Letter to the Minister of MVD and UBEP

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To the Minister of the MVD
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John Smith
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I John Smith, in April of 2006, residing at this address <YOUR ADDRESS>, having looked through this dating site for a wife, came across a lady that interested me. Her advertisement at this dating site, <WEB ADDRESS> looked real and sincere with pictures of her. I emailed her through the dating site under the advertised name Tatyanalove. She promply replied to me and gave me her email address as <THE SCAMMER'S EMAIL ADDRESS>. Over the next 2 months we talked daily. She sounded very nice and friendly. We became what I thought involved in a romantic way. She told me that she was a librarian at the local library in Yoshkar-Ola. Her father had passed away from cancer and her mother was on a state pension. I thought she was a nice woman. We became involved and she suggested that she come to America and marry me. She said her aunt worked at a travel agency and could get a travel visa easily. She asked for money to get the visa, passport, and the doctors examines. I sent her $1,000 by Western Union. She after a week said she would now go to Moscow for her visa appointment. I believed her. She came back from Moscow saying she now had the visa issued to her and now was ready to buy the airline ticket and needed $2,000 for this. I sent her then $2,000 for the airline ticket Western Union. Tatyana emailed me back with the travel date and went to Moscow to board the flight. She later called me on the phone in a hurried voice saying she found out she could not leave because the customs at the airport said she had to have $9,000 to exit customs as proof of travel expenses for the 3 month visa she had issued to her. I quickly sent her another $4,000 to get this to her, in $2,000 amounts by Western Union. I took this money out of my retirement account. I tried then to send the $5,000 to complete the $9,000 total she needed. Western Union called me at home and told me they would not send it. They said she never picks up this money from the same bank. They said they thought she was committing fraud. Western Union had called me from their fraud Dept. She was frantic now, she said she could not leave without this money. I became suspicious. I asked her for copies of her Visa and her Passport and after 3 days recieved from her these in her email. I then checked with the US Embassy in Moscow and sent a copy of her Visa to them with her name. They wrote back saying that there is no one with a US Visa by that name. They explained to me that this is a common fraud in Russia to get your money. She has sent me forged documents, both a Russian Passport and a US Visa. They are forgeries. I trusted this woman, she said she loved me and wanted to marry me and have a family with me. This was quite emotionally distressing to me to be scammed like this. Is this anyway to treat a person? She led me to believe she loved me. I have been romance scammed by one of your citizens. I take offense to this and now I want to pursue prosecution to the full extent of the law. I now have been contacted from another woman from Russia saying she is from the Volga River Delta in the city of Cheboksary. I checked the IP address and this email came from Yoshkar-Ola, not Cheboksary. I have done some research and it has come to my knowledge that your country especially Yoshkar-Ola has a very large Dating Fraud problem to which I am a victim. Now that she has recieved this money she asks for more. I do not respond now. She has stopped writing to me and has disappeared.

I am asking for a complete institutional investigation into this fraud. This material damage is very essential to me. I know that these women are being put up to this by a ring of men and women. I see that this is a very big problem in your country and now is affecting the international community. I will not end my pursuit of justice till this matter is resolved and these people are brought before a court of law.

I have all of the Western Union wire transfers, plus the forged Passports and the US Visa. All email correspondence. I believe she recieved one of the Wire transfers from The Trast Bank in Yoshkar-Ola on Komsomolskaya Street on June 6, 2006. This Western Union Control Number is 993 936 3750. I am also sending copies of all Western Union Wire Tranfers and copies of the Forged Documents. I am asking for the person's name that had to show identification to recieve this money and copies of this identification. The name of all the banks involved and the Copies of the Identification shown to recieve this money.

I formally request to institute crimminal proceedings and take culpabale participants to a court of law.

Sincerely,

John Smith