Hi there,
Here's a classic Visa scam that I've been dealing with for the last week and
a
half or so. This one was slightly more subtle, but as you read the
progressive e-mails, the end result is the same: a proposition for money. Her goal was
to
scam $300.00 for a Visa to come see me in the US. Guess the scam's on her
(or
him).
Hope this information helps!
Her Letters
Hi, my dearest friend Nick!
I write you from Russia, from city of
Ivanovo. I have seen your picture and decided to use my chance to get
acquainted with you. I know that somewhere in this world lives my
second half . And Internet is a good way to find him. So why not to
try to get to know each another? I believe that I need to tell you
more about myself. My name is Oksana. My height is for about 170cm and
weight is for about 54 kg. I was born on March 25, 1974. To have a
better idea of my appearance you can look at my picture which is
attached to this letter. I want to apologize for some mistakes in my
letter. You see, I am not very good at English but I am studying it
hard myself and hope to prove my knowledge someday. As for my family,
I am an only child in my family. I have neither sisters no brothers.
My parents are divorced for long time already. My father left us when
I was still a little girl and I haven't seen him since that time. It
is really very sad and I am always very upset thinking about it. So I
am looking for the person who will be a reliable husband, friend,
lover for me loves children because I adore children and would like to
have a happy, friendly family and our children to live in the
atmosphere of joy and happiness. It is my dream to create my own
family and to present all my love , care and tenderness to my future
husband and children. I have many interests and I will tell you about
it in brief. Well, I can't imagine my life without music. I get up
with music and go to bed with it.J I always listen to music when I do
something at home and it helps me to be in a high spirit. I like
everything from classical to modern music. Usually it depends on my
mood. From modern foreign music, I prefer Elton John, Madonna, Joe
Cocker, Houston, etc. I always try to find some time during the day to
read a book. Usually I do it before going to bed. I prefer Russian
classics, such as Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevski and
many others. I have re-read them many times already and every time I
take one of these books, it is like I am reading it for the first
time. I am sure you have heard about these writers. Sometimes I don't
mind to read something from the modern literature, detective stories
or novels. I do it just for fun. Sport is a great part of my life. I
go to the gym twice a week and also do aerobics. It helps me to be in
a good shape and in a high spirit. When I am training, I forget about
all problems and hardships in my life. I love my friends a lot and I
have many of them. They are all very different and it is always a
great pleasure to see them. Sometimes we go to the night clubs but do
it seldom because it is rather expensive for me. We like just to walk
around the town and talk about different things. We often go to visit
each another, it so nice to sit at home with a cup of hot tea in the
cold winter evening. We often go to the cinema and enjoy our time
there. When I watch a movie, it is like I am getting to that unusual
for me world full of emotions, passion, love and tenderness. You see I
am very romantic and I like romantic dinners with the candles,
surprises, night walks under the stars and many, many another things
and some day I hope to experience all these with my beloved man. Well,
I will close here for today and leave something for tomorrow J I am
waiting impatiently for your reply and hope to get to know as much as
possible about you. I really like you and have very serious
intentions. So feel free to ask me everything you are interested in.
Take care and have a good day! Hope to hear from you very soon. Bye!
Oksana.
Hi, my dear Nick!
I was so happy to get a letter from you today! I
had the feeling inside that I will get a reply from you. So when I
went to the Internet cafe I was in a high spirit. You see, I don't
have telephone and my own computer at home, so I have to go to the
Internet cafe to check if there is a mail from you. It was so amazing
to get a letter from you, that I was smiling all the time and people
looked at me like I was crazy. After getting a letter from you I went
to work. I think that you are interested to know where I work. So I
work as a nurse in the kindergarten. I like my profession and job very
much. You already know that I adore children and when I look at them,
I feel that I will be a very good mother. But at the same time I
understand that it is a great responsibility and I will do my best to
give everything to my baby. Of course, I don't know you well and you
don't know me. After some letters it may be strange for you to hear
these words. The meeting will decide everything but I have the feeling
that everything will work for us. I am sure that everything will be
fine and that we could be happy together. The time will just show
everything to us. As soon as we see each another we will understand
it. It is just the matter of time and we need to be patient. Ok, I
will send this letter to you and will go home. It is already late and
the Internet cafe is rather far from my place. At this time of the day
it is very difficult with the public transport. You can spend an hour
at the stop to get a bus or trolley bus. All my thoughts are with you,
do you will feel it?
Warm hugs, Oksana.
Hi, my dearest Nick!
I am very happy to get a letter from you
again. I would like to tell you about my friends now. I already told
you that I have many friends and they all are very different. My best
girl-friend is Tanya. She is divorced and she has a child. I often go
to visit them. Her son is a wonderful boy and I always buy something
tasty for him. I also have some friends from my school. We meet almost
every month and go somewhere to the bar or to the cinema. We also like
to visit each another at home, drink tea, cook something tasty , sing
songs, go to walk around the town. We like to visit different
exhibitions, to go to theatre. I also communicate with many people in
the gym. I am very sociable person and I like to communicate with
different people. I think that one of the best things in the life is
communication with nice and interesting people. I dream about having
a family and to have close friends, to gather together and to spend
vacations, to have picnics, to go out together. Ok, dreams again. I
just think that it is very important to have close friends, which can
be with you in good and bad moments in the life. Good friends will
help you when you need. I think I will better answer some of your
questions, instead of dreaming. Well, I need to close here. I am
thinking about you all the time. Take care. Bye!
Yours Oksana.
Hi, sunshine Nick!
The day is great today because I've got a
letter from you. You are the best what I have in my life and I am not
alone any more. Every time I go to the Internet cafe, it is a date
with you. It is the greatest even for me during the day. I even can't
find the words to describe what feelings I have when I get a message
from you. It is like a storm. I forget about the world around me- only
you and I in the whole world. But every fairy-tale has the end
-sometimes sad, sometimes happy. I hope that we will have the happy
end, what do you think???????? Yesterday I decided to talk to my mom
about you. I was a little bit afraid to do it. The reason is that she
loves very much and of course, like every mother she worries about me.
It is not an easy step to leave everything you have and move to the
strange for you country. The country where you know nothing. But I am
sure that with you I would be feel safe and secure and that I have
nothing to be afraid of. I told this to my Mom and read some points
from your letter. She told me that she trusts me. And if I am happy,
she is happy too. She thinks that you are a good, reliable, honest,
kind and caring person. And she wishes us only happiness and good
luck. But of course, only the meeting will show us if we really were
made for each another. I am sure already that you are my second half .
We really have much in common and I admire and respect you. Tomorrow
we are going to visit my aunt ( my mother's elder sister ). She is the
only one left in our family. My grandparents died and I miss them very
much. I loved them very much. My aunt, her name is Katya, lives in the
country-side not far from our town. She is 56 years old and she is
often ill. So we often go to visit her and to help with everything we
can. She loves me like her own daughter and always very glad to see
me. I will write you after that. So I will close here, dear. I can't
write you long letters because the services of the internet-cafe are
very expensive. Take care. Kisses and hugs. You are always with me in
my heart. Yours Oksana.
Hi, sunshine Nick!
Every morning I open my eyes and think about
you. And I run to the Internet cafe again with the hope to get your
letter. So at last I am able to read it and to write you, my dearest.
Isn't it a happiness? The only thing makes me sad is that you are so
far away from me. There is a distance between us but nothing will stop
me from seeing you. With each day my feelings to you become stronger.
And I am so afraid to lose you. I want to share everything with you
and to be near you, just to feel your warmth. I dream about it every
day. You really drive me crazy, now I can think only about you. And I
don't need anyone except you. I want us to be together, to make love,
to enjoy the time we spend together, just to watch movies, to cook
together, to listen to music, to go out, to do everything which is
called - family! Well, I will better stop here, because I don't want
you to think that I am weirdJ But I am really crazy about you. There
is no minute when I don't think about you. Well, I promised to tell
you about my visit to my aunt. She is very ill and we do everything to
help her. My salary is very small but I will spend all the money I
have just for her to recover. The medicine is very expensive here and
sometimes I hate my country for such a hard life we have here.
Products, medicine, clothes- everything costs a lot here but sometimes
we don't get our salaries for several months. But I am not
complaining, don't think so. I just need to share it with you, You are
the dearest person for me now and when I talk to you, I feel much
better. I love my mom and my aunt, they are my family now and I want
you to be the part of my family too, though you are already the part
of it. Hope that you are not against of it. You are a very close and
dear person to me and I thank the God that he gave me the opportunity
to find you in this big-big world. I need to close here and to go to
work. Take care, my dear and smile for me!!!!!!!!!!!! Bye! Write you
tomorrow. Yours forever. Oksana.
Hi, honey Nick!
It is already a tradition for me to go to the
Internet cafe. But frankly speaking, it is the best what is going on
during my day. I enjoy every letter I get from you and re-read them
every night. I want to share my life with you, I want to be always
with you, to feel your warmth and care. I am a very emotional,
passionate, hot-tempered woman and it is usual for me to show my
feelings. May be it seems strange for you, we haven't met with you in
the real life, we have only letters which I cherish but I have the
feeling that we know each another for ages. Hope you are not scared
with all these and you understand me. The most important in the
relations between two people, man and woman, love, of course, mutual
understanding, respect. Two people should trust each another at first,
understand, care about each another. His life will be my life and I
will give him all my love, care and tenderness. Let's fantasy a little
bit. Imagine:....... night, romance, we are alone in the room, we turn
on the music and dance slowly. I look into your eyes, they are so deep
and you look in mine, they are full of emotions. I see your lips, so
soft and I want to kiss them. We love each another and the minute is
an eternity... Or so... you are coming back from work. I am waiting
for you. I have cooked a very tasty dinner and we are sitting at the
table, you tell me the news, about your work and I am just listening
to you. I don't need anything else. I just enjoy the moments I spend
with you. Then we go to the living room and watch the movie. We are
sitting on the sofa, hugging and kissing. Just the calm evening.. Or
so ... weekend, we are cooking breakfast for our children, they are
running near us - a boy and a girl. After breakfast we are going to
walk, we are having picnic, then we are going to see our friends and
we come back home tired but so happy. We spent a day with our family.
Children are sleeping already and we are alone. We are making love and
the whole night is not enough for us. Tomorrow one more week will
begin and it will be even better..... Well, enough with my
dreams...Write me , please, your thoughts about it. I am waiting
impatiently for your reply, sunshine. Hot kisses for you .
Your baby
Oksana.
Sunshine Nick!!!!!!!
One more day without you. Only your letters
help me not to be sad. Today I am going to visit aunt Katya. Mom can't
go with me, she needs to work. And after I finish my work, I will go
to see her. She still didn't recover and I worry about her a lot. She
is not a young girl and she needs my care. I am in a low spirit
today, you are far from me and there are so many problems. There is
one more thing which upsets me, I already told you that the service of
the Internet cafe is rather expensive and I can't write you long
letters any more. I still haven't got my salary and I almost don't
have money. It upsets me very much. I hate this situation. Money is
nothing. But at the same time we can't live without it. I wish I could
have much money to write as much as I can and as often as I wish. But
alas! Ok, let's close this sad topic. I really need to go, dear. I
miss you badly. Tomorrow I will go to the church and will pray for you
and for us. And I will thank the God that I have you in my life now.
Thank you. Kisses and hugs, Your one and only. Oksana.
Darling Nick!!!
Everything is as usual in my life and nothing
special happens. I have seen the movie Pretty woman yesterday. I am
sure you have seen it too. I like this movie and I have seen it
several times already. After it I went to sleep and I was dreaming
about us. I believe that you are my second half and the destiny helped
us to meet. It is our chance to be happy and we can't miss it. It
would be unfair. I understand that we don't know each another for long
time and we haven't met but I don't care. I just know what I feel
inside and my heart tells me everything. I would never believe that I
can fall in love with the person I have never met in the real life.
But now I have experienced it and I believe in it. Everything could
happen in this life. And there is nothing strange in it. I need to
tell you one thing. It is really very important for me. But I need to
know that you trust me. You shouldn't have any concerns about me. I
don't deserve it. I have only serious intentions about you. Just write
me that you trust me and I will be not scared to tell you this. I need
to tell you this, because it is very hard to feel it inside and not be
able to tell you. Please, dear tell me, that you trust me and that you
don't think that I am weirdJ It is not so, I am just very sensitive
and sensual person. And you mean everything for me in my life. I just
can't imagine my life without you anymore. I will better die than lose
you. My life will be empty without you, it will have no meaning. I
will think about it tonight and will write you about my feelings
tomorrow. Please, be honest with me and write me your thoughts and
tell me just 3 words- I TRUST YOU. I want to
send you the address: 153000, Russia, Ivanovo, street Youth, 20- 5. My
full name the Oksana Moskalchuk. Take care, honey. You are in my
heart. Thousands of kisses. Yours forever. Oksana.
My dearest man in this world Nick!
I thought much about us
today. I can't keep it in myself any more. I need to tell you
everything I feel inside. You are the dearest person in my life and I
can't be apart from you. I know that it sounds strange for you. But
even that I haven't met you in the real life, I know one thing for
sure. Please, don't be scared. But I want to tell you that I love you,
yes, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you and the thought about you
makes me so happy. I want to be with you so much. I want to feel you
with every part of my body, I want to feel the tender touch of your
hands, to feel the smell of your body, just to know that I belong to
you and that you are mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am full of desire and I
want you as a man, I want to be your wife, your friend, your soul
mate, your lover, your dream. I understand now perfectly that you are
the man of my dream. I was searching for you all my life and now I
have found you and I am not going to lose you. We will be happy
together, I will do everything for it. I am strong enough to overcome
all the difficulties and hardships which are between us. There is no
barrier which can stop me. My love will overcome all the difficulties
on our way to each another. We will be together, believe me. I will
cross the ocean just to be with you. I don't need anything else - I
just want to see you, to look into your eyes, to kiss your lips, to
touch your strong body. My love will be enough for two of us. Do you
know the song of Bon Jovi Always. This song is about my feelings to
you. I will love you, baby, always and it doesn't matter for me what
will be in the future. I will love you, you are the air I breath, the
reason for me to live. And there is no life for me without you.
Please, don't hurt me and tell me that you understand me. Hope to hear
from you very soon. Love you. Miss you badly. Yours forever. Oksana.
Hi, my honey Nick!
It is amazing to get your letter
again!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss you badly, honey. I love you so much. I
can't be apart from you, it is so hard. You are my life, I want to hug
you so much, to feel your warmth, to look into your eyes, to feel
myself happy and safe near you. I am sure everything will be Ok and
the destiny will work for us and we will be happy together. I often
think about us and try to imagine our life together. Sometimes I feel
you so near and close to me. I even feel you on the distance. I feel
when you are in a high spirit and when you are sad. I am happy when
you are happy. I want to be with you so much and I though about the
ways for us to be together. So I tried to do something for us and
decided to go to the Embassy to check what I need to come to you. So,
to come to your country I need to make some paper work and to get
visa. It will take some time, of course, and to pick up many documents
from my side. But I will do everything which depends from me. But
there is one thing which upsets me very much. You see, I need to pay
for getting visa. And you know that my salary is too small for it. I
don't want to complain but you know that I have a difficult financial
situation here. I have a great desire to come to you, to see you at
last and only money separate us from each another. I love you so much,
honey and I don't want to lose you. Nobody can help me with it. Of
course, I could ask my Mom to help me but she doesn't have such money
though she would like to help us. I am honest and sincere with you. I
hope that you understand me and that you will do it for me. I already
gave some papers to them and they made a file for me. All I need now
is to pay them money. So it will be, $45 for visa and $30 for
registration, also I need to pay for medical exams - it will be $90,
$60 for the interview, and I need to get a foreign passport, it will
cost for about $50 and for some another expenses I may have. So in
general I will need for about $300. You have to send the money by bank
system Western Union to my name. You need to send me your full name,
address, amount of money and the control number (MTCN). You need my
full name and address, so here it Oksana Moskalchuk, Russia, Ivanovo,
street Youth, 20 - 5. Honey, I will need to pay them in a week, so,
please, try to send them this week. I really hope that you understand
my situation. I want to see you very much but without your help I
can't do it just because I don't have such money. Money is nothing but
they help to overcome all the difficulties on our way to each another.
Sorry, dear, if it upsets you. I just think that we need to trust each
another and to share everything. Hope that you agree with me. Just
imagine that in short time we could be together. And there is only one
problem now which can be solved with your help, dear. I love you so
much, you are the best in my life and our meeting could be the
happiest event for us. Miss you badly honey and waiting impatiently
for your soon reply. Your lady forever Oksana.