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

Does sound familiar, but the name used is Scott Olu Nelson, from Jacksonville, FL, but currently stuck in Lagos, Nigeria! Have you heard this name used before?

Ya the samething is happening to me i met this Nigerian on this dateing sites but what i found weird was that when i want back to the dateing site her profile was gone

I surfed the internet and went to a country music site and found a woman that was beautiful. We talked and I fell for her, I told her I had feelings for her, and she said the same. I sent her money when she needed it, I sent her money to come to my home. I live in Ohio and she in Illinois, Well excuse after excuse she never came, this went on from March 2015 to October 2016, I lost my home due to sending her money instead of paying the house payment, then I told her I had to be out of the house by the 30th of September, and had no place to go, and I had to live in my car. Well I lost over $24,500 and guess what I have not heard from her at all. Her money source ran out.

Is this mans backstory that jos wife died and he has s little girl . Wife died of lung cancer , in the crude oil business , and worried he won't have enough to care for him anc child in Nigeria since he sent. Any home to Norway.

I too was scammed by Nigerian man called Collette more blessing know as Olaitan blessing he told different stories said he loved me I too fell in love ❤ but I cant find him now

This guy I met on this site he said he love me and if I help him out he said he wants to marry me and scam me out of my and he said he need money to eat on because he was in Africa I was Stupid he never pay back

how were you able to find out truth of eharmony scammer?

I'm trying to buy something online from Cameroon and I need to pay with money gram the seller has sent me a link with a bunch of numbers and letters instead of a name and destination is this a scam attempt , or what is the reason for all the letters and numbers

i had the same situation. its a scam. a girl sent me a picture of her. she said she was from Philly, lives in Texas and has business in West Africa.. when we finally talked her voice didnt match her photo. in her pic she looks white. i never met a white woman with an african accent. two she asked me to open a account and to send her money. i quickly cut her off, u should do the same.

Hello Melanie; As I read your response to the other woman, I felt BOTH of you gal's dismay! Believe it or not, when this happened to me in 2009, it was just beginning and I went on a dating site. The man I met was attractive, and called himself Michael. I have forgotten the last name. But he stated he was from Spain, but now lived in New Jersey. Anyway, bottom-line, this guy really invested in me first. I argued with my family that it wasn't a scam, because he had ordered Flowers, Candy, and a Teddy Bear from a local Florist here. I mean, who does that? He had me hook up to a computer camera, but he always gave reasons why he couldn't connect his. Oh heck! THEN, this goes on for like, a month. He EVEN gives me his daughter's Facebook name and account, which I went to. It seemed to be valid, I mean she had a slew of friends, in the country she was attending University in. I mean, this guy was REALLY slick! THEN, one night he tells me how his important briefs for a business deal where he was is on his Laptop, and how the laptop fell on the hard=tiled floor and broke. He asked me if I could send him money for another one. I even tried to order one through Best Buy, but they told me they do not ship out of the U.S. So I told him that, he said that was ok, just send him the $$ then. At that point, bells went off. I immediately blocked his email address, marking it Spam. THen, later I get a private FB message from his "daughter" who is asking me why I broke her father's heart. I mean, this was an absolute psuedo-drama, right? Lol! Later, I called our florist and sheepishly told them about this scammer and identified the order to them. They told me when they had tried to put it through on the card given, it did not pay. I still don't understand why they went ahead and filled the order and had it delivered to me. They told me they would not be charging me for the merchandise (relief!) and if they got any information, they would pass it on. Weird!

How did you find out the name. I am recently a possible victim. This one says he is a art dealer. He used God in his game. Now apparently he is stuck overseas and need help to get his merchandise home. He was all love caring concerned and when I baited back by stating that I couldn’t send anything else he lost his temper. My heart time and money also involved. Some like this makes me feel ugly. I have never done anything like this before

I felt the same..voice didn't match his picture. Name is Eric knoll. Glad someone else felt the same. Lindy

he is using the name "James Bongani" and owner of "Construct It" is using the Viber app as a way to communicate away from the EH website..I hope this helps you in search

I agree, please enter a complaint with the IC3 website. Also file a complaint with the FTC. Forget about the embarrassment, the shame and the guilt. Do it for yourself, your loved ones and friends. Don't let these criminals get away with stealing another dime.

Can you handle this website this blog because my friend my best friend she is being skinny see how he has been for the last month he did not bring it to my attention for approximately 3 weeks she started saying that she would need to help the family the family needed help they were little and she started asking for money collecting money and stuff and I kept saying okay I can't help thinking it was your family thenIt started escalating further were two weeks later she comes to me and tells me she needs $10,000 I'm like what's wrong so she starts telling me and being honest about it she met a man named Henry Clement. Off of FacebookHe befriended her and offered her a job first looking for homes saying that you to buy homes in the town that she lives in so she said all I got a job and as a friend on Facebook alright I know this person was a recommendation from somebody else so that she started looking around next thing you know he started going out on a romantic all even though my best friend is married he started saying things about helping her family giving her family lots of money and stuff like that she's started feeling like maybe this guy really careObviously he does not and that was the skin okay so we found a way to get to her and then he started feeling well I sent you a package the package is in Malia got all your information stuff and she said she told him don't send me anything I don't want anything from you I don't know you I'm married and he said he's too late is too late it's already on its way I need your information because I spent all my all the stuff in a jewelry iPad money he didn't tell her Money at first when he told her earlier so she got panicky and she sent over all the information her birth records or passport driversLicense ID the whole shebang little bit you know that they were getting information so they could run the scan on herThen a few days later a company called euro British global courier service based out of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia said they received the package in customs took itWhen they scanned it through the scanner they found money in the package so they said that it was against the law of course it's against the law and my friend does not did not know that there was money she didn't even know about the what was in the package they emailed her a true blue looking contract and they have a website the whole works they have it all set up for it to look it up OK and they said this is your tracking number this is where its at butThe customer says you need to pay so much such and such amount of money and you need to pay it now they said this is how you do it and she started panicking because they told her that she could get in trouble the police international police to custom the whole world of course they're going to work on things like that especially when you're not even you don't understand what's going on in OKSo of course she started panicking animals a lot of money she did not have the money she could not tell her husband because her husband would just basically disowned her we do not want that guy she's happily married okay but now this is the thing that she said they said one of mouth so she sends at him out and they say okay I will give it to customs now the Customs has the package will take the money to the package in the package will be released to an agent and the agent will bring the package to you in the United StatesThat seems very fishy already She did not tell me any of this because she was scared and embarrassed okay so finally they started extorting more money from her he said that he sent his drivers license his credit card in the package so she has to pay for it she he's working on her and she's like okay okay okay well I do hes like here's my friends you can call see if they can help out of course they're all the same group of people it's a big scam she didn't know when she finally told me I'm like oh my god what have you done we have got to find it I investigated and new was a scam my shoulder everything about what was going on she still didn't believe me she wanted to believe this person online did not even know the person never seen his face he said they Skype but she never seen what I look like ok the picture and in the website does not look like him his name is Henry Clement locate on skype it's Henry Clement when I put him in Skype he has over 20 different Skype addressOn facebook it is Henry Clement 9256 / 52 or Facebook / 9256 what is Henry Clement he says he's from New York City he is not okay I'm telling you its not the same people.I am sorry because I am very angry because she has spent over $15,000 and they still keep harassing her to this day I have reported it to the IC 3 international crime for the FBI that's got a report we're waiting on something we've got so much evidence and they still keep calling me that so many phone numbers I've tracked this guy all over the place. Sometimes they truly think that they are above everybody else and they think they're smarter than everybody else because they can keep harassing and keep forcing the way they do it is they force you to get mad and and and beat on you a little bit then all the sudden a nice and then they beat on you all the text in the emails that my friend has is really bad and it makes me upset that people go through thisI just want to say watch out they're out there international fraud parcel package. Thank you I'm sorry for I talk so much.

Hi Georgia, I was too a victim of these dating online fraud. I met this girl from OKCupid.com on December 2015 name Brittney Retorick, (she's in the Army) and she said she's in Nigeria. She sent me picture of her couple of times...so I google her name and came up on Facebook with same picture (looks pretty legit to me). We exchange private email as we chatted. To make the story short, she started saying she's a single mom and her daughter is being taking care of by her Aunt in New York. Things are not doing so well on her end she said and telling me sad stories like how her dad died in Army and her mom died of cancer. And she started asking me for money this and that....So, on December 23 2015, she ask me to send her money of $2,000 to help her fly back to the US from Nigeria as she was stuck there. She as if I could send it to her Aunt in New York name Christine Kara and send the money through Western Union which I have never done before in my life sending money thru those means. As I tried to send money to her with WU....Western Union keeps rejecting the money I was trying to send as they told me I never met this woman. So she asked me to try MoneyGram...with MoneyGram it went throuh....I decided to email Brittney Retorick on Facebook and not through personal email....it turns out that the real Brittney Retorick was being used by this fraudster. The real Brittney doesn't know she was being impersonated by someone from Nigeria. A day later my bank called me about fraud that my $2,000 was taken away.Please beware of sending money to this person: Christine Kara 65 Lincoln Blvd East Moriches, NY 11940

Hi Georgia, I agree this is our time to fight back, I was almost a victim of this, I met a man online and he has has asked me for for money more than 3 times, his story is that he lives and works in dubai, he is Nigerian, and he has filed a complaint against the company he works for because of bad conditions they have let him go because of this and now he is running out of money, he has a Facebook page but only a few pics I have not and will not send him any money, I want others to aware of him his name is Moses ganfo or Moses Ebikepiri Ganfo