Oksana Yeliferenko

I found her on the site travelgirls.com under the name Eliz. We chatted a little and moved to WhatsApp (+380 68 787 17 53). She told me to be in Mariupol wanting to escape needing money for a taxi to Kyiv and then train to Warsaw. I sent here 600€ and she bought the taxi ticket (attached). This is when she asked for another 1500€, since this was to be needed to enter Ukraine controlled territory, I sent this too. When she arrived at the border to the Ukraine territory, they confronted her with a levy and fine of total 5300€ (see attached) and asked again for money. She was not able to send me any pictures and told me she is beaten there and feared rape. I first refused and she told me, she found help with other bus passengers and asked me ‘only’ for 800$ and 200$ travel money as she would also hand over the 1500€ she needed to enter the Ukraine. Reluctantly I sent her this too. When she wanted to pass the border, she found out that the other passengers will not give her the money and asked again for 1500$ which I refused. She then called me crying and all and I finally asked moneygram for help to figure out if this is a scam or not. With some persuasion I found out that all 3 pickups were made in Dnipro, a city in the Ukraine controlled territory about 325km from Mariupol and not on the border to the Russian controlled territory either. From this point it was clear this is a scam. I then checked with Western Union, who blocked 3 transfers to why this is so. It turns out that the woman has even before my transaction exceeded receiving 5000$ from someone in Switzerland. It was instantly clear that I’m not the only one that has been scammed. At this point I launched a fraud investigation with both services where she is now permanently blocked, and a worldwide investigation was started. Her last entries at WhatsApp were to post some semi-nude pictures of me (nothing explicit) on social media if I would not pay.