File Updated: June, 07

Why is "Anastasiaweb" (anastasiaweb.com) on the Black List?

If you are using any of these agencies, you are the biggest idiot on the face of the planet. I don't mean to insult anyone, but this place is a HUGE scam. Maybe you are talking to a real girl, probably not. Why are you giving them money?

I have conclusive proof (many times over) that this corporation is conducting fraudulent business. I will not post this info, I need it as a surprise for the future. But, I am telling you, avoid this agency! Below are some of the better reports from men who have had problems with this company.
(Special Legal Action Alert!!)
(Anastsiaweb is scared of Jim!!)
(MORE about this menace!!)

* READ CAREFULLY - If you read the policies of this agency, you will see that they send intro letters from the girls without the girls' knowledge of this. They call it matchmaking. This means that you are paying to open a letter from a girlt hat has no idea that she sent it to you. Chances are that she won't be interested in you. The FSU offices are sending fake letters and writing letters for the girls and you are paying for it. This agency is the biggest scam in the dating industry. Just look at the site now, it is all candy, beautiful photos and nothing more. Oh, only scamming.

* UPDATE - I now have proof that anastasiaweb.com copies and steals profiles from otehr sites and agencies. This means that you have no idea if the the profile, from which you received a fake letter, is real.Do you understand? In the past, I told guys that the girls on anastasiaweb are real, it is the agency that is a scam. But now, the agency is stealing profiles, so you cannot know whether the girl is real or not. But the chances are 90% that her letters are written by the office.

And they made a fake site called agency-scams.com - what the hell is that? Proof of scamming.

 Below are the complaints, but because so many guys still get ripped off by this company, I will try to explain exactly what is going on a this agency. You will never know for sure if the girl is writing the letters or if it someone at the agency doing it without the girl's knowledge. A lot of guys have talked about the sincerity of the girl's and agency. They say that the girl wrote them back and told the guy that they weren't interested in him. Well, if you knew Russian women, you would know that they usually never do this. They simply ignore the guy and don't even bother replying. So, you paid $8 to send the letter and $8 to read the reply. Not much? If even half of the male members have this happen just once a month, this agency is making $300,000 only from this one little scam!!! And now they have legalized their scamming. They print right in their list of rules that they send out introductory letters from girls without their knowledge in hopes of making a match. Do you want to pay for a letter from a girl that didn't even know she sent it to you? How about a guy's theory that when you browse some profiles, the girls then magically send you a letter a few days later. Wow, like Neverland!! How about the fact that if you don't pay to open letters, you stop receiving letters? The first 500 girls liked me, then no other girls liked me? How is that possible? You don't pay, so girls stop liking you? Oh yeah, that sounds like an honest business to me. (Yes, I am a sarcastic person.) This agency is conducting fraud, plain and simple. And their constant denial of the lawsuits are explained on the other page (link above)

This agency has also started a blacklist? Yes. datingscam.com is run by anastasiaweb. They have a black and white list of agencies. (Gee, I wonder where they got that idea.) And guess what, all their competition is on the blacklist and all their partners are on the white list. They are actively searching ways to attack their competitors.

I have heard from the horse's mouth (Russian girls) that anastasiweb pays the girls 30 roubles ($1) for every reply they get from men. Some girls who don't care about the money let their friends answer for them FORGET THIS AGENCY!!!!! 

You will spend a fortune and probably have nothing to show for it. There are even some guys who ultimately met their wives there, after paying thousands and thousands of dollars. Why so much? Because wading through the scams is hard. Do you want to know how to use anastasiweb without paying? Put the girl's info in different combinations in different search engines and find her on a different site. Contact her there. Many guys have done this and found that they were, in fact, being scammed at Aweb or had success away from Aweb.

 I will start listing all the sites that simply direct you to Anastasiweb because this site is a menace and must be stopped.

Girls4dating.com

I just spoke with a former employee of the ***** agency. She left the company because she was upset with its business practices. She admitted to me that ALL of the correspondence through the agency is faked. This would apply to the Anastasia website, since ***** is affiliated with them as well. [there is another agency that occasionally posts girls to Anastasiaweb, but most of the KZ and Novosibirsk, RU ladies on Anastasiaweb are part of the ***** agency]

Anonymous(for obvious resaons)

NEW...

letter from girl to guy on anastasia...
        Dear ****,
        I hope you are doing Okay.
        Today I will write something really sad. I can not communicate with you
anymore. I don't want to give you a wrong hope. I am not someone you take me
for. I never wanted to hurt anyone. You are an amazing person and I am sure
you will find the girl you need. I am not sure that you will understand the
code of this letter. I just don't know how to translate better. The
beautiful girl in your fantasy is me just by appearance. But I am different.
If you understand me the right way. Please don't start a war against me
because I will try everything not to make such a cruel mistake again. I hope
for your understanding and cannot say how much I respect you and your
wonderful letters. Please forgive and forget. Believe me, just believe, if
you knew me really you would not like me. I know what I am saying. Use your
intuition.
Respectfully, your friend,
Marina. 

NEW(Jan 6)
Dear Jim:
I've got a story to tell you about Anastasia.com. They not only scammed me by sending "form letters," but also got me in a confrontation with an angry husband of one of their supposedly "single" women. Her name is Irina from Moscow. She's 5'7" tall, dirty blond hair. She looks 29-31 but said she was 24. Irina actually has 2 children and is married, but I was told by the Anastasia company that she was single. Her biography is no longer on the Anastasia website. Anyway, I met with Irina thinking she was single. We had pizza in Red Square. I never touched her nor went out on a second date. She is a smoker and I hate smoking. Anyway, we said good-bye to each other and I did not plan on seeing her again. I was running late to another date so I forgot about her all together. Around 1 AM Moscow time, a man claiming to be her husband knocked on my door at the Cosmos Hotel. The hotel is furnished very well but the security is bad. They seem to check foreigners all the time but let every Russian upstairs to the guest areas. Irina's husband produced a Russian Passport with his children's information on it. I couldn't read Russian but he seemed upset enough and I believed him. He wanted to come into my hotel room but I said no. He then got an attitude with me and threatened to call the police and hotel security. I asked him how he got up to my floor and he said, "I told security that you were my friend." He then produced a note with my hand writting/my hotel information. I had forgotten that I had exchanged information with Irina earlier in the evening (this is before I knew she was a smoker). I slammed the door on Irina's husband. I called the front desk, they hardly speak English so it was difficult to explain the situation. The end result was that Irina's husband was escourted out by security and I am disgusted with Anastasia company. By the way, Anastasia's Moscow office admitted that they send American men "form" letters never issued by Russian and Ukrainian women.

Hello Jim

It seems to be that the problem with Anastasiaweb is that there is no control on their agents. This was demonstrated when the Voronezh agent stole 4 of my profiles, a straight copy and paste, including the pictures taken of the girls sitting in my office. I was alerted to this only when a man wrote to me and said he had exchanged a number of e-mails with a girl on Anastasiaweb and he had found her on my site so could he write through us as we are much cheaper than Anastasiaweb. This was a bit of a surprise to me as at that time all the girls in my agency were exclisive to us. The thing is, we did not sell addresses so how was it that the local agent was able to contact my girls if they received letters? I called all the girls and this was news to them, they had not posted their profiles on Anastasiaweb, and they
didn't even have the copies of MY photos to do it if they wanted to. The guy sent me all the letters supposedly written by one of the girls. She had not written any of them, the man was 20 years older than her stated maximum age. So it was clear that the letters came from the local agent NOT the lady in question.

When I approached Anastasiaweb about this they basically said... who the hell are you anyway, some tiny agency no one had ever heard of, its not our problem, take it up with the local agent...go away !!

Repeated e-mails got me nowhere, but when I complained to the FBI Internet Fraud Dept, surprise surprise, ALL the Voronezh girls were removed....they were put back a week later minus my 4 profiles.

Since then I have discovered one of their girls stated as 19 was infact 17, still at school and thought her pictures were on a model agency site. She couldn't understand why I was at her house with flowers from a guy she didn't know....but he had a dozen letters from 'her' all charged at $8 each of course.

Men post their profiles on that site...its an open invitation for a number of Russians to send them a standard letter , knowing that this plays on mens egos... they can have 600+ replies in a day. Wake up !!! its not real, they just want you to pay $8 each for letters. Why can't men see this, its beyond my understanding.

Steven Williams
With Love From Voronezh

Hello Jim,
I was just browsing for agencies in Voronezh when I ran across your site. I may have written to you before about Anastasiaweb. The heading of your site about them is what caught my attention. I, too, know for a fact that both of those agencies are scamming men. A lady from **** Agency wrote to me through Anastasiaweb about a year ago. She later contacted me through a friend's PC and told me the story. She claimed that she caught someone at the agency writing her letters to me. She had originally corresponded with me, but then got sick and the agency continued to write and, acting as her, begged me to come to see her through the Anastasia tour that was coming up. I resisted and "she" persisted until I finally gave in. The only thing that saved me from losing $3200 for the tour is that it was cancelled and I got a refund along with $300 worth of email tokens. When I notified Anastasiaweb they said the manager would call me within 2 hours. I never heard from them again. And actually I was never credited the tokens I used during our correspondence. I let them buy me off with those tour refund tokens and I never pursued anything. I have a copy of the lady's email statement. I did actually meet 2 women (I could not call them ladies) from their website, but they both scammed me very subtly. Why can't anything be done about Anastasiaweb? Are they that untouchable? They don't even try to hide it anymore. I am truly amazed that word of mouth hasn't put them out of business. Is there anything I can do to help? I would love to see them out of business.
Sincerely, Gerald

Hi Jim,

I registered my profile with the Anastasiaweb a couple of months ago and since then I have got about 400 emails. I met with a Russian girl living in Vladivostok through the other agency month ago and to my surprise I have recently got an email from this lady through the Anastasia 2 weeks ago. I was pretty surprised with her email as I could not believe that she wrote this email to me. She sounds like a stranger to me on her email. So I contacted her straight away and learned that she had never filed her profile with the Anastasia or any other agency at all and she never sent me that email, either.

I emailed the Anastasia a warning message asking them clarify this case and got the below email from Alexandra.
(Quote)
Some of the agencies we deal with work as Matchmaking agencies, i.e. find a match and email first introductory letters on the ladies’ behalf. If the lady gets interested she sends a positive reply and correspondence starts. If the lady is not interested she sends a negative reply and I refund the client’s account with 3 wasted credits (reading introductory letter, responding to it, reading rejection letter).
Best regards,
Alexandra, administrator www.anastasiaweb.com
(Unquote)
I was really frustrated with her crazy reply and sent her another email saying that I will pass on this absurd case to other innocent people who intend to meet with the real Russian woman but no reply from her at all. The above girl asked the Anastasia to delete her profile but still there as of today( 26 September). I think I have been abused and cheated by this shit agency for the last couple of months.
Thanks for reading my email.

Regards,
Kenny from Auckland, New Zealand

* Jim's note. Here are the first 3 emails from a girl to "John." Make sure you read the 3rd letter carefully.

Hello XXXX! I am glad to receive the letter from you. I think the same and do not search for games in the Internet.
Certainly it is very important to finding out now. I want to write you and to receive the answers to the questions frankly. I will be always frank with you. I would like further to meet you. Tell me more about your beautiful place. Do you have children? How do you like to spend spare time? Whether do you have holiday? Do you like to travel? Why and how did you decide to search the woman in Ukraine? What woman would you like to see near yourselves? That is pleasant to you and what is not pleasant in the women? Tell me about your job. I can speak and understand English. I''ll wait for the letter from you. With best regards,
Victoria.

Dear XXXX,
I believe respect and understanding is necessary in any relationship along with common interests and views on love and life. Evaluation of our compatibility, your ability to love is what important in my eyes. Hope you need someone you have a good cry on after bad day, to talk before you''ll see night dreams, and you tired of hugging your pillow.... I am waiting for your reply… Viktoria.

Hello, XXXX!
Only today I could see your photo and read about you. Unfortunately I could not see it before. And I never sent you any letters. I would be interested to meet you in real life. I am very cultural and intelligent. I think at meeting we will like each other. We would answer the questions of each other. Of course, if you have a visa to Ukraine valid until November, we have time to write to each other and meet. You were disappointed in your previous girl-friend. And I do not want you to be disappointed in me. I am sending toy you my home address and I wish to receive a letter from you with your photos. It is very important for me. Please, answer me only to this ID and send me a regular letter with the story about yourself. I think you are serious and real for me. I am interested much in continuing our correspondence and of course our meeting. I do not want to miss my chance and miss you in my life.
My sister got married happily thanks to the agency I am corresponding with you now, she met an American man and lives now in Texas.
Sincerely
Viktoria

* Jim's note. So, of course "John" asked Anastasiaweb what was going on. Here's the reply.

Dear John,
I have got the result of investigation 10 minutes ago.
We have spoken to the lady directly. She remembers corresponding with you through profile 42564 only. I have fined the agency responsible for ID: 45103 and have refunded your account with 2 credits.
If you have any problems with our system or our ladies, or any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Alexandra, administrator www.anastasiaweb.com

* Jim's note. So, the head office knows about this spamming and does what? Fines the agency? That means they took back the agencies commision for the 2 emails that "John" paid. And, then the refund doesn't come in cash form to "John", he gets credits. Remember, always keep the customer happy.

-----Original Message-----
From: XXX@XXX
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:11 AM
To: Alexandra Pomogayeva
Subject: Profile 51683

Here is another example of one of your agents cheating. I already know this lady through another source. Her personal email is XXX@XXX and she speaks fluent English. So how could she be writing to me through your agency? I received this ‘enquiry’ on my id 71102.
I expect some clear answers and unequivocal changes to your business practices.
John Watt

Dear John,
I will try to explain this to you as best as I can.
Some of the agencies we deal with work as Matchmaking agencies, i.e. find a match and email first introductory letters on the ladies’ behalf. If the lady gets interested she sends a positive reply and correspondence starts. If the lady is not interested she sends a negative reply and I refund the client’s account with 3 wasted credits (reading introductory letter, responding to it, reading rejection letter).
Best regards,
Alexandra, administrator www.anastasiaweb.com

* Jim's note. So now they know and allow the field agencies to send out unsolicited letters?? And "John" gets another letter and complains. Then read the next complaint letter and compare it to what they said in the last letter.

-----Original Message-----
From: XXX@XXX
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:44 PM
To: Alexandra Pomogayeva
Subject: Irrelevant enquiries again! profile 37678
Importance: High 

This has to be another example of agency initiating correspondence (my uid 71102) - I had correspondence with this lady through match.com last year and she was not interested!
John

And the reply...

Hello John,
Yes, this is a promotional letter. The agency tried to find a match.
Best regards,
Alexandra, administrator www.anastasiaweb.com

* Jim's note. Promotion letter? That's agency talk for "spam that you pay for." Is this a respectable business practice? Read the next one!!

Dear Anastasia Web,
Please remove my name from your men's catalogue, and delete my registration information.
In less than 24 hours since I registered last evening, I have received more than 45 "letters" from women across the Ukraine and Russia. Most of these women have model-like beauty, and some are as young as eighteen. (I am 49.)
If I am to believe the authenticity of these letters, dozens of women stayed up all last night, huddled by their computers, linked to your web site, composing responses to my profile as soon as it appeared.
Your scamming isn't even sophisticated. It's clumsy.
Steven, Canada

Hi Jim,
Further to our exchange of e-mails about Anastasia Web, I thought you'd like
to see the response I received when I e-mailed the company and called them
on their scam..
Along with the "letters" that Anastasia spits out, I suspect this response
is also canned. It certainly doesn't address the issue of how dozens of
Russian women could be writing letters to me in the middle of the night,
immediately after my profile had been posted in their men's catalogue.
Cheers,
Steven

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandra Pomogayeva"
To: "Steven" XXX@XXX
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:11 AM
Subject: RE: Registration information from ANASTASIAWEB.COM


Dear Steven,
Thank you for your inquiry. I can understand your doubts and will try to explain as best as I can. It is only natural that you receive many responses to your ad, as there are several thousands family-oriented ladies on our
website, who are actively searching for a true soul mate. And it is wonderful that you get many letters, as it means that you can choose the one you like most of all. Please be assured that the letters are sent by the ladies themselves. They come to their local agencies to look through the Gentlemen listings, there they choose the gentleman they would like to send their introductory letter to, and this is how you find the first letters from ladies in your inbox. Please keep in mind that you are under no obligation to open all these letters. We suggest that you take a look at the
lady's profile before opening her letter to see if she interests you, and only then open her letter. It is very quick and simple to do, and should be very helpful. I want to assure you also that the ladies on our system can read all the information about you in your bio. However, many of them are so anxious to find a true soul mate that they think the most essential thing in the beginning is to attract your attention, even if they do not completely meet your criteria. This is what they are trying to do by sending their first letters to you.
We have deleted your gent's listing per your request but you still have the access to your account and you can write letters to the ladies yourself. It's just your picture that will not be screened for the ladies. I you still would like us to delete you from our system completely please let me know.
If you have any problems with our system or our ladies, or any questions at
all, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Alexandra, administrator www.anastasiaweb.com

* Jim's note. OK, they told John that the agencies send out form letters in a match making attempt, but they told Steven that the ladies send the letters themselves. Then, when asked to be removed from the site, they only deleted Steven's photo, and said he would still continue to receive letters. Am I missing something?

Hello Jim,

I am a French man named XXXX, I was registered on the site anastasiaweb during two months. Here is my experience of scams on this site.

First experience:
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My data is country: France, language: French, English, with no photo on the site in a first time. Example of introduction letters:

1) I’m fond of foreign languages especially I like English language, traditions and culture of English-speaking countries.
2) I believe that in future I will have an opportunity to learn English and we will have no problem in expressing our thoughts of love to each other.
3) Hello dear, I very liked your picture, you have very intelligent face, it seems that you are very nice guy.
4) All the introduction letters I have opened (about 15), the only thing related to my personal data was my first name, nothing else.

Second experience, women I corresponded with, ID 48783, Anna, 23 yo, Odessa, about 12 exchanges:
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1) The subjects she talks about in letters have no relations with her profile, in anastasiaweb (have also seen her on onetruelove).
2) Many questions in letters, but rarely responses to my questions
3) Letters have always the same squeleton: 2 lines related to my last letter, the long monologue with many questions, 2 lines related to me in conclusion.

third experience, women I corresponded with, ID 49920, Vita, 19 yo, Riga, about 10 exchanges:
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1) same remarks as before
2) when I said the relation was near to stop because of an accident (a real one) that I had, she (they certainly) even didn't understand my letter. The response letter was short, returned in a very short time, and the only matter was "why do you want to stop our correspondence ?"
3) I answered that I was wondering if she exists really, the response letter was short, returned in a very short time, proposing a telephone call to verify her existence (still a little more money please).

Forth experience, suspect women on the site:
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1) Nina Todorova, you report as a scammer, also called Natalia ID vg0433, still active on onetruelove. She was on the site anastasiaweb for a few weeks, recently withdrawn from the site, not in the "deleted" selection
2) Valeria 18 y/o St Petersburg, an escort girl, other addresses:
- www.egoist.spb.ru/escort/girls/val1/en.htm
- www.russianwomenescorts.com/sex-pics/?ion=2129&back=list
She was for several weeks on anastasiaweb, very recently withdrawn from the site, not in the "deleted" selection

Fifth experience, search engine Yahoo.com:
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I have searched for "anastasiaweb and scam" on Yahoo.com, I have not found any bad remarks on anastasiaweb (I have read they are sponsor of yahoo). Fortunately, I have found your site on google.

CONCLUSIONS:
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Thank you very much for the job you do. I hope, one of these days, the American authorities will hold an inquiry on these sites (anastasiaweb and also onetruelove). It would be very easy to collect proofs with electronic auditing.

I withdraw from anastasiaweb. I am sorry to have loose some money (about 250 USD), more sorry to have loose my time, and also for the few real and kind girls they certainly involve in this, and whom I will never contact. Now, I will follow your tips, and only deal with sites with serious anti-scam policies.

I write you this message, because, in my short experience, there is absolutely no doubt: anastasiaweb are clearly scammers. For onetruelove, I am sure they are (girl reported as a scammer still there, pretty girls on the site for a very long time, appearing in first when you have a selection, ...)

You are welcome to contact me if I can help you more.

Jim,

 Thank you for helping me out. The reason for me asking is that I have received 564 e-mails from women but as soon as the communication comes to be serious they vanish from the site. Which led me to question whether the woman posted real letter or they just deprive me of money (1600 USD so far).

 Mr. X

Dear XXXX,

   This is not the only agency that deploys this scam and you're not the only one who has been scammed this way. An agency called ANASTASIA INTERNATIONAL (www.anastasiaweb.com)does the exact same thing (dating-ru has surprisingly a partnership with these crooks). I signed up for free a long time ago and purchased "tokens" or credits they call them each credit costs $6. As soon as I signed up, I received over 100 emails with pictures, etc. in one week. Each time you open an email, you spend 1 credit, i.e. $6. Then if you want to reply, you spend another credit and so on. You are not allowed to write more than 2,500 characters (i.e. paragraphs). Needless to say all the letters I received and those that I answered and received second and third mails were generic, bounce back type letters. I ended up spending over $200 in less than 2 weeks having accomplished absolutely nothing. Also, I was warned each time that if I write or request an email address, the software will detect it and erase it automatically. I was advised that if I want the girl's email, then I would have to purchase the snail mail address for $10, send the girl a letter and request her email. As strange as it may sound these crooks have been able to get around with this scam for years and are one of the sites that thrive on the dating scam.

 Larry

To Whom It May Concern,

I put my profile up on anastasiaweb.com and have received hundreds of emails from women, some beautiful, some average and some not-so-average. I searched this site for any mention of it and it is not there. It costs $8 to read an email and another $8 to reply. They strip out any mention of alternate emails and want you to just go through them. Any feedback on this site would be appreciated.

 UnHappy

Hello Jim,

I see that you finally added Anastasiaweb to your black list. I sure wish this had happened sooner, before I lost well over a thousand to them. I recently received two emails from two different women with the same section within word for word. The letter had been written by a third person, not either lady.

I have experienced your scam about the lady being there for a while sending out canned letters and then receiving the bad news that she has to leave town tonight with her family and she will probably never return and she can't tell me why or if/when she'll be back. How sleazy! Perhaps you should make a list of these women. I can give you your
first entry.

Both of these events were from women in Mariupol. All on Anastasiaweb.

The guy who runs With Love from Voronezh, claims they ripped off some of his pictures and men received replies, but not from the real women. Now I can understand, as I've been had in the same way.

thanks ... Chris

* Jim's note. This letter was sent to John after he had lready exchanged 6 letters with this girl.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ludmila XXXXXX [mailto:XXX@XXX
Sent: 23 April 2003 07:01
To: XXX@XXX

Hi John
[snip] . . .
When we began our correspondence in agency, I had no any interest in you. When I have seen first you, I have told to agency, that they have removed you, because I did not want to have correspondence with you.
Then I had many men and I did not pay to you my attention. But the agency wanted to take your money and it wrote to you the letters. I never wrote to you my letters in agency. They did(made) it from my name. At first I too did not know, that the agency writes to you. The letters. When I have learned(found out) it, I did not care of it. Because to those men, with whom I did not want to have correspondence, the agency itself wrote the letters. Such men was much. It is a pity them, but I could not anything make. Because it not my business. This business of agency and they so
Do(make) money. The agency took money from many men for my letters, Which I never wrote to them. The agency deceives many men, They give the men illusion that the girl writes to them. But it is valid lie. I know that it severely. But it is their business. I began to have interest in you, when you have sent to me the first letter on mine post . It was my the first acquaintance to you, but by it I you did not know. Because the letters were written to you not by I, all letters were written to you by agency. Now you know the truth.
[snip]
Mila

Hi Jim,

Well, this is probably not new news to you. Anastasiaweb is in the volume email business. They and the local agencies they contract with make money on the emails that "the women" send to the men (in quotes because I believe the agencies spam the men in the database), and on the emails the men send to the women. The incentive is to drive email volume. I receive tons of intro emails from beautiful women who are 18, 19, 20 - I am 42. I have no doubt these intro emails are going to hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of other men in Anastasia's database.

When I send notes to these or other women, most of the time, I have gotten back non-specific, generic letters (see below), with no reference to the content of my email, or perhaps an opening sentence or two referencing something in my email. Or I'd receive a poem.

The proof's in the pudding when you go to meet them. I traded 10 emails with Valeria in St. Petersburg. She asked me to call her through Anastasia's interpreter to get her phone number so we could arrange a meeting (at $5.75 per minute!!). I did, and got her phone number. When I got to Petersburg, I had my interpreter call her, She said Valeria didn't speak english (even though her profile indicates she is "E3", which is "Almost Fluent" on their scale), she didn't know who I was, and didn't express interest in meeting me. This from a woman who was very responsive to my emails, and asked me to call to arrange a meeting. Sorry - I smell a rat.

My guess is Anastasia is making tons of money from this. Other than posting these notes, are any attorneys general investigating these agencies?

Thanks for doing your part to warn men and expose the fraudulent sites. Please let me know if you have any questions for me.

Thanks,
Stu

Jim:

I was wondering if you could help me out. I have attached all of my email to this girl in Uzbekistan who I think is legit. There are some gray areas but I am not good at this like you are. Before I read your site I was on Anastasiaweb and I had placed my personal on their site. I thought it would be good to have the girl like my photo first. I started to get emails right away and I had to pay foropening and sending all emails because they went through the agency. I knew something wasn't right because I was asking spesific questions that were not getting answered. I decided to call this girl through the agency at $3.69 per minute. When we talked I asked her about our emails and why she wasn't answering my questions and she said that she never emailed me. While we were on the phone I got her real phone number, email and address. Then we started sending emails back and forth now for almost a month and here they are.

Hi dear "Arnie"!
I got all e-mails from you.Oh my God,I don’t understand who was wrote to you e-mails from my e-mail address,but it was not me,my English is not good but address that this person was sent to you was right,I don’t know who is it where this person get my address and why he or she need this why they are playing for what?
You know for all my friends from my adrees book this person was sent many bad words and many people before thought that it was me and after whne they call to me I said that no,it was not me,I cannot open my mail address,somebody is canged my password,Why they need this? i don’t understand.
And please don’t tell to this person my new mail address if he or she will write to you becouse i don’t want to lose this mailbox also.You know this is not first time,before I had 3 mailbox but this person trying to open all them and I don’t understand why.
(snip…personal)
I’m waiting your answer or callin.here is my phone number again
998**********
If you will have a problem with phone number tell me I don’t know may be it is not right code,or ask from informatinn centre code of Uzbekistan,Tashkent city.
I’m waiting your answer.
Kiss you.
XXXX
P.S my last name is XXXX and my name is XXXX.But friends call me XXXX, it’s easy to say.
Tell me to what e-mail address you was sent your e-mails you was coresponded with this crazy person.
I had ***********

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