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 just totally up himself. I’ve personally been scammed by him, me, and so I think it’s high time he was taken down a peg or two. I think he should be crowned “The King of organised online romance fraud”. Or something like that. I also find it rather ironic that this so-called King of date international date-scamming just happens to be as bald as an egg. Read on, my dear unsuspecting male friends, read on.

According to Forbes Russia, in 2019, Dmitry Volkov’s estimated net worth was $750 million dollars; at that time he was the 126th richest person in all of Russia. Today, he’s currently the 148th-richest billionaire in Russia worth some $800 million dollars.

But don’t let none of that fame and fortune fool you. Because much of this money 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 itself (itself with a very lowly 1.32/5 rating over on datingscout). He has tricked people by the thousands, tens of thousands in all likelihood.

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!!

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 (or it had; when it existed it was 1.1 out of 5 okay). It’s a pity I don’t have a screenshot of that because the SOL Networks website is no longer functional. Still don’t believe me? Then check these terrible SOL Networks reviews out.

You can still glean some information about SOL Networks from the wayback machine internet archive (before 2022 that is). It’s no surprise that SOL Networks is (or was, when this article was originally written) now looking for both a Customer Support Representative and a Senior Accountant.

Volkov seems to want to intentionally distance himself from these websites (because let’s face it, they have a very, very poor reputation). None of his actual fraudulent date-scamming websites such as AnastasiaDate are ever listed on his LinkedIn profile. Only the rather benign-looking “Social Discovery Ventures” and “Social Discovery Group”. Why is that?

“Social Discovery Group solves the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality”

(yes, discover how you too can be scammed out of thousands of dollars)

Instead, Volkov prefers aligning himself with the much more respectable-looking intermediary “Social Discovery Ventures” group with its swanky-looking office in… in… in fuck know’s where, somewhere in Russia probably. Or Cyprus. Or Latvia. No, after much googling, I eventually figured out that it’s located right here, in Malta alright. Because –of course– there’s no actual physical address on either the AnastasiaDate.com or socialdiscoverygroup.com websites. That’s questionable for a start. If you want to find the actual location you have to use google maps of all things. Otherwise there is no other way.

But is Social Discovery Ventures all it’s cracked up to be? For all it’s convincing youthful funky colourful graphic and web design, some of the people who have worked there have themselves admitted that it’s a scam operation! At least the ones that bothered to write a review. And again, Social Discovery Ventures follows AnastasiaDate on glassdoor. Because it is AnastasiaDate.

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Dmitry Borisovich Volkov also founded “Real Estate Discovery Ventures” (REDV) and more recently another, separate entity (albeit with the same name) Social Discovery Ventures based in Cyprus (yet another dodgy office location of his if you ask me). Probably he was making so much money with his online romance scams, that he didn’t know what to do with it, and decided to invest.

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 even paying taxes on any of those earnings
c) using front companies all over the place
d) registering and de-registering companies + websites in different names and in different places to evade authorities
e) completely disassociating himself from any links to AnastasiaDate et al.

Here is my personal story of being scammed by AnastasiaDate:

But don’t just take my word for it. Pleeenty of other people have been scammed by Dmitry Volkov. Have a look here. Or here. Or here. Or here or here or here or here. Here here here here. Here. Here, here and here. Of course, there might be some positive reviews. But Dmitry has a very large team “working” (sorry, wrong verb, I really mean ‘scamming’) around him and it’s very easy for those people to leave false positive reviews. And they do.

Several tears ago, I infiltrated AnastasiaDate’s vk page where the women who chat all hang out. And while over there I gathered some pretty damning evidence of fraud (see below). You’d think that these women who are marketed as being single right? But the fact is, half of them are not. Because I’ve even compiled some basic statistics on their relationship status (see below).

 

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How the AnastasiaDate.com scamming operation works:

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.

What seems to happen, if you are a stupid gullible man and you fork out $10,000 or more on this scam, then you may be “eligible” to actually meet said woman you are talking to. Where thereupon your arrival in Ukraine or Russia you will be FURTHER scammed out of exorbitant translator fees (because the girl always takes a cut on that). Woman will be cold and distant, and you’ll go home dejected. Now there is a very slim chance that the scamming little bitch(es) you are supposed to meet might actually fall for the men they are scamming, and vice versa, but I suspect those cases are very few and far between.

Soon after I published my videos, a Russian journalist contacted me. He told me that he was in touch with the women I thought I was speaking to, and she told him that she did not even know she had a profile on the Anastasia Date site. So the way it works is that they are paid for a photoshoot. And then their photos are used without their permission, without them even knowing where their photos are going to end up.

Now, to be fair, charging men exorbitant fees to chat or talk with foreign women is not illegal. But charging men (any amount) to chat or talk with women who are not who they say they are, well, that is most definitely illegal. Each and every time AnastasiaDate knowingly does that, and that is practically all the time, constantly, for decades, then yes it is engaged in a massive fraud operation.

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Social Discovery Ventures / Social Discovery Group:

AnastasiaDate romance fraud rumors have been flying around for a long time. Over 10 years in fact. But they tend to be hidden from overall public view and the company continues to operate. I think part of the trouble is that it’s been difficult for authorities to prove the allegations or to even work out who or where to sue the owners! They keep changing it! Now the company’s contact information has changed yet again. You can only really find out that information through AnastasiaDate’s very cagey terms & conditions page (which is difficult to click on for a start, because of the endless scroll nature of the main homepage). The contact information for AnastasiaDate is listed as :

VENTA SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD. , located at 6 EU TONG SEN STREET, #09-09, THE CENTRAL SINGAPORE (059817)

Right. So now it’s Singapore is it? I could have sworn last the time I checked, the contact info was the decidedly shady “Xeanco Limited” or something, operating out of Hong Kong. It seems AnastasiaDate’s actual “office” location and contact details have changed more times than a 3-month-old baby’s shitty disposable nappy!

Here is yet another one of Dmitry’s scammy romance fraud “dating” apps, Once,  trading under the name Xeanco Ltd). And just look at all the one-star reviews over there. Or look at the more graphical representation down below instead, taken from scamadviser. Yes. You’ll note that that’s a lowly rating of 1 out of 100. Literally a 1% trustscore rating. Couldn’t get any lower if you tried! 🤦‍♂️

There probably should be a class action lawsuit at this point. But so far it hasn’t happened. Probably because people are too embarrassed to come forward. But who would we sue? Dmitry boy? Well the trouble there is that he keeps skipping around between Cyprus and Malta. Until recently, no one even knew he was the schmuck behind the whole thing. No one would bother doing the top-down approach investigation into Dmitry Volkov. No one would suspect him. I’ve had to do this from the bottom up, from someone scammed by AnastasiaDate, tracking the ownership structure like I’m on some wild goose chase, hunting him down that way.

The fact that AnastasiaDate is owned and controlled by Dmitry Volkov however is not widely known. Or wasn’t. Still isn’t. 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.

What to do if you’ve been scammed:

First of all, you can file a complaint to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) here. You can also file a romance fraud cyber crime electronic tip report on the FBI’s website here. The more complaints the FBI gets, the more likely they are to investigate Dmitry Borisovich Volkov and to one day hold him accountable.

What he is doing falls somewhere between cyber crime (online fraud obtained by deception) and white collar crime (using the proceeds of romance scamming people to subsequently launder that money and evade tax obligations). It’s a crime alright.

 

But that’s just the thing. Dmitry Volkov must realise that his past is eventually going to catch up with him sooner or later (or is it?). So I think he is intentionally trying to distance himself from Anastasiadate as much as possible and funnel that money into other new “cleaner” ventures and projects with new and different brand names. 

You might notice that Dmitry Volkov, who owns Social Discovery Ventures, is very cagey about what dating sites he actually owns and controls. That’s completely intentional. He hides this sort of information. It’s buried deep on intermediary pages like the relatively new SOL Holdings Limited wesbite. That’s because he’s not proud of owning them at all! Because quite frankly, they all operate on very similar underlying scammy, dodgy derivative software platform/interfaces. But the method is always the same. Which is deceive men into paying an arm and a leg to chat to women who you will never ever meet in real life. They’ve just got different races of girls and they are marketed differently:

 

Yet in reality, here is what the front entrance looks like. My my my. It really does look like a façade doesn’t it. Recall that Dmitry Volkov has an estimated net worth of some USD$800 million dollars –the 146th man in Russia– and yes, the entrance features… a logo with an inkjet-printed piece of paper, stuck on with two clear pieces of sticky tape. And yes, you’ll note that is the SOL Networks Limited logo shown directly underneath. Okaaay.

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SOL Networks Limited / SOL Holdings Limited:

For instance SOL Networks had a very poor google reputation and that has now vanished (replaced with SOL Holdings Limited). In October 2019, SOL Holdings and SDVentures merged to create the Dating.com group. That’s weird though because SOL Networks still has an active LinkedIn profile. How strange:

 

Why does the company that processes AnastasiaDate transactions not list those transactions under “AnastasiaDate” or “Social Discovery Ventures”? But instead under “SOL Networks Limited”? I mean, that’s not very transparent. Is it? Of course, this is all very intentional. I think it’s partly because the owner, Dmitry Volkov, doesn’t want you to find out where their actual head office is located.

SOL Networks Limited, whose website has been offline since 2022 by the looks of it, still lists its physical address as “Level 4&5, 266 Triq ix-xatt. Il Gżira, Malta” on its LinkedIn page. If you google street view that address, you end up at this rather dubious looking location, just above a shitty little auto mechanic shop.

Riiight. So the owner of a multi-hundred million dollar chain of shady businesses, of which AnastasiaDate alone is still raking in some $46 million dollars a year in online date fraud, apparently, has them registered right here. Not so nice looking as inside the SDV head office is it?

For someone with a net worth of 800 million dollars, I really expected a better frontage than this. Now maybe, just maybe, that is the location of the dodgy accountant. Because if you google that particular address, you find several other companies with the exact same address such as “Amagis Capital” and “GeoSys Malta”. And they too have links to the Paradise Papers listed in the ICIJ offshore leaks database.

 

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The trail of crooked money goes something like this:

AnastasiaDate (and its multitude of associated date scamming online romance fraud sister sites)  →  SOL Networks Limited  →  SOL Holdings Limited  →  Xeanco Limited  →  SDV Networks Limited  →  SDV Growth Ltd  →  Social Discovery Ventures  →  SDVentures  →  Real Estate Discovery Ventures (REDV)

Except at this point I realise it’s not entirely linear and you would actually need a rather large chart or schematic diagram to map it all out in a more visual format to really see what is going on here.

For starters, it’s very questionable when not one but ALL of the websites associated with Dmitry Volkov intentionally hide their whois domain registrar information from public view by paying extra to enable a “privacy mode” so that it doesn’t show up anywhere in the ICANN internet/website database. So you cannot look up who actually registers any of them, who owns the websites, or indeed where, thus making it more difficult to find out how to contact any of these people.

Basically, money is taken from date scamming online romance fraud internet sites (and there are likely even more than the ones listed below). That money then appears to be laundered by funding other investments and ventures (such as REDV, Volkov’s real estate portfolio). But who knows, because Dmitry is like an onion; the more layers that are peeled off, the more it stinks.

What I find very very telling or should I say revealing is that during my research into Volkov and his shading dating platforms that he claims “connect people together” –he really only “connects” scammers with victims– I discovered a very interesting article written by Dmitry Volkov himself (but in Russian). Soon after billionaire scammer Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four counts of fraud by deception for deceiving investors with Theranos, Dmitry Volkov wrote an article in Forbes.ru defending her: 😳

I will translate the headline into English for you, it reads:

“Failure stops losers: Why Elizabeth Holmes’ sentence is a threat to visionaries” — Dmitry Borisovich Volkov

 

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So if you’ve already been scammed by AnastasiaDate, you might be asking yourself by now: “Where does all your hard-earned money go?” It goes into ever-expanding Dmitry Volkov’s sizeable real estate portfolio, that’s where it goes. Something tells me he didn’t get rich by being “a philosopher“. But this is actually a type of money laundering because the proceeds were obtained by intentional deception. Which is totally illegal.

If one searches for REDV‘s mailing address in the offshore leaks database, for instance, anyone can see that it has Cayman Islands written all over it. Here I’ll do that for you now, save you some time:

2093 Philadelphia Pike #4848 Claymont, DE 19703
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?q=+2093+Philadelphia+Pike+%234848+Claymont%2C+DE+19703+&c=&j=&d=

We know Dmitry is tied to Real Estate Discovery Ventures, because if you look at the wayback machine, he appears as its very founder (see the screenshot below). Not anymore though! He’s gone from the page! Weird! It’s almost like he doesn’t want people to know that he founded it. 

Even today in 2025, the site still has a very dodgy email contact address “info@r-e-d.ventures”. That’s very funny (or should I say highly suspicious) for a company that owns $185,000,000 worth of American real estate to use an email address with a url that looks like it has never even had a website associated with it (or the wayback machine never got around to archiving it). 

Now there’s something else fishy about Real Estate Discovery Ventures (REDV) too. The physical address. It’s listed as:

Discovery Property Manager 55 E 59th St Suite #12b, New York, NY 10022

Now, that’s rather odd, because that particular suite, suite #12B, is currently listed for lease on multiple real estate websites. Hmm. It’s available to rent, it’s empty, and it’s completely vacant:

AnastasiaDate Ownership:

In a nutshell, yes, Dmitry Borisovich Volkov is still the CEO and owner of AnastasiaDate. He’s the one directly responsible for all of the shenanigans that go on there. How do we know he’s the one tied to it? Keep reading.

In 2011, AnastasiaDate was sold by Anastasia International to a private investor. That “private investor” just so happens to be Dmitry Volkov. We know Dmitry is tied to it all because Social Discovery Ventures previously listed AnastasiaDate as one of its subsidiaries. It doesn’t anymore. Why is that? Not so ‘private’ now is he? He even follows AnastasiaDate on his instagram page.🤦‍♂️

So we know that 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 AnastasiaDate^{2 3}. On October 2019, SOL Holdings and SDVentures⁴ merged to create the dating.com group⁵. Indeed, AnastasiaDate processes their credit card transactions through SOL Networks Limited (probably now through SOL Holdings Limited).

Money Laundering Allegations

AnastasiaDate ltd appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database and is linked to both Malta and the British Virgin Islands (Tortola). Both Dmitry Volkov and Social Discovery Ventures also feature in the Pandora Papers ICIJ offshore leaks database. But note the spelling is different (Dmitrii Borisovich Volkov), with a double letter “ii” not “y”. And he doesn’t just appear there once. But twice. How interesting. He is now associated with a company called “Intellectual Solutions” and the registered address is listed in the Seychelles. A lovely place to visit for its amazing tropical beaches and resorts, and lovely place to register businesses for money laundering and tax evasion also:

The dating.com group parent company also appears in the ICIJ offshore leaks database. These leaks are associated with two people, Jason Scicluna and Paul Bugeja, both of whom live in Malta where Social Discovery Ventures is based. Jason Scicluna is a “certified” public accountant with very scant details on his LinkedIn page. Paul Bugeja on the other hand, is it the same Paul Bugeja who is now the CEO of Malta MedAir? He has an accounting and finance background.

I’ll admit that I’m no accountant. Although my preliminary online investigations reveal that Dmitry has what looks like shell companies with ties to the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands and Seychelles, all known offshore tax havens. His has companies that are registered all over the place. He has knowingly engaged in fraud. Why are American, Russian, English, Maltese and Cypriot authorities so slow to catch him?

SDVentures.com (now rebranded as socialdiscoverygroup.com) uses offshore tax havens to avoid paying any taxes in Russia, Malta, Cyprus, Latvia, Colombia, Belarus, Morocco, or anywhere else it has (or had) an “office”.

There is not even a simple phone number you can call to speak to anyone. Why would there be? I note some of the websites associated with this sham operation keep changing too. Because when you’re a complete shyster like Dmitry, you’ve got to keep the FBI on their toes, right?

The surname “Volkov” coming from the Russian word “volk” or “wolf”. He’s a wolf alright.
Maybe we should all call him the “The Wolf of online date scamming” instead then?

Funnily enough, Dmitry Borisovich Volkov has already been sanctioned by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council under the name “Volkov Dmytro Borysovych”. Here.

So now we know his ИНН number: 771403686349.
And that, in turn, means loads of other official personal and business Russian identification numbers.

Dmitry Borisovich Volkov is already listed in the Rupep database of politically exposed persons. The RUPEP.org database helps financial institutions and other organisations identify risks associated with transactions involving politically exposed persons.

Further digging reveals Dmitry Borisovich Volkov’s name appears behind NaudaPay Limited, which trades under both Noda and WLPay (payment facilitators for offshore casinos and gambling platforms).

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 decades. 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.

I think the only reason he has gotten away with it for so long so far is because of the language and cultural gap between English and Russian. It’s not easy to find these women on vk.com. It was somewhat easier for me because I can understand Russian. Also, I think many successful career men simply don’t have the time or the inclination to find out who is actually behind this scam operation.

The other thing is that I think you would have had to have been scammed yourself to know that AnastasiaDate payments are processed through SOL Networks Limited (or were at the time) to start to figure out who actually owns AnastasiaDate. Because the ownership structure and location behind all of these websites are still very opaque.

Where is the FBI I wonder? Or the Australian Federal Police? Why am I effectively doing their job (and for free I might add)? They should have had whole teams of people investigating this bastard by now! Where are they? Where is everybody?

I mean this bald little motherfucker had been earning hundreds of millions of dollars ever since 2011, all of it based on total lies and deception, and cheating thousands of men in the process, totally screwing with their emotions & feelings, scamming them all the while. For years. Decades. And yet here he is all these years later, meeting with the Dalai Lama and flying all around the world free as a bird in his private fucking helicopter!! Why hasn’t he still been caught yet?

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EVIDENCE OF ACTUAL DATE FRAUD:

Through watching a couple of YouTube videos, I learned that the women (or men😂) on AnastasiaDate access their end of the site through a Ukrainian portal, svadba.com (access to which now appears blocked/denied). But you can always check the wayback machine to see how it looked before.

There are twp main groups representated on vk.com, Anastasia Svadba.com and Anastasia VIP Club. There’s also a smaller, older group here. Note that you will definitely have to create an account first to be able to see these groups.

Heck, at this point, I might as well just directly link to the search functions to make it easier for you to search through these groups, instead of you having to watch my youtube video about it. So without further ado, here are the two vk groups associated with AnastasiaDate: Anastasia Svadba.com and the Anastasia VIP Club.

Maybe, just maybe, if nothing else, if you look you might be able to expose some of these women if they are not who they say they are. Remember, AnastasiaDate chat scammers will never give you their personal contact details, always claiming some bullshit International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA) “safety regulation”.🙄 If you believe that after everything I’ve written here, well there’s no hope for you I’m afraid. Don’t be gullible. Don’t you even dare look at AnastasiaDate! You might get hooked into having some ridiculous crush on someone who is not who they say they are, not who you think they are. Don’t do it. You’ve been warned.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS STATISTICS OF THE UKRAINIAN/RUSSIAN SCAMMERS:

Here’s where it gets interesting. I’ll get into the actual statistics below, but by my calculations, literally more than HALF the women chatting on AnastasiaDate.com are in fact not even single (and keep in mind that so-called “ethnically monogamous relationships” are just not that popular in Russia). I’d just like to also point out here that just because half of them are still single does not mean they are not scamming people, it just means they are single scammers; there is evidence to suggest that some of the people chatting are indeed men. It could be

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 svadba.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/owner and I wanted to quash negative rumours, I’d make DAMN sure there weren’t any attached or married 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 a highly sophisticated, intentionally misleading, prolonged (and still ongoing) systematic international date fraud operation, that’s what.

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AnastasiaDate has created not one but two fake YouTube channels, anastasiadatescam and anastasiadatefraud. These were created 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 inoperable (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 business practices.

Now what’s very interesting is that Elenas Models did try to expose AnastasiaDate for the sham site that it is, but AnastasiaDate sued them for quote “defamation”. Ultimately, Elena Models won that case. And good. You can read the Judge’s verdict here. That information does not appear in the Wikipedia page about AnasasiaDate. Someone keeps removing it.

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!

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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”. Yes. Dmitry Volkov is even on the board of trustees over at the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies at the Philosophy Department of Moscow State University. He co-founded it. I wonder if any of his colleagues know how he got rich?

Volkov comes across as a bit of an entrepreneurial, jetsetting “digital nomad” type of fellow. He’s not completely stupid, because he has a PhD in Philosophy. But that’s okay, even I have one of those, a PhD (but in science).

Possibly what annoys me the most is that he is being lauded and has been given not one but three rather esteemed awards by the international elite community:

1. EY | International Entrepreneur of the Year 2018
2. GQ | Man of the Year Award 2018
3. NAIMA | Venture Capital Awards Russia 2018

 

By the way, if this blog article seems a bit “all over the place”, it’s because it’s an accumulation of my own personal research and writings into AnastasiaDate, wikipedia entries to try to hold them accountable (many were subsequently deleted or undone by other wikipedia admins).

This article was originally intended to be written as a petition to formally request that Interpol investigate this Russian/Ukrainian dating-scam “industry”; unfortunately Care2 deleted it within a few hours of it going live.

 

Reputation

The legitimacy of AnastasiaDate has previously come into question. 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 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”. Anastasia was also featured in a movie Love Translated.

http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=16263.200
http://web.archive.org/web/20161122015316/http://www.anastasiadatefraud.com/

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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:

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9/72429183

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9/72609251

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%92%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4/MoscowFF&offset=20150731093100

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%92%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4/MoscowFF&offset=20150817065533

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I should point out that I was 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.

Someone obviously doesn’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).

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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!

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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

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How to get your money refunded from AnastasiaDate:

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

TWITTER:
anastasiadate
s_d_ventures
Дмитрий Волков

YOUTUBE:
AnastasiaDate
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCToAq_nSr1rDNFJ8-3HAD2Q
Дмитрий Волков. Неискусственный Интеллект
Social Discovery Ventures

TWITTER:
anastasiadate
s_d_ventures
Дмитрий Волков