Anna
Avdeenko (Omsk, Russia) - 1
My name is Dan, single father of 2 boys, 37 years old,
engineer/singer/songwriter. I met Anna through Kiss.com. She emailed me first, usually a dead
giveaway. Here is her first letter after the initial "write to me at on my kiss account mailbox.
Letter
Hi my american friend!
I am very glad that you have answered to me. I liked your profile and I
have decide to write to you. I was attracted with that that you have written
about yourselves. I live in Russia in city of Omsk. It very much far from
Moscow. It's about 2500kms. I shall tell to you about myself. I was born in my city
16 september 1973 year. My growth 165 centimeters, weight 54 kgs. To me 27
years old. I was never married. I have education of barber and higher education on a
speciality marketing. But now I work in firm and I sell cosmetics. I earn about 2300
roubles per one month. It approximately 80 American dollars. It not so it is a lot of
for life. I have no children. At me expressive green eyes, I think that you will
estimate my sight on a photo. I love to be engaged in sports. I frequently go in hall
and play in volleyball and I like pool. I love to hold myself in the healthy form. I do
not smoke and not I drink alcohol. I consider that it gives youth beauty and health.
Do you agree With me? I very much love to prepare meal. Mine favourite meal -
salads. My favourite colors are blue and white. I like many kinds of music,
rock'n'roll, country, dance music, classic, jazz. I am very Cheerful women, I like
jokes and smiles. I search for the man with which I could lead(carry out) all life. My
intentions very much Serious. I very much hope to meet the good man to lead(carry
out) with his Life. I very much want to create strong family. In the future I want to
have children. I think one or two. I want to find the kind honour and favourite man.
I hope that my photo was pleasant to you. I very much ask you to send me
your photos. I think that appearance not most important, but it is very interesting to
me to see yours Photo. I now live with the mom. I has told her, that today me has
come letter from The man from america. She has told that it well, but It is
impossible to trust the people at once. We should know each other better. We
should pass Long way that in the end we shall understand together whether or not.
But I think that we Let's shall well. I shall help you to study about me. I do not have
native brothers And sisters. I have the grandfather and grandmother in village
'Senkino' and aunt in Moscow. I not so well speak on English. But I now learn
English on rates preparations. I can talk English. I think that you can understand
all mine The letters. If something to you will not be understandable, write to me
about it. I sometimes shall be To use the program of translation for translation of
some word collocations. Your letters will help me to learn your language better. I
have no the home computer Because it is very expensive for me. I shall write to
you from my work. I shall tell to you about the city. I was born and has grown here.
I shall ask to send you a map of an arrangement of my city. I never was outside my
country but I had girlfriend from university She has got acquainted through agency
with the man from northern America 3 years ago and has married in America. I now
precisely do not know where she lives. Life in Russia little bit heavy. The population
of our city about 1300000 people. The winter here very coldly happens even -35?.
Duration of the shortest day about 6 hours. I like the city. To me to like to go for a
walk on its streets, To visit museums. We in city have theatres, museums, house
of culture. We with the girlfriends Frequently we visit cinemas and we look various
films. I love lyrical films and Comedies. Most of all to me to like when there comes
spring. On streets water flows and children play in the street, sing birds, the sun
shines and Heats. A nature anew born and I feel that begin new life. My girlfriend
from my work has advised me to look for the man through Internet. I badly
understand the computer but my girlfriend has helped me to find liked to me The
man. And I have written to you. I did not expect that you will answer to me because
I have written one letter. I thought that it simply joke. I find map of our city. You can
see it in attachment of my letter. I hope that we with you well learn each other and
the computer can will help us To learn each other it is better. I want to know more
concerning you. Tell me about Your habits, friends. Tell to me where you live. That
you love is. I love Russian kitchen, Mexican Italian. Sometimes with the girlfriends
we go Is in McDonalds. Tell to me that you think of Russia. I shall wait for your
answer.
Your friend from Russia Anna.
Then we wrote back and forth, the same old story, a few lines in the
beginning or end that addressed my letters and the usual canned letter for
the main body. I had also been almost scammed by Natasha Kushinova (she is
all over this blacklist) but I caught on to her game when she asked for
$350 for a visa and I know they are $60 at the US Consulate in
Ekaterinburg. Anyway, the letters sounded so familiar so I went to look
for Natasha's to compare, but I had deleted them. So I decided to search
for Russian dating agencies and found your site and the letters are all the
same. She did not get around to asking for money, I didn't wait long enough before
calling her on her game. Here is a copy of my last letter to her that compares her
letter to one taken off this site:
Hi Anna,
Thank you for your letter and picture. I
really enjoyed it. However I couldn't help but feel I had read it before. I went to check if it was
similar to what Natasha had sent and realized I had deleted her mail. But I
did find the letter. It was posted on an internet site which exposes scam
artists. Written by someone else to another man. I wonder, is there a
package you buy that gets you started in this business? One with links to
dating services and canned letters? Oh well, like I said thank you for the
pics, they will be posted on the blacklist. :o) Have a nice day!
Dan
PS. here is a copy of the other
letter. You guys really should try a little originality, it might
help in the scam.
Hi my frend Michael.
I very much love to read your letters,
and they deliver me many pleasures. ... ... You probably think, that I the most
serious man, but it not so, I simply do not want to be mistaken in a choice of the
future husband and man of sympathy. At the given moment my feelings to YOU
already, that it is more than friendly.... ...Today I have received from us
for wages of work. To you it will be probable ridiculous, but I have made forty dollars. Well good we
shall not speak concerning problems, which raise on our way. ... ...Today I shall visit church, and about me will ask about us.
Be healthy and in the good arrangement of spirit, know that you always in my
heart.... ...Recently has found east treatise of love and would like it (it)((him)) to
you to read - Three sources have propensities of the man: the reason of soul a
body. The propensity of souls receives friendship. The propensity of opinion
receives respect (attitude)((relation)). The propensity of a body (body) receives
desire. The communication (connection) of three propensities receives love. I shall
wait your letter. A kiss Natalia. - Scary isn't it? lol.
Bye
Her letter:
Hi Dan!
(Here is the original part -> I had week-end in my house where I cleaned it. I can not write
to you in days off because I write from place of job. Sometimes I have no access to
the Internet even from a place of job therefore I shall come now in Internet - cafe and
I'll write to you every day. The attack of the terrorists has carried away life of the peace people.
I think that these people will answer before the god for evil which they
have caused. I bring the sincere condolences to all American people. I sympathize all people which now try to help. It is very a pity, I nothing
can make, but I shall go today to church to put a candle for all people who has
suffered from this evil attack of f...ed (sorry I can't said another) terrorists.
(then canned -> I like to read yours letters and they deliver to me a lot of pleasures.
Your letters heat my soul. .... You probably think that I the very serious woman, but it not so, I
simply do not want to be mistaken in a choice of the maybe future husband
and loving man. At the given moment my feelings to you Dan already more
than friendly.... ...Today I have received from us at job wages. To you probably will be
ridiculous but I had made forty dollars per 3 weeks. Well good we shall not
speak about problems which rise on our way.......Today I shall visit church and I shall be
asked for us. Be healthy and in a good arrangement of spirit, know that you always
in my heart... ... Recently has found east love treatise and would like to you to read
- three sources have inclinations of the man: soul reason and body. An inclination
of souls derive friendship. Aninclination of mind derive respect. An inclination of a
body derive desire. The connection of three inclinations derives love. I shall wait for
your letter.
P.S. I want to ask you to write me your address (sorry if I missed it).
My address is 644077,russia,Omsk,Kirov str.,18-7.
A kiss
Anna.
I thought it was at least a nice touch that she had acknowledged the tragedy in New York. She then
responded to my letter with this:
Responding letter
My dear Dan.
Just wanted to say that I'm joke with you. I'm so sorry it was not serious. I find the letter in internet and send you. I
badly know english, and I just wanted to know about life in other country. You must
know that the name I said you not real, I write it myself.
Please forgive me.
Here are the pics she sent. I haven't seen her on this blacklist or any of the sites
I've linked to from here so maybe we are catching this one early and can put an
end to her career quick. Viva le Resistance! lol Let's put these scam artists out of
business. I am not sure I will pursue any other Russian women after these two but I
do like a friend that I have from Russia. Maybe there are more sincere girls like her
out there. Incidentally, she came here as a political refugee a few years ago and
unfortunately is already taken by my friends brother. Hope this helps someone,
Dan
   
Anna
Avdeenko (Omsk, Russia) -2
I am a Divorce Financial advisor, White American,
31 Years old. This woman first contacted me through kiss.com. We started very
simply, but the correspondence turned into "love " very quick. Within two weeks
she was asking for me to send her money for a visa that she could get it in 10
days if I hurried. The one thing that saved me was in her letter she told me her
birthday, I being the nice guy sent her flowers to be delivered on the day she
wanted the money. I received a call from the delivery company telling me that
there was no such address in Omsk. I had to pay for the flowers but that was the
only money I lost. Also about a week after we started writing she called me and
we spoke for one minute. She kept repeating that she only had one minute and
that she loved me and wanted to be with me. Before the flowers were ever
delivered I ran across this web site, My first thought was I cannot believe this has
happened to me. I have not seen her picture here but
The address she gave was Kirov str. 18-7,
Omsk, Russia 644077
Any one want info can contact me.
I hope this helps someone out.
Anna Avdeenko
(Omsk, Russia) - 3
I'm a single guy 32....Anna's letters just seemed to
good to be true and felt like a scam. She found me on
Kiss.com and like all of the other stories on here.
She fell in love too fast... (3 weeks) and was asking
for money for a visa to see me way too soon. She
seems to know a lot about Western Union. I didn't send
any money and wont. BEWARE!!! Darn...and she seemed
so nice.
Michael
Ekaterina Vladimirorvna Neznaiko ( Katya )
(Chisinau, Moldova)
My name is Kenneth, I'm a white male/ 43 years old from America and I met a
women from Chisinau, Moldova on the web site called "Kiss.com" around the end
of March 2001. ( through e-mail only ) Her and I hit it off from my first
e-mail to her.... the same day I joined Kiss.com. Anyway, after I started writing to
her-Katya, she asked me for money to help out with the e-mails, pictures &
translations so I sent her $100 dollars because we were already talking about
meeting with talks of marriage. Well, we were in a serious relationship. She said I
could stay in her apartment with her during my 2-1/2 week visit. A month went by
and she ask me for more money, I sent her another $100 dollars, month after
month. By now, I had bought my airline tickets (for Sept 29, 2001 ) and was
getting all the paper work together for my visit and she was very
happy. We both couldn't wait until we were into each other arms. Everyday, I received
e-mail about her love and loyalty to me and she would wait forever. About 6
weeks before I'm to travel to see her, I spoke with her on the phone about
love but the next day, she sent me a 'dear john' letter. She told me about a old boyfriend she ran into from
Israel that she hadn't seen in 13 years and they wanted to get married now. She
told me that they didn't have the money back then but now, she wants to marry
him. Smells like a scam too me. [Some fishy tell-tells about our relationship:]
1. She liked me before I sent her my picture.
2. It took about 3-1/2 months before I
could get her on the phone.
3. She called me darling on the phone but would
never say my name.
4. Repeating herself many times in her e-mails too me. (looked like copies)
5. Every time I would send her $100 dollars, she would talk
about remodeling her mother's place, next time It would be her apartment and
outside hallway. So the place would look good for me.
6. I sent her flowers, and I paid the service to send a photographer to take
photos. I received the photos and she was standing with 2 older gentlemen which
was Ok but they were looking at the camera and she was looking towards another camera man and not at mine.
Afterwards, I found her on the web site called, "Absolute Agency" which she
posted herself in March of 2001. I thought this was OK because I met her in
March 2001 on "Kiss.com" but she up-dated her profile at the end of June
2001. We were already in a serious relationship during this time when I was
sending her $100 dollars a month so why was she up-dating her profile on
another web site? [ Web sites she is on:
]
1. Kiss.com
2. Absolute Agency Dating
3. Beautiful Russian Women Agency
4. American Singles.com No telling how many web
sites she is posted on, I only found 4 while trying to find me someone else.
Let's look at it like this guys, if you walk into a bar
with a beautiful looking women. Every male in the place is going to spot her
plus, the band, the DJ, the bartender...even the women know how good she looks so why would
you put yourself in a lot of web sites while you could do It in one? Is she
looking for love or money? I have copies of all the letters.... Ekaterina Vladimirorvna Neznaiko (Katya ),
Moskovsky Pr. 14/1 apt. # 185 Chisinau, Moldova
I also wanted to mention this unusual event during our correspondence.
While I was receiving e-mails with photos, one time, I went to open up Katya's photo's
with e-mail and a virus tried to inter my computer and wipe out my files.
About a month before this happened, my computer froze up so I went and had my
anti-protection beefed up because I lost all her photo's. Anyway, when I tried to
open up her mail, a flashing "VIRUS ALERT" popped up on my screen warning me
about a virus. I then isolated the virus and destroyed the files which was puzzling
too me. After confronting her about this virus, she said that the company was
sorry and that some guy most of sent them a virus and they didn't catch it before
It was sent to me so please except our apology.
I asked her to please re-send me the 2 photo's that I
lost when my computer
froze up and she couldn't remember what pictures she sent to me.( She sent me
two photo's I never seen before ) We were already talking about marriage
and It
wasn't like I had these 2 pictures along time yet so why couldn't she remember? One time, I open up her e-mail with pictures and she said, "here's my
swimsuit photo's you asked me to send you." Wow!! I liked them a lot but I never asked her
to send them too me.
Please guys, make sure that you have a good "anti-protection" program installed
on your computer so that you don't receive a virus that could wipe out your
computer files. Someone just might be trying to erase her letters and pictures on
your computer so that you can't prove your being scammed. Make sure that you
make copies of your letter's right when you receive them.
   
Elena Volodina
I have more to add to this. I received a response in udate.com on 8/23/2001.
Thank God you had this page in time before I seriously mangled myself up further.
She kept adding new accounts to udate.com, and I accidentally stumbled on
them. It was funny that she would continue logging into udate.com (it tells me
when they were last online), and yet she didn't E-mail me. She wouldn't answer a
lot of direct questions, such as tell me about your dad, how did you pay for
udate, do you have a phone, how long have you been looking around, etc. When I sent
accidentally message from a different E-mail account, she only slightly modified
the words at the start of her script. What tipped me off was why was she still
looking on the udate.com site, when she was so "close" to me already, as I was
already the "one" for her. A picture of her grandmother and her kitty cat were also
sent, but obviously not relevant.
Ethan Utah, USA
First Letter
Hello, my dear friend Ethan.
Thank you for your photos. I like it. I'm so happy to
receive another letter from you. Your letter is very warm. With every your letter I
feel that you are more and more interesting to me. And every time I wish to learn
more and more about you. I have not understood, your this letter, or not.
It was interesting to me. And I have decided to send a copy. I did not trust, in concurrence, that I have written about
10 letters on Udate, and to me have answered 2 with an identical name. But I am
happy, that it were you. I can not use other ways of correspondence. No, we have
many mushrooms now. My grandmother called me at my mother's place of work
today from her village. I talked to her long time ago. Lots of things have changed
form that time. Unfortunately, we cannot visit each other very often. But I miss her
sauna. Do you know anything about Russian saunas? They are usually totally
made of wood. There is a heating device inside where one should put the wood
and to burn it. There are several middle size stones on the upper level of the
heating. When they are hot you should put there small quantity of hot water. Hot
steam will cover the air. Traditionally we use switches of green birch twigs in
sauna. You hit another person with such switches. It is good for health. I like to
go to sauna especially in winter when you may jump into the snow from sauna.
The feelings after that are unimaginable. You may stay thereafter on the cold for a
few minutes and you feel very warm. Please, tell me more about your mode of life.
I'll be waiting for your letter.
Yours Elena
Second Letter
Dear Ethan.
I like to read your letters very much. They give me a lot
of pleasure. Every time when I receive a mes-sage from you I begin to understand
that you are very nice person. Day by day I take our communica-tion more serious. I consider that the
most important thing between a man and a woman is complete trust. I hate when
people deceive each other. One of the most important parts of the relationship
be-tween a man and a woman is the moment when one of them has to express
his/her consent to a greater relationship. Probably you think that I'm very serious
person. However it is not so. Simply I do not want to be mislead in a choice of a
future husband and a lovely man. My feelings to YOU already are more than
friendship. From your speech I begin to understand that you are the man of honor.
Your words, which you write me, touch my heart and warm my soul. It is very
wonderful that there is a man in this world to whom I'm not indifferent. It's a
pleasure to me to receive letters from you and feelings that I get are difficult to
describe with the words. You are a great man who was sent to me from the high.
With a big pleasure I note that there is a mutual understanding between us what
is a very important fact in our relationship. If we want to establish a strong union
we should trust and understand each other in everything. You should not worry
about me with this respect. I wrote, that has received the letter from other
address. But the name was yours. I was not sure, that it is your letter. Therefore
has sent on this address a copy of the letter. The mum's name is Anna. She
works the tutor in a children's garden. I think, that in my age the woman should
think of the future. And I am sure, that I want to be married. The family - is
happiness of my life. I want to have the husband, and children. Thank you for
beautiful picture. I have received your hand-written letter. But it is slightly difficultly
for reading. I have brown eyes. Now I'd like to tell you about my work.
I get up at 6.30 am. I prepare breakfast to me and my Mama. My working day begins at
7.45am. I work as bookkeeper. I make balance of a few schools. It's a hard work
with many papers and accounts. I should not mistake because through my hands
go many money. I have break at 12 o'clock for half an hour. My work is boring.
Yes, sometimes I work on Saturday. I write at work, or sometimes at the
girlfriend. I have received a salary today. You will laugh but it is forty dollars per
one month. However I do not want to disturb you with these small problems.
Please write me as often as it is possible. I like to read your letters very much.
They inspire me to greater actions and thoughts. It raises immediately the mood
when I remember that there is a lovely man somewhere away from me. And the
feeling that we may probably meet one day makes stronger desire to live.
I will be waiting for your answer and send you many kisses and hugs from the bottom of
my heart. You are every minute in my heart. I have even such feeling that I receive
a large charge of energy for the whole day. Write me about your work. I would like
to know everything about you. What is your the most favorite dish? What do you
like to do at your free hours? What kind of dreams do you see? Honey, I want to
tell you that I have chosen love, mercy and happiness as the most superior values
in our relationship. I just want to ask you to be honest with me. You know that
deceit crashes huge amount of families. I'm going to Church today and will pray
for us. Please be healthy and in good spirit and remember that you are always in
my heart. To say true the love is blind. And it is often referred as a bad thing. On
the one hand I'm blind because I do not see you, I cannot touch you and talk to
you. But in our case I'm sure that I met a very good and reliable man. I desire to
see us together. evenings in a house. dinners. we would talk being alone.
I found recently one book about love. I want to cite you something from it: There are three
sources which define a person - soul, mind and body. Soul derivates friendship.
Mind derivates respect. Body derivates desire. The connection of all three sources
derivates love. I shall be waiting for your letter.
Elena Volodina
Third Letter
Hello, my love Ethan!
I was very glad to receive your letter. When I was reading it by the end my
eyes were full of tears of happiness. I start to believe that we need each other. I visit
Christian Church often and dream inside about our relationships and future
meeting. How are you there without me? My longing about you increased very
much. I do not know what's happening. You are always in my dreams. You show
a strong interest in me, which is a pleasure to realize. Excuse me that I seem to
be direct but I cannot stop my thoughts to run and I often imagine now the
moment when we will probably meet soon. Nevertheless I won't fasten things. I'm
used to be patient. I work about 4 years. And yes, we have many schools.
When I have rest I have dinner, and I had bring lunch from home. I should not say about
the money. I always say to myself that money is not the first thing in the life.
Those $40 per month is enough to me to support my life (simple food, a little of
dress). I cannot allow myself a lot of things but I'm sure that this is not the
purpose of my life. I always remember a story about one american who decided to
make a proof about how much a person needs in her life. He went to the forest
and made a simple dwelling. Growed plants and held a small economy. For the
three years of such a life he spent only about $35. Write me please any
questions you are interested in. I will answer them with a big pleasure and
inspiration. You are the second person in this world after my mother who became
dearest to me. I strongly hope that our meeting will be sooner. I'm so much
grateful to you that you trust me. E-mailing is not a natural way of communication. We are unable here to keep our hands and look into eyes of
each other and talk about the beauties of the world. I'm in a very good mood every
day now because of you. I think about you all day long and cannot concentrate at
my duties. I wish to know about you more and more. You are very important to
me. When we started to correspond I hoped internally in success of our
relationship. With every your letter I understand that I found that man who is
necessary to me. Thank you for you trust! I want to embrace you with caress.
I want to tell you that my feelings and the words in relation to you were always
sincere and I always believed in our trust as a basis of a real union. Today I'm
assured at 100 percent that I can trust you. And you are the man whom I need
because I see sincerity in your words when I read your letters. I do not know what
force governs me. I wanted. want. to say. that. I love you! My life from the last
days became much easier because I think only about you. When I receive your
letters when you say that you think about me it warms my soul and my heart. For
the sake of interest I asked my colleague who visited Australia in past about the
prices for visa abroad. She showed me advertisement of a travel firm. I was
impressed very much by the prices they set for visas to Canada. It was around
three hundred fifteen US dollars. I thought at that moment that I will never be able
to visit you at least during the nearest two years. I was sad. When I was on the
way from home today I thought how to say you. I told you that there should be a
complete trust between us and we should know each other enough. I'm a virgin.
You probably think that I'm not modern enough and do not follow the pace of time.
However I decided for myself, influenced by precepts of my mother and old
Russian traditions, that I will have affinity only with a beloved. Sometimes I dream
about you, however, it is probably shame on me to talk about this. I was dreaming
about this all last night: we had dinner with candles and roses with you and then
we went to a sleeping room. and began to love each other. Unfortunately I'm not
familiar with sexual relationships. I watched only few movies. But now I have an
unimaginable desire to open my heart to a Beloved. Excuse me that I'm so frankly
with you, but I feel that you have to know everything about me before I would be
able to visit you. My feelings to you are reflected in this poem. My love is like a
burning flame Dying out until I know your name In my heart I'm crying out for you Unwrap my love, this you can only do
Give me all your love and I'll give you mine And forever the two of us will combine
I want to please your mind, body, and soul I want to be the only love you know
I may be young, but my love is pure We both have lonely hearts, Together we're the cure
I hold so many secrets I can only tell you But where is my soulmate, God just give me a clue
For love we both know just what it takes We have to love, honor, trust, and communicate
With you I must be united My mind will be at ease, My heart will be dilighted
When I find you, into one we will be grown But remember, We all enter and leave this world
alone I shall wait for your answer.
Yours Elena.
Addition: I think I scared her away when I wrote her this:
I am curious to hear your voice and just talk to you, even if it is for a brief period of time. The cost for me is .63 per minute, and I find these reasonable rates for the phone charges. I don't
want you to feel pressured, as I am very nervous about asking, even though you
know what my voice sounds like. Let me know if this is something that could be
possible, knowing the time of day would not be a problem for me. She normally
would have written back by now, and it hasn't even been 48 hours yet. I haven't
told her I knew she was a scammer yet. In fact, I wrote her a masterful love poem
about 2 hours ago, so who knows if this person can be creative enough how to
handle me now.
I did contact Udate, here's their reply:
Hi PLASTICWRAP Although I understand your
frustration and anger at this woman, unfortunately it is out of Udates hands. If she
had used Udate mail to initiate the payments you made to her we may be able to
do something, unfortunately once it goes to private email addresses it leaves the
jurisdiction of the site as she has not actually broken any of our terms and
conditions.
Kenneth, USA
   
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