Valeriia Mural

 I believed I got scammed by a ukrainian female person found on Tinder.

Her name on Tinder was "Kika", nevertheless after adding me on WhatsApp (quite fast) she claimed her real name was Valeria. According to the passport she provided the information should be real.

She said she is currently living by a family friend in City of Družkovka in Donetsk region, while her parents stayed in Berdyansk. Apparently in Berdyansk Russian soldiers already occupied the area and don't let locals out anymore unless someone bribes them.

She didn't mention any need of money for the first three days of chatting. She sent me photos and I sent back, kepting a usual conversation scenario between virtually attracted people. On the forth day, she claimed that all day they were shelling near to her places, attaching video from her supposed window and from the streets. I asked why she didn't already leave the country, and only then she mentioned this mysterious FARE you have to cover for getting to Germany by bus.

Since I was aware of ukrainian scammers, I played this suspicious card in the very beginning,  telling her how naive I was to fall into a trap the year before by sending money to another girl for the exact reason of a bus ride from Poltava to Poland.

Valeria confessed not to have money to pay the bus, and she was apparently worried that I might think of her bad, like "one of these girls who cheat". How funny!

I offered her to pay online for bus tickets, reading that companies such as Flixbus provide transportation to the western border. She refused, because "in Donetsk and Luhansk regions electronic payment doesn't work, everything is like last century and goes by cash. People just withdraw at ATM and pay cash everywhere". 

So, the amount she needed from Druzkovka to Germany summed up as 8000 UAH.

I requested a video call for pointing out my conditions, which implied her passport and sending current location + photo at every stop.

Like many others ukrainian girls I happened to talk with, the written English was much more better than the spoken one. She was then probably using a translator.

The next day (friday) she texted me she found out, speaking with the "driver", that the bus would leave on sunday. She suggested PayPal as method of payment.

I agreed in sending 200 EUR but only after other reassurations by her of being honest and so on, and after receiving her passport, of course. 

She sent me the passport and the PayPal contact. I am attaching everything so you can have a First glaze. 

Thanks to her name I could find her on Instagram, and I added. Her contact is @muralvaleria.

As you will see from attachments, she looks all but a person in need, at least according to her photos of 2022. I underlined this to her, and she replied that they were older photos and that in any case now she is in financial need, since she lost her work as a kindergarten teacher due to war.

I asked her about some connection in Germany, she said that once arrived she would contact the embassy and that she knows that as a teacher she could easily find work in Ukrainian communities there, according to the news.

I finally sent money, she text "thank you " and "I understand you are worried but you shouldn't ". Afterwards she stopped replying me for all evening and night.

I decided to directly accuse her to scam, threatening to expose her like I am doing now, since she acted in a very despicable way.

Around 10 AM Saturday she replied "in shock", because she didn't have time to answer me and that she was now afraid of me exposing her passport on the Internet only because she was busy "packing her things". You can appreciate in the photos the "packing", which comes to me more a clumsy improvisation.

I asked her to finally tell the truth and to speak by video, but she refused. She texted me she doesn't want to speak to me anymore now, because I threatened. 2 days before she confirmed she wanted to come to Italy to me after Germany to see me and get a refugee status here. Now of course it doesn't work anymore.

"I would give your money back but I already paid the fare and so I will sent them back to you when I get a job in Germany".

I following decided to ask when and from where this bus would start tomorrow, but she didn't reply.