Ðseudonym: TDhooked
Story: This is not a typical hurry and meet, get the money, and run scam. It was a slow bleeding progression over months. I met Inna through city-of-brides.com in Nikolaev, Ukraine. I have no problem with the agency. They have been very responsive. I wrote them about my experience and they quickly removed her from their site.
Anyway, I courted Inna for about 17 months. During this time, I got many hints but did not follow my instincts. Two of the hints, Inna updated or started new profiles with new pictures. Perhaps it is not a big deal. However, the second time, I even received a new greeting from her as if I had never met her. I kept my profile, read only (free), so that I could contact the agency for travel and lodging arrangements. I asked Inna about these profiles and she quickly made them disappear. I trusted and believed her.
During our time, she repeatedly made requests for money. Money for clothes, money for a larger water heater, money for a new phone, etc. Funny, I still have an email saved from her sister who called me cheap/paltry. Through Western Union and what I gave/bought her during visits, she received in excess of $4000. Irony: thanks to me, she started her last new profile on a computer that I bought. Thanks to the tutors I paid, she makes her claim to speak some English.
The end state: we had a VISA interview scheduled for Nov 1st, 2007. The time to end our distance relationship and be together was finally near. Conveniently, for her, Oct. 16th, 2007, I received the last request for money. Conveniently, Oct. 17th, 2007, she sent me an email saying that she met a Ukraine man and that she now loves him and could not allow herself to come to the States. She ended our relationship. Two days later, Oct. 19th, out of curiosity, I Googled her name since I eventually did close my city-of-brides account. She appeared in the Google search. The link that opened up was a new profile account of Inna at city-of-brides. Okay, I will ask the question: what about the new Ukrainian man? She has since appeared on many other agency web sites. I am slowly writing to them. I am not getting much response. Perhaps, after a while, I will list the agencies I have contacted who did nothing. I have the emails that I mentioned saved as proof of my claim.
In a way, I wish I could be wrong. I hate to think of Inna in a bad way after all the feelings I had built. But there were other smaller signals along the way. I love this girl, and she claimed to love me. The money I lost fails in comparison to the despair.
Scammer detail:
Name: Inna
Surname: Tesakova
City: Nikolaev
Country: Ukraine
Email: tesakova8@mail.ru
Phone number: 011380512426634
Agency details:
Which agency/website you contacted her through: City-of-Brides.com
Did you report the scam to the agency: Yes
What was the agency response: They removed her profile from their site.
Letters:This is not a typical hurry and meet, get the money, and run scam. It was a slow bleeding progression over months. I met Inna through city-of-brides.com in Nikolaev, Ukraine. I have no problem with the agency. They have been very responsive. I wrote them about my experience and they quickly removed her from their site.
Anyway, I courted Inna for about 17 months. During this time, I got many hints but did not follow my instincts. Two of the hints, Inna updated or started new profiles with new pictures. Perhaps it is not a big deal. However, the second time, I even received a new greeting from her as if I had never met her. I kept my profile, read only (free), so that I could contact the agency for travel and lodging arrangements. I asked Inna about these profiles and she quickly made them disappear. I trusted and believed her.
During our time, she repeatedly made requests for money. Money for clothes, money for a larger water heater, money for a new phone, etc. Funny, I still have an email saved from her sister who called me cheap/paltry. Through Western Union and what I gave/bought her during visits, she received in excess of $4000. Irony: thanks to me, she started her last new profile on a computer that I bought. Thanks to the tutors I paid, she makes her claim to speak some English.
The end state: we had a VISA interview scheduled for Nov 1st, 2007. The time to end our distance relationship and be together was finally near. Conveniently, for her, Oct. 16th, 2007, I received the last request for money. Conveniently, Oct. 17th, 2007, she sent me an email saying that she met a Ukraine man and that she now loves him and could not allow herself to come to the States. She ended our relationship. Two days later, Oct. 19th, out of curiosity, I Googled her name since I eventually did close my city-of-brides account. She appeared in the Google search. The link that opened up was a new profile account of Inna at city-of-brides. Okay, I will ask the question: what about the new Ukrainian man? She has since appeared on many other agency web sites. I am slowly writing to them. I am not getting much response. Perhaps, after a while, I will list the agencies I have contacted who did nothing. I have the emails that I mentioned saved as proof of my claim.
In a way, I wish I could be wrong. I hate to think of Inna in a bad way after all the feelings I had built. But there were other smaller signals along the way. I love this girl, and she claimed to love me. The money I lost fails in comparison to the despair.
