First name, Last name: Tetiana Dryhola
Country, City: Ukraine, Poltava
Scheme fraud:
The reported case involves a suspected Ukrainian romance scammer who introduces herself as Tetiana Dryhola from Poltava. She approaches foreign men on dating platforms like Meetic, presents herself as a serious woman looking for a long-term relationship, and quickly moves the conversation off the site to private messengers and email. From the first messages she emphasizes trust, honesty, and traditional family values in order to lower her victim’s defenses.
To look credible, Tetiana sends scans and photos of a Ukrainian international passport and a Ukrainian tax certificate with official stamps. In reality these are forged documents prepared specifically for online romance scams. Instead of allowing independent checks, she insists that her papers are “100% real” and pressures the man to believe screenshots and selfies only. A simple step like using our service to check a Ukrainian passport online would immediately reveal that the data do not match official records.
Once basic trust is established, she gradually introduces money requests. Typical pretexts include unpaid tax debts, blocked bank accounts, urgent need to pay “fines” or “state fees” shown in the fake tax certificate, or sudden travel expenses she allegedly cannot cover herself. Each story is wrapped in emotional language about losing her job, being unable to travel, or “needing help one last time” so they can finally meet in person. This is classic escalation used in Ukrainian dating scams: after emotional bonding comes a series of increasingly large “one-time payments”.
The victim is subtly manipulated to feel responsible for her future. She stresses that she has no one else to ask, that local authorities in Poltava are corrupt, and that only his support will allow her to solve the problem and start a life together abroad. Any hesitation is met with guilt-tripping and long emotional messages. Instead of offering transparent solutions – like an in-person meeting in Ukraine or direct payment of official fees – she insists on private transfers to accounts she controls, avoiding any traceable, legal route.
In several reported cases, once the man sends money, Tetiana delays the promised meeting again and again, inventing new bureaucratic issues, additional debts, or sudden emergencies. If a victim starts asking for independent verification of her identity or documents, she becomes evasive, changes the subject, or disappears completely. Men who had doubts earlier and used our verification of Ukrainian woman service avoided significant financial losses; those who trusted the forged passport and tax certificate often lost large amounts before realizing it was a scam.
If you have already lost money to a similar scheme, you can review our detailed roadmap on how to bring a Ukrainian dating scammer to justice using Ukrainian law. Document every transfer, save all chats, and act before the trail goes cold.
Our investigation confirmed that the passport and tax document used by “Tetiana Dryhola” are fake and that her online identity does not match official Ukrainian records. We were able to positively identify the real woman behind this profile. For an additional fee, Ukrainian Passport can provide her full verified data – real name, date of birth, registered address, phone number, social profiles and other identifiers – to affected clients who need this information for legal or personal reasons.
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