This is an excellent example of the decline of the era of dating scams. Being a small local Ukrainian matchmaking agency who added profiles of model looking girls to scams sites like Anastasia, UAbrides etc, it saw a decline in a revenue due to a strong competition from other scams agencies who were able to find more attractive girls “interested” in all western men no matter the age difference. Also, men became much smarter and are now able to detect much easily “brides” who are ready to communicate only if they are paid for this.
In addition to this, local agencies were doing all the dirty job: paid to brides to “be interested” in a man, registered pre recorded videos for online video chats, writing messages on behalf of the brides and all this for only a small fraction of what men paid to the international scam agency.
We also have to add that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the interest in dating brokers has declined as a lot of beautiful Ukrainian single women flee to the Western European counties, USA and Canada.
So, some of local scam agencies disappeared and others had to start working on their own chasing for potential victims directly on the net.
That’s how Ukolova Anna Ukraine matchmaking agency appeared in 2017.
Why is AnnaUkolova.com a scam matchmaking agency?
It’s not easy to get proofs that the agency is paying the girls to serve as bait but Ukolova Anna Ukraine matchmaking agency has more than enough proof that we deal with a scam agency.
Anna Ukolova lives in Belgium and clients who she is charging money are located mostly in EU, US or Canada.
But her agency is not registered neither in Belgium nor in any other Western country.
We didn’t find any records that Ukolova Anna Ukraine matchmaking agency is registered in Ukraine.
And of course, you won’t find any information about the legal address, registration number, tax number.
So, all the transactions are completely illegal and once you understand that you’ve been scammed, your money will be out of reach of international justice.
So how much does Anna Ukolova charge men?
This is the most interesting part and Anna Ukolova matchmaking site does not have any fixed price.
When you ask Ukolova Anna, the matchmaker, for the price, she wants first to collect all your personal information: your full name, where you live now, your actual job, your phone number, your photos and much more.
The information is collected out of her matchmaking site via a google form so you don’t really know who has access to your personal information.
So, before you send all this information and before she talks to you, Alla Ukolova won’t tell you the price that is most probably related to your solvability and the degree she’s feeling you are hook with her promises.
Let’s have a look at what a man scammed by Ukolova Anna matchmaking agency is writing about the prices:
“Most of it has already been said here, I can also confirm the same, stay away from these dating agencies, all organized scam.!!
Just to let you know one experience I had few months ago with this scam agency: annaukolova.com
When you check the website you think at first wow this one is really different, even warns about scammers etc. So I was interested in meeting 1 lady (100$ asked per date), but then the owner told me 1 lady is not enough to meet, I should meet more, she then pushed me to pay travel expenses for some girls living more than 1000KM away where I should pay their travel expenses coming to Kiev (including 2 nights in 4 star hotel, per lady). On top of that she didn’t even wanted to show me pictures of the girl.“
She asked the client 1000$ upfront to present several ladies and it was only the upfront payment.
Another scam pattern is to extort from clients “a success fee” that is not based on a marriage but on the success of the initial stage of the relationship.
The fact of asking a “success fee” is quite strange: imagine you decide to buy a beautiful painting and the seller is telling you that if the painting fits well to your interior “success fee” will be charged on your card!
Another client of AnnaUkolova.com told us that most probably “brides” get a part of the “success fee”. As soon as the client pays the “success fee” the relationship with the girl comes to the end within a short period of time.
But what is the real success rate of Anna Ukolova dating agency?
This agency does not have any accounts of platforms like google or trustpilot.
So, no reviews, no testimonials.
We can only see a dozen of “reviews” Anna Ukolova added herself on her dating site and only one video testimonial. So the average is about 1 satisfied client who positively reviews her work (it does not that he found his soulmate) per each year of work.
Anna Ukolova calls herself a “Professional Matchmaker”, a “Dating Expert” and a “Dating Coach”
But what is her background?
Does she have any diploma in psychology? Or at least in Human resource management?
No, her background is similar to many scam agencies owners who started as a “professional brides”, getting a small fraction of what agencies earn, than promoted to work as an amateur translator or scam dating agency manager and finally tired to work for peanuts and starting their own agency with a huge experience in extorting money from Western men.
We don’t see that Anna Ukolova’s path was significantly different.
Here’s what clients write about Anna Ukolova after they refuse sending money or refuse to provide personal information before Anna gives the rates.
“On top of that she didn’t even wanted to show me pictures of the girl. Besides her rudeness was outstanding too.”
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“Hello Eric,
I am not going to repeat myself again and again. I have already provided you with all the necessary information, and I cannot and do not want to send anything else.
With your current approach, I honestly don’t believe you will find a nice woman from Ukraine. I wish you good luck.”
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“I don’t care what you think!
After this email I am even more sure I did right decision to refuse to work with you!
You can be married 10 times but stay single anyway!“
A real mix of rudeness, nonsense, arrogance and disdain toward men.
Why did we decide make this investigation?
We have discovered that Anna Ukolova was publicly spreading fake information about our agency.
A man (Eric) received a mass mail from annaukolova.com where Anna Ukolova pretends to be a scam fighter and posts diffamation information about UkReine.com
After a negative experience with Anna Ukolova (she refused to give him the rates) he shared the story with us.
So what does she write about us?
Fake: The letters you exchange on this site are NOT written by the women in the pictures. Instead, they are written by third parties, likely people behind the scenes, not the women you are supposed to be connecting with.
Reality: First of all, writing messages via the website is totally optional. Also, each client gets enough free credits to check if a woman he likes is also interested in him.
After that he can exchange direct contact information with an unlimited number of ladies with any of our packages starting with 50 euros per month.
If a man wants to exchange translated messages via our website for some more time before taking the decision if he wants to take our package, he may do it as long as he needs but we encourage all men to get to direct communication as soon as possible.
Translators are obliged to keep the originals of ladies’ messages during 3 months.
Fake: No video chats or real-life meetings are allowed on the platform. You will only be communicating through pre-written messages, which raises serious concerns about the authenticity and intentions behind these profiles.
Reality: This affirmation is not only fake but it does not have any sense. In reality, online muted video chats on a dating site is a red flag that it’s a dating scams. In reality, the only reason why “brides” are online and available for a video chat when it’s a deep night in Ukraine is that it’s evening in USA and American men are considered to be the rich. So, the man is paying per minute of online video chat and “brides” get a part of this money. But a lot of the scam agencies do even worse, they are using pre-recorded videos of the “brides” and it’s the local agency translator who is typing the text.
UkReine.com is using 30 minutes video calls using Skype, Meets or Zoom when a man a woman can see each other and discuss any topics.
No real-life meetings are allowed on the platform.
Real meetings are possible only in a real life, our platform can only help men to contact ladies directly and we provide all possible assistance to help our clients with a real-life meeting
You will only be communicating through pre-written messages
As it was mentioned before, at Ukreine.com men don’t need to use messages, they can get direct contacts of unlimited number of ladies for as low as 50 euros per month.
All this information is very visible on our website, so Anna Ukolova did not even care about browsing pages of UkReine.com
Why does she spread diffamation about an honest dating site?
The reason is very simple.
Her website has an average of 5 visitors per day, ours has 1000 visitors per day.
By blackmailing an honest agency, by publishing our website name, she wants to get a part of our clients who may find this information while looking for UkReine.com
But we’ll make Anna Ukolova pay a fair price for blackmailing and we’ll do our best to help her to start a new job that won’t be related to dating scams, lies and money extortion.
