Comment from Big Knob
1: Do NOT reply to mails from a yahoo or hotmail account. One of the reasons is that cannot find if she is using the Bat e mailer. 2: Closing her yahoo account means nothing. I can open 10 e mail accounts (and not even yahoo or hotmail) in 10 minutes. 3: Learn to bombard them with spam. If she is a scammer, find some sex sites and list her as a member. Works great especially for "porn mail every day". Sex sites share e mail addresses. You put her on 6 sites. In time she will be mailed from 20 sites. 4: Most of them are on a dialup. Dialup means money per minute. Do NOT tell her she is a scammer. Do not tell her about Western Union. What for? She will just move on and find somebody else. Time means money to her both in lost revenue and time on internet. Take a photo. Make it about 1Mb large. Mail it to her with something like "Photo of Western Union letter of money" in the subject. She will definetely download it. On a dialup a 1Mb photo will take her about 30 minutes. Waste her time and money. That is one way to get vengance back. 5: Telling Western Union of a scammer?! Do you honestly think they care???!!!!! All they are interested is in the commission/charges. I can tell you right now. If you tell Western Union they gave money to a scammer and she lives at so and so address and it is known she DOES live at that address, do you think they will send the police???? Give me a break will ya!! 6: Anybody here ever heard of Paypal? If any of you have been to Russia you will know that there are many Western Union offices. Then again, there are many banks and many ATMs and YES Russians do use banks.
to top ^Comment from Tim
I got the same exact email from a different scammer after I told her I didn't have any money to send to her.
to top ^Comment from Mark
Mario, she sent me the same email after i told her she was a scammer.
to top ^Comment from Dameon
This scammer is real as is her photos -although they are a bit old. She now has short hair. I got her to send me a recent picture months ago holding my photo as to prove she is real. Go back a few months and you will find it. Elena Patrusheva - profile #960! Excellent idea F.B.
to top ^Comment from James
Freddyboy! Cool! I agree! Next email from an obvious scammer I will answer: "Thank you. But I really am not attracted to a lady like you. In all honesty, even though you are called 'beautiful' I am most attracted to a lady who is quite plain and average in her looks."
to top ^Comment from Mike
Instead of threatening to report her to Wester Union, why not report her anyway, eventhough no money was sent. At least WU will have a heads up and can possibly prevent some unlucky soul from being taken to the cleaners. That's how we start to shut down these scammers.
to top ^Comment from Freddyboy
Just wondering if anyone has ever been scammed by a fat ugly girl. Maybe we are just picking the wrong type. It would be fun to make these Boris's and Ivan's start scrambling looking for pics of fat ugly girls who are over 45. I don't know...maybe both types can scam equally well. But at least a change in our tastes in women would sure confuse these guys.
to top ^Comment from James
Maybe this scammer is an Ivan using multiple female identities? This report details essentially the same experience I had with Irina Morena, #1428. Explanations of why 'her' travel to me was not a valid option where answered with accusations that I really did not want to meet 'her'. Also, the emails requesting money should be sent to abuse@yahoo.com, with full headers. Yahoo will close down the account.
to top ^Comment from Mario
I just finished with this one. I also sent her a fake number. When she e-mailed back saying there was no money. I sent her an e-mail in Russian telling her she should be grateful that I did not notify Western Union and the Authorities that I had a scammer online and that she was going to go to one of their offices with a phony number. I also said to her that it was such a shame that someone so beautiful could have a heart and soul that was so ugly. She e-mailed me back with one sentence - "I wish you luck in your search"! This woman is beautiful - it is too bad she has become this scammer. I wonder if it is the lure of easy money or that her living environment is so bad, she has no choice. Maybe a combination of both?
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