Tatyana Anatol'evna Osykina.
14 Pugacheva Street,  Apartment 1, 
Armavir, 352909,  Krasnodarski-krai,  Russia.
Telephone:-  +7 861 375 2496
Email :rustik2000@yandex.ru
Russian Passport No.:-      03 00 750464
International P/port No.:- 60 3692133. Issued 17/3/2003. Authority UVD 114.





























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Here are some details of yet another scammer, this time in Russia.  This one seems to be more clever than most. She works on a long-term basis.  She advertised  her profile as "Nina".

We corresponded for 10 months, and at first I had no suspicions. Her letters seemd very genuine, talking about all sorts of things and answering my questions and the points I made in my letters to her.  She told me she lives with her parents, no phone available, at home or work, and uses a friend's computer to access emails and the internet.  She said she has a sister, named Tatiana. She gave me the phone number of a friend from work, so I could call her at pre-arranged times.

Because I felt, after a few months and several emails, that she was genuinely fond of me, I asked her if she had an international passport, to come to England to visit me.  She said no, she had not.  I offered to send her enough money to pay for that, only a few dollars. She seemed to be genuinely keen to come to England and meet me.

At this point, the first alarm bell rang, because she confessed that her real name is not "Nina", but "Tatyana", (with a "y").  Her false name was apparently to protect her from scammers, unwelcome emails from her profile,  junk email and the like.  I was annoyed, and told her so.
She apologised profusely and hoped I would understand.  Her real name, she said now, is Tatyana Osykina.  She gave me an address so I could send her the few dollars by Western Union.

This raised the interesting point, if she is Tatyana, what is her sister's name?  Also Tatiana, she said, (spelt with an "i").  Now I began to think there was something seriously amiss, because I never heard of  a family with two girls having the same name!  But, it is possible, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt and we continued writing.

She wrote and said she had her international passport, and gave me the number.  I recognised it as an "international passport" type number. Her letters were still genuine, it seemed to me, and she was still talking about getting a visa and coming to London.  She had sent some photos, but now she started to send erotic ones. And she started to write some VERY erotic stories about her and me in different situations.  Sometimes the letters were in perfect English, sometimes  not good English at all.  I began to wonder if there was more than one person writing the letters.

At the same time her letters also contained interesting information about her, her work, poems for me, jokes, all very nice, and apparently completely normal and genuine.  I sent a few more dollars for a gift, suggesting a new camera as the old one was not much good, and some little present for her mother.

She was still talking about getting a visa and coming to see me.  After a few more months I decided that my suspicions were unfounded, but probably wise anyway.  I sent her money for a visa.

After she had received the money,  "work" started to take her away for one or two weeks at a time.  One day she said she would go to Moscow to the embassy the following week and apply for a visa.  (I was sure she would NOT!)

I told her that I had sent a sponsor's letter to the embassy, so she could go there and have her interview and get her visa.

Some days later she wrote and said that she had given all her papers and the fee to a man in the embassy while she was waiting in the queue.  I did not believe her so I phoned the embassy and asked if they had had an application from someone with her name.  They had not, of course.

Now her erotic emails became positively pornographic, accompanied by some pornographic photos of herself.  Very nice to read and look at, but unfortunately, the only effect they had was to make me more suspicious that she was using them to keep an older man "hooked",  presumably in the hope that I would send more money at some future date.  The stories and letters were obviously copied straight from a magazine or book and the names changed to my name and hers.

The next thing was that her grandmother was ill, near Moscow, so the whole family was going there and she would go for a second time to get a visa.  I heard nothing for about 10 days, so I called the embassy again. Still no application from her. Then she wrote and said she had to go back to her grandmother's village for an important meeting about the estate.  She would apply for her visa then.

She did not, of course. Perhaps the visits about her grandmother were genuine, perhaps not, but she did not go to the embassy. She said she still had the money I sent her, she had not used it for anything else.  I asked her if she still had her international passport, She said yes, of course.  (But if she had really given her papers to someone for a visa, she would given that too!!)

I did not hear from her for several weeks, and then received a letter from her sister telling me that she was seriously ill with pneumonia.  Her family was going to visit her.

Eventually she "returned",  evaded my questions about her illness, and said she would go to Moscow the following week, (again!!) and apply for a visa.

Another call to the embassy, another non-application.

Now I did not hear from her for several weeks again. I wrote once or twice, no reply, so I wrote and said I suspected her of being a scammer. This brought an immediate response, telling me she had met  another girl  in a chat room on the internet and this girl had told her that she was going to England to marry me!!!  She was so angry, she said, she stopped writing.

I told her it was not true, and asked for the girl's name and email address.  She evaded the questions. She also said that now her friend had moved away, so it was more difficult to get access to a computer, so she would not be able to write so much or so often.

The next letter from her was addressed to a different man.  She had finally made the mistake that so many scammers make:- got confused about who she was writing to.

In the meantime I had run a (belated!) background check on her and discovered that although her name and address appear to be genuine, she had no official job. The phone number she gave me as belonging to a friend from work was registered to her address, but not in her family name.  And, she has NO SISTER.

I wrote and told her what I had discovered. She said she does have a sister. She evaded the other points. I asked her to return the money she had remaining.  She said she would.  After two weeks I wrote again and asked her again to send it. Altogether, she promised FOUR TIMES to return the balance of the money.  Of course she has not.  I told her I would report her as a scammer, which produced a letter promising yet again to send the money.  This was in December 2003. I have not heard a word since and have not had the money back.

There is no doubt that she has worked a long-term
scam here, taking advantage of the money for the
visa and using the porno stuff so that I would think
it was worthwhile corresponding and sending more
money.  Four promises to get a visa, but she has
never applied, four promises to return the money to
me but she has not.

Her details and some photos follow;-  and if anyone
reading this recognises her, beware!!   She may
seem like a nice, demure family girl, but in truth
she is a liar and a very patient, manipulative female
out for what she can get!
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