... in response to she's a scammer, posted by chevy on Nov 2, 2002....They get theirs on occasion. Here's a a little story you might enjoy.
As I mentioned before, I'm aiding a pal who began this adventure a few months ago. He ended up being contacted by a beautiful girl named Mila. Now Mila is really Svetlana Popovich, a well know and long time scammer. (Search on Google) Not too bright, she uses model's photos and is not smart enough to change her ISP and M.O. even though she also uses the name Natalia on occasion. (Lol, she actually tried to play him at the *same time* using this name and a different photo and email address.)
Rather than having him blow her off, I had a friend in the DOJ track her emails to a small area in Odessa by using some contacts available to him. Since thats as close as he could get, we waited until she asked for money (it took about 6 letters) and then contacted Western Union USA and explained the situation to them. (Btw, there are over 100 WU agents in Odessa.) He then sent her a phoney WU number. They waited for her to show and, after asking to see her identification, told her the number was wrong. (Turns out they know her well anyway.)
She writes very beautiful letters and lays it on real thick. Her next letter stated the WU number was incorrect and could he please send her the correct one. We then let her know she'd been had. (Fwiw, the local authorities in Odessa were not at all interested in pursuing this, although thats not what we told her.)
So now they know who she is, where she lives, and her Ukrainian PP number. While we sent a complaint to the Ukrainian government and notified the Embassy in Odessa, I doubt it'll have any impact. She's now in the INS and US Custom's databases as an undesirable so she'll get a surprise if she ever tries to obtain a visa or clear a US port of entry using that passport. But the nice thing is W.U. cut her off, making it impossible to use them for receiving funds from the USA only. (Odd they would make that stipulation.) This should put a crimp in her activities, at least somewhat. We're waiting for some action from her ISP but nothing so far. The American dating website removed her profile after they did a simple search on the Net to verify what we told them.
All this was possible because of guys who reported her in the past and our thanks to those who did. The letters my pal received were identical to those reports and without this information W.U. could have simply blown us off. (The Fed's slight involvement helped also.) If you're ever scammed I implore you to report it to anyone you can think of, including the various internet entities engaged in the collection of scammer information. Sure it feels bad to be taken, but you'll very likely save someone else the pain.
She can still dupe guys from other countries however, so consider yourself warned. Fwiw, my friend has now found what he thinks is the R/W of his dreams but there's also a strange twist to that story. I'll write about it after I know more and he okays it.
