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Who owns AnastasiaDate? Billionaire scammer Dmitry Borisovich Volkov.
Dmitry Borisovich Volkov is the leader of an international dating-scam crime syndicate and its associated illegal money laundering operation. He is a professional catfisher and tax evader to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
If that’s not bad enough, he absolutely positively loves himself. He is totally up himself. I think it’s high time he was taken down a peg or two.
According to Forbes Russia, as of 2019, his estimated net worth is $750 million. Much of this money however has been stolen from end users of AnastasiaDate, ArabianDate, AsianDate, AfricanDate, AmoLatina and a whole clusterfuck of other shady dating websites including but not limited to dating.com. He seems to want to intentionally distance himself from these websites (because let’s face it, they have a very, very poor reputation).
So there you go. That’s how Mr Volkov got to be so rich, by
a) date-scamming people all around the globe
b) not paying any taxes on any of those earnings
c) using front companies all over the place
d) registering and deregistering companies in different names and in different places.
Preliminary online investigations reveal that Dmitry does not pay any taxes anywhere. Why should he, if Russian authorities are too slow to catch him? SDVentures uses offshore tax havens to avoid paying any taxes in Russia, Malta or anywhere else it has an “office”. There is not even a simple phone number you can call to speak to anyone.
In 2012, Fortune reported that AnastasiaDate earned a whopping $110 million. In 2021, Forbes Russia named Dmitry Volkov “one of the top five global entrepreneurs”. How he even got on the list in the first place is unbeknownst to man because his company SOL Networks that funnels half of that illegal money has possibly the lowest google rating on the entire internet (it’s 1.1 out of 5 okay). See for yourself! It’s no surprise that SOL Networks is now looking for both a Customer Support Representative and a Senior Accountant.
AnastasiaDate is one of the largest international dating scam network services in existence and is owned by Dmitry Borisovich Volkov. The Glassdoor rating for AnastasiaDate is a lousy 1.8/5.0 (remember, that lowly rating is coming from his own employees!). Even their own ex-employees admit that it is one giant big catfishing operation.
Women are paid directly by the site to chat and they are not permitted to give their personal contact details. Not ever. Even after one or more years of talking. Their commission is estimated to be about 25 to 30% of the chat rate. It’s obviously in their best interests to stall the unsuspecting men as long as possible while they accrue credit card charges through the aforementioned SOL Networks.
The most expensive of all communication methods is the telephone, which costs a stratospheric 600 credits/hour (more than $200/hr). That’s how Dmitry can afford to jetset around the globe at your expense.
Women access the site through a Ukrainian portal, svadba.com. There are two similar groups representated on vk.com, Anastasia Svadba.com and Anastasia VIP Club. As of the 24th of October 2021, there were 1498 females in the former group and 207 males for a total of 1705 members. In the latter group there were 419 females and 31 males for a total of 450 members.
Thus there were 12% and 7% males in both groups, respectively. Remember that these are not the actual figures for sbadba.com but rather for two related vk.com groups. Even so, you’d think, you’d expect, that AnastasiaDate would only allow females in that group (unless they are working for the company). Who knows? You could be talking (chatting) to a man. That was certainly the case here, in this interview with a male employee.
It’s worth noting that anyone can join these groups as they are ‘open’. But the question remains, what are males doing in that group in the first place? Why would males be allowed in that group? I’m guessing that they could be employees – translators for example. But if I was the CEO of AnastasiaDate and I was serious about fraud allegations, there is no way on Earth that I would allow any males (even employees) to enter what should be a female-only group.
Still, these males could be people that happened to stumble on the groups. There’s absolutely no point looking at the breakdown of relationship status for just males because AnastasiaDate end users are only seeking females, not males. So ignoring the males and looking at only the females, let’s take a look at some more data, the breakdown by “relationship status”:
Anastasia Svadba.com (female members)
Single: 210
In a relationship: 32
Engaged: 14
Married: 314
In a civil union: 2
In love: 51
It’s complicated: 6
Actively searching: 48
Unspecified: 821
Total females: 1498
Anastasia VIP Club (female members)
Single: 64
In a relationship: 5
Engaged: 5
Married: 66
In a civil union: 1
In love: 14
It’s complicated: 2
Actively searching: 18
Unspecified: 244
Total females: 419
Anastasia Svadba.com members (any sex)
Single: 239
In a relationship: 36
Engaged: 17
Married: 337
In a civil union: 2
In love: 58
It’s complicated: 10
Actively searching: 63
Unspecified: 943
Total females: 1498
Anastasia VIP Club members (any sex)
Single: 67
In a relationship: 5
Engaged: 5
Married: 72
In a civil union: 1
In love: 15
It’s complicated: 2
Actively searching: 28
Unspecified: 255
Total females: 419
Thus, of the members in the former group who answered the question about relationship status, only 38% of members were listed as either “single” or “actively searching” while over half (53%) were listed as either already “in a relationship”, “engaged”, “married” or “in a civil union”. In the latter group, 47% of members were listed as either “single” or “actively searching” while 44% were listed as either “in a relationship”, “engaged”, “married” or “in a civil union”.
Given what people have been saying for years about Anastasia Date, are these gender and relationship statistics really all that surprising? What chance is there that a 100-million-dollar-a-year company with 600+ employees “doesn’t know” about these married women in their vk groups? If I was the CEO and I wanted to quash negative rumours, I’d make DAMN sure there weren’t any attached women present. How long would it take to do this simple check? A matter of minutes. Seconds even. Have they done that? No. Rather, the opposite is true.
They know full well what they are doing. They are engaged in an intentional ongoing, systematic fraud operation.
The fact that AnastasiaDate is a scam is well known. The fact that it is all owned by Dmitry Volkov however is not widely known. That’s about to change. No one seemed to know about all of his ill-gotten gains. It seemed Dmitry Borisovich Volkov could fall into a pile of shit and come out smelling of roses, especially in Russia where nobody seems to know what a charlatan he is.
AnastasiaDate has created not one but two fake YouTube channels, anastasiadatescam and anastasiadatefraud to try to pursuade men that this is not some sort of massive organised crime syndicate. Unfortunately, it is still ongoing.
Not surprisingly, in September 2015, Anastasiadate.com suffered from a series of DDoS attacks, rendering the site ineroperable (albeit temporarily). Given AnastasiaDate’s track record, is it any surprise that this happened to them? Unfortunately, AnastasiaDate prosecuted the Ukrainian hackers responsible for the hacking and they served 5 years in jail. Dmitry himself should be in jail, okay. Not ordinary poor people exacting revenge on his illegal practices.
In the year 2005, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act]] (IMBRA) was passed to protect vulnerable foreign women from physically abusive husbands. Essentially, it totally failed on the scamming side of things because AnastasiaDate later used IMBRA policies to try to justify their “no contact” policy with women. In other words, they lie about what IMBRA is really about just so that they can extract more money from prolonged scamming methods (chat, video chat and telephone calls are hideously expensive). IMBRA is all about protecting foreign women from physically abusive America men. It has nothing to do with American men not being able to contact Russian and Ukranian women!
Dmitry Volkov also invests some of your money in art. Volkov himself however, could not draw to save himself. Possibly the most ironic part is that he literally thinks he can lecture us about “moral responsibility”.
The money he earns through AnastasiaDate → SDVentures → SOL networks is laundered by funding other legitimate investments (such as real estate). But who knows, because Dmitry is like an onion; the more layers that are peeled off, the more it stinks. If one googles REDV’s mailing address, for instance, anyone can see that it has Cayman Islands written all over it.
For all his accomplishments and investments though, Volkov himself is tighter than frog’s arsehole. And that’s water-tight. All you really need to know is that he has scammed and betrayed thousands upon thousands upon thousands of individuals over the course of several years. He knows it. And so far he has gotten away with it Scot-free. The main thing you need to know is that Volkov is a selfish, lying crook. Just ask any AnastasiaDate user in the past 10 years.
It seems rich people, the very people with the most money, think they are tax exempt. Not wanting to pay taxes is certainly understandable. But we believe it’s really the prolonged date-scamming that Interpol should investigate Dmitry for.
This article was originally written as a petition to formally request that Interp0l investigate this Russian/Ukrainian dating-scam “industry”; unfortunately Care2 deleted it within a few hours of it going live.
http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=16263.200
http://web.archive.org/web/20161122015316/http://www.anastasiadatefraud.com/
Ownership
In 2011, AnastasiaDate was sold by Anastasia International to a private investor. The company and its sister sites are now owned by Social Discovery Ventures, now part of the dating.com group1. A separate company, SOL Networks, based in Malta, is a stakeholder of AnastasiaDate23. On October 2019, SOL Holdings and SDVentures4 merged to create the dating.com group5. Dmitry Borisovich Volkov is the CEO of AnastasiaDate.
Fraud Allegations
AnastasiaDate ltd appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database and is linked to both Malta and the British Virgin Islands6. The dating.com group parent company also appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database7.
Reputation
The legitimacy of AnastasiaDate has previously come into question8. AnastasiaDate was mentioned in Dan Slater’s novel, “Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating.” In this book, Slater followed a small group of men on an unsuccessful attempt to meet women in person who they had met online via Anastasia’s AmoLatina website (the women all coincidentally disappeared when the men arrived in Colombia to meet them). He concludes as well that “the staffs of local bridal agencies will often pose as the women in the profiles, responding to incoming messages in order to keep the rubles rolling in”.9. Anastasia was also featured in a movie Love Translated.10
Wikipedia edit wars
The main goal of this article now is simply to inform people about what is going on. If you have any doubts about how far down the rabbit hole this all goes, take a look at Wikipedia’s talk page about AnastasiaDate. It appears there has been an ongoing edit war. I trusted wikipedia. Wikipedia has failed that trust. I won’t trust them as a reliable source of information any longer.
Isn’t it against wikipedia’s policies for people to create their own biographies? Well that is essentially what he has done (either that or one of his employees). First someone with the username MoscowFF created a page about Social Discovery Ventures (SDV) on the 29th of July, 2015. And then a little over a week later, on the 7th of August, created a page about Dmitry Borisovich Volkov. That is *highly* suspicious. Here are the links as proof:
I was recently globally banned/blocked from Wikipedia merely for stating that Dmitry Borisovich Volkov is the CEO of AnastasiaDate and that AnastasiaDate belongs to the dating.com group. I didn’t even have to mention AfricanDate, AsianDate, ArabianDate or AmoLatina. They obviously don’t want you to know about this connection. They’re trying to make it harder for you to contact them with complaints. They don’t want to be held accountable. Perhaps if Dmitry focused less on philosophy and more on actually running AnastasiaDate, and eliminating married women from the site, it wouldn’t have such a poor online reputation.
That ban was only temporary but it looks like a permanent one is forthcoming.
Why am I about to be globally blocked/banned from the whole of wikipedia? That’s a bit extreme isn’t it? All because I said that Dmitry Borisovich Volkov owns AnastasiaDate? Perhaps it was wrong of me to use the words “international date-scammer, tax evader” initially. Yes, I admit it (even though it just so happens to be true). But what is ‘wrong’ with saying that Dmitry Borisovich Volkov owns AnastasiaDate? Or that dating.com group appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database? Eh? That is a neutral unbiased statement. It’s a fact. это правда! Do you want wikipedia to be able to be edited factually by anyone without censorship? Or not? Or has the now billionaire paid someone to protect his page (after all, he did write his own Russian biography and entry for SDVenures).
Q: Do these special privileges also apply to other languages of the Wikipedia site?
Dear wikipedia platinum overlord or whatever it is you call yourself,
Please watch the pages about AnastasiaDate and Dmitry Borisovich Volkov. I’ve been blocked from editing both Russian versions (there is a discrepancy, nobody wants this mentioned anywhere). Some trumped-up Russian wikipedia master with the grandiose title “Order of the Honored Patrolman level 1” badge globally blocked me (twice). And I don’t think that was very nice.
The main facts are: 1) Dmitry Borisovich Volkov owns AnastasiaDate, AfricanDate, AsianDate, ArabianDate and AmoLatina. This is through various other stakeholders such as SDVentures and SOL Networks. 2) Both AnastasiaDate and the dating.com group appear in the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) offshore leaks database. Even the name “Dmitry Volkov” appears in the ICIJ leaks (although that could be a different person).
Somebody using a Russian IP address initially created the articles for SDVentures and then a week later the page about Dmitry Borisovich Volkov. So it seems that the now billionaire Mr Volkov —or one of his 600 representatives— don’t want him to be held accountable for his own businesses (good or bad as they may be). He is essentially the CEO, the owner, and yet he doesn’t want to be associated it with any of it.
Long-standing allegations about dating scams aside, those are the facts.
Fix it!
This has been going on for some time. Too long. Mr Volkov is attempting to distance himself from both AnastasiaDate and SOL Networks because they both have a very poor reputation. He likes to maintain a very opaque business structure. At the moment, the English page is stable. But it is only a matter of time until one of Volkov’s henchmen edit the page back to the way it was (i.e. not mentioning AnastasiaDate, SOL networks or the ICIJ offshore leaks database). Is “The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists” a reliable enough source for you?
Because that information was just reverted on the Russian version of the page about Dmitry Borisovich Volkov (and of course they banned my IP address). New information has surfaced; all I did was add the truth. Please go and check for yourself. Why was that information reverted if it is true?
Also, the last edit I did about AnastasiaDate was undone by someone in Russia. And it has happened before. The company has its base in Malta, and changes were reverted by someone with an IP address in Malta. No surprises there.
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/200-women-in-a-few-hours.640007
https://www.google.com/search?q=SOL+Networks+Limited+Malta+google+review
https://www.complaints board.com/anastasiadatecom-b120788
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/AnastasiaDate-Reviews-E420728.htm
http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=16263.200
(there is a whole rather negative account of AnastasiaDate in one chapter of this book and obviously they don’t want that mentioned or referenced anywhere)Now granted those might not be reliable sources, that’s why they are here in the talk page and not in the actual page about Dmitry Volkov. It is not my problem if this has not been sufficiently covered by the international press (meaning newspapers and news websites). Now who is most responsible for these consistent/persistent allegations? Dmitry, that’s who. It’s his company and it has been for some time. There is/was talk of a class action against AnastasiaDate, unfortunately many men do not wish to come forward because there is a stigma attached to being the victim of a Russian bride scam.
Mr Volkov can’t have it both ways. If he’s going to run the world’s largest cluster of dating-scam websites, then he should at least maintain a much lower profile. This is an attempt to make Dmitry more accountable for the thousands of men that he has defrauded over the years. If something is not as it appears to be, then it is at the very least false advertising. It’s ongoing deception, systematic fraud, and that is something Volkov is going to have to answer for (sooner or later). Does Mr Volkov really think he can go on tricking and fooling thousands of engineers and scientists? Does he really think that he’ll be able to hide forever? Eventually it’s all going to catch up with him. I ask you this: do you actually want to contribute to the proliferation of a Russian mafia-style organisation? Or not? Because that is literally what we are dealing with here.
I may not be a good editor, I may not know how wikipedia works, but I do know how to do research and investigate. Time will show you are wrong about Mr Volkov. I am prepared to learn more about how wikipedia works in order to get certain accurate information to stick. Lastly, I am editing this at great personal risk.
wow, it appears someone did not like my recent wikipedia edits because I am now unable to access literally THE ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA WEBSITE. lol
How to get your money refunded
If you have been scammed by AnastasiaDate, ArabianDate, AsianDate, AfricanDate, AmoLatina or dating.com, I suggest you complain on all the companies social media channels over and over and over again. I know you area busy, so here, I’ve made it easy for you to do that:
LINKEDIN:
Dmitry Volkov
Julia Angelina Volkova
Social Discovery Ventures
SOL Networks Limited
FACEBOOK:
AnastasiaDate
Social Discovery Ventures
Dmitry Volkov’s facebook account
INSTAGRAM:
Dmitry Volkov
Юлия Angelina Волкова
anastasia_date
sdventures
YOUTUBE:
AnastasiaDate
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCToAq_nSr1rDNFJ8-3HAD2Q
Дмитрий Волков. Неискусственный Интеллект
Social Discovery Ventures
TWITTER:
anastasiadate
s_d_ventures
Дмитрий Волков
Transport for NSW’s response to the Moruya bypass petition:
When the petition hit 11k signatories on 22/09/21, I emailed Julian Watson, the Program Director for the Princes Highway at Transport for NSW. Here is Transport for NSW’s copy-pasted reply:
The proposed Moruya bypass project, Princes Highway, Eurobodalla Shire.
I have started this petition because I am concerned that Transport NSW is not doing the right thing by the environment for the future Moruya bypass project.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/405/817/554/
To cut a long story short, the government agency “Transport NSW” is going to bulldoze about 1.5km of Nature strip along Noad’s Drive.
This includes literally hundreds of established trees either side of the road.
Even Blind Freddy could see that this option is going to be FAR worse for the environment than the more direct options D and E via existing tarmac roads through the town. Please have a look via google street view at what is at stake!
Here is the latest report by them, which includes some environmental information and more details about the proposed options. I invite you to read it. Like all government reports it is very bureaucratic; it seems they are doing nothing but paying lip service to the environment.
The option they have selected, option G, the orange option, they have rated as being “number 2” in terms of “sustainability”. What concerns me is that they have lumped in a load of human-centric selection criteria that have nothing whatsoever to do with natural biodiversity management!
See pages 14 to 16 of the report where they have included “access to shops along the main street”, “economic prosperity” and “growth in employment” in with “sustainability” of all things.
They did not do a comparison for example with the amount of trees to be cut down among all of the options. if they had, the choices would have been more obvious.
For some reason, option D did not make the shortlist. Why not? Overall, option E [the purple option] would have been a more logical choice with far less impact to the environment…
I don’t know who put together the report but clearly they have never even set foot along Noad’s Drive. If they had, the outcome might have been very different. It’s like these decisions are made at people’s desks rather than on the ground.
Tourists like to come to this area precisely because it is not overdeveloped.
I don’t think it is best for the Eurobodalla region at all. Far from it. 😟
Sincerely,
Dr. Leslie Dean Brown (Mat Sci)
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