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Anatomy of a Romance Scam

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:25 PM
From: Yulia

Hello my dear Ryli, I have carefully read your letter. I called my bank’s 24-hour hotline. I spent a long time explaining our situation and the suspension of the transfer by the Western Union system. I was informed that according to the federal law on the protection of personal data. I quote - When carrying out actions related to the provision of personal data specified in the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, it is forbidden to require the provision of photocopies of passport pages, as well as the removal of copies of passport pages, their scanning and photographing.

I was told that for a more complete investigation, it is necessary to appear at the bank branch to which I had previously contacted and find out all the details. By asking for help from a senior bank employee. I also read the reviews and whether anyone had such problems. My dear Ryli. A bank employee told me that it is advisable to take this money from the Western Union system, since the requirements are strange and no one has come across such a thing. I was advised in any case to contact my bank branch for further investigation. I was also informed that there is a “contact” system that works in a similar way, but there have never been such problems and everything went well. My dear Ryli, you’d better do this because there were no such requests before and the bank was not even notified about it and there is an indirect violation of the law on the protection of personal data. I’ll send you tomorrow anyway the photo you sent me. I have long thought to make you such a photo or video. I’ll send you tomorrow. My beloved Ryli, I am also not obligated to prove to Western Union about my intentions to visit the United States. My dear Ryli, you better take the money from Western Union immediately. I will go to the bank in the morning to find out everything. On the phone, I was told that tomorrow the senior specialist would need to contact Western Union. My dear Ryli, I will send you some pictures tomorrow. I hope that tomorrow the bank will tell me all the information. Also, you are not obliged to forward our letters as it violates the human right to privacy. I’ll go to bed now and write to you tomorrow. I’ll send you a photo tomorrow. Please use the “Contact” system today.