Russian dating/marriage scams now has become a Russian industry

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 27, 2005 -- The Russian scammer told Mr. Coffman in an email at the beginning of their correspondence about an old friend of hers that joined a dating service and met an American gentleman. They wrote each other for several months, and then she came to the U.S. to meet him. Shortly there after they were married, and she moved to the U.S. to live with him, and was very happy with her choice.

The scammer wrote Mr. Coffman that this happened about 1 year ago, and she was ready to settle down, and thought of what her friend had remarked to her the previous year. So she decided to join a dating service herself. The scammer told Mr. Coffman about 1 month of their writing each other that she thought that �they should meet in person, and was willing to come to the U.S. to meet him.� She said, �A day together was worth 1000 emails.�

The next day the scammer emailed Mr. Coffman and remarked that she had checked into the cost of a Visa and airline tickets, and that she only had $160.00 US saved, which would not even pay for the cost of the Visa. So Mr. Coffman offered to buy the ticket himself and send it to her. The scammer replied �that she could go through an agency in Novosibirsk (the major city near where she lived) called Novosibirsk International Visa Agency or NIVA, and if she when through them that they could cut the time it would take for her to be able to come to the U.S. so that they could meet, because they were contracted with the U.S. Embassy. She told him that if he bought the ticket and sent it to her she would have to drive to Moscow herself to get her visa, which was 2000 miles away, and would add to the delay of her coming to the U.S., so Mr. Coffman first wired her $360.00 Western Union for her visa.

A couple of days passed, then the scammer sent Mr. Coffman an email with a (copy& paste) in it of an Aeroflot schedule and cost for a flight that cost almost $900.00, so Mr. Coffman wired her the $900.00 via Western Union. Another couple of days passed then she wrote Mr. Coffman that she had only purchased a one-way ticket and was planning to buy the return ticket in the U.S. because she didn�t know how long that she would stay. She claimed that she went to NIVA to fill out some paperwork for her trip, and mentioned to them that she only had a one-way ticket and they told her that the only way she would be able to come is if she had a round trip ticket. So the scammer said, she could exchange her ticket for a round trip, another day and flight but, that she would need another $700.00 to make up the difference for the round trip, and asked Mr. Coffman if he could send this money also, which he did via Western Union. The day came that Elena would arrive and Mr. Coffman was there to pick her up and Elena didn�t show.

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