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# Name:      Katya Ivanova

# E-mail:     sweety078@mail.ru

# Address:  Russia , Samara

# Seen at:   I came across her Profile on Myspace. The page has long sents been taken down sents this past Febuary

# Dangerous: 32%

# Details: She fell in love with in the 5th e-mail but keeped low profile and did not ask for money she mostley ignored the question for help for a while. She had gone to her Travel Agen who quoted a price of $661.00 U.S. Dollars for her Passport, Visa plus taxes and processing fees. It took her little under a month to get this processed. Once she got her Visa and Passport she then told me what the price was for an Airlines tickit which was $1,300.00 U.S. Dollars from Moscow to JFK in New York City. I then told her that I would not sent $1,300.00 U.S. but seiad I could do a 50/50 split on a tickit. She came back with a reply of ok. She then E-Maild a few days later and told me she got $500.00 U.S. from her Father I then proceeded to send her $800.00 U.S. Dollars. Once all this was done she E-Mailed to tell me that her Travel Agent would not give her, her Tickits untill she had $2,825.00 U.S. Dollars on her in cash. I then asked what this money was to be used for. She told me that she would not be allowed to enter the U.S. unless she had $2,825.00 dollars on her in cash her travel agent seaid U.S. Coustoms would turn her away if she had no spending cash on her. I did a check with the the U.S. and Russian Ebassys and was told she did not need to have any money on her wat so ever to enter the U.S. I never did send her the sum in which she requested.



# Date: 2006-07-13

Money was sent by way of Western Union 2 money wires were done first one was for $661.00 U.S. Dollars to a Katya Ivanova. The 2ed was for $800.00 U.S. Dollars this time she had trouble geting the money and asked me to call Western Union to have them change the name to Ekaterina Ivanova. Over all I lost $1,461.00 U.S. Dollars. The Last request from her was to get me to send her $2,825.00 U.S. Dollars I did not send it to her after sending e-mails to the U.S. and Russian Embassys as well as to U.S. Coustoms. All 3 replyed ad seaid that anyone with a Visa can travel freeley to the U.S. or Russia broke and with out money on them with out question. I refused to send her $2,25.00 dollars and I have not heard from her sents. A following check by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow reveled that no Such VISA or Passport was ever issued to anyone going by the name Ekaterina or Katya Ivanova.

First letter from her 2/17/2006 note the name of her Cats Name is Alisa.

Hi Brendan!

I am very glad to receive your answer on my short letter. How are you? I hope, that all is good.
I want to tell to you little bit more about me in this letter. My name is Katya. I live in big city Samara with the population about 2 millions people. Samara very beautiful city. Here a lot of interesting
and many beautiful places. You may see it in the Internet. .It very beautiful. Here it is very clean in comparison with other cities of Russia. You may find my city on a map. I would like to know in what
city you live that I also might find your city on a map. I am 25 years old. I live with my mum. I very much love her. At us very much good relations. I was born on 23 July 1980 year. My growth 173 cm. My
weight 54 kg. My eyes are brown. I have brown hair. I don't have children. I am feminine and tender inside of my heart. I like a home comfort, warmth and calm in family relation. I studied in institute at
faculty of social-humanitarian technology. At the institute I spent half of day. In total was 5 courses (years) of training. I have finished the institute when to me was 22 years. Very much it was
pleasant to me to study on this speciality. By the way I use the computer in Internet of cafe which is about my institute. Since 5 classes I studied the English language at school. But, as you have
already noticed, my English language is not so good. I have finished 11 classes at school then has acted in institute. I have cat Alisa. She very lovely. I love sports. I am engaged in aerobics because I
like to move and in general I like to dance. I take a great interest in art literature.
I search for the man for serious relations. I also would like to find out more about you. It will be very interesting to me. What do you
like? Have you got a family? Children? What is your job? Do you like nature? Have you got pets? Can you send your pictures? I hope, that
you will answer my letter soon. I wait your letters.

Your friend from Russia, Katya


Note the name of the Cats name in the 3ed letter from her is now Barguzin and not Alisa in this letter below:

2/28/06
Hi Brendan!
I am really happy that I got your letter. I want to tell you something about my enthusiasm. My favorite colour is white, the symbol of the purity. As you know I like to be natural. Also I like pets. I have got a cat her name is Barguzin. When I come home from the work I sit my cat on my knees and listen to nice music. Whatmusic do you like to listen to? I like listening to classic music, Reggae, soul, pop. But
my choice of music depends on the mood. In the summer evenings my friends and I rollerskate in the evening town. The best please for roller skating is quay.I like to spend the time in the kitchen too, where I make experiments with new dishes. I like to cook Russian dishes most of all. Have you ever eaten Russian borsh, pelmeni, pancakes with honey? I am very happy and sociable and I have a of friends. We often gather together and sing songs under guitar. I play the guitar very well. In man it is important for me following characteristics: his kind heart and romantic soul, the age or nationality difference isn't important for me. I am interested in
what's inside his heart. I need best friend and faithful partner I will devote my life and love to. I am looking for an intelligent and strong man who is able to protect and support his beloved woman and be
a faithful partner for her. I am looking for a man who doesn't drink and doesn't hit woman. I want to build strong and loving family. You seem to be an intelligent and interesting person from your letter so
please tell me more about yourself, your likes and dislikes, interests, expectations, desires. I'd like to know more about you. It is really important for me to have an idea of the person I am going to
correspond with and build the relationship..
Your new friend Katya.

This letter below gos on about how much she loves me then a small P.S. Added tells you about the prices about the quoted prices for her Passport, Visa, Taxes figured in Shes also includeing Gas price for the road trip to Moscow for her Interview allthow she dose not come out and say so directley.

4/15/06
Hi my lovely Brendan!
I sat at home all day wishing you were here with me. Today as been a long day for me. I know what i want and that is for you to be near. I can only wait. The wind and oceans is the only thing between us for now. I was sad today, all i thought about is you. I was bored knowing how bad i want you and the distances between us is for. I hurt today in a good way knowing soon you will be with me, but i felt better when i thought of the happiness you bring my heart and soul. I went to my room this afternoon and look at you and read all of your letters today. I know in my heart there is true love and trust. I want to hold you strongly and love you softly. I want you to know my
love for you is very strong and passionate. My heart travels with this letter to you and my love for you. My life has not been the same since we have met in the distance. I have more happiness and energy now. Without you in my life it would not be worth living for. I want to embrace you, and softly kiss you and to love you forever. My feeling for you are as strong as yours and maybe even strong than your. I feel like i could tell you all these thing all night and would never be bored of saying them to you. My sweets i
write this letter to you from my heart and from the love i have for you. All i want is to be able to embrace you and sincerely love you.
My LOVE is true and deep for you and i will always love you no matter what.
Kiss you, love you...
Katya

P.S. Yesterday I was at the tourist agency and knew that to come to you I
have to do a the passport and the visa. Passport costs 284 dollars. To receive the visa it is necessary in embassy in Moscow. Visa, taxes and
road up to Moscow costs 377 dollars. To do the visa will get time. It isn't easy to get it. I was advised to do a tourist visa. It will be valid for 90 days. It can be prolonged. At he agency I was said I will
be helped.

Note this letter below becouse when I sent the $661.00 U.S. Dollars to her I had put Katya Ivanova on the transfer sheet and not Ekaterina Ivanova. She reseved the money with her nickname.

May 18th 2006

Hi my lovely Brendan!
Today I went to the Western Union and have received money, all is normal. Now we have come nearer on one step to our meeting!! I so am happy that we at last soon shall meet. We should be defined with date
of our meeting, tomorrow I probably shall go to travel agency to order my visa and the passport.
What you say is part of your heart and that warms me. The day we meet will be the day that the sky and earth come together, there will be
such an earth quake... my world will shake to my foundation, our eyes will meet and our bodies will come together and our hearts will skip a
beat. Our lips will come together that will be a kiss to die for I look at your picture and think Iive gone to heaven for such man like you. I know that heaven is missing an angel and I found him here and
he is so wonderful!!!!!! I some times think I was born in the wrong country I should have been born somewhere near you. You are an answer to my prayers. I asked god for you and he has answered and his answer
was YOU we have something that I will keep with me forever and no one can take from me. I will keep all your pictures and all you have sad to me close and never let them go!! Thank you for being in my world.
I LOVE YOU.
Kiss you..love you
Yours for ever Katya

From May 18th she dose not e-mail me till June 6, 2006 and tells me she was hit by a car this happens shortley after geting $661.00 U.S. from Western Union from me.

Jun 6, 06
Hi my lovely Brendan!
Forgive me, that I did not write to you so for a long time, but I could not. With me there was a misfortune. I passed road and I was brought
down with the automobile. At me crisis of a leg(foot) was and I almost 3 weeks laid in hospital and could not go. It very much has upset me. It is very a pity to me that such has taken place. But now with me all
is normal, ÿïîïðàâëÿþ the health. I very much missed you all this time and it to me did not allow rest. For this time without you I only was more strongly convinced, that I cannot without you, I can not without your letters. How are you? How are you doing? I every day think of you, about that that we at last shall soon meet. I dream of it every day. I love you!! As I already spoke you, my documents will be ready on June, 12. But my visa tourist and consequently it is valid only within 90 days. What do you think in this occasion? I do not know as
now to us to be, if you cannot meet till September. My love is so great that I can't stand it, and the whole strength of love is the only thing that keeps me alive. Even the rain is falling outside, and the leaves on the trees are trembling, and the drops fall down on the grass, and the whole nature seems to cry. But when the sun rose and the light flood into each corn then life seemed different. Even nature seems to have the same mood as I do. But the sun is shining brightly, and my heart is full of hope and
happiness. I love the best, the most beautiful man I ever met, and he loves me, too.
Kiss you, love you.. LOVE
Yours for ever Katya.

Shes now telling me here flight is $1300.00 U.S. and that she got $500.00 u.s. from her father shes now worrys about where to get the rest of the $800.00 for her tickits.

6/16/06
Hi my lovely Brendan!
I have always dreamed about the one man only that would became for me everything: husband, soul mate, friend, lover and my entire world. This is my big life dream that still waits for its realization and I
suppose that you are the man who could help me to make my dream come true. I want our relationship to be based on honesty. I think suddenly you have not written to me, and I suddenly have not written to you.
But when I see. That all normally to me become well and I with leasure and with good mood I write you the answer. I spoke to granny about us. She has asked me that I really love you and if I want be next to you.
I have told it is so, that I can not introduce myself without you. I have notified it concerning you and she has told that you the most good man and it is possible to trust you. I always heard the opinion
of my granny and she haven't advised me anything bad. Friday I went to travel agency, I have learned how many there is a ticket to you. It appeared about 1300 dollars the USA. I very much was surprised why
it so dearly. Also I went on Friday to my parents and we discussed this problem together. I the daddy has told to me that can give me 500 dollars, but its last money that it borrowed it. Today I have arrived from my parents, I have 500 dollars, but more I
do not know where to me to take money. It is very a pity to me. We now so it is close to a meeting, and I do not want that all has deteriorated during last moment. What do you think in this occasion?
I do not know that I shall do without you. Since I have got acquainted with you, I do not know rest. My heart is broken off pending meetings with you.
Kiss you, LOVE YOU...love
Yours for ever Katya.

Huston We have a problum! She gos to Western Union to get the $800.00 dollars that I sent her and she know has to use her full name Ekaterina Ivanova. She got her vary first Trasnation useing the name Katya Ivanova. W.T.F. is going on here do they do random I.D. Checks at this bank or what? I can see why so many Russian people don't trust there banks to hold there money anyone can say there so and so and just get money there.

6/22/06
Hi my lovely Brendan!
How do you do? Today I went to bank, there all is normal. Only I cannot receive money because in my passport at me it is written Ekaterina Ivanova. And you have written Katya Ekaterina. Ekaterina it too
most as Katya. Only in the passport the full name is written. You need to go in bank and to renew translation into Ekaterina Ivanova. If all will be normal also you renew a name that I shall buy tomorrow
tickets. My full name under passport is Ekaterina Ivanova.
Kiss you, love you...
Yours for ever Katya.

Now in this letter below shes telling me everything about her travel agent and how it works she tells me that a Friend as well as the travel office require her to have $2825.00 U.S. Dollars in cash. It has to be on her in Cash to show the U.S. Coustoms Officer that she has money befor she can be processed and allowed to pass as a Tourest. Over all shes telling me that that the U.S. Coustoms won't let her into the country with out this money on her. Shes refueses my offer for money but know needs it to complete this trip so she is trying to make me feel guilty in the hopes that I'll be stuiped enough to send it. I never wired it to her! She also tells me her flight plan from Moscow to JFK International Airport as well. Note she has no connecting flight to Syracuse, NY I told her in several e-mails that she has to make a connecting flight the request gos ignored.

6/26/06
Hi my lovely Brendan!
I am very glad to receive your letter. I did not expect, that you will think, that the people with which I am dealing are tricking me. I absolutely
precisely can tell you, that it is excluded. Before to go in this travel agency and to order there my documents, I have found out some information about this agency. At my girlfriend is a familiar which went in USA for three months under the tourist
visa. He (familiar my girlfriend) has arrived from USA in July. He made the documents in this agency in which I have addressed. Before I have ordered my
passport and visa in this agency, I consulted at him. He did all how I have informed you, and anybody
in this agency will not deceive people because it works already for a long time and is registered by the government of our city. It is a lot of people of
our city used this travel agency. Understand, Brendan, and in yours and in my interests to arrange
our improbable meeting without problems and any misunderstanding. I seriously treat this affair, therefore before to make something, it is necessary to check up it. My dear Brendan, I only want, that all was made correctly that nothing might prevent
to meet to us. I hope, that you understand me and understand that I had in view of. Now I once again want to tell you, that I shall move to your country as the tourist, on TOURIST VISA, not on visitors visa. I shall fly in USA alone and nobody will know,
that I should meet you. If in embassy I shall inform, that I shall not require in hotel as I shall live at you to me will give up in TOURIST VISA. In travel
agency I was advised to do a tourist visa because this visa to receive more easy. That it is necessary for me to have at themselves a credit card or cash in the sum of 2825 dollars. Once again I want to tell you, that it is necessary for me only to show in embassy and on the customs control at the airport. As soon as I shall be at you, I to return to you all
this money. I hope, that you understand me, my love.
My most darling man in the world Brendan, I want to meet you above all, anything in my life I did not want so strongly, as it. Understand, dear, this money are not necessary for me. I would love you even if you at all would not have money even if you
would be the poor person. Money is not the main thing in life. I, certainly, understand, that absolutely without money to live it is impossible, but also was impossible to build the happiness only on money.
We have together decided, that we should meet and we want it very much. You have helped me so
that I might make all necessary documents and have bought the ticket . I am very grateful to you for your help and I very much estimate it. If I independently might pay everything, that is required for me I never would take your money, but I might not refuse your help because it was the sole exit from this situation. Once again accept my gratitude. If I was a bird, I would fly to you right now and the
question concerning money would not disturb us and did not nonplus us. I know, probably, my flight would be long and I am strongly tired, but it would not
disturb me, because YOU - the sole person whom I so strongly love. Our love would help me to not feel weariness. Anything and nobody couldn't stop me. For you I am ready to make all. Probably, it is too
strongly told, because we never met in alive, but these are my feelings, are my love. My heart belongs to you. I already count days up to our meeting. I hope to receive your letter as soon as possible.

My love and millions kisses only for you.
Kiss you, LOVE YOU...
Yours for ever Katya.

P.S. Today I have bought tickets in agency:
Sun 16-Jul-06
Moscow (SVO)
Depart 1:15 pm
Terminal 2 to New York (JFK)
Arrive 3:25 pm
Terminal 3
4,672 mi
(7,519 km)
Duration: 10hr 10mn
DL Delta
Flight: 31
3Economy/Coach Class, Lunch, Boeing 767
Total distance: 4,672 mi (7,519 km)
Total duration: 10hr 10mn
flight Wed 16-Aug-06
New York (JFK)
Depart 5:25 pm
Terminal 3 to Moscow (SVO)
Arrive 11:15 am +1 day
Terminal 2
4,672 mi
(7,519 km)
Duration: 9hr 50mn
DL Delta
Flight: 30
3Economy/Coach Class, Dinner, Boeing 767
The Total cost of tickets of 1255 dollars.

In this letter below I had told her she need a connecting flight 5 times to Syracuse, NY note she calls the city Sirakuz and not Syracuse and she now inquires that she knew nothing about needing a connecting flight. Also now note that she is telling me that her travel agent is now asking her if she has the $2825.00 U.S. Dollars yet.

7/3/06
my lovely Brendan!
I love you. How do you do? At me all is normal. So concerning that as I shall reach from airport Sirakuz up to you, I know nothing about it. I think to you of it it will be better to know. Therefore decide
as will be more correct and inform me about it. My agent of travel today again asked me, whether I have found the full sum of confidence. It is very serious question. Me will not start up in the USA without
this money, as without the sum of confidence. What do you think? I hope you like this when I go out side and look in the sky the star I see glows like your eyes and sayes to me I love you and I say I love
you too . Your eyes are like a glow of sun shine to me your lips tast like wine. When I kiss them thay tast like a fine wine that never changes over time. Your love to me means a lot to me without your love
i will be lonely and sad I want to hold your hand and wolk in the sand hand and hand never letting go of the love we have because in me heart. I know you're the man for me and I thank god he put you here on the same earth as I am I do truely love you with all my heart. I hope you know I don't want to ever part for your loves giving me hope and joy and happyness of a new life to start over with you and are now love for ever. I LOVE YOU.KISS YOU FOREVER IN MY HEART. LOVE

Kiss you, LOVE YOU...
Yours for ever Katya.

This is the last letter from her she is now in Shock that I refuse to send the money becouse the U.S. and Russian Ebassys have advised me of a huge Scam going on in Russia. She tells me that she has never heard the woard Scam befor and has to look it up in an English-Russian Dictionary. In the mean time the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands gets involved and sends me a link to the U.S. Coustoms Website there the only Embassy in Europe with such a link on there web page!
and it confirms that tourests don't have to have any money, credit cards, or travels checks on them to enter the U.S.A. Heres the Last letter below:

7/6/06
Hi my lovely Brendan!
I do not know even from what to start... As usually I have come today to the Internet of cafe, and have seen your letter. When I read it at me appeared tears on eyes, to a throat have driven big whom... I do not know that to me now to do... All my life recently has been devoted only to you. I very strongly achieved our
meeting. I have spent many forces and time for it, doing(making) all necessary documents. I lived only that waited that we soon shall meet. I so strongly love you. Up to our meeting remained so close, but all
of you have spoiled. You have told all that I arrive to you. So to me never will give to leave the country with the tourist visa. I should go in the USA as the tourist. And nobody should know that I go to you. I spoke it to you, but all of you equally have not listened to me. I do not know that to you there (in the Western Union) have told, but in one lawful state, such as in the USA will not start up the
tourist without cash as they should be sure, that I shall not live in misery during that time while I am in the USA. I did not know a word meaning "scam". I have taken the English-Russian dictionary and have
looked his(its) value. I am simple in a shock... Always I aspired to speak people only the truth. Me have brought up so my parents. I trusted you completely and was always fair with you. I do not know
even what now to speak my parents. They were completely sure in you. Up to our meeting there was last step. Know that I love you all heart...

Kiss you, LOVE YOU...
Yours for ever Katya.