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

Wilson McDaniel anyone us Marines date of birth 10/13/86 nice looking guy black tats on his chest and arms has a white BMW met on IG trying to see if he is a scammer when will you video chat camera goes out can't really hear his voice to see how he sounds someone please let me know I did reverse images search nothing came up on all his photos I have like 20 pics

Does anyone know that his name Simon, Canadian detective, and now he is in Iran with contract. I have sharp instinct but I still love him. I really know who he is.. if anyone know him,, please help me...

Gabriel Raymond Santos swiped right on profile on Chispa dating site. We communicated a few times and he sent me cell number (646)8933391 and email gabsantoszil@ said he didn't have full service so would be easier. After few weeks told me he loved me and he was selected to leave oil facility in Turkey to go to China for c19 recovery mission other engineers were infected and replacements were needed. He ask I contact UN General Jacob Brian at generaljacobbrian243@ to ask if he could be removed from list due to being an orphan and single dad of David living in England boarding school. I sent the email then the General said there was a replacement fee needed so Gabriel didn't have to go. Today's communication didn't give me bank account information as to where the money had to sent because I have to choice which country. I no longer want to engage so I decided to file this complaint for fear of something happening to me or my family. I reseached UN directory name doesn't exist. I reversed image search Gabriels and General's picture. No match on Gab but General's came back as stock photo. I also used telephone look found the cell is a VoIP number not actual cell number for iPhone user...number used NYC area code. Gab promised to triple pay me back said Brazil bank forces him to be in person using thumb print to pay out large amounts from his account. I have emails, text and pictures if helpful. oh...he played on my religious beliefs saying God would protect us from scammers because I mentioned my worries and suspicion. Be on alert...scammer alert!

HENRY JAMES SCOTT Scammer, is a saturation diver off shore from Salt Lake Utah, has a few Instagram accounts in same name, tells women he lost his parents very young, he lost his wife and daughter in a care accident. Transfers calls to hang out and WhatsApp, never video chats, gets angry when you ask him questions. Has no friends, I believe he says he is in Sacramento but the number 585 code is from Cuba New York. He is false and his accounts of the same name are fake. He is dishonest and dangerous

i was contacted by this man relative, and we started emailing each other. i fell in love with this man, he went to cape town south africa to do a project, he asked me for 50k but i told him that i did not have it, then we continue emailing each other so i sent him what i had which was 1200.$ then he said he needed a plane tickets to come home on so i checked the internet, but he informed me that he wanted to buy his on ticket, just send the money for the ticktes. so far i have not heard from him today. but several days i got an email from a mrs beverly brown, which she said that she was with savalif@ . have any one of you every heard of that website.

Ladies, please be careful of this guy sammy. He will usually say Hi and you have a beautiful smile. Once he gets your attention, he will charm you and after a few days, he will tell you something bad happened and he need to help his mother or family in hospital. He will say he is very lonely in London and holds an MBA but he really dont know much about the subject at all. Pretty sure he got someone help to pass. Slowly I gave him some money and it became more and more until his mother died. I will never know if he spent it on himself or with other women. He promotes himself as an arts collector. He has his unique way to make you feel guilty not helping him financially. Please be careful if you ever come across this man from Portsmouth.

I'm in Communication with a Mark L Peterson says he's with Exxon Petroleum on a Platform out in the Gulf, 69yrs old, daughter Linda in Bossier City, LA, lost Wife & 1st Daughter in Plane Crash in 2015, been with Exxon 10 yrs, says he's an Engineer..Smooth with words. many Red Flags but would like to know for sure if he is legit or not..

Im talking with someone from Senegal. Currently, he has been living in Germany and goes by the name of 'Rambo Ba'. Profession is A body builder. Sports etc. A Muscular dark skin. He said he was prior to this in the Army and the best, a Major. Straight away he said I am the one. Proclaiming his honesty, love and marriage, which is just for me. He sent me lots of pictures of himself. He said the house he built, burnt down in Senegal which he is currently rebuilding for his family out there. He sent a picture of a burnt out house as proof. So four days later, he said he has no money to pay for his son's emergency knee operation. So now, he is in the process of asking for money because it has to be paid off right away. I offered my empathy for such a tradgedy to happen to any child. Please tell me is this a scam. Does anyone relate to this story.

I been talking to this guy named Lucas he is a charmer divorced with a daughter studying in the UK he is an international contractor we met on Ourtime.com right away wants to talk through phone and texts not site a week after we met online he was summoned to Abu Dhabi for business we talk and he send me someones pictures never a selfie he refuses he already madly in love with me and just yesterday he wants me to contribute eith 100 dollars to help the family of one of his projects worker that got killed on the job of course i didn't send anything but he didn't make a big deal and he kept talking to me. This morning he told me he will kill himself if i break up with him i got so scared i don't know what to do. He has blond hair and hazel eyes very handsome older gentlemen he goes by Lucas Stanton he is from Austria speaks with a very heavy accent . Right now he is supposedly in Abu Dhabi until this weekend and we are to meet when he gets back

Looking for someone called Gerant Prat from Nancy, France who has scammed a friend of mine. We have pictures and want to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Anyone know of this guy. He’s been asking for money. The amount goes up every time.

Johnson Morgan working overseas on oil rig, lives in Ohio. Asked for money, eppi.g me to live together rapidly

I'm curious if anyone has had any interaction with a Bruce Martins? I believe he is scamming my mother and I am powerless to help since she is widowed and very lonely. He has already gotten several hundred dollars from her in the form of I-tunes cards. I just don't know what to do!

Do you know a Marc-Olivier Faure? I have pictures!

I have been communicating with a Air Force man, he says he was born in Norway, moved to US when he was 20 yrs old to help his uncle with a Auto mechanics business in N.Y (Chinatown) . We have been talking now for a week on Hangouts app. He was in Tacoma,WA but was deployed to Izmir Turkey two days after we started chatting. He has been in the Air Force for 14 yrs now. He’s not asked for anything yet, he has sent me photos and gave me his phone number. He has two full sleeve tattoos, one with roses and other side with scroll design with “XVII “ for the last time of a tour....very very nice muscle body. He has the name LUKE tattoo on his fingers that he says is his fathers name that died 4 years ago in Norway. He has a tattoo across his abdomen that says “CARPENTER” And the alpha and omega quote tattooed on his right chest. His name is Walker Donnie Andersen he says. Has anyone received text, email or chats from him? I told him up front ...do not ask me for money, credit card, banking help or info my address or any personal info from me. I told him I don’t have money, I am having a hard time myself since this Pandemic. I told him I will chat with him but that is all, to keep ourselves company. His is in the Air Force as OED (bomb specialist) I have pic of him in uniform and next to blown up foreign tank with full uniform and weapon. Just wanted to see if anyone else has ever heard of this person. I even have his phone number and it is from New York (607) area code. He just sounds too good to be true. I have looked up his name but no info is available just phone number from NY. Just wanted to put it out there. Thanks guys....hope I’m proven wrong about him...but I’d like to know for sure. I am suspicious and very careful in my conversations.

I was scammed of $15000 By a fake military personnel. Is there any way I can get my money back.

How do I use a photo to search on google?

Has anyone been scammed with a scammer by the name max james

Flora Diana Darpino-- houngout fake

I have been talking to this guy for probably a month and a half to two months now but, he asked me within the two weeks to buy him a steam card.I ended up blocking him everything about him was some guy comes on by the name of Chris arthour, says some sweet little things and said that he was My guys calling and that he had been sick and so forth and so on over the fact that I have blocked him and he said I shouldn't hurt the heart that loves me so that's pulled at my heartstrings a little bit. So I unblocked and started talking to him and we were having fun and he said his phone was running slow so I went out and bought him $350 worth of steam cards wow supposably, I sold one to his friend named Jeff which whom I believe now is the same person that I've been talking to. supposably he got into trouble with the base later because Chris had seen him texting on his phone and he needed another $50 card to talk to his wife so be leaving him at this point in time I went out and bought another $50 thing card for Chris and supposedly Chris was the one who told the base later. My guy was calling from his phone which they are supposedly not supposed to be doing because of security reasons. And I know they have to be careful over and Kabul Afghanistan I know that but I also know that they can make calls so I started getting a little weary, well next thing I know he told me he has a briefcase with a security company because he doesn't trust Banks it has over 2 million dollars in it his birth certificate his social security number so forth and so on. well I emailed the company to see what I needed to do to collect this briefcase they want $800 for an application when I went back and told my guy that I didn't have that kind of money even though I do he flipped the script on me trying to make me feel guilty that he doesn't have any friends he has no family he is divorced because his wife cheated on him I am the only one he can depend on. And I kept trying to tell him I don't have that kind of money so I've been acting like I'm trying to get a loan to help him which I'm not because I know now and believe deep down in my heart that he is a scammer he has sent me pictures supposedly he's a doctor he claims that hedoesn't get his money from the Navy because it goes straight to the wheelhouse the name of the wheelhouse is limo Stones security company I looked it up there's no such thing I'm very smart when it comes to these scammers. But he claims to be so in love with me that he's coming to the states and marrying me and he wants me to get this money so I can buy our house and I can start living in it until he gets here. Well I had an old picture supposably he was talking to my daughter but he was actually talking to me because I am so tired of hearing about this stupid briefcase that he can't do anything about while he's over in Kabul Afghanistan. He's a very very good-looking guy if that's even him some of the pictures that I started looking at looks like they have been photoshopped see what I mean I'm very smart when it comes to these scammers. So my daughter tells him which is actually me that I'm being hospitalized because I really do have afib but that's what I told him that they were hospitalized in May for afib if he's a doctor he knows what it is. Supposedly he's a doctor in the US army over in Kabul Afghanistan and his name Jeffery Kimmy and supposedly he is from Las Vegas. But the more I see his texts the more he sounds like a foreigner to me so I believe he has picked some pictures from the military and he had a picture taken of him and his friend Chris Chris's face is really super blurry we can barely see it. I just need to know if I am truly being scammed. If I'm not he's still not getting $800 for me because that's not my responsibility I don't care how much he loves me and I ain't started with this love stuff about a week to week and a half after we started talking the first time he don't know I will block him again and he will never talk to me he will never be able to get any of my information to be able to talk to me and then he tells me if I leave him he will hurt himself I want to say to him come here I'll give you the knife to do it with he don't know me I can be very mean and vicious when somebody is playing on my heartstrings. I'm just glad I'm smart enough to know and realize that she might be trying to play me for a fool.

Also be careful of talking to who you might think might be a celebrity I spoken to Kenny Chesney and Brett Eldredge they have sent me home pictures and supposably when I was sent a video from Kenny Chesney it was actually an old interview that I found online on YouTube I couldn't hear what he was saying but I actually thought I was talking to Kenny Chesney then he asked me he could send me money he wanted to take care of me because I was such a beautiful woman and he wanted to take care of me and give me an allowance when I would not give him my PIN codes and stuff to my bank and my social security number and my account numbers he flipped out and called me all kinds of names so be careful who you talk to don't give out your social security number no kind of Bank information or anything like that because these scammers are really getting aggressive real aggressive now. So please please I'm begging you be very careful do not get your heart mixed up oh and the doctor that's over in Kabul Afghanistan he had me go immediately to hang out so I was kind of leery about that as well as Jenny Chesney and Brett Eldredge took me to Hangouts Kenny Chesney don't know anything about no Hangouts I actually did get to speak to the real Kenny Chesney because I had put everything on Twitter and he actually got in touch with me and he told me do not accept any more thing that if it was really him he would have a blue tick by his name so be careful who you talk to I know people out there want to find love really bad I do but I don't trust online dating sites shoot I don't even trust them meeting them face-to-face. And Brett Eldredge kept trying to get me to get on a plane and come to Nashville that he would pay for it that could be a human trafficking human traffickers are doing that now so please be careful people I don't want anything to happen to y'all these people are dangerous

I have been on hangouts with a girl by the name of Patricia Django. Says she is from Baltimore and is working on a platform off the coast of Brazil. Says she has a 12 year old son in a school in Canada. Says she went to college at Waterloo University in Canada and is an engineer. Says her husband was killed in Afghanistan in 2017. Anyone heard of her?

This is my story; he is name is Micheal Harris, he is in Yemen, tragically lost wife and parents. He is a doctor surgeon. His daughter is Viva, 10-year-old and she is on military boarding school. He did ask for iTunes card but I refused to do this. He is so smart, a handsome gentleman about 50 years old. When I said that he is laying and it's a scam he did phone me by video call was the same person for the photos bit I couldn't hear his voice. Be careful

I'm sure this ones a scammer, nelly johnson from Africa, he was orphaned at 10, raised in an orphanage, he went through university. He appeared on Instagram and messaged.... it follows the same style as old Wilson Heinrich used. The first message is as follows: Life is good when somebody cares, Life is uplifting when someone is always there, Life is great when someone would protect you and suffer, cherish life because God loves you always, May God stay with you this day and give you peace of mind, May God give you a happy heart and his love all the time. Good luck never regret a day in your life, Good days give you happiness. Bad days give you experience. Both are essential in life, life is mixture of sunshine and rain, teardrops And laughter, pleasure and pain. Just remember, there Was never a cloud that the sun couldn’t Shine through, Good Morning, hope you had a good night rest? How you feeling today, just checking on you to know how you doing this morning, do have a nice and blessed day and be safe always, bye for now and hope to hear from you soon. So I'm convinced hes not real, I've said about 5 words to him, he already wants to visit me, and because I'm not responding to his messages, hes getting very angry... watch out for him. His photo is that of a happy looking black man, white hat.

I’ve experienced a number of scammers.. all the females said the were being stationed overseas and asked for iTunes cards or money.. the guys claim they are widows and have a kid but are working overseas.. fortunately I dropped each one as soon as they asked for money.. then after experiencing too many of the same scenario I just stopped talking to anyone I didn’t know.. I guess I’m lucky because I didn’t let any of them scam me.. don’t trust anyone you never met!!

Watch out for a so called emergency surgeon aka Paul Bernard. Apparently in Afghanistan. Constantly asking for money for his 'son' and consignment to be kept safe. Big time scammer. Uses a $17M cheque to convince ladies to pay money over. Beware!!!

John Gabriel is chatting to me, hes from LA hes a single dad, 14 year old boy Harry, hes an engineer in the Java sea. He wants me to go on hangouts (sounding familiar eh) Hes incredibly pushy....

Anyone heard of a Dr. Ryan Leong. Claimed he went to Germany recently. His wallet was stolen. Wanted money wired in Bitcoin. Now stating his agent hasn't paid him.

On Facebook liking my posts. No profile just picture of him with hockey team on ice behind him. Said we needed to go to hangouts because he was leaving for contract in Gulf of Mexico for 4 weeks. Daughter in Portugal boarding school. Now there was an explosion and he needs to get parts from company in England.... total scam. Beware of Edger R Ortiz originally from Oslo Norway living in California

Met an Army Officer from LA on Plenty of Fish, he goes by the name "Billyrayjr". He's asking for money and gifts and proclaimed his love for me. He called while he was on so call base and I heard dogs barking and baby crying in the background. He even said he was now deployed to Yemen but the same dog kept barking when he called.

Anyone familiar with Roland Bullock from POF?

Benjamin Jackson, LGEN in the American Airforce. Talked for a month and he asked if I had any bad experiences with online, told him about being s jammed Nothing since. He has 2 kids in Canada going to University. Their mom died and he wanted them to go somewhere other than the US for University. Anyone heard of him?

I have spoken to some of these guys. Women please don't feel bad if you have fallen victim to someone who does this to you. I think it's horrible. I now look for those people. I play along then I report them.

Ladies they all fakes, photo shot, and they make up all sort of lies to get you ladies feel wanted and loves, so no matter what happen just don't send any your hard earn cash to money gram or banking,and also sometime, your mother can fall for this, I am a mother and fall for it too at first, cause i never came across this situation before and the guy call me queen, so be aware and not accept friends ship on facebook who you do not know.

I am new to the whole internet dating. And I am sure that we are talking about the same person. The person I’ve been chatting with goes by the name of Ryan Lucas. States that he is stationed in Turkey by the UN and has a daughter in Kansas. Wife died of cancer a few years back. Once he finishes this order he wants to come back to me. Calls me his queen, my love. Etc. in addition to that, i met him on Plenty of Fish, asked me to go to What’sapp and then Hangouts. Been chatting since two weeks ago and suddenly I got a message from his 7 year old daughter that she needed a steam card. She also called me mom. This is so creepy. Please share pics if you have them.

Anyone heard of Dr. Michael Robert, United Kingdom?

Just received a message from Wilson Johnson today. Surgeon from NY in Syria with the UN. 14 year old son named Kelvin. Wanted to post to help keep track of the names.

Funny thing is, it's the year 2020 and lots of people are still unaware of these scams and still falling for them. This stuff should be headline news. If we had a government that was good for anything they'd put a massive effort into making people aware.

I have been talking to a man name Joshua Dickson and wondering if anyone knows of this man. So far he has gotten $5,000.00 and making promises he is coming to see me.