The E-mail adress "flu71@mail.ru" is used by a skillfull scammer in
Russia operating in the Saratov region. She uses the name Alina and
was earlier a client if 1st International with the ID 258275. The
phone number, falsely attributed to the city of Balakovo, is
007-8453660395. Anyone know about this one?

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 13 Jun 2003 08:10 PDT

Dear Umbra, 
(1) Have you been scammed? How? When? 
(2) If so, who have you contacted regarding this scam?

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Clarification of Question by umbra-ga on 13 Jun 2003 10:40 PDT

I was scammed for the first and hopefully only time over a three month
period, Jan to April of this year. It was a classic tickets and visa
scam, and cost me about $1500. On the advice of the blacklist people
of womenrussia I contacted the detective agency Blitz Okhrana of
Lugansk (scammer was Ukrainian). Their final report confirmed that I
had been under quite professional treatment. I am now in the process
of submitting an official complaint on that one. Meanwhile i am
indulging in scammer-hunting, managing three of the creatures at this
moment. The Alina case has gotten to the point where I felt ready to
launch the above question. Anyone want to join I am ready tu turn
"Umbra" into a scammer-hunting group matching the scammer teams. Like
Robert Redford & Paul Newman assert at the end of "The Sting": It
doesn't bring back what you have lost ... but it helps.