Faking it — scammers’ tricks to steal your heart and money

End of April I was contacted by a guy claiming to be US army in afganistan thru online. Then he gave me his phone number so we could chat over WhatsApp. I noticed he already deactivated his profile online but didn't think much of it. He told me about his 11yo daughter and how much he want to start new family. He's retiring soon. He asked me to contact his daughter via email so I did. Her daughter was very sweet. Then early May he confess his love for me and proposed. I was shocked but just listen to it. Even her daughter was very supportive of us getting together and live in US. He said he's coming with his daughter to see me, even send me the flight itinerary. I find it too good to be true as we only talked in WhatsApp for 1 month. He never asked money so I didn't suspect anything. Until recently, he said he got some hold and cash in afghanistan but can't keep it as he'll be going to Iraq soon so he need me to keep it save until he come. That's when I start realized something not right so I said no. He said what's the harm of receiving a parcel and keeping it save. He said he only trust me and its my sacrifice for our love and future. We start arguing, he said I'm selfish. How can I be so cruel to him when he loves me so much and risk his life everyday. I block and report to WhatsApp. Not sure if he's real but I follow my heart eventho it was hard as I thought I finally found my soul mate. Why a US army in afghanistan would have gold and cash to send me..doesn't he have any friends in US that can recieve his parcel..

Has anyone been contacted by Reinhard James hes says he's in Afghanistan and is a widower and has a son. Has gone from you are a wonderful person to I want you in 3 weeks.....In his 50's very handsome. Shows pic in uniform with name one it and a pic in a vineyard.....help

hi,, just wanna share. now im chatting with a "team colonel Donald Zhang" who was deployed in afghanistan . he tell something regarding about he do in camp. he tell a stories about himself. his mom, dad, and little sister was died from the car crash. have son in boarding school,cared by nanny.his wife past away 18 months ago. he said send me a bunch of money found from the taliban hide out. so on. now i got a message from my fake account that i gave him ask for an insurance fee need to pay before the delivery process. i get suspicious about this coz the account they send was not actually under by the insurance company they said, it was under the name of a person from turkey. so i do a background checking. ask help from a friend in turkey and said that is personal account. so he think he fooled me but actually i fooled him back,

I was contacted by Keanu Reeves who followed me on twitter and then Skype .. he won my trust and after a month of passionate notes and songs he won my heart. I was totally caught up in it and then after another month of love he asked for money for his charity. My donation wasn’t enough and he shamed me..I knew then but was so devistated and in love that it broke my heart. Keanu was probably a smart Nigerian who got me totally.

My sister is being scammed and she doesn't see the fake stories from mr Zornes. I hope she wakes up!

has anyone talked to a jonathon davies claims to own an oil business and works as an marine engineer from charlotte nc but lives in neiu amsterdam anyways he had a facebook page sent request to my sister of course she accepted it a few pictures probably not him wife was killed in car accident has no family except a son never post any pictures of him or sent any at first he told my sister he wanted her to be his wife after a couple of times of chatting on hangouts thru email the point is he asked for itune cards then next it was money she was told he probably was a scammer she beleived everything he said until he said he broke a part at work and needed her to send 500 dollars to help pay for it lol why does he need money if hes owns an oil business she quit talking to him now he trys to send her request none stop lol he goes by jonathon davies widowed works at marine engineering be aware

I have been chatting to someone since end of January, at first he did not ask for money, but then he started, so I sent him a little. He says he is genuine. How do I know this

Does anyone know of a Kenneth Alonso or Johnny Scott

Ladies...if you've come across a handsome, 30's claims 40, dark hair, little facial hair, Spanish looking. Will tell you he's an Orthopedic in Syria or Damascus. Asks for iTunes, Sephora cards, Bitcoin. He's in CA somewhere and a scammer. He has photos of himself w/a white Dr./Lab coat w/a stethoscope. He says his wife cheated on him and he blew up the boyfriend's car. Claims that he worked for Unicef. Never talks on video. Always Hangouts. He goes by the name of Donald Waters. The few times I talked to him there was a creaking door noise and chickens/roosters in the background. The same noise in a conversation when he supposedly came back to CA. If a man is asking for $...he's not real

My guys name is Berry Dannie from New Jeresy working in Africa. I transferred 3.5Million from a trust acct for him to buy gold and now wants me to pay $2000 to ship it to me. I would never do that but man does he play on my heart strings. Great looking German gentleman with dead wife and son with daughter in boarding school in Texas. Thanks ladies going to block this man now.

Hi everyone. I'm not from English speaking country so pardon me for my broken english. I met this guy in dating site. His name is Davison Edward Lucas, said from Sweden but lives in Florida since he was 4. He works at real estate company as a sales consultant. His father was dead and just live with his mother now but lives in separated house. He is a sweet man, but I didn't buy it at first. He said want to marry me etc but I turned it down because I said it was too early to talked about marriage when both of us haven't met yet. but after 3 weeks, my walls turned down, I started to believe him, every single words. He takes a good care of his mom, and he told his mom about me. till one day, he said his mom want to talk to me through Whatsapp. I used Line app to talked with him all this time. he just called me once in a month. but we chatted every single day. he just did video call once without saying any single words. just to show his face in the pool and that's it. and I started suspicious from there. I was angry with him cause we didn't do video calls properly, and he upset and angry because I mad at him. since then he always refuse to do video calls. I had looked over every single website to find out is he scammers or not, I paid for couple of website, but I found nothing. there's non of his pictures. just found out his number but under another person name. but it said the person used that number till 2017. And until one day he said he got a buyer from Turkey and will sell his late dad's property ( he told me he got a property from his late dad long time before) and will visit me after done with his business over there. And this is where all the money things began. once he was there, he said he went to tax office in Turkey and they said he needs to pay for tax clearance about $89.000, he said he told his mom for this and his close associate to help him with it. he said he already withdraw $35.000 from his account and got down payment from the buyer $20.000. First week he was there he said he was cashless and need money to extend his hotel bill and for food. he asked me to lend him $2.500 but I refuse. I ended up sent him $400. He said I don't need to go to western union because there will be a fee for it. so he said he asked the hotel manager is there anyway to get money transfer from another country to exchange it to US Dollar, and the manager told him that their company has employees from the country where I live, and had a local bank account, so he wanted me to transfer the money to this person. so I sent those first $400. we fought because of this 400 issue. I told him that he is a scammer. and he mad at me, we had a great fight back then. but I think just because I love him and not ready to let go, we resolved this problem and I thought maybe he just really needs that money. and for a few days forward he comes up with another issue, he said that the money that his mom and his friend gathered is not enough, still needs $5.000 and asked me to help with it. he said he will give it back to me when he visits me. He asked me to lend him $2.000 but I told him that I just could lend him $1.000, that's my final call. I sent it to the same account that he told me before. so after that he said all tax issues are done, and he gave me a tax clearance certificate that I looked online but there's no one looks the same. he sent me a cheque that he received from the buyer. it looks legit and the amount is $3.600.000 . Actually I'm not interested with the amount. but here he comes with another issue. he said he couldn't cash the cheque because he is foreigner, so the frontline of the bank said he needs to open a new account with started deposit $7.650 ann that's the only way for him to get his cheque deposited to his account. and now her mom text me wants me to help with $2.650 because she already sold his car and most of the things in her house to got money for tax clearance. I refuse and said I couldn't help them this time. I also feel that I help enough. he and his mom still text me, but for this man, little bit change. still call me baby, but we don't text as intense as before. I don't know is it because he is stressed out because of this issue, or he start to leave. I always asked for his passport cause I told him that I need to buy a domestic ticket for once he is here, but he never give it to me. what do you think?

Yep ! Me too ! Posed S a good looking man originally from New Zealand , moved to USA 30 years ago . Lost his wife to cancer and sin at the age of 22 . Owned homes in New York and California . Owned a successful contracting business . Adored me . Everything a woman wanted . Went todo a job in Ukraine and had his lap top stolen . Could not purchase what he needed in Ukraine the type of memory card for his business . Asked for Walmart and ITunes U cards for 600. Telling me to take pictures of both sides of the cards and email them . All lies !!!! Only wanted those two cards . Smooth charming. Highly dangerous . He was good . Thought I met my soul mate . This stuff is horrible . Thank god I woke up quickly .

Still trying to see if anyone is hearing from a Mike Donovan on Hangouts or Instagram. In Benin. Tattoos and muscular. Was robbed he says.

Anyone come across a man by the name of Denis Mercier, a us navy widow , my friend is chatting, added her on Instagram now on hangout, I'm not sure he's what he says he is

I've been chatting to a man that says he's on a oil rig off the coast of Louisiana has a 6 year old son lives in Massachusetts with a nanny name is Matt Davis hasn't asked me for money as of yet met up with him on words with friends from reading this he's a scammer cause I look up his name and a actor name comes up

My husband met Teresa Bond on Instagram. Has sent her thousands of dollars via iTunes cards and moneygram. Help! He doesn't see this as a problem. Never had a conversation, only chats always excuse why they can't talk or meet.

I had a friends request from a woman can't remember her name on it but she told me to add her on hangouts app. Her name is Anni Jackson, she fell in love with me on half an hour. She wanted to send me money from a mission in Syria she's there in the army. She sent me a picture of her drinking a cup of coffee but her name is different, some of it is blocked but it has ruz at the end. I'm not sure if I'm being scamed

If u r unable to find the picture, what does that mean

Met a guy calls himself Fredrick Perth. Says he is native Australian, an MD who works for the CIA on a secret mission on a secret location in Istanbul. Very convenient: cannot cam or send pictures. He seemed the sweetest, nicest man in the world and I fell madly in love with him. Said he desperately wanted to leave the military and needed €1000 to get leave permission. Classic fraud and I took it all. Then he managed to con me out of more money, thousands of euros before I finally came to my senses and realised he was a fraud. "Fredrick" and "Perth", two big cities in Australia... I am posting this as a warning. He is just another evil scammer, preying on vulnerable women.

Has anyone ever heard from a Richard Werner

Hi, been browsing the internet all day looking for a way to check if a certain us serviceman is really connected with the army. Though it ain’t that long yet & that i really don’t mind if he’s lying, i find it necessary to check because of the write ups i’ve been reading about soldier scams and all that, i might be of help to some friends having that kind of experience at the same time to give warning to the person whose photos he is using (if that is the case) So to tell my story, i just added this certain us army serviceman not 24hrs ago. He told me that He is from Florida and that he is currently deployed in Kabul Afghanistan in support of the Operation Enduring Freedom as a member of the combined joint special task force. He did not ask for money though maybe because its too early, but been doubting if he is really true or not with everything he is telling me. If by chance the person named James Rubio Mendoza (his name on the social media account he is using) is a complete hoax kindly send me information that confirms my doubts. Thank you.

Does anyone know Derrick Mvdonald supposolidly stationed in Syeia? Aleepo to be exact is sending a package COD by red cross? His personal belongings? So he says I dont know what fees might be but he says what ever they are he will pay me back . He has 3 boys picture with them in a jeep on fb .. I wish I knew how to search his pictures to catch him and show him. Any ideas ladies

Anyone dealing with someone supposedly from Germany that is a structural engineer? Long hair , thin and 40-50 yrs old?

Thank you so much for the advice that I can check the IP addressing an email. After more than six months of closeness with a man I met on Twitter, I now know he is in Lagos, Nigeria. My first instinct was to suspect him and I tried all kinds of checking to confirm. I could never catch him. I did reverse image searches, I scoured the anti-scammer websites, I checked everything he told me. I could not catch him so half my mind still suspected him and the other half believed everything he said. If I had only known about the IP search I could have saved 5 1/2 months of anguish and several thousand dollars.

A man with the username Benjamin Stewart on Instagram msg then after a few msg asked me to chat on google hangout!! Same mo ladies...the txt starts appearing broken English. Says he hails from New York 13 yr old son in boarding school Wife, daughter & parents die in automobile crash. He’s out in Norway ocean on oil rig on a “ project”! Can’t call or video chat! Only 4 pictures nothing with him & son or other family etc. Says he’s in love with me after 2 weeks. Wants to send me a briefcase via a diplomat all the way in Canada where I am. Claiming the company is closing etc & he has nobody else to send it to! Please don’t be fooled...

I didn't lose any money but I am currently nursing a heartbreak due to a scammer I met on POF. I cannot believe I fell for it. I did the reverse image search on his first picture and nothing came up, but I should have done it on the other ones because I would have avoided this whole mess immediately. All the signs were there but I was too naive to see it, and the promise of creating an instant family with him, "a widower", and his toddler son was very appealing. I just cannot believe that every text and every second of our long phone calls were complete and total lies. This really messes with your head and what it's done is make me suspicious of everyone, including the people I meet face-to-face.

So I have been recently scammed and I did a stupid mistake back in 2016 to help a young lady for her mother surgery. Now I got scammed for being inappropriate on social media and this person using leverage on me and demanding money . I’m ignoring this person from Mali who I thought was helping a non profit organization.

ThisIt’s also interesting. I wish I knew about this site with the first scanner hit me up. It was my first time doing online dating and of course he was attractive and close to my age. His name was Nicolás Petersen. Told Me he was from Denmark originally had a dual citizenship and have lived in the United States for years. He was in the Gold business. What eventually ended up happening at to be talked from August to JanuaryBuild this relationship that’s what I thought it was. Right around Thanksgiving he won his bid he was supposed to come to my sisters house to meet the rest of my family! How convenient but I didn’t think nothing of it work is work. So I was OK with it I start to get a little suspicious when he came back it said he had to go to GHANA to get the gold. I jammed him upBut I was more concerned about his welfare because I have knowing that God is known for scams. He had to leave a few days after he came back but promise he will be back by Christmas. That never happened. I never said him my own personal money but I’m thinking that somehow I was involved And something illegal. He went to my bank account number he wanted to send money through my bank and have me wire it to him on GHANA. So course by then he had really gain my trust and I was concerned because he couldn’t get the go back without the money. Basically in the end I realized it was a scam a little bit too late but I was lucky because he never got money from me it was always money can I for somebody else. I had to go to my bank I change my account number then I had to be more concerned about if they was going to investigate me because they thought it was money laundry. But by the grace of God that never happened. Sometimes makes me not want to put that I am a believer and follower of God, but that’s the truth and I’m not gonna hide it I believe and I love the Lord. So anyway please beware have a Nicholas Petersen I wish there was a kind away that I could post the picture but I now know that really wasn’t him. Unlike most of you you went from let’s get off this website can I get your email address then to hangouts. But I did have a phone number for him I confided in my friend about what it happened. The phone number turn out to be a scam VOIP number and the address that he gave me that wasn’t his address. And he also sent me flowers! I am truly amazed at how much this goes on.

Has anyone been talking to a Justin Petterson claims he is in Switzerland on oil rig. Keeps asking for $600 says his bank account is frozen

Has anyone been talking to a Justin Petterson? Claims he is in Switzerland on an oil rig. Keeps asking for $600 in ITunes cards. Claims he needs to come home but can’t get money because his bank account is frozen

Hi I’m new to this site but I have a friend who I believe is a victim of this romance-scam. She strongly believes she is not being scammed but she already has been. The guy name is George Harry. He says he is an architect from UK and currently in Venezuela on a contract building a huge hotel. Has anyone been a victim of this guy. He says his nationality is Irish- Jewish but has a heavy accent of a Nigerian. What a scum bug!! How do you catch this person? I

I got scammed and mentally abused by a scammer who tricked me into sending him money repeatedly. His name is Jeremy. He would tell me how much he loves me and that I’m the love of his life. He would beg me to send compromising pics of myself and would tell me how much he loves me within the first week. He sounded believable. Months later still texting back and forth and doesn’t even ask to meet up. He asks me for money on several occasions. One excuse after the other. Then I gave him over $2,000 which I seriously regret. I would catch him preying on many girls online and saying he loves them. It was confirmed that he would cheat on me after lying to me he loves me and is madly in love. He was living with his girlfriend the entire time while cheating on her with many girls preying on them on Instagram and Facebook. I dumped him and asked him to send me my money back. He wouldn’t apologize or even care what he did to me. Same day I would give him money he would cheat on me with girls on Facebook. He had no conscious whatsoever. After I confronted him about his ways he would block me and threaten me with photos if I tell anyone anything negative about him. He posted my pics and humiliated me online and tagged me in the photos not once but several times. If he feels I’ll tell anyone he will threaten and blackmail me with photos. I’ve been seriously degraded and scammed and I am having trouble getting over this awful experience. He violated my human rights and degraded me online. He is a predator and a scammer. Uses and abuses many girls online. Cheats 24/7 like it’s his full time job.

Has anyone been talking to a James Robinson or a Bradley Robinson in the Army as a captain? Has a daughter named Emily who is 8 and is being cared for by a nanny. Has a dog named Billy. Coming home back to Austin Texas in October. Will retire when he comes home. Sent me pictures of him working out. Blonde buzzed hair and thin on the top. Wants Google play cards to be able to talk on his PDA.