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Minyukova Anna (report #5)(uses the same pictures as Charm) Arkangelsk (actual location: Yoshkar-Ola), Russia
December 19, 2005 REGISTERED MAIL The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Russian Federation Consulate General of the Russian Federation 2790 Green Street San Francisco, CA 94123 CC: American Embassy in Moscow American Citizen Services 21 Novinskiy Bulvar 123242 Moscow, Russia Application I want to lounge a complaint against a Russian citizen named Anna Minyukova. The address that was given to me by this person is: Lenina Street 21, Arkhangelsk, 163015, Russian Federation; email address used: anyutochcka@yandex.ru; phone number: +37 602 222 0000. This person Anna Minyukova fraudulently received from me five thousand thirty five ($5,035.00) US dollars, and I ask you to prosecute her for fraud according to the law of the Russian Federation and recover the money I sent to this person. The details of my story are as follow: On October 6, 2005, I was contacted via email on my Yahoo personal profile, by a woman named Anna Minyukova. She indicated to be a Christian Russian Orthodox woman, single, with no kids, and looking for a serious relationship. Soon thereafter, we started an online email relationship, exchanged pictures and some information about each other. She sent me 13 pictures of herself and I sent her some pictures of myself. I did give her my home address and phone number, but no other personal information, and she gave me her home address. She did call me once, at 3:10A.M., we talked briefly for about four or five minutes. As the relationship progressed, she indicated that she wanted to come to the U.S. to meet me, and I expressed a similar desire and invited her to come to the U.S., but she indicated that she was poor and had no money for all the required traveling expenses and immigration fees. She asked me if I could help her with all the expenses. I was reluctant at first, but all her conniving love letters and pictures, convinced me about what a wonderful woman she was, and so I agreed. On October 24, 2005, I sent her $480.00, so she could travel from Arkhangelsk to Moscow, to file for a nonimmigrant tourist visa at the U.S. Embassy. She indicated that the U.S. Embassy had required her to have a round-trip airfare from Russia to the U.S., the airfare tickets would cost $2,010.00, on Delta Airline, money which I sent to her. On November 1, 2005, Anna indicated that the U.S. Embassy has requested her to have a pre-paid credit card, in the amount $2,500.00. She said it was to demonstrate that she was a financially secured citizen. So, at that point I almost didn't send the money, I had my suspicion that it may be a scam. But she reassured me that she was very serious about coming to the U.S., and convinced me at that point, that we should not turn back, that she was already in Moscow, just waiting for her visa, ready to fly to the U.S. And since I had already begun to spend money on her, I felt compelled to send the money for the credit card so she could fly to the U.S. On November 5, 2005, Anna contacted me back telling me that the visa was taking longer than expected and said she was running out of money for food. I only sent her $45.00 on that day, and that the last time I sent her money. Two weeks later she said that she would have to go back to Arkhangelsk, because the visa was taking too long to be issued. One week supposedly, after arriving at Arkhangelsk, she indicated that her mother was having problems with her heart, and that she would require a heart surgery, and that even though the expenses for the surgery would be covered, the medicine was not, and that they did not have any money for medicine. She asked me for more money to help her for her mom's medicines. I told her I did not have any more money, and that I had already spent a great deal of money on her. Up until that point, she had emailed me almost daily, but then she stopped emailing me after I refused to send her any more money. She didn't email me for about a week. On December 15, 2005, she emailed me indicating that her mom was feeling better, and that she would be flying soon to the U.S. That is the last time I heard from her. I am very sad, traumatized, depressed and embarrassed that this happened to me. I still can’t believe I fell for this. Anna Minyukova defrauded me of above-mentioned money, by deceiving and misleading me into thinking that she was a genuine person of good moral character, and that she was actually coming to the United States. This has been a very expensive lesson for me, and I wished I had done some research before sending her any money. On December 17, 2005, I discovered that Anna Minyukova has done the same to other people. I found her name and home address to be on two scammer blacklists, at www.womenrussia.com/blacklist.htm; and www.roses.ru, and under other aliases: Elena Elyanova, elencka@pochta.ws and Olga Ushakova, olckk@mail.ru I therefore request to prosecute Anna Minyukova for fraud according to the law of the Russian Federation and recover the money that I sent to this person. I consider the financial damage made to me as substantial. I also file for emotional, or moral, damage. I confirm the legitimacy of the documents that are attached with this letter. I am ready to assist with the investigation in any way they need me to assist. I am lounging this application as an official statement and request to prosecute the criminal or criminal group hiding behind this fraud operation. Included with this application are: 1. Four sample email letters that I received from Anna Minyucova. I have more email letters if you need them. 2. Four copies of Western Union receipt(s) for the total amount of ($5,035.00) U.S. dollars. 3. Copy of my California Driver’s License to confirm my identity in this complaint. A copy of this Application is being sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center. I appreciate very much your attention to this matter.
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