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

Hello i am might having the sample problem with this guy name Leonardo moreno. Please let me know if anyone of you know about this guy. He is a global oil self contractor I have picture's of him please let me know or help me to find it out

Think. My sister in law is been scammed by a guy claiming to be in the army. Goes by name kelvin jackson apparently from miami florida keeps asking her for 50 pound for a amazon card. Hes claiming to have lots of money and keeps promising to come n see her in uk but never does. Could this be a scam

I met a girl on Facebook from the Philippines. We got on well together then out of of the blue she asked could I help her get some food for her and the 2 children. Ok I helped her which was stupid but I was thinking of the kids. After a year i went to the Philippines after we arranged to meet. She didn't turn up at the airport so I went to the address she gave me. Knocked on the door and a guy answered as for her by name then came the shock. What do you want my wife for. I only sent her money once but after seeing her house and the kids I'm happy that I did. On a final note not all are scammers I have been back to the Philippines and have been for the past 5 years I found a real one who loves me for who I am and not just money.

Hello, we've read a lot of everyone's comments regarding their scammers. My mom is divorced (2x's) and recently discovered Facebook. We've warned her about not accepting friendships from random men (romance scams, cons, etc). Unfortunately, she loved the attention from these "fake" men and has been scammed by at least 2 men that we know of. Anyone heard of a General Peter Anthony? In Syria, needs "bond money" to leave some camp. He sent a fake UN certificate claiming he owns a lot of gold. My mom western unioned $1000's of dollars in hopes he'll be released and will come to the states & marry her. She had fake UN emails sent to her regarding needing bond money, etc. The other scammer is named Tim Williams. In the construction business, has a son "Henry Williams" in Miami, FL. He claims he needs money to fix his "truck" & other random reasons and also emailed a fake copy of his bank account showing he had "lots of money." Claims that he will help our mom out to pay her bills, asked for her bank account to deposit money into her account. Every time she wants to meet up, he comes up with "I'm busy at work" excuses. The "son" has also started a text relationship with my mom, too. Tim uses several "computer generated" phone numbers to text my mom. They use "hang out" app to message each other. My mom probably lost all of her retirement/savings to these men.. and probably many others. She is closing us out and telling us lies and still continues to believe these men are real. Any one have advice? We can't get law enforcement involved because she is a willing participant and will continue to send these people money even after we've warned her countless times. Very sad these guys are out there taking advantage of these women.

For the past few weeks I have been talking to a man named Andrea (last name Francesco)He claimed he was born in Italy and has been living in the United States for over 20 years so he is ‘Italian/American’ . He also claimed he is a veterinary for large animals (horses). His wife died 5 years ago and has a 16 year old daughter that lives with his mother . Just today he asked me for $22,000 because he ran out of money for injections he was given horses for a client in Texas. He lives in Ashburn, VA. Please be careful.

I've just been scammed to with my bank acct. I feel like a fool my bank closed my acct I'm 1024.00 in Dept to bank from a Kevin Robert claiming he's from Germany and a commander in German army has 3 kids lost his wife in car accident and called me his queen ,baby ,wife and I just feel stupid he called me on Hangouts and he sounds like a young Iraqi or Arab something not German for sure not 52 either

There iz thiz man name james chris rowland im gay and after stealing my heart asked for iphone card i sent the back of it to him then asked for a amazone card i sent it then he sent a ring.and asked if i would get off the site i did he is very good with words then asked if i could send western union money to agbodan de de rogelia in france was a problem picking it spelt name wrong i talked to a freind and cancelled the transaction and M able to get money back they told me to go to police and report it with all the infomation.he said hes in iraq please dont fall for his sweet text

I wanted to understand, if a possible scammer isn’t asking for money but they asking to have you meet them in a foreign country, what is the risk and possible scam?

Has anyone come across a Kelvin Anderson I guess that’s his name he’s living on a ship in Turkey he’s an Engineer. I got him 2 iTunes card and then wanting my banking info so he could pay me back the money he owes me. He owns a Company named L&R I think . And he worked for ExxonMobile . He says he from Norway but does not have the accent. Please help if he is real

I was a fool. Even though I suspected, my hope overpowered my good sense. I'm 57 and my wife passed away 5 years ago. I didn't realize my desperation until I had already lost thousands. This person was named Heidy. I feel like an idiot for developing feelings for someone I had not met. I knew better. But even as I was saying good bye, I was realizing how tangled I was in this web of deception. I was actually very sad, and I felt loss! Just be aware of how good they really are.

This man’s name is Wayne Renkar, Financial Advisor, from Austin Texas. Who travels to the UK and works for Ruch Dad, Poor Dad. he came to me saying I reported his name being used for a scam and wanted to know if that was correct. Has a 21 year old Daughter who lives with his Mother in Italy. Wife died of Cancer 9 years ago. He really knows how to pull heart strings. We talked on the phone, (ding ding ding warning bells), his accent is Nigerian. He will tell you it is caused by all the places he grew up in and the people around him. Lie. He will tell you he quit his job and is coming to be with you but has to sell his 50,000 shares in the company and the money is being deposited in a off shore account. But needs $9670.00 US to open account and he only has $5000.00 (more warning bells) can I come up with the rest. That is not going to happen. I want to catch these creeps so badly and put them in jail.

Anyone contacted by an Austin Campbell. 15 year old daughter? Widow. Wife died in car crash. Very good looking. Engineer that works on oil rigs? Very very convincing. Even sends photos leaving for trips, at airport, adorable messages and sends songs , etc. Professes love very quickly and really sweeps a person away. Two weeks in, While landing on an new rig in Norway, loses wallet. He acts so reluctant when I offered to buy a gift his daughter. He even has someone playing his daughter involved in the scam. Asked me to contact her to be her new friend because we will all be a family one day. I feel so so so stupid. But ladies stay away!!! Just asked me last night because I practically begged him to let me help with money until he’s back on land. So, then he asked. Asked me to buy two apple watches for his daughter and mom and send 6,000 in cash to help them out. Stopped me dead in my tracks. I knew then something was wrong. I deleted in Hangouts, which is true they take you from IG to Hangouts. I was even scheduling a business trip to London to meet my new love in October. I’m an attorney for 20 plus years and I felt for this very very elaborate and well thought out scheme. Horrifying. Simply horrifying how our hearts get in the way of our brain and rationale thinking.

Be aware of a guy called Kevin Pacheco...claims he’s a US soldier, but has no money for food or internet bills... my silly sister fell for his BS and has sent him a lot of money! He also claims he’s coming to the UK to visit her!, But is waiting for a visa to be granted... be careful he’s a scammer

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This guy found me on a dating site. I am in my 30's he's in his mid 50's. He states that he is from Pennsylvania and is working overseas in Russia as a contract engineer. We had been taking via email because he states he's on a military contract and cant talk on the phone cause cell phones don't work there and the only other phone line they have there is a secured line. He states that he wants to send me money through this service called UPT QuickPay. I looked up the company it is based in Turkey. He took pictures of a transfer sheet stating that he sent me money but states that I have to send $500 via western union to this company to have the money released. I told him he can go & retrieve his money because I didn't ask him for any money & why would I pay someone to receive money. THIS IS A Scam. He is going by Thomas Schuster. I did a reverse picture search on him and nothing came up. Now He states that there has been an accident where he is working and he cant pick up the money in time, so I need to pick up if I can (aka pay them $500). I wont be doing it. He has Black and grey hair cut low but curly, a full beard with grey/black mixed in and olive tan skin. He looks like a Soap Opera Actor. Don't fall for It.

Man called Frakn Maxwell engineer scammed a lot of money by promises to marry me. Has one daughter has wife dead fell in love with him no skyping just hangup strange pictures always excuses to return moneylooked photoshop wanted money because bank frozen and daughter needed help living in boarding school when I pushed fir skyping he blocked me off

I have been scammed recently on Instagram. A person going by the name of Shane Gomes. Claiming he’s a Medical DR/Surgeon. By love and also money within just three weeks. Claiming he needed money to be paid to his lawyer £3000! To do with his ex wife claiming his properties. He said his back k account was frozen. He had to get this lawyer bill paid and bail fee too! To be paid to an Angela M Grant. It’s a SCAM. Stay away. He comes across very realistic. He’s definitely not. He then said he needed more money. I blocked him. Not heard anything . Reported as a SCAM. He has many accounts.

Has anyone dealt with a man claiming be Emmanuel Andrew? Construction contractor currently "working" in Benin. Wants me to open an account to receive payment from a "business partner" and then transfer it to an account there. California area code for cell phone; communicates through Google Hangouts.

So I have been scammed by one person and I believe I might be again. Please help. The first guy, Ferran Wallace, was in the military stationed in Orlando, FL in the Army. He told me his wife died of lung cancer and had an year old son who lived with his sister in Europe. He is originally from somewhere in Africa so he is not from the states. He was going to be getting out of the Army in September and was looking to meet someone to settle down with. At first we chatted on the Whatapp just texting back and forth he called me a couple times off the site. He would send me pictures and videos of himself, he even sent me a picture of himself along with his 2 sisters. Then out of no where said he would a gift card so he could update his system so we could keep chatting. When I called him out on it he stated that he hated to ask me to do this, that he tried to get it on his own but his bank card declined he was having problems with it so he needed to contact the bank. He said it didn't matter what kind of gift card it just had to have 6 digits on the back. He asked for $84 but I played him in a way and said I could only do $20 which he was fine with. So I got the card and gave him the numbers but then a few days later he tried to ask for another one and I told him straight out I wasn't getting it for him that he should of had his bank account taken care of by now. He still wanted to talk to me but I ended up deleting the app. Now the other guy I am still talking to he says he is a Marine , David Bell, stationed at Fort McCoy, WI. He has never been married, does not have any children but he did say he lost both his parents in a car crash in 2012 when they were on their way to see him for his birthday. Now he has not asked me for any money as of yet. He declares he loves me and thinks it is strange for how quickly it has happened. I am very skeptical about him but I can't stop talking to him because I keep thinking what if he is real and not lieing. He told me he was from Atlanta, GA and that he has a southern accent. When I asked why he couldn't call me he stated he was worried I would make fun of his accent but I told him I wasn't that shallow, so he ended up calling me on the hangout app where we chat first I couldn't understand because we have exchanged phone# but he said it was for security purposes, the the other part that got me was his accent in a way I could here the southern twang but I also could swear I heard nothing American in it but there was interference on the line so I really couldn't tell. He sends me pictures of himself all the time when he can. He is very knowledgeable about the military but I'm still skeptical. I'm waiting for the scam to come it just hasn't just yet. The only thing I can think that could be is he sent me a website to invest in bitcons and cryptocurrancy . I told him I would look into but I really don't think I could afford to do that and he was fine with it and never brought it up again. Today though he did state he went to the administrative office because he states he wants me as his beneficiary and he may need some information from me when it comes times. There is no way I'm giving my social security number or anything out so we will see how he handles this. With both of these guys I ran there pictures through the systems and found nothing on either of them. I'm glad I have been skeptical through out this, I'm sorry for those that these guys or women get to it is hard when our emotions get involved and they use it to their advantage.

Hi, Has anyone come across Gaston Larsen (name on Instagram) he’s Finnish but lives in Buffalo NY. Widow, 55 with a 10yr old son??

Does anyone know Ewards Maclean ? He says he's in the USA Army, on a Piece Mission, in West Africa. He's been asking me to send him a iTunes giftcard and tonight a Apple Smartphone. I'm not doing either. Watch out people.

I've gotten a few follow requests from single dads on Instagram, have chatted briefly to them, but kept a polite distance after a while. The latest is someone who says they are a military orthopaedic surgeon working in Afghanistan. According to the images he posts on Instagram, he is fit, attractive and does post pictures of him in action in the operating theatre. Widowed for 3 years and has a 10 year old daughter. Started chatting to him on a Saturday. By evening, told me he needed a Steam Wallet Card because his card has expired and he needed another month's worth to get through the month before retirement so can chat to me and his daughter. I told him to put his daughter first. He does like to use endearments (beautiful, honey) but I have told him that I am happily married and wish to keep the friendship platonic. Still persists with the endearments but I just reply by calling him buddy or by his actual name. I did buy him a steam wallet card (after 4 days because I couldn't get to a supermarket) to help him out, but warned him that this was the first AND last time I was going to help him. Silly me right? I don't want to name names yet in case he is a genuine person looking for friendship. I am just a bit dubious because his language on Google Hangouts does seem a bit inconsistent with that of a medical professional. Has anyone had anything or anyone do similar?

I met Jerald Pete on Words With Friends 2 on April 8, 2019. He wanted to go to Hangouts because it would be easier to chat. I agreed but after awhile I deleted Hangouts. Jerald, who I coined as JP, told me he was an orthopedic surgeon under contract with the United Nations in Libya. During this time I thought my Facebook page had been compromised and changed all my passwords and names on accounts, contacted the 3 credit bureaus and froze everything. JP sent me an email showing me an ID with his photo and name, etc. on it. I became very paranoid and he was the friend who assured me everything was okay. So he suggested Hangouts again, I refused, and we became chatters in WhatsApp.

I refused to pay any more money. I knew in my heart it was a scam. I had even hired a PI to investigate him. He turned up as a ‘ghost’, no US history anywhere; all wiped clean by the UN, he would say. He always told me to stop having doubts and trust in him. I became more and more in love with him, but he was about the money. He would tell me that I cared more about the money than he did. He was always twisting the words around. But I didn’t care because I love him. I was very vulnerable to him as my husband had died 3 years earlier from Alzheimer's. I have no excuse, except, I was very lonely at the time we met, I didn’t know it, and he showed me attention I hadn’t had for 10 years prior. There’s so much more to my story, but there’s no reason to include it here. I won’t release the grand total here on this forum. I would’ve let him have it all probably if he had come to California as he promised; even if we didn’t get married. I just texted JP yesterday with the final good bye. He believes that my family is taking me to court for giving him the Trust’s money which belongs, technically, to them and my grandchildren. He thinks the family deleted WhatsApp, but I had to do it to sever the tie with JP. My son in law is a police officer. I had asked him two times about different info I had trying to understand who JP was. He would tell me that he’s a predator, a non-person, someone that doesn’t exist. My s-i-l didn’t come back and check up on me until after I went to my daughter to break the news about the money to her. Even after I told her, and her husband found out, I continued to give money because now the man I fell in love with was in grave danger with the militia in a war-torn country of Libya. He was a United Nations Orthopedic Surgeon being held by subversives in a country being ripped apart by Civil War. I bit the bullet and said no more. I had to trust my instincts and the Information I had and say NO more money. I heard from Jerald Pete yesterday and he is alive and well and probably working on his next victim.

General Terry Paul. Stationed in Syria on a peacekeeping mission. Yeah right. Blocked and reported. Uses Google hangouts

Watch out for a bloke called Kevin Pacheco... email address thunderman 1011@ He’s has loads of Facebook profiles... to me he claimed he was an American soldier.. Sems he skips between Afghanistan and Nigeria. He says he loves me and like I fool I believed him when he said he had no money for food or his internet! I’m so stupid...and I’m £500 poorer!

Hi everyone I'm reading all this comments yall r leaving. Now has me wondering if the guy who text me through Instagram is a scammer. He asked to b his girl not even 2 weeks after we met. Says hes going to marry me but rn hes in America Uran. He keeps saying to "Trust Him "in all he says to me. Hes very handsome Anglo young man claims he has a 12 yr daughter. Hes family stold his money so now he cant trust them. He also says hes coming to where I live by October after he finishes hes job. Everything sounds real but yet a few things that kinda gives me that red flag warning. His name is David Woodruff. He sends me pictures of himself on my phone. Right now what's throwing me off is he wants me to open a bank account so he can put money. Says since I dont have money I can get money from the account. Because what's hes is mine too. Nd I'm so confuse . Because we only known each other not even a month nd he trusted me me already. He sends me poems nd music videos from u tube. Saying he wants to marry me. I need advice!

My mom cheating of one big scammer (for her, name is Christopher Dylan) but she meet he alive and when she be alone with him bag , she find his passport and make photo. Please if somebody know what is best for us to whom to report it, write me in email. Thank you

Does any body know a Charlie Henry is supposed to be in Iraq he from Richmond Kentucky He said he 54 years old

Does anyone know this person? REBECCA POKUAA??? Do not communicate with a Rebecca Pokuaa. She is a scammer. My friend met her on a dating site and has scammed him out of over $20,000.00.

I had Christopher Dylan William, with his photo and passports! Black hair, brown eyes, worm smile, nice teeth, about 54 from UK, 177 cm toll. Contact in Hangouts. send kiss, hard, see you are my queen, wont to mared you' Please if somebody see similaruty, ask me more

I believe I am being scammed by a Howard Ledge, who says he was doing work in Yemen and got paid in gold bars and is now stuck in Oman and can not leave until bail is paid. I am an educated person and fell for this and have sent him thousands. Has anyone else had any dealings with this name or the name Gabriel Ebner?

I have a chatmate Marine and he talk to me that he want to leave his secret mission because his reason is no Food he can't eat properly and now he send me a money to his leave and his payroll officer send me an account and isend the money to the officer he said to me that he can't get the money in Western Union but that money is not mine the money is owner of my chatmate

My fake lover name was bilal he's pakistani 29 he pretend he showed interested broken my heart with the lies he was single and heart broken

My scammers picture is listed on 28 sites. Can’t do a reverse on email and the UN email left out a dot. He claims he’s a 4 star General, Red Flag no General would be on any social site. (I did not know at the time) we moved to hangout. Only asked to bring him home never no cards. $1,350 for Travel Certificate (UN received this money), $13,500.00 (to process vacation wired to Bank in someone else’s account) now the bank emailed me stating IMF is requiring $85,000 to be wired for Anti-money Laundering before they will book his ticket. And his vacation allowance will be out in my account. He even sent me a picture of his passport the name is the person he has always claimed to be. Passport looks to be on the up and up matches mine to the T, however; that’s the year they stopped letting you wear glasses in the passport picture. I asked him about it gave a good answer. Do you all think he is a scammer. Each time I’ve sent money was to a UN address without a dot or to a back the other two times. $85,000 is to much to gamble. We enjoy each other. His English is broken, passport claims he’s from Huston Texas. He Claims he was raised in Europe. Names called “my Dear” “My Love” “Baby” one day I asked him if he knew my name he did. He loves to sent Poetry. Use I miss you a lot, I love you more xxxx , I love the outdoors so now he calls me “Sunshine” am I being Scam? I really do know because email always comes from the bank about money. I guess the next step in the process type of thing. He NEVER forgets anything we say to each other. Please help.

Has anyone heard of a scam where they buy diamonds but can’t send them home & want to send them to you?

My army boyfriend would like me to pay $960 for a transit visa paper for leaving the USA is this to be try xx

ANYONE HEARD OF A DAVID KELLY???

This guy pretended to be a oil engineer from Norway, Tall handsome guy and said is Widowed, name David, number +44 161 375 1663 I met him on Tinder, said he works on a rig oil field in Spain, can't call or video call, sent me some pics which were all suspicious (all photoshoot, no selfie or casual pic), his Facebook page was new etc. and also he acted so crazy "I think I love you!". So from the beginning I saw these red flags and told him absolutely no way! I won’t talk to you until I can see your face "live" on camera! I said all excuses are BS and you can take your phone to a coffee shop on the weekend and chat (out of the rig). I confronted him about being a scam, I shared the link about this page as well lol So he insisted and insisted to keep in touch and finally agreed to video call and asked me "please promise you won’t hate me" and guess what: a young African guy with a hoodie in front of laptop and told me he is from Africa. I knew it and it was true. If it looks like a duck and sounds and walk like it, probably it’s a duck!

A good friend of mine was contacted on instagram saying he was michael keaton.. They spoke and then moved to the app hangouts... Talking now for three months... During the first month the person said they wanted her to receive a brief case with money and diamonds and important documents inside.. All she had to is provide her name address and email to receive this.. Which she did.. It then turned into he needed her to pay $700 to get the case shipped to her which she paid to a 3rd party company. And of course this person wont speak on the phone... Video chat only message in hangouts.. Please help... She is head over heals in love and i just know she is being scammed

I have met a man named Corbin Belknap. We have actually not shared very much personal information at all. I have been scammed before and was not willing to walk right back into something, so anything he had to say, I’ve really taken with a grain of salt just waiting on him to ask me for bank details or whathaveyou. We both have developed feelings and I am in a really bad financial situation which I did share with him. He said he would send me some money. I thought he was full of it, but today he sent me a message giving me instructions on how to collect a transfer he is sending me. He is in Russia so the company he used is called uptquickpay.com (Russian/Turkish company)which can be then transferred to western Union. I logged in to follow instructions and am surprised that it seems to be a legit site/company and it did not ask me for personal info to collect. Other than my name and address, which can be found in any phone book, right? So no risk there I hope. He has even said, in his emails that he did not want me to send him certain information because he didn’t like having anyone’s private information on his phone and that wouldn’t be secure. Long story short... this all seems to be true. This man seems to have ACTUALLY sent me $5,000 and has not asked me to forward it anywhere on his behalf (which I have seen in other scam stories). What do you all think? Now, I don’t physically have this money in hand yet. But I can’t shake this feeling of “when it seems too good to be true,_________”