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Complaint 109758 Details

I became a "friend" of Stanislav Lukashov (Stas), screen name-Zil at the webcam site Flirt 4 Free a short time after visiting his chatroom at Flirt 4 Free on September 5, 2010. After chatting with him several times, he learned that I was a physician and drove a Mercedes. He began to treat me as more like a friend than a client. After about three weeks, he expressed the need for a laptop and the desire for an SLR camera. I was very attracted to him, and he began to say things to make me feel special. I sent him money for the laptop and the camera. I spent over $7000 in September just talking to him online. I expressed this as a problem for me, and he suggested that he might quit work and have me send him his $2500 salury each month in place of him chatting with me at home on Skype for free. I agreed. He gave me his [email protected] and his cell number 7-911-959-1729. He began calling me from home on Skype. He expressed a desire for me to come to Russia to visit. He began to use words like Dear and kiss. I continued to send him money each month. In December, he wrote that he had decided to come to the US to start a life with me in five months. Then he asked for a car that he would sell in five months, and then give me the money. But he said he would come to the US whether I bought the car or not. I bought him a $25,000 used Infinity G35 that was purchased in Belarus. He never sold the car or came to the US. His interest in money began to grow. He was very deceptive and manipulative. He would express anger when he did not get enough money. He would threaten to return to work at Flirt 4 Free if he did not get more money. He knew I did not want him working there. He was always able to manipulate my feelings with kind words and promises in order to get his way. I expressed the thought that he was just interested in money. He said that if I felt that way then maybe I shouldn't write him anymore. I sent him between $1000 and $3000 almost every month for about twenty months. There were many times when a lot more was given for various reasons. He wrecked the car in January 2011, and got me to pay to repair it. Once he said his friend needed a $4000 operation and he got me to send several extra thousands to help pay for the operation. He said that the friend's parents worked very hard and sometimes didn't have enough to eat. Every time he got money there were many kind words and promises for a wonderful life together and sometimes "I love you's." He sometimes said that money wasn't important to him, but he was happy just with me. He often made references to our wonderful future together. In July, 2011 he said that he wrecked the car beyond repair. In August he said he had no money for rent or school, about three weeks after I had sent him $5000. In November he asked for money to buy clothes for a new job. A month later he said he got fired from that job for no reason. On New Year's, 2012 he said that he wanted to spend the following New Year's with me. In January, he asked for my address to send me something, but he never sent it. Actually, he never sent me anything or did anything for me except for kind words and promises. I sent him $750 for Valentines Day 2012. When I suggested that he might have given me something, he said I thought he was my toy, a toy sought to satisfy my selfish ways. A week later he said he had met a rich Russian man in the government who asked him to be his boyfriend. He was going to buy him a G37 Coupe and expensive clothes. He would live in a nice apartment and wouldn't have to work. This man would also invest in his business ventures. He said that he and I had nothing left together. A week later he said he was coming back to me because good feelings were more important to him than money. About a week later he asked for another car. I said no. He went to Spain in early March 2012 and asked me to join him there. When I said I couldn't go, he asked me for money to help him go. After I sent it he told me he loved me. I received an Email from Spain saying he missed me. On the day he returned we talked on Skype, and he said he couldn't use G-mail for two weeks and gave me his [email protected] address. Later I found out the G-mail account was closed. This seemed to coincide with a photo I found on the Russian social site VK.com on the page of Sergey Kotov, a roommate, with Sergey sitting in the front seat of the same white G37 that Stanislav was still asking me to buy in April. The photo had been taken in March, and the grass was green and the trees had leaves. That could not have been Russia. It is my suspision that there possibly was a contact on G mail that purchased this white car for them and who was deserted the day after they returned from Spain, when the G-mail account was closed. After the Spain trip, he asked me once again to buy him a car. This time he said he had $5000 of his own and his Mother could give him $10,000 and he wondered if I could give any to help with the purchase of a car. Again, I said I could not do it. A short time later,I changed my mind and was in the process of taking out a $28,000 loan to to buy him a car. However, I got nervous and changed my mind. Afterwards, he told me he hoped I would never call him again. However, the next morning I had an Email from him saying I could call him anytime I got sad or lonely.A short time later, I went ahead and took out the loan. He decided he could get a G35 for that money. On my way to the bank to wire the money he wanted to know if I could add a little extra so he could get the G37 he had sent me a link to see (the one that it appears was purchased in March by someone else, possibly for Sergey Kotov.) I said that if I bought a car I would be unable to send any money each month for three years because I would be paying off the loan. He said that made no difference and we would still be together. I ended up sending $42,000. When he saw the Email I sent telling him I had sent it, he sent me a text saying that was way too much. He said he could not be happy driving a nice car and knowing I was poor and working to pay off credit. The day the money arrived into his bank account he sent a thank you Email. That was the last Email I ever got. After receiving the money, he stopped answering text messages and said he was moving to Moscow to find a girlfriend and start a new life. We could be friends and he wanted my bank information so he could send the money back. He no longer wanted a car. After I asked him to send the money back and had sent him the bank information, his Facebook page disappeared. He had already blocked my Emails as well. A couple of days ago I found a video on his page on VK.com, a Russian social network site like Facebook, showing a Mercedes C55 AMG in a video next to an apartment building. The same car had appeared in a auto.ru link posted on his page a few days before. That car had cost $44,000. When I saw the car in the video, I looked and the car in the auto.ru link had been purchased. It appears that there are three people and they are roommates and seem to work together and share the same cars. I think they each have a car now. There are also photos of the original black G35. They were taken in October and November of 2011, three months after the same car had supposedly been wrecked in July. The October photo showed Ilya Agafonov driving, and the November photo showed Stanislav Lukashov driving. He also told me this last winter that he had sold the wrecked black G35 and gotten $5000 from it. That was the explanation he gave me when I asked where he was getting the money for private teachers and a personal trainer. I don't think I know where they are living now since they mysteriously lost their apartment for no known reason at the end of March. At that time, I think Stanislav and Ilya had been sharing an apartment on Bakunina 56 73. When they were asked to move out in three days by the landlord for unknown reasons, they moved in with Sergey Kotov at an address that I do not know. I don't think Stanislav moved to Moscow. The names are: Stanislav Ivanovich Lukashov (Stas), age 20, light brown hair, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 65 kg weight. Passport number 71 519 48 77. I believe he attends the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Financing. His home town is Velikie Luki, Russia. His parents and sister and her baby live there, and I believe his Mother is a doctor. Ilya Agafonov. Sergey Kotov-he has also disappeared from Facebook. They all have active pages on VK.com. I have filed a report with Western Union. My $42,000 wire transfer was sent from my Bank in Chicago-Bank of America-on April 12, 2012. It arrived at Stanislav's bank account about ten days later at the Baltiskiy Bank in St. Petersburg, Russia. I suspect that the bank account and the Email and cell phone number have changed. I have copies of most of the Emails Stanislav sent me from September 2010 through February 2012, until the Email address changed. Subsequent Emails have been lost. My bank should have a record of the wire transfer. Western Union and MoneyGram should have records of all of the rest of the money that was sent. I have a number of photos of Stanislav I could provide. I would greatly appreciate any effort you could make to investigate this matter. I have no notion of recuperating any money since it has already all been spent. However, I would like to see something done about these three individuals so as to protect subsequent victims like me. I feel I was severely deceived and manipulated for monetary gain. I lost over $120,000 in ten months. It is true that I willingly sent the money, but I think it is quite apparent that there was a great deal of internet fraud in the form of deception for personal gain. Almost all the asking for money and the various schemes to get it was done in written form by Email and text message. There was visual contact on Skype and verbal contact on the telephone. However, those conversations were rarely manipulative or concerned with money. Most everything of that nature was in written form.