Anastasia International Affiliate Fined 7000

In a six month long city wide crackdown of illegal so called Marriage Agencies, Nikolaev city officials have finally had enough. The largest Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides and Dream-Marriage web site affiliate in Nikolaev was recently fined 7000 grn. The complaints from men around the world who have been scammed by the illegal operations have skyrocketed over the past year. “We will shut down all of these illegal so-called Marriage Agencies” said one city official. While there are a few agencies who do have a license to operate a So-Called Marriage Agency, the majority operate illegally as non-profit organizations. This is done to hide from authorities and obtain grants and loans illegally.

Witnesses said authorities were pounding on the doors of these phony operations. Countless computers were being operated by girls in their early twenties while making money in chat, sex acts on web cams and letter writing. The biggest offending web site affiliates are Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides, Zolushka, Dream-Marriage and Anastasia-International.

These are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a real shame these web sites and scamming agencies have decided to teach young girls how to steal and lie while stealing millions from unsuspecting victims around the world. These web sites claim to represent serious women for love and relationships. Agencies seek young girls through newspaper ads for work as chat girls and more. Girls are promised up to sixty percent of the money paid to the agency while being paid to keep men in chat.

Dream-Marriage Affiliate Fined 7000

In a six month long city wide crackdown of illegal so called Marriage Agencies, Nikolaev city officials have finally had enough. The largest Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides, Dream-Marriage and Anastasia web site affiliate in Nikolaev was recently fined 7000 grn. The complaints from men around the world who have been scammed by the illegal operations have skyrocketed over the past year. “We will shut down all of these illegal so-called Marriage Agencies” said one city official. While there are a few agencies who do have a license to operate a So-Called Marriage Agency legally, the majority operate illegally as non-profit organizations. This is done to hide from authorities and obtain grants and loans illegally.

Witnesses said authorities were pounding on the doors of these phony operations. Countless computers were being operated by girls in their early twenties while making money in chat, sex acts on web cams and letter writing. The biggest offending web site affiliates are Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides, Zolushka, Dream-Marriage and Anastasia-International.

These are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a real shame these web sites and scamming agencies have decided to teach young girls how to steal and lie while stealing millions from unsuspecting victims around the world. These web sites claim to represent serious women for love and relationships. Agencies seek young girls through newspaper ads for work as chat girls and more. Girls are promised up to sixty percent of the money paid to the agency while being paid to keep men in chat.

Russian Love Match Affiliate Fined 7000

In a six month long city wide crackdown of illegal so called Marriage Agencies, Nikolaev city officials have finally had enough. The largest Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides and Dream-Marriage web site affiliate in Nikolaev was recently fined 7000 grn. The complaints from men around the world who have been scammed by the illegal operations have skyrocketed over the past year. “We will shut down all of these illegal so-called Marriage Agencies” said one city official. While there are a few agencies who do have a license to operate a So-Called Marriage Agency, the majority operate illegally as non-profit organizations. This is done to hide from authorities and obtain grants and loans illegally.

Witnesses said authorities were pounding on the doors of these phony operations. Countless computers were being operated by girls in their early twenties while making money in chat, sex acts on web cams and letter writing. The biggest offending web site affiliates are Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides, Zolushka, Dream-Marriage and Anastasia-International.

These are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a real shame these web sites and scamming agencies have decided to teach young girls how to steal and lie while stealing millions from unsuspecting victims around the world. These web sites claim to represent serious women for love and relationships. Agencies seek young girls through newspaper ads for work as chat girls and more. Girls are promised up to sixty percent of the money paid to the agency while being paid to keep men in chat.

Russian Love Match Lawsuit

By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Tampa Bay Times, Florida
In print: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

DUNEDIN — Twice divorced, Robert Shaw was hoping the third time would be a charm.

Shaw, of Beaumont, Texas, said he spent $7,000 over three years to find a wife through www.hotrussian brides.com.

But the 57-year-old said nothing romantic ever materialized through the Dunedin-based online dating company.

So, Shaw aired his complaints where so many people do these days — on the Internet. He posted several comments questioning the legitimacy of the site on a blog — not his — that says the international matchmaking site, and others like it, are fraudulent.

Now the company that runs the dating site is suing Shaw. Not for the comments he posted, but because he failed to get them removed after he agreed to make every effort to do so.

The Web site, and another, www.russianlovematch.com, are subsidiaries of Romantic Tours, a Dunedin business owned by Gregory Pearson. Pearson, who owns a home in Palm Harbor, could not be reached for comment last week. His attorney Joseph Weissman declined to comment on the lawsuit.

In the suit, Pearson alleges Shaw breached his agreement to “exert all reasonable efforts” to have the comments wiped from the Web and even posted more negative comments, which Shaw promised he would not do. Pearson said he’s suffered as a result.

Shaw said everything went fine when he first signed up with www.hotrussian brides.com. He initially paid $30 a month in membership fees, plus additional money for “video chat credits” that allowed him to video-conference with Russian women.

The first red flag, he said, came when he sent some jewelry overseas as a gift to some of the women he had befriended. The envelope arrived, he said he was told, but it was empty.

Then, he said, he paid $175 for a packet on one of the women, “Marina 1000,” that was to include her address and phone number. But Shaw received only her e-mail address, he said.

That’s when Shaw starting combing the Internet for other complaints about www.hot russianbrides.com. He found plenty, he said.

According to the Web site, Russian women who use it are not paid. It says they prefer American men because they are “dissatisfied with Russian men.” It also says Russian women outnumber “eligible” Russian men 4 to 1, and that they seek American men who are more family-oriented than their Russian counterparts.

But Shaw said none of the women he spoke to seemed interested in a long-term relationship.

“Basically, I kept meeting ladies and they all said they wanted to commit, but they never would,” Shaw said. “They would keep you online and draw you out as long as they could so you’d use up your video chat credits.”

No complaints have been filed about the business through the Pinellas County Department of Consumer Protection, said Jason Ohman, senior consumer protection investigator.

Shaw admits he signed a contract in mid September that said he’d do his best to remove the negative comments and would refrain from posting more. In return, he’d be paid $2,500. Shaw said he agreed to it because he had said his piece and figured he could recoup some of the money he’d lost.

According to Shaw, he lived up to his end of the bargain by requesting the blog comments be taken down. It’s not his fault they weren’t, he said. When Romantic Tours didn’t pay him the $2,500, he posted more comments, he said.

“My viewpoint is Romantic Tours can’t suppress freedom of speech,” he said Wednesday.

Shaw, who works in marketing, has filed a countersuit against Pearson.

“I’ve been beat out of $7,000,” Shaw said. “I’m mad. I want my money back.”

Shaw said he’s still looking for Mrs. Right, but not through international dating sites.

“I have given up on foreign ladies entirely. I’m on Match.com now.”

Rita Farlow can be reached at farlow@sptimes.com.

>>Fast facts

Protect yourself

The Pinellas County Department of Consumer Protection offers these tips to protect consumers when buying products or services online:

• Do your homework — research the company before signing up. To search for complaints against businesses in Pinellas County, visit the Web page at www.pinellascounty.org/

consumer/default.htm.

• Read contracts carefully to determine if there are fees for early termination of memberships or other hidden costs.

• Be cautious about giving out your personal information online.

• Watch for any unauthorized purchases attributed to your credit card.

Marriage Agencies Ukrainian Disgrace

Here is another example of so-called Marriage Agencies and their disrespect for people of all ages. The worst part is what agency managers teach the girls who are paid to scam innocent unsuspecting victims. The girls who work at agencies are shunned by anyone who knows them. The girls trained to steal have few friends except for the other scammers who work with them at agencies. Employee turnover is the worst of any business in Ukraine. The moral girls who realize how crooked the agency is don’t stay long. They rarely like to tell others about their experience and training as a scammer. The letter below is just one of the hundreds I have received over the past few months. I hope someone learns from it.

Dear Stan

Well, I am tempted to write you a long letter telling you how ‘right’ you were but I do not necessarily want you to post it all over the web(although it might be a good idea), especially with my name on it(would be bad), but I will hold back, in case I decide to place it all in a book later, and I have a lot of juicy details of course.

It is bad over there as to how agencies are running a business to not only attract all ages of men to come to Odessa and Nikolaev, but to also keep them seeing women in so-called fantasy dating, with very attractive young women, who very well may know English as well as her interpreter, but would never reveal this fact, unless they were dating someone either very rich or very attractive or much younger, and would more likely to date someone from Ukraine over some foreigner they probably have no intention to ever marry anyway.

I even have had several former interpreters that have told me all of the ‘juicy’ details of just how fraudulent it is! And it is funny just how many interpreters there are on the ’site’ that are listed as Limited Beginners, when in fact they are pretty much Fluent in English, and are not single, but of course if you tell someone at the web site that, they will reply, “Well, I checked her passport, and I visibly saw that it shows the lady is still single!” Well, I guess that most of them are either whores, or just like to walk hand in hand one day with their boy friend, and the next day to attempt to extract as much money as possible from American/European men!

What a joke, and what a lack of character of women from a country that was very poor not long ago, and is probably heading that way not too far off in the future. But, I would hope for them that would not be the case, and I would hope that somehow they would look into reforming how these dating agencies are run over there. Good luck to them! I give up…lol.

Me

Marriage Agencies Nikolaev Making Money

How do they do it? Letter writing is a huge profit center for so-called Marriage Agencies. In fact, letters by the thousands and thousands are written everyday to unsuspecting victims around the world. Most of the time, men open letters on a web site and never realize whats happening. Most of the time, the girl who has her name on the letter never knows that the agency has used her name to scam men.

All men who correspond with any lady in your own country or overseas, should never pay for letters. Professional letter writers are employed by all agencies to make a man believe there is some kind of connection between you and the girl.

If you are paying for letters, STOP ! If you believe the girl you are corresponding with is honest, ask her to correspond with you via her personal Email. If she says no, be careful. She is most likely working for the agency and making lots of money doing it. If she tells you she hasn’t got a computer or personal Email, she is most likely not telling the truth. An honest sincere woman will make every attempt to communicate including using an Internet cafe.

RussianLoveMatch Sinking Ship Stats

The following stats are were found at www.alexa.com on October 28, 2008. It shows that traffic at Russian Love Match is down significantly. Proof that customers are running away from the scam web sites. Proof that many men are doing their homework before they waste thousands searching for real honest sincere women from Russia and Ukraine. Sadly, millions have been lost by unsuspecting victims of Gregory Pearson and the dishonest staff he employs. The girls who work at so-called Marriage Agencies are also victims who don’t like what they do, they are just taught that stealing from men around the world is ok. All the while learning how to lie and cheat others. Does any man really want to share their life with a girl like this?

Reach for Russianlovematch.com:

Percent of global Internet users who visit this site

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
N/A*	0.00038%	0.00065%	18.11%

Traffic Rank for Russianlovematch.com:

Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
N/A*	251,167	121,406	27,008

Page Views per user for Russianlovematch.com:

The number of unique pages viewed per user per day for this site

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
N/A*	4	1760.1	54.48%

* Daily values are not available for sites ranked outside of the Top 100K.

Russianlovematch.com users come from these countries:

United States78.0%

Netherlands13.1%

Canada5.8%

Honduras0.6%

Dear Anastasia Strely Amura Agency Nikolaev Scam

Hi Anastasia,

It’s nice to know there is at least one agency brave enough to make a few statements regarding your level of honesty. Just one problem? You didn’t tell the world the full story not to mention the fact that you have never sent me any letters. If you had sent me a letter like you said you did, it’s possible I would apologize and possibly even endorse the first and only honest agency in Nikolaev. Beyond you lying to support your sweet innocence your post is full of carefully worded lies. I commend you for the creative writing and hope someday you consider writing fiction as a second career.

It’s nice to know your agency is on the verge of going out of business you are so poor from scamming all the unsuspecting victims with your well trained twenty year olds. You and I both know how you make all your money. But? Just so the truth is really told here, why don’t you write a real post and tell everyone how you really make all your money. While you are at it, why don’t you tell the world about all the other dishonest agencies in Nikolaev and help stop the outright theft of the rest of your well organized group.

By the way? Since your post, my readership has tripled. Thanks to you, more people know the real truth.

Now confess???? How do you make all your money?

How many letters do you send out everyday scamming victims and tricking them into opening a letter?

Which web sites are you affiliated with?? Surely you are proud of the service you provide, RIGHT????

How many hours does it take to send out a letter and turn it into cash?

How many times a day do you send out a letter to a man when the lady doesn’t exist?

How many times a day do you send out letters and the girl has no idea you are using her name and profile?

How many profiles do you have that aren’t current but are still in your catalogue just to impress your victims?

How often do you tell a girl to go out and have a nice dinner with a man just to make him happy after he’s paid you fifty bucks?

What is the percentage of your girls who actually already have a boyfriend or are married and have no intention of ever falling in love with any man from another country?

How much money and promises do you have to give to girls who attend socials?

I think this is a good start to try and make sense out of what you are doing to victims around the world.

I do need to tell you that I don’t make a penny from writing my articles. I do it because it’s just the right thing to do.

Below is a partial copy of the post I am referring to.

The TRUTH about how Marriage Agencies Operate in Nikolaev

I’m the manager of one Nikolaev marriage agency that was wrongly targeted and defamed by a man going by the name of “Stan Jensen”. We were accused by him of scamming male clients of RussianLoveMatch.com by paying our ladies for the time they spend chatting online. As the evidence of his claims he showed an announcement we printed in a local paper and without offering a translation into english claimed it was proof positive that we and RussianLoveMatch.com pay women to chat on their site.

What he didn’t say was that this announcement was not for the female clients of our agency, but for the employees of it, our interpreters. It was acknowledged there that we were looking for the girls who know English, that we have the best conditions of work and that we pay 50/50 for the work. By 50/50 we mean that we pay 50 % of the cost of the letter to the translator.

If you do the math we could not afford to stay in business if we payed our female clients to chat. We pay out to our translators 50% of what we receive, we also pay out of our own pockets all the utilities and fees to keep our offices open to the ladies, including computers, webcams, and internet services as well as pay out of our own pocket for the additional services we offer the women to help them find love as free make up sessions and photo shoots done by professionals. Many of our girls do not have home computers or digital cameras and if we did not offer these services for free they would have increased difficulty in creating their profile and accessing services online. Simply put, if we payed the women as well we could not eat.

Scam Russianlovematch Hey Jimmy

Hey Jimmy, My new friend. Thanks for your support. I can see you are a real hero and honest guy. You know yourself that Russian Love Match is nothing but a scam. At last count, there are 267 negative blogs and articles on the Internet about all the stealing going on by Gregory Pearson. I’m happy to say that the State of Florida is investigating the outright theft of millions from unsuspecting victims all over the world.

Thanks again for your continued support and keep up the good work.

Gregory Pearson Russian Love Match Scam

Russian Love Match, Hot Russian Brides and Zolushka dotcom are all crooked. Owned by the same company, they have stolen millions from unsuspecting victims for years. It’s time to stop them from stealing from people around the world.

I suggest anyone who has been ripped off, files a complaint with the Florida State Attorney General. The executives of Romantic Tours Inc. including the owner, Mr Gregory Pearson know what they are doing is theft. It’s a serious ring of crooked people who only have one thing in mind when they take your money, trick you into spending more on a useless money sucking endless pit.

The following letter was received August 23, 2008. I have copied and pasted it here for you to see.

Dear Stan
Your investigative work is great.
I am the guy that belonged to Hotrussianbrides.com the sister company of Russianlovematch and I had a minor problem and asked HotRussian Brides for a return of my money and was told that although they have an office in Florida under the terms and conditions users were subject of the laws of St Kitts and Regis Islands.
I filed a complaint with the Florida attorney generals office and hot russian brides changed their company policy and they are now a Florida Corporation, called romantic tours inc.
The corporate address is: Romantic tours
1415 Pinehurst RD
Dunedin, Florida 34698
And according to record filings with the Florida Dept of State, Divisions of Corporations they are a million dollar plus corporation.
The owner is Gregory Pearson.
I suggest that each person reading this send a complaint letter to the Florida Attorney General office and complain about your situation.
The Florida Attorney generals office address is:
Office of Florida Attorney General
The Capitol Pl -01
Tallahassee Florida 32399-1050
Robert M. Shaw
consumer activist