First name, Last name: Tetiana Kushnir
Country, City: Ukraine, Zhytomyr
Telephone: +380730237521; +380 944556728
Samples of her messages: In reality, she's much older now than on the pictures.
The story is that her parents died when she was eight years old and she was brought up by her aunt who lives on the countryside outside Zhytomyr. She said she had a medical degree as a gynecologist and for some reasons, which I wasn't told about she decided to quit and opened her own café. But then the pandemic made her business go bankrupt. Now she is afraid of being sent to the front to work as a nurse and therefore wants to flee Ukraine. To take the bus from Zhytomyr to Warsaw and then fly to another destination. When I did send her the money for the biometric passport and tickets, she did after a week go to the passport office but was told she had an unpaid tax debt to the Ukrainian state of about 175 000 hryvnia. And therefore she was not allowed to leave the country before she paid that debt. She did even send a document "as a proof".
BENEFICIARY: KUSHNIR TETIANA
Scheme fraud:
This profile describes a suspected Ukrainian romance scammer who introduces herself as Tetiana Kushnir from Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
She targets men on international dating sites and messaging apps, quickly building emotional trust and then requesting money for
biometric passport, bus tickets to Warsaw and later a supposed tax debt.
After receiving transfers via Western Union or bank “private help” payments, she sends forged documents and continues
to escalate the story with new financial problems, while sometimes even agreeing to video calls to appear more convincing.
If you have met a woman using these details or photos, treat every request for money as a serious warning sign and consider a
full verification of a Ukrainian or Russian woman
before you send any money.
According to one victim, Tetiana said she had a difficult past: her parents died when she was eight years old, she was raised by an aunt
in the countryside near Zhytomyr, studied medicine and became a gynecologist, then left medicine to open her own café.
When the pandemic came, the café went bankrupt and she claimed she now feared being sent to the front as a nurse.
She said she wanted to escape Ukraine, take a bus from Zhytomyr to Warsaw and then fly on to another country.
The victim agreed to help and sent money for a biometric passport and tickets.
About a week later she wrote that at the passport office officials had discovered an alleged
tax debt of about 175,000 UAH to the Ukrainian state and would not allow her to leave until it was paid.
As “proof” she sent a document with the beneficiary line:
BENEFICIARY: KUSHNIR TETIANA. She insisted the money should be sent as a private transfer or “help for Kushnir Tetiana”
so that “there are no questions at the bank”.
In another report she claimed both parents had died from cancer, that she was an only child and worked as an insurance agent.
She told the victim that Russian bombardments had destroyed her home and all her possessions, that her friends were dead and that she had
nothing left in Ukraine.
After a short period of messaging on a dating site she started professing love and said she wanted to be with him abroad.
She claimed her passport had been destroyed in a rocket attack and asked for money for:
The victim noticed that messages and photos stopped on weekends but were intense during the week, which made him suspicious.
She even did a video call to appear more credible. He later described her as “very convincing” and warned others to be careful.
If you recognise this pattern in your own correspondence, you should immediately stop sending money and consider a
professional check of her messages and story
.
If you are currently in contact with a woman using the name Tetiana Kushnir, “Karyna Nesterenko”
or similar details, we strongly recommend a full background check before any further payments or travel plans.
In many cases we are able to identify the real person behind the photos and fake identity.
If you are interested in a full, confidential investigation, contact us with as much material as possible
(photos, messages, payment receipts, IDs).
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We have already investigated this scammer in depth and identified the real person behind the fake identity.
For an additional fee we can provide her full verified data (real name, date of birth, place of residence,
social media profiles and other confirmed details) to clients who request this option as part of a paid investigation.
Scam Pattern: “Tetiana Kushnir” (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Profile at a Glance
How the Scam Unfolds: Victim Reports
Story 1: “Tax debt before leaving Ukraine”
Story 2: “Destroyed passport and escape from war”
Red Flags in This Case
Requests for funds for biometric passport, bus tickets, flights and later a large “tax debt” are classic romance-scam techniques.
Victims report receiving a Ukrainian passport and “official” papers that later turned out to be forgeries.
If you have any doubt about a document, use our
Ukrainian passport verification service
.
Stories about destroyed homes, dead friends and having “nothing left in Ukraine” are used to create urgency and guilt.
These may be partly or completely fabricated.
In one story she is a former gynecologist and café owner; in another she works as an insurance agent.
Changing background details is a common sign of a professional scammer.
She asks to mark transfers as private help for “Kushnir Tetiana” so banks and platforms do not question the payments.
She begins to talk about love and future plans very quickly, before any real-life meeting, then moves straight to money requests.
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