When you receive an email, click the "Show original" (Gmail)  or "Full Headers" (Yahoo) on the email page. Look for X-Mailer: The Bat! on the left hand side. If you find it or if it has FC'2000 or Becky, then you have a scammer. If  the scammer removed it, check the ip address next to Received: from ? Some "Received from" ip addresses may show the server in the U.S.. 

 Enter all "Received from" ip addresses here:  http://www.ripe.net/fcgi-bin/whois . Enter the ip address in the "Search for" box then click "Search".  Check the "address:". If the results show the ISP from Mari El Net  - you are talking to a scammer. If the results are not from her city then she is a scammer.

For more details,click the links above:"The Bat! examples" and "Russian Dating Scam" .

Elena places her personal ads on "Christian" or "Single" websites. She is very deceptive. She sounds so real and responds to everything you write. Like talking to the girl next door. She called me on the phone. She is a woman, perhaps not the one pictured, but there is a woman at the other end. She writes very touching and sensitive letters about her loneliness and what you mean to her without mentioning money or asking for it. I checked her ip address when it was too late.  After 2 weeks of not writing, she emailed me admitting she deceived me and she hoped I could find a wife for myself in America. She said I was "dear to her" and told me never to send money to anyone. Maybe she felt guilty or was afraid of getting caught.

Summary

Elena Vasileva along with Travel 4 You Agency used a Visa/Russia Bride scam. From Sep-04-05 Elena first contacted me through a Single Christian website http://www.singlec.com/. She continued through her email elenapavlovna@mail15.com and later elenavas2005@yandex.ru. Her last contact was in Feb 4, 2006 admitting she deceived me and she wished I find a wife in America. I tried to reply the same day but her email was discontinued. All Western Union transactions were sent to this address as requested by Elena Vasileva for ticket/Visa money she would use to come to America as my future wife. Country Russia City: Bryansk Zip code: 242620 Street: Novozibkova st. House: 9 Name: Elena Last name: Vasileva . Amount sent -$2,190 to Elena Vasileva via Western Union for internet cafe costs, coat, Visa and ticket money. The agency involved is : Travel 4 You Agency website: http://www.trvl4u.com/documents.html  They did send me some emails before I sent Elena the money. They insisted the ticket was to be bought by Elena Vasileva throught them. I had told Elena I would buy the ticket through Air France. Elena said Travel 4 You Agency required me to buy the ticket through them. She gave me their email and they replied that the ticket should be purchased though the agency. Nikolai responded with information about ticket costs. Needless to say, they have not replied to my emails after sending Elena the money.

The above information has already been reported to the  FBI  and the FSB (russian police).