# Seen at: speeddate
# Dangerous:
32%
# Details: Visa, Money for customs
2d report:
First name: Maria
Last name: Sedyh
Country: Russia
City: Yoshkar-Ola
Email:maryruss@bk.ru
Details: We start corresponding in August 2005. She got my profile on some American general free dating web site. She wrote to me at this site ans provided her email address. I contact her with a first emails. We correspond like that until mid-October. She was in love with me and she was asking to meet me in Canada. I refused to send any money before she sent a copy of her Russian passport, which she did very reluctantly a week after I made the request. We agreed that I will pay only 50% of the cost of her International passport and visa. For this I sent a first payment of $250.00. I ask to pay her flight directly from Canada (electronic ticket). She refused and she wanted to buy the ticket herself, but she ask me money to pay my 50% share of the ticket. I sent a payment of $390.00. After that she annonced that she was going in Moscow to get her passport, visa and air ticket. Once in Moscow she called me the last day that she was there, telling me that the Canadian ambassy was asking that she have $3000 to prove that she can pay for her living while she will be in Canada. She told me that her parents sent a thousand dollars for that, but she still need another $2000CAN. I sent $1650.00US to her. I did not received any news since that time (4 days ago). I decided to check with Western Union today. They told me that she picked up the money from the city of Yoshkar-Ola, which is at 850km of Moscow!! This was the proof that she never travelled to Moscow in the first place. The other 2 payments have been picked up in the same city. The name of this city is quite different from the city she was supposed to live (Cheboksary). The representatives of Western Union sent a report to the security department to report the fraud, which is supposed to contact the attorney of Yoshkar-Ola and the police department.
Reported by: Jean B.
# Date: 2005-10-17