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Svetlana Dimitrova is another example of a Russian dating scam. Are you considering finding a Russian wife, corresponding with a Russian woman, using a Russian dating agency, already been scammed or just want to be sure that your correspondent and relationship is genuine? Then read on, and find out about the bizarre world of the Russian online dating. Your name may not be "Scott", but she'll still say she loves you!
Things are not always what they seem! Here's a typical scam email.
Letters from russian scammer
SVETLANA DIMITROVA E-MAIL ADDRESS : svetlanakissyou@yahoo.com
ADDRESS: Yablochkova 43-6 Mari El kuyar 424039
My love SCOTT!!!
I so am happy to you to write to the letter.
I to receive my visa.
I very much sad without you SCOTT!!!
I very much wait, when shall to fly to you.
My dear I went to the airport, but to me there informed information, which shaken me.
Mood in me has fallen, because to me informed sad news.
SCOTT , I do not know even concerning you which it speaks.
I cannot transfer all of them the Russian laws anyone, it - is more.
To all did not represent, that so it is difficult to leave Russia And many documents are necessary.
Also considerably I have gone down up to the notary and interested it.
It has prostarted up to, speak me with one important thing, It to me informed at the airport. According to the law of Russia, Each citizen leaving the country should have in itself the sum From cash 3000 $ USA. It is made, Without which the Russian citizens could come back problems home If something is impossible to them in other country.
I tried to explain to them, that all this will be good, but they have told, That the law - the law, and they have no any right on a break it.
I cannot wait, when I shall lay with you on a bed, And you grasp and will kiss me.
I think only when you will meet me at the airport.
Did not abuse all with chapters of the airport a little.
Mine SCOTT , you can send me tomorrow 3000 $ USA.
This money will be in me, and on arrival in you I should to show them.
They will be necessary to transfer the control of the airport only And then , I shall give you back this money.
I understand, that it is the big sum, but it to be necessary.
I to you already to tell, that on arrival I shall give you back this money.
I should do only it the control to the airport.
I hope , you understand me my SCOTT!
I need in you in SCOTT!!! I love you SCOTT!!! I love you SCOTT!!!
SCOTT You does me by the happiest person on all white light.
My SCOTT, to not be sad and to manage
The arisen problem. It was difficult for me to write to you this letter, But circumstances which here have compelled me.
To me it simply is not present anybody to address more.
We shall overcome this obstacle before our meeting.
My love SCOTT, I should show,
I LOVE YOU SCOTT!!!
Yours for ever Svetlana
Hello my love Scott!
I am very glad to see the letter from you!
I loved mine it is glad that you to understand my situation, and that you will be To do all what the help to me with it! I am very grateful to you for all That you to make for me! I very strongly love you! Yes certainly, if I I shall have this money at me any more will not be what difficulties with Arrival to you, and besides I am direct at the airport shall give you these Money! Lovely I hope that you can receive it very soon!
Favourite my angel, I ask you to send me 3000 dollars!
Because this sum is necessary for me! I hope that you to make All for this purpose! I wish you to lead your days off well!
Very strongly I love you, with impatience I wait a meeting with you!
Kiss your Svetlana
Dear Scott, I do not know as now to you to write! In your letters heat, care, an assurance, tenderness, romanticism earlier was felt. I was full these feelings. And now all of them are stronger and stronger., the moment of our meeting has almost come also us divided all some hours of flight, but the customs house of me has not passed. I was so is afflicted and upset, I did not know, how to you it to explain, I thought, that you will not understand Russian laws, I and itself have been surprised!
I was very glad to know that you to understand Russian laws and to help me with it!
My overall objective to meet and be near to you, to get happy family, our children and to live happily. Sense of all my life.
Now I sit and I write this letter. I do not know, how to you it to tell, that will be with you after his perusal. It can be final you will cease to me to trust, but I speak you the naked truth. My heart to beat for fear that there can be you at all will answer this letter. But I always loved you and I shall like!!! Also I shall hope also, that you will understand me and we shall meet, passing all difficulties of our long-awaited meeting!
I have arrived to the Internet of cafe have read your letter after that I have gone to bank, have received money.
But all over again I have gone to show money at customs house. I have made everything, have shown them of money, and wanted to go to write to you the letter. My ideas have been filled only with you, dreams of the future meeting as I shall see you, my feelings thus as you will lead yourself! I flied in clouds. And when has gone to a toilet to correct the make-up, for me the guy of years 25 and threatening with a knife of visors my handbag has gone. I so have strongly got a fright, what even have lost gift of speech. I should shout to not start to resist. At me the shock was! Then it has escaped and has disappeared.
After that on wadded legs I have gone to item of militia and informed them all that happened, signs of this person and has told, that was in a handbag. Militiamen have made an identikit of this person. Later some minutes have found my handbag in a garbage tank of the airport. In it there was only my passport, the visa and cosmetics. Then I have gone to the Internet of cafe to write to you the letter.
Loved Scott, it took away all money. The only thing, that consoles me, my passport, the visa and that with me everything is all right, though I till now in a shock after happened have found. To me the first time in a life threatened with a knife!
Dear Scott, I understand, that you are upset, but to me it is much worse. I could not arrive to you. This gangster has stolen your money, which you have sent me to pass customs house. Now on customs house at me money is not present. Week during which I should choose a next flight and shows money at customs house will soon expire. I cannot find to myself a place. Can was better that it has cut me and I have got in hospital that you were confident, that I do not deceive you. Why that seems to me, that you will not believe me. But the main thing, that I love you, my sweet and gentle Scott!!!
You can accuse me of everything, it I shall not be against because I am guilty to you, but I do not accuse me, of that that, I do not want to arrive to you and I do not love you because it not so, I really to be here in Moscow, in a condition of a shock. I shall write to you more later the letter because I should descend now in militia and to go in the airport, to change the tickets. I love you trust me.
Your wife and yours to mountain Svetlana
Hello my love Scott!
I am very glad to receive the answer from you! Lovely mine as at you affairs go? How at you mood?
I hope that at you all well! Loved Scott I all to understand that you do not have money more!
But understand also you my situation, that if now I shall not arrive to you, I shall simply lose my air tickets which I already have paid!
And if we with you shall have a meeting later it will be again necessary for me to get air tickets! Lovely it will be very expensive!
Dear I very strongly love you, and to want to arrive to you! But as you know that for this purpose to me is necessary to have these 3000 dollars!
And consequently I ask you to find a way what to receive this money! I promise loved to you, that if you to send me of money once again, I shall be very cautious with them and such will not be repeated any more, I shall arrive to you, and I shall give you these 3000 dollars directly at the airport, so As you to know that this money would be necessary for showing me just! Sweet mine Scott I do not want to lose you, I very strongly love you!
Also I ask you to make it! Lovely I ask you to tell in your following letter to me, that I should do now! I should remain in Moscow, And to wait while you you will try to receive this money, or it is necessary for me to return in home, and our meeting with you we shall be later!
I ask you to give to me the answer to these questions, that to me now to do! I with impatience shall look forward to hearing from you!
Kiss your Svetlana
What can you do to avoid being scammed on dating websites
Scammers are present everywhere on the dating websites. Even if you use established dating websites, like Match.com, eHarmony, etc., and even the women say they live in your own country, you may be scammed.
Before you invest your emotions into a long distance relationship, compare what they say against common sense. Someone who claims to be in love without, sight unseen, never having met you in person, is mostly a scammer or simply unbalanced.
Apply the same common sense rules of safe dating online as you would in person.