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# Name:      Olga Potapkina

# E-mail:     lyolkaa@yahoo.com

# Address:  Russia , Tomsk

# Phone:    +79069568374

# Seen at:   webcams.com
extasycams.com
camcontacts.com

# Dangerous: 35%

# Scam scenarios:   ask for money

# Details: I met Olga (a.k.a. Vika Ivanova) originally on webcams.com. This girl is a professional scammer and never asks for money directly. Although she is young, I believe she is working under the direction of a man she referred to as Sasha who apparently is running a large scam operation in Tomsk. She and the friend she worked with on webcams.com, who went by the name of Lena (НАДЮШЕНЬКА 777 nadia-777@list.ru ), quickly told me they were interested in me after seeing me on cam. They also said they were interested in coming to America so I gave them my e-mail address and asked them to write and they did. The very first letter was signed: “With love, Vika and Lena.” When I saw them again on webcams.com Lena gave me Olgas phone number and I called her. She and Lena would in turn ring my phone and hang up as a signal for me to call them. After a couple of calls they asked me to send them a parcel with chocolate. I checked into it and found that persons outside the Russian Federation were not allowed to send candy into the country, which I assume they were already aware of. So, they hinted that I should send money to buy the candy instead, which I did through Money-Gram on June 23, 2008(Reference No. 22460468). Olga continued to e-mail me almost daily, answering my letters in detail (which is what qualifies her as a professional), and she continued to pursue me. I had originally thought that they were both writing me because the e-mails were always signed either “With love, Vika and Lena,” or “With love, Lena and Vika;” however, I eventually discovered that Olga was the only one writing me all along and that she was the one actively pursuing me. Later, the two girls no longer worked together and Lena and I didnt seem to click, so I told Olga that I would write to her exclusively. She always signed her e-mails: “With love, Vika,” and sometimes even: “I love you, Vika.” In the meantime the two girls were supposed to have been making plans to come to America and were to pick up passports on a specific day. They were able to get me to agree to pay for plane tickets from Moscow to New York, and meant the girls would have to buy their own tickets from Tomsk to Moscow. However, on the day they were supposed to pick up their passports Olga told me that she couldnt get a passport because of new law in Russia in which persons with outstanding credit debt are not issued passports until the debt is paid. This was a hint to see if I would volunteer to help pay the debt, and I did. There was a stipulation, however, that Olga would agree to get a passport and visa and come see me after it was paid. She quickly agreed and I sent her a total of $300 more dollars--$100 in August (a Money-Gram on August 14, 2008 / Reference No. 90353311) and $200 in September (a Money-Gram on September 6, 2008 / Reference No. 37763850). But I became suspicious of her motives after I sent the $200 in September. The reason I became suspicious is because when I attempted to call and ask if she received the money, as I had done the other times, I discovered she had blocked my phone number and I wasnt able to call her. I remembered her telling me earlier that she was to attend the Tomsk Legal Institute beginning on September 15th. Since it was now close to that time my feeling was that she had been using me all summer in order to get me to come to her websites (where I had to pay to have live conversations with her) and to get me to continue sending money, which she led me to believe was being used to help pay a credit debt so that she could obtain a passport and visa and then visit me in the Bahamas over the Christmas holidays. She was up to something and it seemed she now wanted to distance herself from me. Therefore, I sent her an e-mail accusing her of lying to me about everything. I told her she did not love me as she had claimed, that she lied about having a boyfriend because I found out from Lena that she did have a boyfriend, and that she lied about liking much older guys--I look 40ish but am over 50, yet from what I was told by Lena her boyfriend was only 21 or 22. She got mad and told me not to write or call her anymore and I thought I would never hear from her again. But I played it off as if my son wrote the letter and she wrote back saying she was happy that we were still friends but that she would not be able to accept money from me anymore. Then, suddenly, the very next day she wrote and said she would be not be attending school on September 15th, but was going to Holland for work instead. In this letter she also stated that it was wrong for me to think that it was necessary for her to take money from me, but she took it nevertheless. Looking back, I now understand Olgas reason for making up this story was because she knew I was catching on to her game of fraud and deceit and she needed to move on. She realized that she had received money from me fraudulently in that she was supposed to have been using the money to pay a credit debt in order to eventually get a passport and visa to come visit me in the Bahamas. The only positive thing she said in that letter was that she would continue to write me from Holland. However, as time grew nearer for her supposed departure she said that future internet at her apartment in Holland was uncertain and she left me the e-mail address and phone number of a close friend by the name of Masha (snegurochka18@yahoo.com), also known as Maria Dorozhkina. Olga told me that I could write and call Masha when and if she could not correspond with me and that Masha would always promptly answer. I have since discovered that Masha is being used by Olga and Sasha (a man I was later told by Olga herself that she is now living with, and the one I believe is the leader of a large scam operation based in Tomsk) to report everything I say and do. I know this as a fact because every time I send Masha an e-mail mentioning Olga it is either forwarded to Olga and Sasha or opened at Olga and Sashas IP address. For the first two weeks that Olga was supposed to be in Holland I didnt hear anything from her but did correspond with Masha. Then, on September 27th I sent Masha an e-mail and told her that a wealthy uncle of mine had passed away and left me $100,000. The very next day, September 28th, I received an e-mail from Olga entitled “Do not forget me!” where at the end she stated, “I about you do not forget!!!!!!!!!!!” That proved to me that Olga was still interested in money. However, when I viewed the full header of Olgas e-mail and checked the IP address I discovered the letter originated in Tomsk, Russia, not Holland. So I confronted Masha about that in an e-mail. In the e-mail I told Masha to let Olga know that someone informed me that I could prosecute her for scamming me out of all the money I had sent. In reply, Olga sent me an e-mail claiming she had recently met a guy named Sasha and that to her he was like a drug; she said she lost her head. She told me that he was living with her, had found out she was writing me and that he constantly checked her e-mails, both sent and received which made it almost impossible for her to write me. She asked my forgiveness, saying it would be easier for her if I would forgive her, and told me she was surprised to learn that I could take an action against her. Nevertheless, she seemed alarmed and said that if I wanted the money back she could borrow it from Sasha and return it to me. She told me, however, that she thought it was given to her gratuitously to help her from a complex situation, even knowing full well what our agreement had been. As much as I wanted to believe her story, I knew she was lying about Sasha checking all of her e-mail. I also wondered how it could seemingly be so easy for her to stop communicating with me if she ever really loved me as she had been saying all along. At that point it seemed too much like faud to me. Therefore, I wrote back and said I didnt believe the story. I knew Sasha wasnt checking all of her e-mail as she stated because I have readnotify.com and was tracking my e-mails to her. Several of my e-mails sat on her server for the entire two week period in which she was supposedly in Holland and prior to her e-mail to me after learning of my uncles death. I told her I wanted the money back but she did not even address that. In her last e-mail to me she claimed that it wasnt all about money (yet she made no mention of returning it this time); she claimed that the e-mail I had sent accusing her of lying was what changed her mind about me and it was on that day she decided to live with Sasha because she knew then that I didn’t love her. Yet in her prior e-mail Sasha was supposed to have been a guy she had only recently met. Now she was saying that on the day she received that offensive e-mail from me, it was then she decided to live with him. Apparently then she had been with him for a while prior to that. This was simply more fraud and deception. I assumed that she must have been dating him even while she was receiving money from me. I now suspect that Sasha is in charge of a large scam operation based in Tomsk and that Olga may or may not be involved with him personally. However, I do know that Olga’s IP address has changed from 213-210-90-xx to 213-210-66-xx and that there are two (2) computers being used to send and receive e-mail using lyolkaa@yahoo.com. One has both Russian and English language browsers, and the other has a Russian only browser. I wrote Masha once more and stated I would give Olga another opportunity to return my money, but that if she would not return it I would report the incident to the Russian Tax Police, F.B.I. and other authorities as well. The next day I got a text message from Sasha asking me to call him, which I did. I knew he must have been scared because the text came in at 3pm Eastern Daylight time which would have been 2am in Tomsk, Russia. He claimed he couldnt understand why I wanted Olga to return the money because he said that we (Olga and I) had been friends and she thought I had simply been helping her out of the goodness of my heart--another lie because Olga knew exactly why I had been helping her. I explained that the only reason I sent the money was to help her pay a credit debt, with an agreement by her that after the debt was paid she would obtain a passport and visa and come visit me in the Bahamas. He spoke English very well (which explains the English language browser on one of the computers) but said he didnt completely understand, so I told him I would send an e-mail. After thinking about it some more I decided not to deal with Olga or Sasha anymore and instead forge ahead with a plan to take action against these scammers. Clearly I was defrauded. Later I became frustrated by the fact that Olga was apparently ignoring my request to retutn the money and I wrote another letter offering to send Olga more money to help her out of a bad situation. This was a final attempt to get Olga to communicate in order to negotiate an amicable settlement, but the attempt failed. Olga goes by the name Vika Ivanova because, as she claims, she got used to people calling her Vika at work and also claims her father’s surname is Ivanova. The photos are really her; I know because I actually saw her on webcams.com, camcontacts.com and extasycams.com. Although I cannot prove it, I strongly believe that Sasha is running a large scam operation in Tomsk involving Olga, Lena, Masha and other Russian girls as well. He was obviously worried about my plans to prosecute Olga and knows if that happens he will be implicated as well. One last thing also. All these girls (Olga, Lena, and Masha) have told me that they are, or were, living on their own (Olga claims to have moved in with Sasha only recently) and attending college in Tomsk yet they claim to have no jobs or jobs that pay very little. This gives more reason to believe they may working together with Sasha in a scam operation which, if so, is probably bringing in more money than most people will ever see in a lifetime. These girls must have money because it takes a lot of money to attend college (housing, food, clothing, utilities, tuition, etc.), even in Tomsk, Russia. These are the worst of all the scammers out there. Not only do they empty your wallet, they also abuse your trust and break your heart.rnrn



# Date: 2008-11-10

1st LETTER ASKING FOR MONEY (In Russian w/English translation following)
Hi, dear Mike!

We very much wish to communicate with you, is simple we often we happen are very borrowed, or at

Us a problem with Internet.

We are very upset that to us chocolate will not come.

We in Russia have such chocolate, but it costs very dearly. (((
We have no money that it to buy.
We shall be very grateful to you, if you will send us
of money by mail,
Approximately 200 $
It would be magnificent!!!!!
We very much wish to arrive to you on a visit and to see you.
You can send us of money for the same address and for too name post
Translation.
At all of us it is excellent, only Lena it is a little sick.
How you? How at you business as your examinations?
What new at you occurs? Also what with your friend?
Mike, please, do not take offence at us, you still our friend. Simply
Often there are problems. Because of which at us difficulty with dialogue.
Once again we apologize.
wich love, Vika and Lena.


2ND LETTER ABOUT MONEY (In Russian w/English translation following)

Greetings, Mike!
We are very glad to receive your letter! Many thanks to you! We wish to inform you, that your name Mike sounds in Russian as Миша (Misha)
It shall be possible we you so sometimes to name?
At us is in Tomsk Western Union so transfer will not have problems.
If you will send us it tomorrow that probably we tomorrow them and we shall receive, it
It would be very healthy!!!!
We shall be glad to see your son tomorrow. At you one son?
We are always glad to your calls, but often we do not understand that you speak us,
As our English is bad.
We send you the next photos. It was last summer and we walked on To Tomsk.

3rd LETTER ABOUT MONEY (In Russian w/English Translation following)


Greetings dear Mike!
Are very glad to receive your letter once again!
Many thanks to you for money! We still have not received them, as on days off
At us it cannot be made, but on Monday we can make it.
We have a magnificent weather.
I, Vika, now make a supper.
mike, you are able to prepare. When we shall arrive to America we shall be very glad
To make to you a supper. We with impatience would like to go to shop and to buy
The American chocolate!!!!
In fact we never tried it.
On Monday at us very responsible action: we finish liceum Also we protect the diplomas, there us will check to everything to that have learned for 3
Year.
But after that we shall not study any more in the given liceum. And it well,
Because study there was very complex.
It is easy to us to translate you letters on English as at us too is
The translator.
How there pass your days off?
Excuse, Mike, we have casually confused the address of a site. Look us, please,
On site ExtasyCams.com
With nick blackexotics
Fine to you days off!

With love, Vika and Lena.


LETTER ABOUT PASSPORTS (In Russian w/English translation following)


hi, Mike!

Our old mail does not open and we can not prohonour your letters yet. Excuse.
We hasten to inform you, that our passports will be ready on Thursday and we can arrive to you on a visit!!!!!
How is yours the son and the friend? How are you doing at you at school?
How you have lead days off?
We are fine, we go to a sports hall to go in for sports.
As soon as we прочтем your letters, we is indispensable on them we shall answer.
You it is very favourite, Vika and Lena.


2ND LETTER ABOUT PASSPORTS (In Russian w/English translation following)

Greetings, Mike! We are very glad, that we shall receive today passports!
We finally that can arrive to you and see you in real. We wish to embrace you!
From Tomsk up to Moscow of 3000 kilometers and to us it is necessary to reach this city in which we never were.
We are very grateful to you that you wish to help us money.
When we can arrive to you? During what time?
We shall eat together a pizza....
When we need to buy tickets?

With love Vika and Lena.


LETTER ACKNOWLEDGING HELP WITH CREDIT SO THE GIRLS CAN VISIT ME (In Russian w/English translation following)


Greetings, Mike!

We are very grateful to you for the letter and we hasten to tell to you, that too you we love. If you wish to help us with the credit it will be magnificent and we shall try to arrive before. We hope, that your idea will appear magnificent.
Today we shall go on a beach and we shall write to you only tomorrow or on Sunday.
With big our love, Vika and Lena.

LETTER ABOUT WANTING TO VISIT AND NEEDING HELP WITH THE CREDIT (In Russian w/English translation following)


Greetings, Mike and Джо!

I only today have arrived from lake. This time I went on lake which cancelling in 600 kilometers is, it is very far, but it is very beautiful, I lived in tent with mum and the daddy four days. Was very fine and cheerfully, I send you a photo!
Write, how you spend time and that at you new. I shall be very glad!
I have sunbathed and became black a little... Because at us the sun brightly shines and it is very healthy!
But the summer at us small and soon it will end, and I very much love summer.
Still I want to you on a visit and it will be good, if you will help with the credit!

I love you, Vika.


ANOTHER LETTER REQUESTING MONEY (In Russian w/English translation following)

When I can answer you the letter rapidly always it I do.
Certainly, I for you worry.
To me have told, that with my heart anything serious is not present, but nevertheless I will need to go to the doctor.
I shall be very glad, if you will send me a hat, and I shall necessarily dress it on work.
I shall be very grateful to you, if you to me will send on August, 22nd 100 $, thanks to you.
I have phone of Lena and sometimes to it I call, but it is borrowed also I do not know why, but does not go for work.
Very much I hope, that in
Fast time it will come also I can see it.
I for it very much worry.
Same as I wrote my home address to you earlier: Russia, Tomsk, Gogolya 12-14, 634029
I think of changing work because here to me began to pay few, but I do not know where to go.
Write, how will pass your interview, good luck to you not it!
How your businesses and businesses of your son are?
With love, Vika



LETTER ABOUT RECEIVING MONEY (In Russian w/English translation following)

Greetings, Mike!

I have just received your money and at once have paid for the credit: 100 $ and still the 100 $, it is necessary 700 $ to pay yours only. And I think, that to Christmas I can arrive to you!!!!

With love, Vika

LETTER ABOUT RECEIVING MONEY (In Russian w/English translation following)


Greetings, Mike!

I have just received your money and at once have paid for the credit: 100 $ and still the 100 $, it is necessary 700 $ to pay yours only. And I think, that to Christmas I can arrive to you!!!!

With love, Vika




LETTER ABOUT MONEY AND VISIT (In Russian w/English translation following)
Greetings, Mike!

Thanks you for your letter and for your care for me.
I too very much about you experience.
Lena has returned to Tomsk and I am very glad.
Give we shall talk in yahoo in суююоту in 12*00 on Tomsk time, well?
I think, that if you to me will be I am sent on 200 $ every month and I shall monthly pay on 100 $ that I think, that for Christmas I can arrive to you.
I do not have house a web camera therefore if I can communicate with you on the camera in yahoo, only on work.
I shall write more closely
Now, that your translator could translate all words, hurrah is means yahoo!
I am very grateful to you that you will give me the information on Bahamas! Thanks!
Protect to itself, with love, Vika


LETTER ABOUT MONEY TO HELP PAY CREDIT AND TRIP TO BAHAMAS (In Russian w/English translation following


Greetings, Миша!

Thanks you for the letter and that you come to me on a site where I work.
I am glad, that it is pleasant to you as I look.
And also I am very glad, that at school and on work at you all is good.
The programmer to me has completely reinstalled system in a computer and all programs, is absolute everyone have been removed!
yahoo too it has been removed, if I can establish it by Saturday I shall necessarily talk to you.
I shall try and I shall start to establish it today.
To me
It is pleasant, that you wish to help me with the credit and now the dollar exchange rate is really high also it good.
I begin to walk to the courses of English language since Monday to manage better with you to speak in Bahamas.
I have learned, that when I completely shall completely pay the credit in a week I will have a passport for travel abroad.
I think, within 2 months I can do it.
I go on dances to group of girls and we there are engaged a choreography and usual club dances and it very much is pleasant to me.

Миша,

My dear if I do not answer your letter soon it does not mean at all, that I do not think of you, it means, that on that is the reasons on which I could not answer at once.
If something not so, once again excuse.
With love, Vika


LETTER ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE FINAL $200 SENT ON 09/06/08 (In Russian w/English translation following)


LETTER ABOUT GOING TO HOLLAND IN WHICH OLGA ACKNOWLEDGES MEETING ME IN THE BAHAMAS AND THAT IT IS WRONG TO TAKE MONEY FROM ME (In Russian w/English translation following)


I have found to myself good highly paid and worthy work!
My girlfriend from Holland which earlier too the vein in Tomsk has offered me very good work.
The truth for this purpose I should be translated on correspondence branch at university. Then I can come there only at session to university.
I think, that you know, that such correspondence course!
But the most important, that I shall live in Holland!
I shall rent the apartment together
About the girlfriend Svetoj.
I будуработать the manager at restaurant and to receive 200 dollars a week
For me it is a lot of. This restaurant agrees to pay for me my remained duty under the credit that I could arrive to them to work next week.
It is promoted by my girlfriend of light who there lives and it works also speaks, that there it is fine.
I already to it have told. That on a christmas vacation it is necessary for me
Will fly to Bahamas.
It has told. That there are no problems.
Therefore I shall pay for the credit, I shall receive the passport and they to me will make the visa and will send, so soon I leave.
I shall continue to write to you.
I think, that you are very glad for me.
I will have money and I can buy to myself the ticket for Bahamas!
I want, that you did not think, that to me from you are necessary money as your son has thought.
It is wrong.
Even if I would not leave for Holland that all the same any more would not accept from you money because I want that you them
Gave the son and that it was not angry.
How are you doing at you?
You are glad for me?

With love, Vika


LETTER EXPLAINING WHY OLGA LIED ABOUT GOING TO HOLLAND AND HER OFFER TO RETURN THE MONEY TO ME (In Russian w/English translation following)


Greetings, Mike!

I should tell to you the truth. I should make it as soon as possible. It is very a shame to me and to write painfully it, but it will be fair in relation to you. I recently have met friend Sashu.on was for me as a drug I have lost a head. Undoubtedly it has learned that I communicate with you. It has forced me to write to you the letter that I leave for Holland. It has not thought that you can check up it. It lives with me constantly checks letters which I write and I receive. But Now it is not present the house and I write to you. I hope that it will not see it. I shall remove it.
To me I am very bad from that that so with you have acted. But you have told, that you the kind and understanding person. And I think that necessarily me will forgive. Tell to me about it.
I should know that you have forgiven me to me so it will be easier. You can transfer it through Masha. It to me will necessarily tell. I and Sasha forced to speak it that I in Holland. It it is valid in what it is not guilty. Once again I speak that I am very a shame to me with the act, but now I live so.
I very much was surprised, when have learned, that you could bring an action against me! Mike if you really to press money which you have sent me I can return to you them back. I shall borrow them at Sasha and then I shall fulfil and I shall give it. But as you can so to speak! I thought that you have sent me them gratuitously, and to you is grateful for it! Thanks you big! You really very much have helped me also you very good person! Especially you have suggested to send me of money, I did not ask it from you. I thought that you wish to help to leave to me from Complex situation. Once again thanks you! You really very kind. Once again forgive me for all. I think, that you will understand all and will forgive me. That under the passport I still wish to tell really Olga, but have got used when me name Vika. Так (I wish????) that all to you the best! Vika.




LETTER TO MASHA ATTEMPTING TO LURE OLGA INTO COMMUNICATIONS FOR AMICABLE RESOLUTION OF THIS SCAM


Hi, Masha!

I am beginning to believe Olga's story about her life being complicated. If you take a look at the letter below, it is a letter she sent me on September 28th, which is after the time she had moved in with Sasha. But, this letter was sent from the same IP address of where Olga's letters used to come from before she moved in with him. Apparently she had to sneak over there and send this letter. I have pasted the header with the IP address below it for you to see what I mean. Please do not forward this letter to Sasha, because I don't want to get her in trouble with him. I would rather you call Olga and tell her about it privately and show it to her someplace in private as well. If Olga is having problems now, please tell her to go back to the same place where she mailed me this letter about my uncle and write to me and I will help her. I will even send her more money if necessary to get her out of a bad situation. I know if you are her friend and she is in trouble you will comply with my request. My e-mail tracker is working again so I will know whether or not you have forwarded this to Sasha. My e-mail tracker even distinguishes between Sasha's computer and Olga's. The letter below, from Olga, lets me know she still wants to communicate but for some reason isn't being allowed to. Please tell me what is going on there. I will bring Olga to America if necessary to help her. Now you know for certain.I still have good feelings for Olga and want to remain her friend. Please answer me quickly Masha.