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# Name:      Svetlana Hohlyakova

# E-mail:     sveta585@yahoo.com

# Address:  Russia , Nizhny Tagil

# Seen at:   
To: [me]
Subject: A message from svetik14 is waiting for you on Cupid.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:54:51 -0500

Hi country_rock_rnb,

You have just received a message from:

svetik14

Initial Cupid.com Message #1
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Subject: hi
From: svetik14
Sent: 1/27/20066:55 AM

Hi,I would like to start correspondence with you, i'm looking for
serious relationship, here is my e-mail address: sveta585@yahoo.com
check my profile and write to only on this e-mail address,
i'll responde back with more pictures.
Svetlana
">cupid.com
" looking for a serious relationship "
Online Name: svetik14 Virgo
Last Visit: Today
Distance: I am about 1381 miles from you.
"I am a 25 year old female seeking a male."

About me ...
I'm nice, goodlooking girl,blond hair, bue eyes, i'm kind,noble, educated, honest, simple. I like sport and outdoors, I adore cooking

I'm looking for ...
I'd like to meet kind and reliable guy for serious relationship and possible creating family.

I am ...
Location Las Vegas, NV
Relationship Sought Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Height 5'0 tall
Pets owned Chose not to answer

I'm seeking ...
Location Within 50 miles of Las Vegas, NV
Age Range 25 to 45
Height Range 4 feet 0 inches to 4 feet 0 inches
Build Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Physical Appearance Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Relationship Sought Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Marital Status Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Race Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Religion Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Smoking Habits Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Drinking Habits Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Has Children Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Wants Children Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Education Level Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Eye Color Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Hair Color Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Hair Style Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Annual Income Any/Prefer Not to Answer
About pets Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Pets owned Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Political Tendencies Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Registered Political Party Any/Prefer Not to Answer
Sense of Humor Any/Prefer Not to Answer

Initial Cupid.com Message #0
============================
From: "Cupid.com"
To: [me]
Subject: A message from svetik14 is waiting for you on Cupid.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:54:51 -0500

Hi country_rock_rnb,

You have just received a message from:

svetik14

Initial Cupid.com Message #1
=====================
Subject: hi
From: svetik14
Sent: 1/27/20066:55 AM

Hi,I would like to start correspondence with you, i'm looking for
serious relationship, here is my e-mail address: sveta585@yahoo.com
check my profile and write to only on this e-mail address,
i'll responde back with more pictures.
Svetlana


# Dangerous: 32%

# Details: Visa / Airfare Scam
  
  I am a divorced, caucasian, 47 year old, father living with one child that put a profile on the dating website Cupid.com. In January, 2006 I received a message from a woman's profile in Las Vegas, NV some 1300 miles away giving me her yahoo email address and asking me to correspond with her. I was looking for someone within 50 miles and being polite, I emailed and wrote thanking her for her message, mentioning I'm one time zone ahead of her though she could continue to write if she so desired. She wrote back that she was in Russia and that distance and age was not an issue. After receiving daily letters(each with a photo) about likes, dislikes, the desire to meet and "check her feeling" became the subject. I suggested summer would be a good time to meet, but she couldn't take a vacation then. We decided on Spring Break (week of March 19th). She made travel arrangement with "NOVOKUZ" TRAVEL COMPANY on a friend's recommendation. I wired $750 Western Union To: Aleksandr Antyasov to pay the balance of the travel package (she would pay $350). I wired another $1000 Western Union To: Svetlana Hohlyakova for her visa approval - which was stolen. It was supposed to be returned immediately after the visa approval. I wired another $600 Western Union To: Svetlana Hohlyakova for visa approval (her dad would loan her the other $400) which was never returned. Later found out this $1000 was not a US/Russia requirement for travel money. Contacted FPMM@state.gov and inquired about Svetlana Hohlyakova receiving her visa and was informed that a visa was never requested by anyone with that name. This was contrary to her letters. Then a family emergency occurred - her father hospitalized in critical condition and she cannot leave Russia. The correspondence ended on March 6th.
  
  This Ticket/Visa scam involved a fake travel agency with this scammer that pays attention to subtle details. The letters, photos (and a current photo holding sheet of paper with my name and message on it), Travel agency, phone call, the illusion of being family oriented, asking about my child, involving her parents and answering my questions made it all appear genuine. The time frame of this scam was a month and a half. The intent was to meet and see if we would be compatible.
  



# Date: 2006-04-12

Reported to www.ifccfbi.gov 3/6/06
March 6, 2006 mailed Ambassador Ushakov and Mr. Volkov, Ministry of Internal Affairs Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington D.C.
March 26, 2006 mailed application/statement Informing Russian Officials: Putin, Governer Ekaterinburg, Minster of Internal Affairs.

I wired $750 Western Union To: Aleksandr Antyasov to pay the balance of the travel package.
I wired another $1000 Western Union To: Svetlana Hohlyakova for her visa approval - which was stolen. It was supposed to be returned immediately after the visa approval. I wired another $600 Western Union To: Svetlana Hohlyakova for visa approval she wrote that her father would lend her the other $400.

The fake travel agency backed up her claim that the money was stolen Note that they use the phrase
"Custom Control (1000 USD)"


Travel Agency Letter
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"NOVOKUZ" TRAVEL COMPANY /Nizhniy Tagil office/
www.novokuz.nm.ru
e-mail: novokuztagil@nm.ru
622000, Russia, Nizhniy Tagil,Lenina 8, office 20
tel:+7(3433)449215 ,fax.+7(3433)449216
------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. [MyName]!
We have received your request and we have made check of this situation.
Miss Hohlyakova was in our office today with documents
from police and informed us that she was robbed.
We have contacted police department,they confirmed
that she were robbed.
Most document and tickets are already paid
and fees are non-refundable.
We make made payment to the Passport-visa service
for the international passport, and miss
Hohlyakova got international passport. (70 USD)
We made payment to insurance company and
Insurance was ready last thursday. (70 USD)
We made payment for the visa to USA
consulate and she had interview. (100 USD)
We have ordered her tickets with huge discount using special agent
programm via our agency, senior travel agenct and airlines.
Price of tickets is very low (860 USD),it is 30% discount
to our agency, but conditions under this program is very strict.
Under this programm,it is necessary to ask a refund at least
in 1 month before flight,to get 90% cost refund.
We have ordered flight on 18th March.
We have got your refund request on 20th Feb, 9a.m.,becuase of time
difference.
Now it is possible to make only 25% cost of tickets refund.
Situation is very difficult with refund and we discussed
it with Miss Hohlyakova, she was at our office 2 hours
ago. We informed her,that you have asked a refund.
She told us that she will look for a money on custom
control (1000 USD) and she still want to have this trip.
We think that you should solve this situation will
miss Hohlyakova,becuase on current moment
sum of refund will be only 215 USD from tickets
and you can pretend on 70% of this sum.


Letter #26 (Last letter March 6, 2006)
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my love!it is so awful.
i didn't wrote to you lat few day,because i just was unable to do it. My father and his friend on frinds car crushed on the road 10 km from our city in the trees on on of the turns. I don't know how it happened,but it seems that because of ice and snow on the road,my father friend who was driving losed control on car. My father is in reanimation already 6 days, i and my mom was there all the time,until hospital is closing. His condition,like doctors said is unstable. He losed much blood and doctors made "changing of blood" right on wednesday,since that time father din't woke up. My father friend died on the place of the accident, we are constabley talking to his wife and daughter. All evenings we sit with them. My love,i don't knwo what to do and how leave my family in this situation. I wanted to write to you 5 days and tell that my father is fine,but this doesn't happened yet. I will write this lettter and go again to the hospital,my mom is there.
love you
Yours Svetlana