First name, Last name: Anastasiia Nebalovna
Country, City: Ukraine, Lviv
Scheme fraud: The reported case concerns a suspected Ukrainian romance scammer who presents herself as “Anastasiia Nebalovna”. She approaches foreign men via the dating app Bumpy and quickly tries to look trustworthy by sending attractive photos and a Ukrainian ID card as proof of identity. For a Western man searching for a serious relationship, this combination of personal pictures and official-looking documents may create the impression that she is real and transparent.
In reality, the ID card she uses is a fake Ukrainian ID. The document does not meet the security and data standards of genuine Ukrainian identity cards, and a professional check of a Ukrainian passport or ID card reveals clear falsifications. Such forged documents are a typical tool in many ukraine dating scams, where scammers try to bypass the victim’s natural caution by “proving” who they are with high-quality but counterfeit IDs.
The communication style follows a pattern familiar from other cases on our ukrainian scammer list. The first phase is intensive text chatting on Bumpy and then on messengers, with constant compliments and emotional bonding. The goal is to build enough trust so that when a money request finally appears, it will seem like helping a real girlfriend from Ukraine rather than sending funds to an unknown person from the internet. The fake ID is used as an extra argument: “You can see my real name and data, I am not one of those ukraine dating scams you read about.”
Even if, in this particular case, the money demand was stopped in time, the use of a forged Ukrainian document together with a polished dating profile clearly fits the profile of a ukrainian romance scammer. This case demonstrates why men who date online with women from Ukraine should rely on an independent verification of a Ukrainian woman and not on screenshots or photos sent by the woman herself. For additional context on how similar schemes work, see our article about online dating scams from Ukraine, where we analyse more patterns involving fake IDs and documents.
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