asking them for money. Initial contact is typically made
over the Internet. Scammers typically have sets of photographs of
beautiful young Russian ladies which they use to send along with
their written online correspondence in order to encourage response
from unsuspecting men. Typically, after a man has exchanged a few
pieces of correspondence with a scammer, the scammer will profess
love for the man and will soon ask him for money, offering various
and sundry reasons for the request.
Do Russian Dating Scams Actually "Work"?
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Yes! Millions of dollars (and other currencies) are lost to Russian
Bride scammers around the world each year. In spite of the easy
availability of ample anti-scam information, men still continue to
get scammed repeatedly with no end in sight. Some scammers succeed
in scamming unsuspecting western men for thousands of dollars
(and other currencies) each!
Are Russian Dating Scams Illegal?
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As reported in a California newspaper, in one recent
Russian dating scam case (see article
#1),
a man named Robert McCoy
pleaded guilty in a California County court to fraud-related charges
for his part in a scam in which he and his wife posed as sincere Russian
ladies in correspondence with western men. Having been convicted of fraud
charges,
McCoy was sentenced (see article
#2)
to five years in federal prison. As part of a
plea bargain, McCoy, who admitted defrauding more than 250 men, agreed
to pay back his victims $737,521. The number of Robert McCoys victims
who were positively identified was in excess of 352. Anna Grountovaia,
McCoy's wife and the mother of his 2-year-old daughter, was sentenced
to three years probation after having served 11 months in jail. Yes!
Russian dating scams are illegal and can result in very heavy-handed
legal prosecution against perpetrators.
How Can Russian Dating Scams Be Avoided?
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There is no substitute for good old-fashioned common sense. A red
flag should go up when a Russian lady professes her love over the
Internet. Typically, scammers will begin using love-language in
their correspondence letters and will assert that they love the
person with whom they are corresponding before much time has elapsed.
This may even start happening by the second or third piece of
correspondence. Another red flag should go up if the Russian lady in
question fails to respond to simple and straight-forward questions.
And if the lady indicates in her correspondence that she has no phone
and can only access the Internet by using an Internet Caf, this should
also throw up a red flag and is and exceedingly typical scenario with
Russian dating scammers.
NOTE: Sincere Russian ladies will not
ask for money. No matter how desirable Russian ladies seem in
pictures, never send money to somebody you've never met! No
matter how compelling Russian ladies stories may be, never
send money to somebody you've never met! No matter how sincere
Russian ladies may seem in writing, never send money to
somebody you've never met!
Additionally: Never send money to somebody you've never met!
Russian Love In Record Time
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Is it true Russian love or is it just rushin' love?
If you've dealt with many Russian dating scammers, you've likely
seen plenty of the latter. Below is an actual letter sent
to me by a Russian dating scammer. This letter, along with accompanying
photos, email addresses, etc., is one of many in my Russian
dating scammers database. In the following letter, the person from
whom I received it has professed her love for me after only four letters. I
have substituted my real first name with a mock-up name (Scotty-Claus) which
I use in each of the scammers' letters I post here. Incidentally, the
name Scotty-Claus is similar to a pet name given to me by a sincere and
lovely Russian lady I know and I've employrd it liberally on this website
in her honor. The following is a typical standard letter that likely
gets recycled countlessly by the Russian dating scammer who sent it
to me. I am so certain that the person who sent it to me is a scammer
that, as of the date of this posting, I'm still corresponding with
her! Within the next letter or two that she sends me, I guarantee
she'll be asking me for money! Check it out...
Does she sound like this? After only four or five letters?...
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Hello my kitten Scotty-Claus!
As always, I am very glad to your letter! I think, you not against,
that I have named you a kitten, only do not take offence It I wanted
to name you as it is possible more tenderly. Girlfriends speak, that
I became absent-minded, speak, that I have fallen in love I do not
know what to answer it, because I do not want that they were deceived,
but it seems to me, that I have already found the male of the dream,
and this is a male - you! So it seems to me, what you too to like me,
or it not so? Tell me please, it should be mutual, and I very much
would like, that the our love was mutual! I do not know how it explain,
but you like me very much, also your letters bring to me great pleasure.
In your letters so many heat and cares, that it forces my heart to beat
faster and on this, my feelings to you grows many times over and if
further so will proceed my feelings will leave from under the control
and I can not live without you. But I am very much concerned with that
if I shall love you you will not to feel those feelings, which I am to
feel to you. I want, that these feelings were mutual and we could enjoy
our love. Yes though I and hesitate slightly, but I should you tell all:
I LOVE YOU ! I with alarm in heart shall wait for your answer, but now
my soul has calmed down I have stated that at me was on soul!
I love you!
Your Irina
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Man Pleads Guilty To Russian Ladies Scam
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The San Diego Union Tribune
April 8, 2004
Lonely-hearts scam on Internet results in couple's guilty pleas
Nonexistent Russian women were the bait
By Marisa Taylor
STAFF WRITER
April 8, 2004
A San Bernardino County man pleaded guilty yesterday to using the
Internet to dupe more than 250 men into shelling out money for
Russian wives and girlfriends who didn't exist.
Robert McCoy, 40, admitted in U.S. District Court in San Diego
that he and his wife used the Internet for at least two years to
pose as Russian women seeking companionship. The couple would strike
up online romances with unsuspecting men and then ask for money to
travel to the United States to meet them, according to his plea
agreement filed in federal court.
In a separate guilty plea, his wife, Anna Grountovaia, admitted
she persuaded four San Diego men to wire $1,850 each. The victims
sent the money to a fictitious Russian dating agency, believing it
would pay for the women's visas and travel expenses.
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McCoy also solicited money from the victims by claiming the women
needed $1,500 in cash to meet the requirements of a new U.S. Customs
Service policy.
Authorities believe the scheme netted at least $1 million and may
have involved other people in Russia or Ukraine.
McCoy faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at his
June 22 sentencing. Prosecutors, however, have agreed as part of
Grountovaia's plea agreement to ask a federal judge to sentence her
to only a year in prison.
Grountovaia is originally from Russia and could be deported as a
result of her guilty plea. The couple, who have a 2-year-old child,
remain married despite their legal troubles, their attorneys said.
U.S. officials began investigating the couple after a Baltimore man
tipped off a London newspaper about the scheme.
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Prison Sentence For Russian Ladies Scammer
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The San Diego Union Tribune
Man gets prison for role in Russian bride scheme
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 23, 2004
A San Bernardino County man was sentenced to five years in federal
prison yesterday for cheating men out of more than $1 million in
a Russian bride scam.
The sentence was imposed from an April plea bargain in which
Robert McCoy, 40, of Rancho Cucamonga admitted defrauding more
than 250 men and agreed to pay back his victims $737,521.
Prosecutors dropped other charges.
Investigators positively identified 352 victims, but there may
be more, said San Diego-based federal prosecutor Richard Cheng.
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Anna Grountovaia, 32, McCoy's wife and the mother of his 2-year-old
daughter, was sentenced to three years probation after having served
11 months in jail.
Grountovaia, a Russian who met McCoy through the Internet before
moving into his home, said she posed as a prospective bride in
telephone calls with some of the victims, including several
San Diego men. She pleaded guilty to fraud and may be deported.
She met him after the scam was already under way and didn't
play a big part in the scam, filling in when he needed a
woman with a Russian accent, her lawyer said.
Most of the victims spoke with women in Russia, lawyer
Timothy Scott said in court papers.
McCoy is a drug-addicted felon who sports gang tattoos and
has earlier convictions on assault, kidnapping and weapons
charges, according to court papers.
In court filings, prosecutor Cheng detailed the scheme
this way:
McCoy met his victims through personal ads he placed or
answered on Web sites including America Online and Match.com.
In each case, he wrote e-mails posing as a Russian woman
seeking love and sent pictures of a pretty model.
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Eventually, a visit would be arranged, and the victim was
told a Russian dating service needed about $1,800 to pay for
a visa and plane tickets.
On the day the victim was expecting the woman to arrive,
McCoy would write as an official from the fictitious dating
service and said there was a problem: A new regulation
required the woman to carry $1,500 cash to enter the
United States.
The service would lend her $500, but the victim needed to
wire an additional $1,000.
The men learned they were taken days later, when their e-mails
were ignored or bounced back because the accounts were closed.
The FBI began investigating the scam after a Baltimore man
told a London newspaper about the scheme.
McCoy regrets what he did and plans to use his prison time
to get off drugs, said his lawyer, Arthur Greenspan, who blamed
the drug addiction as a big reason for McCoy's behavior.
A Web site on Russian scams tells prospective suitors to beware
any woman who asks for money after an online meeting.
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Julia, 25
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Svetlana, 30
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Ana-Maria, 20
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Oksana, 18
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Polina, 23
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Kamola, 27
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Julia, 22
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Tatiana, 29
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Liza, 24
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Karolina, 22
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Irina, 27
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Elena, 22
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Alla, 24
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Tatiana, 34
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Olga, 33
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Natalia, 33
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Karine, 24
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Elena, 35
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Alla, 24
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Nata, 38
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Boyana, 36
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Yuliya, 28
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Ioana, 21
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Natalia, 20
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Irina, 24
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Olya, 31
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Larisa, 31
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Oxana, 29
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Ekaterina, 23
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Anastasiya, 24
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Dasha, 22
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Tanya, 21
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Tatiana, 21
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Svetlana, 21
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