Famous bloggers helped a fraudster

Famous Ukrainian bloggers Alisa Vander, Natali Mychkovska, Nastya Stadnyk and Tanya Prentkovich indirectly helped a fraudster – Anastasia Petrunek (formerly Zabrodskaya) – deceive people.

It emerged that the woman swindled hundreds of thousands of hryvnia from gullible people. The funds were transferred to her card as prepayment for goods from America.

However, the buyers never saw the imported items or their money again.

The method of deception

Anastasia Petrunek bought advertising for her online shops from famous bloggers. As a result, the number of followers on her Instagram page grew at an incredible rate, as did the number of people wanting to make a purchase.

Initially, orders were indeed shipped. Consequently, clients trusted the fraudster with larger sums. However, subsequently, no one sent them any goods.

The scam has been operating for over four years. The fraudster continues to collect money from naive buyers who wanted to purchase quality American items.

The losses have exceeded half a million hryvnia. The check size ranges between 500 and 50 000 hryvnia. The number of defrauded buyers is in the hundreds.

Meanwhile, the bloggers have already disavowed the fraudster. Many of them stated that they were unaware of the deception. Whether this corresponds to reality is for the investigation to determine. If there is one, of course.

Meanwhile, Anastasia Petrunek is by no means a poor person. Her father is the controversial journalist Vasyl Zabrodskyi.