SCAMMED BY Elena Barabash

[lexus04]

http://mordenti.com:8000/scammer/030804/index.htm

A little Brief:
Money Spent between Feb.2003 - Jan.7, 2004

• Flowers and 3way Telephone Translations $500.00 [/*]
  
• My trip to visit her for 7 days = $3895.00 [/*]
  
• Money sent to her Western union $2425.00 [/*]
  
• $2425.00 US Dollar = $12,936.16 Ukraine Hryvnia [/*]

In February of 2003, I started writing Elena who was on Elena's Models website http://www.elenasmodels.com/ it seemed we where off to a very well beginning.

March 24, 2003 I left on my flight to Lugansk for 7 days and rented one of http://lugan-girl.com/ flats. I enjoyed the rooms very much. Elena and I had a great time together, (I Thought) so on March 28th 2003, I proposed to Elena, gave her an engagement ring and she said yes! I was the happiest man in the world! On March 31 I was heading back to JFK airport in the US.

[Elen]

Now:) you had a great time together the price for that was $500.00 +$3895.00 +$2425.00 = $ 6820. It's such trifle that should not be mentioned:P

But to my mind it would be better to spend these money for more tours to Lugansk for better knowing your girl before you proposed to her

[BC]

Michael,

Have any other men complained about this girl?.. all the reports on different scam sites seem to be initiated by you.  Hearing the flip side would be nice, but probably won't get that chance unless one of the ladies around here writes or calls her.  

Harboring your festering resentment from an issue over a year ago is not too healthy.

Scam or no scam that's up to a court to decide.. did you sue her? report her to the police?.. yeah probably nothing to get out of it.. but with all the slam dunk posting on the scam boards you are doing she could theoretically sue you..

If I were you I would pull down the sites and posts you set up and move on before some young probono lawyer sees an opportunity.

Sorry for being so blunt but additiional substance is needed for me to agree this girl is a scammer.  At this point all I would agree to is that she MAY have been a bit opportunistic. 

[Bruno]

Hello Michael,

She is maybe a scam... but on your side, have you take your own lesson ???

Only one month write before meeting, short meeting, proposal after 4 days... don't you feel that you have go a little fast ??? How can you know somebody in so short time...

Second, like you write on your site, you have make a big mistake... you begin a relation with a woman, you make a proposal to her, she begin the procedure... and it is not working because you have not know that yourself need start the procedure in US before !!! What i see here, it is a guy who have spring in the process without think about it before...

You have speak about have a boy with these woman and you are not able to organize a marriage in your own country... maybe these woman have think that you are not responsible enough for build a family and have stop the relation...

My advice, forget these woman, read all on these forum and all other forum... and only when you are ready, start a new search... living a woman is something more that have just some days of fun together... you need plan for the marriage, for all the life... think about help for his integration in US, make plan for her future carriere, make plan for children, ... try to think everything before... and maybe woman go consider you like a serious potential husband...

I am sorry to say this but what have happend is in some way your own fault... like in several topic, the keyword is education ...

[Todd]

Instead of focusing on what you lost in monetary terms, you should focus on how lucky you really were.  Just imagine what would have happened if she HAD decided to come over here, married you, and HAD your child.  Then, two years and a day later, where would you be?  Or better yet, wait a few more years, just to make it look good, and then sue for divorce?  Or get over here and accuse you of domestic violence?  Really, considering what COULD have happened and this woman's detachment, you were VERY lucky.

[Jack]

So Lexus04, what next?  What happened?