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

Hi Melanie This is almost 2 years old but as for the weekends I think their little online cafe is closed or they are off doing something else like being with their GF. I sure hope you didn't get scammed from him I got contacted from someone through Facebook who claimed he was in the military but I checked his photos on Google photo reverse site and they came from all different places so I know he wasn't who he said he was and we did contact each other through Yahoo Mail and he claimed he was in love with me and wanted to meet me but he couldn't because he had no money and no phone to contact me. I found it kinda odd because he asked if I could send him 200.00 so he could get a smart phone like I have (Iphone) and I told him sure. We talked more and more all he could talk about is when will he get the money. I told him soon and he asked over and over again. I told him give me time and I'll send him some which I never did, I reported his fake account to Facebook they closed it down. He must had reopened it again because a few months later it was back and running. Military/none Military who do not know you will not just randomly add you to their friends list without knowing you personally.

Well Melaine,you have to take heart I know what it feel like when a woman is in love with a man,you are good hearted woman and that is the reason why you fall for us this and please do not make such a mistake next time.Black and white we are all one blood I am a Nigerian and not a Scammer so there 80% of good people in my country I hate when everybody keep calling Nigeria even when other country is also doing there own side but everything on NIgerian

I recently have been talking to a man who says he is in Syria with the UN. He says he is going back to USA, Manhattan on August 30th. he has told me he has a son and that he is separated from the mother. He says he wants me to join him when he gets back to USA. He did confide in me that his son was going to a school and that he had no way to transfer funds to the headmistress to keep his son there at the school. I said I had no money to send. He did not stop talking to me and has said he loves me. What should I do?

What ever u do don't give him any money report him i too was taken in his voice sounded too young for his age i also did some research on this man's so called job, he started out being a gentleman within a few days he was telling me he loved me and proposed marriage, then came the desperation of needing money and asked me to buy him an iTunes card for one of his machines i cut the relationship off right there

Melanie, I feel U girl. I just got hacked by a Nigerian scammer to. He sent me a face pic and he might bee ur boyfriend. Maybe he cheated on you to. I wouldn't listen to him.

Melanie, It's been awhile since your comment posted but I just wanted to add obey your thoughts not your heart especially on this. I can relate because some lovely lady (supposedly from the pics) got to my heart online and told me she wanted to be my wife. She asked me for money to pay for her journey to my place which was more then $350.00 for gas and pocket change (a strategy stated above the comment section). It didn't work. So she said I wasn't caring and all that and that was a huge turn off. We stopped talking for awhile and she got in contact with me again asking me for my name and address to send me money to pick up for her at Western Union to send to her (another strategy stated above the comment section) which I almost agreed to because she knew how to pull on my heart strings. So, I did some more extensive research online and found out she indeed was a scammer by seeing her pretty face on a few pics listing her under a different name on a site dedicated to exposing online scams and scammers. My mind kept telling me this was a scam or more than likely a scam and not be stupid and send money to a person I've never eve met in person or over the phone. So, my advice is don't follow your heart or emotions, do what you know to be right and act on the truth. Brian.

PLEASE EVERYONE READING THESE STORIES.. IT JUST HAPPENED TO ME..THE NAME RANDY CHRIS SCOTT STRAUG.. YOUNG WHITE GUY SUPPOSITLY IS FROM SACRAMENTO CALI.. BUT SERVES IN ALLEGEDLY U.S ARMY ON A PEACE MISSION IN NIGERIA. TIL JULY... I STARTED PUTTING MY GUARD UP. TIL I GOT A PICTURE OF HIM PUTTING A CARDBOARD UP WITH I LOVE YOU RENEE.ON IT . AWWW I THOUGHT..TO SELF.. MAUBE HE IS LEGIT INSPITE OF OTHERS EHO TRIED TO SCAM ME B4.HE SAID THE SAME THAT HIS DAUGHTERS MOM DIED AN MOM IS RAISING HIS DAUGHTER BK HOME AN NEEDED ME TO SEND A AMAZON GIFT CARD.. ATTN: RED FLAG WENT UP & A TURN OFF . I HATE WHEN A MAN ASK A WOMAN FOR MONEY.HE KNEW I WASNT FALLING FOR IT.. VERY CONSISTENT.WEEKS GO BY AN HE NOW HAD STATED GIS BOYS EIFE FROM AUSTRALIA WILL SEND ME MONEY.. BUTI WAS TO SEND IT TO 3 OTHER PEOPLE .. UMM BUT NOT HIM ..ANOTHER RED FLAG..BUT I STARTED OUT SAYING WELL MAYBE BEIN OVER THERE THATS HOW IT NEEDS TO GET DONE.. BUT CLAIMED AFTER I NOW STARTED ASKING.QUESTIONS. THESE ARE PPL HE WAS HELPING TO COME TO US. FOR OUR WEDDING.. BOI WAS HE GOOD.. BUT I WAS SMARTER.. W.U PUT A HOLD ON 2 OUT OF 3 NAMES HE EANTED ME TO SEND $6,000 IN AL $2,000 A PIECE.. W.U DAVID STATED ONE OF THE NAMES WAS A FRAUD ALREADY.. The girl from Australia that sent it was supposed to be Carol Hale...

I have been talking to a guy who goes by Thomas M Brooks at first he just wanted friendship and within a couple weeks she says he's in love with me , want a to marry me, etc, etc. Supposedly he lives in or is from Dallas Texas says he has one daughter named Cindy who is 21, a son named Alexander who is 17 and a mother who all live with him in his house in Texas. He says he is a marine engineer working in Egypt and for weeks he told me he was coming home on March 20, now he has asked for an iTunes card which I got for 60 bucks, and now it's a new iPhone, with a sum card, he claims the phone he has got dropped and doesn't work well, then he asked for 200dollars , and it went from that to 300, and now 400, and just Las night on the phone he told me he has to pay 150 for his paper work for his vacation leave by the 17th. He's real smooth operator and the way that he went on ask me about my family and my job and my life, and told me about his freelee sharing information about his life and his kids and his parents and his uncles and where he grew up and etcetera etcetera. But now he's asking for more and more and more and when I explained to him that I don't have the money for it he tries to lay a guilt trips on me while he's doing his best to get home and he's doing it for me only because he wants to see me so badly. I have invested my heart in him based on the initial conversations with him over the last few weeks other now he's starting to ask for things money and real expensive phones and it just keeps getting to be more and more and more and when I try to tell him that there needs to be a compromise he just insisted he needs my help. When I asked him why he can't use his own money he tells me that he's on a rig and he has to be helicoptered in and he has no access to get off and no access to his accounts, and then everything comes in on Fridays through a third-party who brings them the things that they need to live on these gas or oil rigs or whatever it seems legitimate I met him on Facebook and his picture seems legitimate but he has very little information on his Facebook page. I have tried doing searches on his name and his Gmail account I have tried doing searches on his actual phone number, and I have even try to do a reverse search on his picture but I have gotten nothing I do notice that when we talk on the phone he is always professing love to me and saying that he wants to marry me wants to be with me he wants to give me kids he wants me to move to Texas with him blah blah blah, although he cannot give me any definite no definite dates, when I asked for pictures he gets defensive and says that he can't use phones around outside around the tankers because it could explode and that I want him to explode. When I ask him for a picture of his bunker where he sleeps he said that he couldn't take pictures with his phone because it wasn't working right. When I asked him if he had any pictures and his kids on his phone so that I could see them he said that he did not have any pictures on his phone because his phone does not have a card whatever that means, when I have asked him to give me his mother's address so that I can write her letters he insisted that he wanted to be there when I met his mother for the first time because it would be more special. I am now becoming very skeptical of him and I do not believe that he is coming home from Egypt I feel like he thinks that he's going to get all these things for me which I have not given him yet and then all the sudden going to cut off complete communication or make up some excuse not to be able to come home and try to keep prodding me for money. I'm frustrated because I cannot find any information anywhere on any of these sites regarding this guy but I do believe that he is a scam artist. LOL like I said my heart is involved now. And part of me wants to believe that he is genuine because most of the things he says seem very genuine so right now I am at a loss as to what to do does anybody here I have any information regarding this guy has he ever contacted you under the name of Thomas M Brooks. Is that is to the name on his profile for Facebook if anybody is curious enough to look to see if he is someone that they have had encounters with I would be curious to know if anyone on here has had encounters with this particular person. Thank you for your time

Get out while you can....

Melanie, u need to keep your head up, he doesn't love u cos if he do he would never say another loving story to another woman.

I am so sorry I to am a victim of scamming mine come from Instagram. The first thing the make fake acct claiming to be military. And In need of internet. By way of iTunes do not get these lol anything I am the daughter of a retired service man and a real us service men do not need help with internet it is provided special missions and spiecal bases do not exist they are scamming you a deployed solider. Do not need for anything unless he is your husband the second thing is if they want you to go to hang out or whats up app they are scammers think about it if they message you on Instagram they can stay on Instagram taking you to another site is because. They can not be traced or monitored and the most important. Is it is a crime for a us service man to ask a civilian for anything monetary no real service. Man is going to risk their career on a 50$itune card.

Yes he a scammer leave him along please they ask you to come there and everything a woman \ man want to hear please leave him along

Gosh I know its been 2015. I hope you got away from him if he was a scammer. I am in a similar situation also Nigerian and have lost a lot of money and want to know if he is a scammer. I love him and I just don't want to believe it. Let me know what happened. Thanks for sharing

hi Melanie, i know exactly what your going through cause i have been scammed by a Nigerian and had he was very clever and played on my feelings and emotions. he got lots of money off me claiming to impersonate someone else. i went for 9 months like that. what made me figure it out was that he never showed up when he said he would, but he also threatened me. sorry that you got scammed. it's not fun i know.

Sorry for your pain...I too just found out it is all fake , went from California to Iowa with a ring to marry them. Be careful and meet someone in person

Youre being scammed. I was scammed for 4 yrs. Pull your feelings and emotions out. Talk with family let them know whats going on and ask them what they think. Theyll tell you youre being lied to. Get out now!

Melanie. I just finished with a scammer calling himself craig macgregor who said he was engineer working in syria. I fell hard. Long story short, he dumped me to look for more fertile fields, richer women. This hit hard until i remembered. I had fallen in love with an illusion. He wasnt the man i fell in love with. I fell in love with the illusion he created. The real craig turned into a bully. I fell in love with the engineer not the one who manipulates life savings out of vulnerable women. I cant love a man who scams and i dont think you can either. Hold onto the reality, not the illusion. This makes it easier for me to move forward. Good luck.

If he really is your boyfriend then ask him some questions about you favourite colour, food .etc. then you will know who is real and who is fake and if that does not work then I 'run out of ideas

If don't mine I can help you locate if the person you are dealing with is a scammer if it's in the Facebook or Instagram

That is because he is scamming u I. Was in the same situation not long ago and it's not fun when u give ur heart to someone who never really cared from the start .but pls listen u don't deserve to be treated like this .it will do to u what it almost did to me ..make ur heart hard and trust no one so if down the line u do meet someone who might be ur soul mate ur not going to trust them or even urself when it comes to love . I wish u all the best . Paul

Scammers are everywhere be careful...Good people exist too. If you want to know a scammer demand a video call. Also do voice and video. With time you'll know the true nature of such person....thanks

Melanie, I hope someone reached out to you. I've experienced somewhat the same thing. Every weekend you don't hear a thing..the excuse is my Wi-Fi was down or not working. They come up with the really believable thing's. I don't know how long you have been connected with this so called boyfriend. If you suspect he is courting other women, most likely he is..some of them will take there time and let you get so attached to them and really love them with all your heart. You need to stop while you can and it won't be easy..it's when you least expect it, it happens..❤✌

get rid of him there all scamming us i caught him right away he wouldnt video or talk on the phone used a fake name George Williams and used a profile of a real doctor. your heart might hurt but better than stay with his guy if your reading these comments they are almost alot of the same think guys are doing to women dont buy into him. there good at making promisses but there not real want you to send money and disapear be aware ther all lies and feed on you....

If someone puts money into your bank account, and you withdraw the money and send it, and the bank finds out the deposit is no good, you must repay the bank. You are responsible for your account.

If someone tricks you, and says he put money in your account, and you take money out and send it, you will lose money. The bank expects you to repay the money you took out.

You take a big risk when you use your bank account, or open a new bank account, to help someone you met online.

What name did he use?