How to spot a scammer?

[SaRaHJaNe]

Some of the signs..

1. He/She doesnt answer questions directly.

2. Overly romantic in showing their feelings and too eager to get your trust.

3. Scammers operates through a pattern or 'modus operandi'


"BEWARE'

[kenny220]

we understand the importance of making your online experience as secure and safe as possible.

We make every effort to ensure you enjoy our site and implement internal security measures to maintain a high level of privacy and security for our members. However, 'scammers' are a well-known problem on many online dating sites and we feel it is our duty to help you spot non-genuine members. We have prepared some tips for you:

You may be speaking to a 'scammer' if:they wont cam or if they wont give you there phone numbers or post code to the country they say there transmitting from from,

- The girl has not browsed your profile before contacting you. A 'scammer' is not really interested in getting to know who you really are, their intentions may be to take money from you or make you visit other websites which are not provided our forums
- The girl's physical appearance in the profile picture is unusually beautiful and exotic. A 'scammer' may use pictures taken by a professional photographer.
- The girl's profile does not provide much detail about her personality and only contains references to sexual interests. A 'scammer' will try to encourage you to quickly turn your attention away from finding out more about her.
- The girl may request you to send some money to her for various reasons. Do not send money to other people on this site or outside dearest , You will never get your money back and the reasons behind the request are likely to be fake.

What can you do?

- Be alert and be wary of members who ask for personal contact details from you too quickly.
- Do not disclose personal details to someone you are not sure of. We are able to detect scammers' activity on the site but we cannot control what happens outside our website; i.e. on MSN or other sites.
- Do not click on links provided by other members. You may be asked to register to a free service which is fake or it is used to attract you into a scammers' scheme.
- Do not share your credit card details with other members. A 'scammer' may ask you to pay for registering to another service and will take money from your account; most of the time the exact amount of the charge will not be made clear to you.

If you believe you have been approached or have been speaking to a 'scammer' please contact our support team . We spot 'scammers' once they become active on the site. By reporting them to us you will help others

[kenny220]

This is a message we send scammers here and notify the agency once you think its a scammer at work, PASTE AND COPY THIS MESSAGE AND SEND IT DIRECTLY TO THE SCAMMER, Official site - International Criminal Police Organization - ICPO - Rapid access to official, controlled information. INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 187 member countries. It exists to help create a safer world by supporting law enforcement agencies worldwide to catch the scammers with false profiles, and this leads to the fraudsters, saying there transmitting from one country and they are really in Ghana,or Nigeria, its an intercepted message, your transmitting signal is being checked out, paste and save this , for future reference

[kenny220]

the lastest scam is out now beware , they do anything to get your bid information,
Attention: Email ID Owner,below is a copy of it ,

The IMF is compensating all the scam victims and your email address was found as one of the Victims. We have concluded to affect your own payment through Western Union® Money Transfer, $5,000 twice daily until the total sum of $1M is completely transferred. We now needed your information as to where we will be sending the funds, such as; Receiver’s name, address and phone number. Contact our Customer Care @ [e-mail] with your full information.

Thanks,
Mr. Mark James
Dir. Western Union®
Tel; [phone] this is not western unions phone number

[sexbomb123]

This one i got from a guy from Accra, Ghana.... here goes the scammer!!!

May 31, 23:31 appiah: My dear my name is mr johnson appiah this is what assistance i wantfrom you concrening my fund transfer the fund in qeustion was my profit made in my branch which I didnot declare as profit for the bank during the end of the year.I now want to tranafer the fund to your account in your country since I cannot claim the money here as I am still in service. Please i really need your assistance to recevice the fund into your account,
Please help me,
May 31, 23:35 sexbomb123: that tactic u r trying had been tried to me for years ok? u people from ur country im bored of your style.. please f**k off or i report u for extortion... f**k u i heard this story for years already i dont know why i still hear this already beat up lines of yours...


hey, this is a beat up line cz i have encountered lots like this and the next thing they will tell you is they gonna ask money from you before they can transfer money... which i doubt if there would ever be... i have him complained and reported........... and told him to f**k off!!!

[kenny220]

This is the alphabetical listing of agencies and names of known Russian scammers involved in dating fraud. The name of the person where the money is sent is the key issue in a scam, and different photos may be used. Also, the same set of photos may be used under different names. Most known scams appear to be run by the same few groups using different names and photos. Photos used in a scam not necessarily belong to the scammers, and may be simply downloaded from the Internet.

If you want to report a scam to be listed here on the page of known Russian scammers, you can do it here.

Please remember that we are not a law enforcement agency and do not investigate or prosecute criminals. Only authorized law enforcement agencies can prosecute your offenders. To have them prosecuted, you will need to make an official statement to police and lay charges.

If you want to make sure that the person you communicate with is not a scammer, we advise you to read the Anti-scam manual.

Listings are given in alphabetical order according to Surnames or Agency names



Email: [e-mail]

Details: A real person running a fake agency that asks for money for translations, correspondence, professional photographs, videos, legal advice and even 'private information' ie. Private shootings, address book and insight into her moral and ethical behavior. Not to mention the usual visa/airfare scam.

First reported: Fooled no more





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Makhova, Valeriya (aka Valeria, Val, Lera, and Lariya, Ira shishakova) - Kharkov, Ukraine

Phone: [phone]
Address: Constitution's Square 3 Flat 6-A, Kharkov Ukraine 310003
Email: [e-mail]

Details: She has account at Blossoms.com and when she meets with you, she used all your money.

Reported: FedUp






Malenko, Olga Aleksandrova (AKA Olga Kutsanova, or Taisia Kutsanova) - Cental' naya, Russia

Address: RUSSIA, ST.PETERSBURG, 197349 2-ALEKSEEVSKAYA
Email: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

Details: Met her in real life. Really good and clever scammer.

First reported: Carl S.







Malenkova, Olga Aleksandrovna - St.Petersburg, Russia

Phone: [phone]
Address 1: 5-17 Shkolnaya, St Petersburg, 197183 Russia,
Address 2: Russia, St.Petersburg, 197349 Novokolomyazsky 8/10-284
Email: [e-mail]

Bankers Trus Co., New York, USA
Swift Code: BKRT US 33
Account: 04-097-778

Baltiyskiy Bank, St.Petersburg, Russia
Swift Code: BABJ RU 2P
In Favour: Malenkova Olga
Account: 42301840601001308511

Details: A real person living in St Petersburg, Russia. Eager to meet men at her native city, and promises to marry to them, asking money for dentists, sick mother in hospital, tickets to come to visit you etc. Invites different excuses for delays with her trip, such as "her girlfriend stole the money", she herself is sick etc.

First reported: Anthony
Second reported: Frank








Malinina, Ekaterina (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

Phone:
Address: Kirova street 8-23
Chelyabinsk Russia
Email:

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

Reported: Pablo








Malyarova, Olga – Voronezh/Moscow – Russia

Postal address: Mehkolonna str. 114 zip:394010

Details: She quickly fell in love with me and want to meet me in my country. She went to the travel agency and she said they told her it's differcult to get an American VISA, but they will help her. Then she said she paid the agency the first part of the payment and make me feel sorry for her and I pay the second part of the payment, which is for the airline ticket and the train ride from Voronezh to Moscow. She said she's the only child, living with her parents in a cozy three bedroom appartment. Claiming that she's 26 yrs old, working at a children's hospital. She send lots of photos. As time quickly pass by, she tell a bit about her daily activity with her friends, going to a club, or birthday party, and how she always think of me. Saying that herself and her parents got some gifts for me, that she will bring with her when she meet me. When time to go to the Airport, she claim that the custom workers will not let her fly unless she show them $2800 US Dollars. She claim that she only have x-amount with her, need my support of x-amount of dollars and will pay back as soon as she meet me at the airport in America. She want me to send money faster. After I send the money, she claim that she had her bag cut and the x-amount of dollars got stolen. Also, she keep changing the flight schedule. This scammer is pro at making up stories to make you believed.

First reported: Vincent







Mamedova, Svetlana - Novyy Urengoy, Russia

Phone: N/A
Address: Novyy Urengoy, Russia
Lenina Street 22-54

Email:

Details: Ticket scam

She wanted to visit me so, she went to a travel agency call World Travel Agency. They sent me info about her flight here and was cheaper than what I could get. So I sent $988 to this Pavel Polulyah to order the plane tickets.

Reported: Rich






Marahanove, Evgenia - Nizhny, Novgorod

Address: Troeschina 30 Drajzera flat 125 Kiev Ukraine 02222
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

Details: This person scammed me for over 3,000 dollars. She was very good & patient. Contacted me by yahoo personals. Thank you for this web site it helped me a lot , I only wish I had looked into it before it was to late.

First reported: Bryan





Marakova, Ekaterina - Ohansk, Perm, Russia

Address: Lenina street house 14 apartment 3, Ohansk, Perm, Russia

Details: Typical Scammer

First reported: Calvin H.







Maria

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

First Reported: Terry






Maria - Yerevan, Armenia

Grandpas Name: Mardirozian David
Grandpa's address: Armenia,Yerevan, Acharyana 34 str,bld.47.apt.57
Email: [e-mail]

Details: Live with Grandpa. She never give her full name or address but give her Grandpa's Address to receive money. After I sent the money, she disappeared and never heard from her again.

First reported: Craig







Maria A. ,aka, Natasha, aka, Anna (Dreamy) - Yerevan, Armenia

Details: Asking for $690.00 US, for travel to Dallas, TX. She said she would enlist in a US Exchange program to learn the english language in the US. We communicated for approximately one month before she asked for money. I decided to check the scam pages and there she was... I will include a few more photos of her. She initially contacted me through the Yahoo Personals on December 17, 2004. She deleted her profile 3 days after she contacted me.

First Reported: Almost Scammed








Marina - Bryansk, Russia

Address: Bryansk, Russia
Email: [e-mail]

Details: Initiated contact. Pretended to be from England. Then told later that she's from Russia. She falls in love with u. She wanted money money for the Visa, Passport & Travel Arrangements etc.

First Reported: Adil







Marina (AKA Anna Milchakova , Ekaterina Batstrakova , Irina Yandulova) - Kazan, Russia

Address: Kazan, Russia

Details: Noticed her from your site. Thanks for the opportunity and thanks for your work well done to help us .

First reported: Campos







Marina - Odessa, Russia

Address: Charles Marksa, 25 Apt 8, Odessa, Russia
Email: [e-mail]

Details: Tells of betrayal by men in Russia. Lives with mom and dad. Uses Prewritten letters when you don't write back. Gives prewritten letters to all my email addresses. Found me thru old Absolute penpal request.

First Reported: JAC20902








Marinova, Maria (aka Masha) - Kirov, Russia

Address: 29-19 Nekrasova street, Kirov,Russia

Details: Asks for money for visa and airfare.

First Reported: Stuart









Markin, Natalia - Omskaya Oblast', Russia

Address: Shkolnaya 5 Achair,Omskaya Oblast'
Russia 644543
Has no phone,she says !

Details: Asked for money for ticket.

First reported: Jeffrey







Markina, Natalia - Omskaya oblast', Russia

Postal address:
Shkolnaya, 5
Achair, Omskaya oblast'
Russia, 644543
E-mail address: [e-mail]
Agency: Village Voice Personals /Dating Faces

Details: Typical online dating scam needing $680 for visa and plane ticket. She
initiated the contact with me. Won’t answer all my questions.

First reported: Anthony







Markova, Eugenia - Read also about Ivanoca Anna








Martynkina, Vitalina - Krimea, Ukraine

Phone:
Address: 10-5 Stahanovstev St.Simferopol City Krimea Ukraine 95033
Email: [e-mail]

Details: Typical visa/ticket scam.

Reported: Allen







Martynyuk, Aleksey - Krasnayarsk (Moscow), Russia

Address: Krasnayarsk (Moscow), Russia
Email: [e-mail]

Details: Responded to a Substantive Profile on Yahoo. Like all the others, requested money for the visa and ticket. Writing Style different in every paragraph.

First reported: Jim







Martynova, Natasha - Tatarstan, Yelabuga

Phone:
Address: tatarstan,yelabuga - st. proletarskaya 45-24
Email: [e-mail]

Details: She wanted money sent western union and she said send it in her mothers name, Evgenia. She emailed me 2nd a half months wanting money for visa, airfare and insurance. she got money. Told me her mother had accident couldn't come for 2 months and no more emails.

Reported: Berry






Maska

Email: [e-mail]

Details: She is already in love after 5 emails. I actually joined a website called singlesnet to meet people local. Somehow this person contacted me from my profile. Profile states Kentucky and Asian.

First reported: Dough







Maslova, Olga - Surgut, Russia (aka Nataliya Shustova, Rumia Heyrullina, Tatyana Ermakova and Ekaterina Smirnova)

Phone:
Address: Street of the world 12/2, Surgut, Russia, 976054

Email: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]

Details: Requests money for visa and airfare, proclaims her undying love for you.sks for money.

Reported: Denis






Matveeva, Kristina - Kirov or Cheboksary, Russia

Address: MONTAZHNIKOV 43 APT 21, Orenburg, Russia (Fake Address)
Email: [e-mail]

Details: She contacted me from Yahoo Personals. She is also on Match.com. She wrote my name on the sign so she is real. She sent usual romantic letters and request money for her to visit. She never write again when i said i'd visit her.

Note from R-Scam.ORG: Viewers please note that the second photo is not really her. Notice that her head has been cut and pasted on to the picture to show you that she is real. Also notice how the color of her face doesn't really match the color of her hands and her face is more blurred than others.

First reported: David








Matveeva, Tatyana - Kazan, Russia

Phone:
Address: Kirova street 8-23
Chelyabinsk Russia
Email:

Details: Initiates contact. Correspond for a few weeks before she says she received a phone call from the university saying she needed to pay more money ($370 US). She tells me if I send her money she will continue to write me.

Reported: Randy