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# Name:      Viktoriya Chornaya

# E-mail:     diam838@rambler.ru

# Address:  Ukraine , Lvov

# Phone:    +380 322 901 759

# Dangerous: 16%

# Details: Local ad in paper. Answered through e-mail. Many normal emails that developed in to more personal and loving emails. Planned to meet. Sent money through Western Union for visa and ticket ($490.-). When getting closer to our meeting she tried to get some more money to have with her when passing trough customs. When I said this was not necessary she seemed to disappear.



# Date: 2007-01-13

I answered an ad in a local paper; "Ukrainian woman...seeks...". I answered to her e-mail, and she responded with an e-mail on a 'proper' level.
We were communicating since november 1 2006. I think we've wrote about 40 e-mails each and I've also been calling to her in Lvov. I've through a number of e-mails received approx. 20 pictures, of various kind.

Even though many things with our communication seemed ok I did have some suspicions;

It seemed difficult to get a connection when I was ringing. Sometimes a few tones sounds and then the line seems to be broken. After 5-15 times I usully get through and she answers. We have been talking on the phone approximately 20 times. One time when we were talking I could hear another phone ringing and it sounded like she hung up our connection. Strange as she said she only has one phone in the house, and no mobile. I immediately called back and she answered. When I was asking, what happened, she didn't know; "the line just when dead".

When after a couple of weeks, started to discuss about to meet we came up with the idea to meet in Prague for new years. She has been there a few times before, she said. Also she said she didn't prefer to meet in her town as it was a bit boring... I boked a ticket and I sent her money (even though I knew this could be a potential scam) for visa and a ticket ($ 260 for the ticket and $ 230 for her travel agency to arrange her visa). On the other hand I was the one mentioning that I could send some money for the ticket (stupid, I know). We were e-mailing more or less every day even since, and also continued talking on the phone a few times a week.

When I asked she said the travel agency did not accept credit card, which I thought I could have used for paying her costs direct to them.

I got her adress for the Western Union transfer. When I called an international operator, to just try to make a check, they gave me a number which is not the same I got from her. (Maybe that was the phone which was ringing when we talked earlier?) I earlier asked her about phone numbers and mobile phones. She told me then that she does not have a mobile and that the number I got from her is the only number they have in the house. (She's living in the same house as her father, but she seems to be the one always answering. ??)

The e-mail conversation was normally around 3-5 pm, from her work.



Well, the things that made me, at that time think this could have been for real:

When e-mailig and talking on the phone, things appeared to be correct; We were calm, personal and seemed to have a apropriate level of conversation. She seemed to remember details on things we are talking on a "normal level"
We were continueing our communication on the same level, after the money transfer, and were talking about our meeting in Prague.
She appeared to be talking about all small normal things in life and sounded to be honestly looking forward to our meeting, even though "a bit nervous".
When we started discussing our meeting, she said she would prefer to meet during her vacation (approx 23 december - 7 january), rather than just meet for a day or two in Ukraine before those dates, as she works all weekdays etc.
When getting closer to our meeting she tried to get some more money to have with her when passing trough customs. When I said this was not necessary she seemed to disappear. (I checked the procedures with the involved embassies).