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Thank you, I saw the woman I was writing on your site, and you saved me from sending that scammer money! Her name is Lidiya, and she sent me the exact letters sent to a guy named Kevin. It was on you page 174 updates 23 April 2003 page 2. When she was so brazen to ask for so much money, I thought I would check it out! I am glad I did! Thank you so much, I hope this person is put behind bars and soon!  Thanks again, Les 



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Olga Merezhko (Nhizni Novgorod, Russia)

I am single, 43, American, self-empolyed, with a personal ad on Matchmaker.com.Olga, whose e-mail address is devica_25@mail333.com, contacted me as OLGACHIKMER240 from the New York Matchmaker.com community. After 6 e-mails where she repeatedly told me how interesting my letters were, but very rarely commented on the subject matter or responded to my questions, the 7th e-mail was signed "Love, Olga", and the 8th e-mail revealed that she had fallen in love with me. That's when I became concerned for my wallet. A couple e-mails later, as she was just gearing up to the asking for money stage ("I want to be with you, and embrace you"; "My aunt works in the embassy and will help me get the papers. I know you will support me because I believe that you really love me"), she finally responded to my third request for a full name and address: Olga Merezhko 17 Chehova Street Apartment 27 Nhizni Novgorod, Russia I promptly ordered delivery of a small boquet of flowers (just in case) and address verification. Guess what? 17 Chehova is a cottage, not an apartment building, and "Olga" doesn't live there. Here are some pictures and a sample of her letters. Interesting that she is wearing the same outfit and hairdo in the first photo she sent me ("taken last summer"), and the one from the wedding, which was supposedly in late November. By the way, my "problems" she so blithely glosses over in the letter below are my representations to her that: 1) I'm a convicted felon, 2) a drug addict, and 3) have a venereal disease! Hah!! I guess love of money conquers all.

Letters:

Hi my Love Whitney! I was madly happy to receive your new letter. I very much worry for you and for small Alyssiа. I hope all yours problems shortly will be solved. I very much would like to be with you this difficult minute, I very muc  want the help to you, but I do not know as it to make. If I was near to you, it would be possible to transfer more easy to you all these troubles. You ask my address, I certainly shall send it{him} to you: Olga Merezhko, Russia, Nizhni Novgorod, Chehova street 17, apartment 27. I hope though something could facilitate your position. I want to be with you my loved Whitney and it seems to me that nothing can stop me on a way to you. I am full of love to you my tender and kind Whitney. it becomes very good me when I in the dreams start to think of you when I to fly to you my loved Whitney. probably when I I meet you shall simply die with happiness in your embraces. I madly want that our meeting has as soon as possible taken place. I so am strongly happy that have got acquainted with you. Today I all the day long thought of you, and about us. You do me happy and I understand that I never before liked and only due to you I have learned that such love. I cannot live without you, today I have told about you the girlfriend and she very much envies our relations. She considers, that to me has very much carried when I have met you. I want to be with you!!! I cannot live without you. Here to me it is melancholy and lonely. Love is necessary for me my and unique Whitney which I could embrace and nestle on his breast. It would be so wonderfully. I cannot live without you any more. It is necessary for me to meet you. Therefore on Monday I shall go to embassy and I learn as I can soon fly to you. Besides to collect all necessary documents to me my aunt will help. She works in embassy and I hope she to me will help to make all necessary documents and as soon as possible to fly to you. I heard, that the visa to prepare about one month, but I shall ask the aunt to make it to me faster. Therefore I hope already at the end of December our hearts will be together. We can take pleasure the friend in the friend to the full. I hope you there will be no against mine an initiative. Also you will support me in my affairs. Because I believe that you really love me. Write to me as soon as possible. Your love for ever Olga. 

Here's my response, which includes a thread from Alex at Flamingo, confirming my suspicions:

Dear "Olga"--  Perhaps this is a matter for the police? Perhaps they can help clear up the matter of the false address you gave me? I will posting your letters and pictures on several Russian Bride Scam websites. Just be grateful that I'm too busy to let this get to the point where you actually asked for a Western Union money transfer for a visa and a plane ticket. At that point, this would have become a police matter.  --Whitney 

Dear Mr. XXX, Chekhova and Chehova should exactly the same in Russian. Therefore no such street is existent in Nizhniy Novgorod.  Please kindly advise Sincerely Alex - Flamingo I am not familiar with the streets of Nhizni Novgorod, but my order specified "Chehova"Street, not "Chekhova" Street. Is there any such street in Nhizni Novgorod called Chehova Street? Thank you for your kind assistance!  --Whitney 

Dear Sir, We are very sorry but we cannot deliver your order.  OUr florist has found out that the house 17 on Chekhova st  is a cottage - therefore there can't be any apartments.  Merezhko Olga doesn't reside at Chekhova 17 either.  Please kindly advise if there are other ways to contact this lady  Sincerely  Alex- Flamingo service 

Thanks so much for this site. It saved me a lot of pain and money. --Whitney


Irina

Irina wrote me from "Friendsearch.com".Claims Volgograd Russia is her city. No phone, lives with mother.In love after 6 emails. Needs visa, passport, airfare money.I have not seen her picture on any of the scam sites.  I'm one of the luckier ones, no money was sent. Contacted the site she wrote from.Kelly

Letters:

Hello, how are you? I hope fine.I am one of those women whose heart is capable of true love.  I believe that the most reliable base of relationship with a man is love,  and not what he can do for you.  Realizing that we can reach what we all the time unconsciously strive for,  trying to find in each other the feeling of unity and harmony. I believe that people live on the Earth for the unforgettable moments of their lives. They, like bright flashes, instantly brighten our existence,  giving it the unique charm that we all are looking for.I am sincere and open person,  I believe in true love, I disbelieve in divorce. I want begin a serious relationship which will grow in great and passionate love. I sincere hope receive answer from you and I will send you my pretty photos. Please write me only to my e mail sweetirina@land.ru and I will send you my photos, I can't reply you in  mailbox, to e mail only please. I wish you very great day! Sincerly Irina. 

Money Request:

Hello my sweetie  How are you today? When I receive your letter, on my face always come a smile and I feel a heat in my soul, thank you for this.Thank you for filling my soul a joy, thank you for filling my heart of the most pleasing feelings!! I am a faith that you really serious with me and  I completely entrust you that you really want to meet me. I has find how much cost a flight to you, it cost $980USD, in this cost enters a passport, visa and tickets of plane, but this dearly for me, I have no such money, do you will help me to pay for the flight to you? I will very happy to meet you!!! To get tourist documents need wait approximately 5-6 weeks and I can reach you in 5-6 weeks after a day when to pay in the company. In the tourist company to take cash only, so you can simply send me money through the bank and I shall immediately pay for the flight to you. I can not now visualize a day without your message, I very very love receiving your messages. Hope soon we will be together!!! Do You like it? I am very much! We can spend a romantic evenings together, we will be care of each other, I really so want to begin a family and enjoy this happy time together,  my heart is full of sincere feelings to give for a person!!! I have never think, that be such men like you! I have never heard pleasing words like you write me.  Even I not know what to write you now, I simply delighted with you! I wrote you, I like a poetry so now come time to write you some of my poems. Having read a poem, possible understand more what in the  soul of person, what is person feel like, so I has write you this poem myself,  not to lose good sense these words,  So, this words from my soul and heart only for you: Someone will always be thankful for you. Someone will always cherish the warmth of your smile and the happiness in your heart. Someone wants to always be close enough to care in every way and to treasure each and every day spent together. Someone will always keep you lovingly in mind and will welcome every opportunilty to find you in happy thoughts. Someone will always know that life is good because of you, and that tomorrow has a bright and shining hope that wouldn't be there if you weren't here today. Someone will always try to find the words to thank you for filling life with dreams come true and with beautiful memories. Someone will always be thankful for you.....And that someone will always be me! I am open with you and I don't want to hide any thing from you! I want to show you all sides of my heart, all sides of my tenderness and I hope you will not break my heart because I will never do it with yours!  I pray God to all it will be for real!!!  Anxiously wait your message. Tender kisses for you..... You always in my thoughts and dreams. Your Irina

Here is an update letter with her personal information:

Hello my sweetie Kelly I always very lucky to get you letter. I has heard as possible send money, in the bank have say that be a system Western Union, do you have there it? To send money to me you must know my full name, city and country. Also I need know your full name and address, write me please. This is my info: Irina Vohmintseva, Volgograd city, Russia. When you will send money you will get a number transfer, which you send me in the letter. This reliable and safe way to send money, nobody except me can not get their because will there check my ID. I so excited of our meeting!!!!!!!! I can not wait when to see you. My sweetie, I thinking of you all time and I want to ask you some questions but when I come to internet cafe I forget them:) I go on street and see so much couples and I see in them you and me, I dreaming as we can walk together, our hands together and on our faces such beautiful smiles......and when I thinking about it my heart knock more quicker and I have a mild smile! And at this time I feel myself like I have met you personally and spent time with you!!! Here is couple questions for you, What best values in woman you are looking for? For me best values in man is sincerity, honesty, sincere desire to have a sincere relationship and family, to be best friend, husband and lover. What is mean for you a family? For me family this is love, helping for each other in any things, have all joys and problems together! To be us as one! Happy Family this is purpose of my life! And I really serious about it!!! You each day in my sweet and beautiful dreams, when we together with you conduct very good time for mountains and sea, but the most main to after these dreams began real and I has been able to see you not in the dream but face to face and this will the most lucky moment in my life, hope and in your life too. And when begin real, we with you shall go on the coast under the moon light and together looking on stars and moon, which will brightly blaze only for us. And this will really the most beautiful and romantic moment our life. But certainly we shall have not only one such evening, for us this evening will the whole life and have not the end! And our heart always will have a full feelings from which will leave only happiness. I very hope soon to meet you. I very want to see you soon and stay with you forever!!! At a last time I have very beautiful condition a soul and this condition only from you, thank you for this. Hope soon to get your sweet letter. Many gentile kisses only for you. I thinking of you always. Your Irina 


Nadezhda Dzhanieva (Ekaterinburg, Russia)

Letters:

hello Dear!!! I have offer to you. I want to go away from Russia. Russia this very bad state. Here constantly there is an inflation and Russian rouble depreciates. All prices for products and on other goods constantly rise in the price and the salary is lowered. In Russia it is not possible to live, all factories and enterprises are owned by the gangsters. In our government too there are gangsters which lift the taxes and by that plunder the simple people. The gangsters own also TV and all that can bring by him money. They can unpunishedly plunder the people and them for it do not place in prison because the police is afraid of them and they pay in him money. Geoffrey please if you can to me the help I shall go away from Russia to help you in Your country and I shall give you money as soon as I shall work in Your country. If you will help me to go away from Russia that I shall do for you all that you want. Please help to me!!!!!! I implore you. I shall do all for you after I shall arrive in Your country. If you want I can all life in Your country dedication to you, and I can all life work for you. I can carry out any kind of work. If you want I can send you the photo. For the sake of the god and Jesus help me. For registration of the documents it is required to me approximately 250 $ USA. I send you my complete data: Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg 620052 Kuzbasskaya St. 98-9 My full name Nadezhda Dzhanieva. You can send money about the help WESTERN UNION or MONEYGRAM. Do not forget that for reception I should know number of the control of translation of money, and complete data of the sender. Send to me please it. I shall do all that you will tell only help me, Help me by money. I hope that you can to me help. I wait faster for your letter. Yours Nadezhda.


Marina Rostova (Kemerovo, Russia)

Hmm, it would have been good to see this site 2 years ago - I got lucky,plain and simple! I was 37 at the time, single, and trying Match.com, where I was contacted by a "Marina Rostova" using the email address "marina007@pisem.net." Unfortunately I do not have any of the original emails left, but I can say that many of the ones associated with this photo were identical to the ones I received, including the initial contact letter.

I did notice (after the fact) that she never answered any of my direct questions and certainly avoided any notion of me flying there. We corresponded for a couple of months, and she said she needed 300 for the visa and 1400 for the plane ticket to come visit me, after which I finally gave in and wired $400 to the Guta Bank, unk street address (I don't remember at this point), October Prospectus, Kemerovo. After sending her the pin#, I got the "see ya" letter, but the money never got picked up. I was able to recover it, minus the wire transfer fee, and also got the money back from some flowers I tried to send through "flower and gift nternational," who told me that her address in Kemerovo (which I no longer have as well) was bogus. As I say, I got lucky. I wish I had seen this site then, and I guess I need to learn to not be so trusting. Because this was 2 years ago, I have one of the letters and only the one photo left, but I can say that  the photos with others using this image of the Ukrainian singer were many of the same ones I received, and so were the letters. Well, that is my story. Now that I'm trying the whole internet dating thing again, I'm wiser and have safeguards in place now, the first being no money to be sent overseas! Jeff


Elena/Alena

I hope that someone gets this info. My name is Tim and I wanted to let you know what is going on with this  person. I have recieved emails from here and met here from Imatchup.com. She  has taken her profile of as you would expect since she started talking with  me and is still currently sending me letters. I have written here and will  keep doing so if there is anything that I can do to help. I have heard  nothing or she has said nothing of a agency at this time. I am happy that i  found the list when doing a search on the home town to check it out myself.  Here is a couple of current pics that were sent to me lately. If there is  anything that i can do for anyone plse let me know. You can contact me at  complicatedmind@hotmail.com for any further info.Tim

Letters:

Hello my new friend Tim! I am very glad, that you have answered me and have not disregarded my letter. I am very glad, that you have become interested in me. And I shall try, that you were not  disappointed with me and have learned as much as possible about me. But I as would like to learn you better. I ask you write about me more in detail. You see "the First Sight" allows seeing  only that is obvious. And when you will learn people better estimations of character traits,  outlooks can vary, and it is cardinal. You to me seem very good person, I hope, we will manage to  learn soon each other better. Well I shall inform in brief about myself directly. I the usual Russian girl  actually am not distinguished by anything from others. It is probable to describe itself; it  would be easier for me, if I did not do it for the first time. At me words and ideas because I  worry a little are confused. I did not expect, that of you will answer me, and when I have seen  your letter, me as if a current have struck in heart and now I sit behind a computer and I do not know that to you to write. Excuse me if I shall do many mistakes in the letter, I not absolutely well know English. So if to you something will be not clear, you ask me again. I have learnt the English language all over again when went to school, and then still learned in Institute. And consequently I can read your letters without assistance and write to you. By the way I have ended the Ural institute of economy, on a specialty the Economist. But now I  work as the insurance agent. About my work I shall write to you somehow i! n other letters. As I already wrote, that age of 25 years and all these years I lived in city of Ekaterinburg. There I also was born. Ekaterinburg is located on average Ural in 1500 km to the east from Moscow - capitals of Russia. It is very old (the city was based in 1723) and beautiful city as the city represents a surprising combination of architectural, historical and cultural curiosities which give to city uniqueness and originality. Ural - highland and natural geographical border of two continents - Europe and Asia. The Ural Mountains were stretched from the north on the south almost on 2000 km. Ural - original mountain area. On the one hand it is the centre of metallurgy of Russia already more than 300 years, with another 
- on Ural wild places were kept many: rocks, lakes, and woods, mountains which are of interest for climbers, rock-climbers, and tourists. I live one, separately from my parents. Fortunately we live in one city, and I frequently meet them. I do not have brothers and sisters. I have cat, his name Ferdinand. I very much love pets. Earlier we had dog, but to regret he has died, because has grown old. With this letter I shall send you a photo of me and Ferdinand. I hope, the photo is pleasant to you. On character I the cheerful person, enjoy each moment of my life, and I try to overcome with a smile all difficulties of my lonely life. I do not have harmful habits, I do not smoke and I do not use alcohol, unless only in small quantity on holidays. Most of all from alcoholic drinks I like a red wine. I very much like walks on fresh air, I very much love a nature. I love active life, a camping, and travel. To a regret I did not go anywhere from Russia. But I very much would like to visit any country. This summer we together with friends frequently went  on rest in a wood to float on lakes. I very much like to float, wi! th childhood I liked to float, went to pools. Even now I very much frequently visit pools, only when at me the good mood and am a free time. As I like to dance and I like to play bowling. Near to us there is an Entertaining centre "Malachite", we frequently together with girlfriends go there to have a rest. There is literally everything that only will wish. You are interested for certain with a question: Why I can not find to myself  he husband in Russia and why has decided to search for the husband on the Internet. Only it seems to you, that it is very easy to find the husband to the beautiful girl. I shall explain to you why to find to myself the husband very difficultly. I had many acquaintances to men, but all of them appeared gangsters or is simple liars. In our city because of the high industry of metal works it is a lot of gangsters, and very much frequently there are crimes. I do not want to marry for the gangster; I want to be always protected and to have quiet life for me and my future children. I become simple I can not completely is happy in Russia. I think, you understand me, because as it is possible to become happy if you always in fear for itself and the family. Now I was completely disappointed in Russian men and have decided to search for the husband not in Russia. Now my overall objective in life is to find that only thing, the second part of me with which I can go through all difficulties of life. Together to meet pleasure, occurrence of children, to grow them, to surround with care, to present them the happy childhood, I so to dream of it!!! I think, that you understand me and your vital purposes are similar to mine, I in soul hope, that sometime our hearts will meet. The person who wants to have reliable family  and fair relations. I hope, you liked my letter, and it has turned out not too big. I want; that you have more soon answered me. Write to me about itself, than you are engaged and that like, I all to want to know about you. With impatience I shall wait from you the letter. If you have photo that, please, have gone to me of them. Sincerely your friend from Russia Elena! 

This is the current email address that is being used as of today. lenchik777@inbox.ru


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