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

Has anyone been contacted by Brian Andreas Lukas architect 60 years old from Texas? Is in Turkey on a job but needs money to complete. Divorced 5 years no siblings or children. Deceased parents.

hi. has any of u come across a man called Matt Spencer? he said he is Canadian construction engineer. his father is dead due to smoking, mother is very old and taken care by nanny in Poland. he said he's half Canadian, half Polish. he has not asked for money but he has disappeared after i asked him many times about his location, he didn't even pick up my calls. he has picture wearing white shirt smiling with dimples, wide forehead, tanned skin.

I was sent a email concerning they send me a form to fill out plus send 7,500 . I was told they send me Documents once this is paid. It's a inheritance which is rightfully mine. What I ask they only sent me a email regarding but no proof, other then a person name and email stating nothing else

Oh I met the one Frenchmen yes he’s a faker too.. lost his wife and son in car accident yes he love me too. In a few days but he found me on Words with Friends oh snd Kevin too the Irish man

i hear these stories way too much! i was in contact with a man on facebook who went by the name jones cooper, who claimed he was in the US military.come to find out this mans pictures are on several profiles. immediately red flags went up. after s few days of chatting, he said he needed credit card info or a bank account. i knew right away he was no good. men and ladies, you have to be careful now-a-days.

Desperate for help!!! All these are so familiar!! My mother is living. With me over a former catfishing scam, now she’s involved again by the name of a man called “Ruppe” and she won’t believe me that this is another scam. She’s giving him amazon, iTunes, wiring him money to he bank of Nigeria and it’s going to CA and being received by a woman of the name Cynthia Punogin who lives in Palmdale CA. I have confronted her and told her all the red flags. He’s claiming to be military and deployed for many years, injured and stitched up. Captured by terrorists. Met on tinder now on what’s app. Impossible!! Every single red flag is there. Horrible English and he copies and pastes poems too. I have done so much research on him and she even believes they’re married. HWP I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO. She is brainwashed and we all fear for our safety at this point since he has pics of us and my grandchildren. Also our home address. I need guidance and where to go with all the acct numbers I have now and his what’s app number too!!!

I too have been messaging Joey Allan. Nice pics. Said he was a captain in the military stationed in Syria. Widowed and had not been home in 15 months. Sounded really said and burnt out. Within in a day he was madly in love. On the second day wanted to come meet me in person but needed money to buy a pane ticket.With my grandson in the Army and Dad serving 25 years, I know a little about how the military works. They don't keep you overseas without a break and they don't ask you to buy your own ticket. Ladies I knew it was a scam but played long for a few days to see if I could catch something to call him out on.Did on a few things Kept him busy until facebook shut him down. Now I am sweeping my computer for viruses to be safe. Ladies, none falls in love on line in 2 days. Don't fall for it. And if they ask for money report it.

This man told me I am a goddess and he is a millionaire and will pay all my bills but he's on a ship all I have to do is get him a vacation leave he lost his wife and son in boarding school. His name is braylan willex.how do I find out its a fake. He said he work for the un

Be careful of scammers who say they work in the oil rig and claims they are not allowed to have cell phones in their rooms. That is not true. If you tell them you want to skype or meet on webcam, they come up with excuses that they're not allowed to have cell phones on the rig. That is not true. They'll say they are engineers but are so bad in english grammar and spelling. They say they are in the ship but you can hear roosters crowing on the background. They profess love only after one week. And there are two ways that they will divest you of your money: First is to wire some money, second, they'll ask you to receive a bag or a package and then a company will ask you to pay for taxes or blackmail that the bag contains cash and you are charged with money laundering so you have to pay a lot of money. DO NOT EVER GIVE MONEY TO A PERSON YOU'VE NEVER MET. DO NOT RECEIVE ANY PACKAGE OR BAG FROM A PERSON YOU'VE NEVER MET. This scammer said he would send his bag first before he goes to the country, who does that? When you travel, you travel with your bag with you. Be careful of the copy-paste love messages on Google. If you go online dating, make sure you see them on webcam, and never, ever give money.

Father in-law is being scammed by a woman who says her name is Donna Buchnan. He was already scammed once. He is being told that "Donna" works as a consultant in a diamond mine in South Africa. Just as she is about to board the plane to come back to Arizona she collapses and now is in the hospital. How does he know..because get this a doctor sends him text message because he found his name in a book on her. How do you convince someone like this to believe you. This is the second time he has gotten scammed the first time they got 10k from him. He is in his 70's and a lonely widow. I notice most notices on here are men scamming women. Any men being scammed by "women" stories similar to this?

i just got scammed, loves me but needs 2,000.00 to fly to see me from Russia to Canada

I'm talking to one right now on messenger on purpose because my husband's mother ended up giving in to one of these sorry piece of crap scammers last month and lost all of her money! The scammer had her let him transfer a $10,000 amount to her bank account and then she had to send it back to him and it withdrew her account negative $9,000 is she only had $1,000 in the account! And she still talking to the guy! The guy I'm talking to on messenger I know he's a scammer I'm married and have no reason to talk to guys on social media but I wanted to talk to this guy and just see what kind of format they use. He's currently posing as Lieutenant General Franklin Benjamin Hodges.

Well ladies I’m one of the suckers! My guy has been talking to me for 3 months. He is from Oakland, CA, but he has been in Istanbul on an oil rig for over a month. We have all of the sweet romantic conversations as the rest of you. He friend requested me on Messenger and why I accepted I will never know. His name is Jimmie Walter. He is getting a divorce and he has a 14 year daughter. He asked for a IPhone X after I told him I wanted to get him something for his birthday. I never sent it because I fell ill and was unable to do so. He has continued talking to me and now wants to send a package of his to my address. He says he is coming home soon and wants to meet me in CA. I a pretty intelligent woman and he almost convinced he is real. He sent a passport and a drivers license with the number covered. I have done extensive searches and have not found him in the US. I have figured out that he is a scammer and I want all you ladies out there to wise up like I have. If the guy is a contractor, in the military, has broken language, speaks brogue English, works in another country, and wants to get romantic immediately he is a SCAMMER! We are too smart to be scammed, so block them and delete anything they’ve sent you. Women United.

Oh my, my story is similar to all of you posting here. My I was talking to Richie Lambert, 55 on July 29. Born in Italy, now living in Virgina. Claims to be engineer and just got $100 million project with BP Oil based in Aberdeen, Scotland. One daughter Kim she 12 lives in New York with wicked aunt. He plans to retire as siinashecan get paid $1 million from BP. He wants me to get package but I need to send $30,000 for customs and immigration costs. His supposed daughter text me and as did a supposed guy from BP who was suppose to be agent sending money for him. I lost my heart with all the wonderful things he said. It was everything I wanted to hear. Don’t fall for this guy. Fortunate it only cost me $100 to to the point I figured out he was scamming me. First I didn’t have $30,000 to give away and I have very suspicious from the start. He got hurt when I tried questioning about motives. STOP!!! Don’t fall for his scam.

There is this gentleman initials C .Scott stating he is from the USA currently in Damascus Syria with the world food program he is asking for iTunes and money I'm getting emails from united nations requesting money for this persons leave is this a scam

Ladies, I have been talking to 3 different guys I met on line. Same site. One is stationed in Syria, one claims to be in the CIA, and the 3rd is a contractor working on an oil rig. Guy #1 is amazing cute, he is 52 and has a 10 year old daughter. He claims he is retiring this month, first it was July 1st, then he said it would be the 8th he said he has orders to go on mission, he then tells me it will be the 15th due to mission had been pushed, he has asked for cell phones so he can sell them to come home He was then coming home on Friday the 20th but now his mission I'd back on. He promises to be home on the 22nd. I feel after reading all of your comments he is a scammer. Guy number 2 went to Afghanistan on the request of the president. He text me after a week and said he room was ransacked and his camera was taken and he needed 10,000$ for a camera, when I told him I didn't have it he got mad. Then about 2 weeks after that he said that they kept changing his come home date he was there on his own and needed money so he come home. I stopped.talking to me. So after that about 2 weeks ago he asked if I could sent him more ey for a plain ticket. I did not reply. I haven't heard from him since. Then #3 is in the water on an oil rig near Florida. At first it was he had to borrow money from a friend because his card would not work. I explained to him then I lived paycheck to paycheck. The next red flag was can you send a 50$ iTune card to his son in UK where he is in boarding school. Now he asks every day for me to get him money because his diving mask malfunction and he needs 2,200$ to get a new one. I told him I did not have it. Now it's if you give a friend 200$ he will then help him get the mask. He has even told me to his son an iTunes card again. Oh yea 3 days ago he asked me to sell my car. I am divorced and making payments on it. He then got upset and know not calling me.

Anyone heard of Richie Jnr Roberts on FB?? JW--no red flags yet!!

Met a what seemed very sweet man online apparently on line saying he needs money for paying his nanny do it for him n the daughter claims fone is broken for sound n pic when I asked to do a video call to c who I'm talking to... Also asked me to send money for I tunes and send money to his nanny's husband in Nigeria I don't believe a word of it all seems too fishy. The amount of lies to get a meet.... I do t even want to meet the guy now I'm just waiting for another lie to be spun...... All the lovey do ey messages its crazy I think defo a con artist. Sent me videos and pics of himself at the gym of his daughter his house his cars saying he will pay me back was I born yesterday

It is really disturbing to read all this and what people are doing out their, preying on people's hearts for a little money. I almost fell for it...the heart part....until I asked him about what music he likes to listen to and he gave me the whole story of not being able to buy iTunes in The Gulf of Mexico. So here is his profile (but it will change daily).....Met him on Words with friends. Convinced me to move to hangout....some weird excuse about being in the Gulf. Hangout screen name is "Special Man".....his email address is Rogerbecker990 @ gmail.com. But that can all change as we know. Gave me some story about having to communicate on hangouts because he would be able to use to use WWF shortly....whatever. Pic was probably early to mid 40's, although we all know it is not him...but salt and pepper short hair, goatee. Brown eyes. Stated he was born in Germany, father died when he was 7 in military war, mother died when he was 13. He was raised by his neighbour, a teacher. Stories will also change pending on audience. Claimed he was 54, as he was figuring out my age. Pic did not match that age. Still was playing along soaking up the attention, being naive. "Honey, baby, dear, I love you".....no 54 year old man would be saying that, that quickly.....1st day of communicating. Still played along. Then when I asked him about what music he likes on day 2, he gave me the whole iTunes spiel and would not give up...asking me to buy him $400 worth of iTunes cards. That was it. Some other red flags.....repeated word for word texts. Would say "like I said"....but didn't say previously to me. Once the iTunes card would stop...Of course I stopped there, not doing that. And I am not done. I know lots of people including Cesis, law enforcement and government. I will do anything to try and stop these guys on preying on women. Even if I can stop this one! Be aware! Never ever give money or gift cards to anyone you don't really know, unless it is a charity or something legit you have approached!

Watch out for a guy named Scott Richmond. Met him on Twitter but then started talking to him on Hangouts. He said he was an engineer with ExxonMobil. Lived in Washington DC. Is a widowed father of two boys Nelson and Todd. He says he's 67. In his pictures he has white hair and sometimes wears glasses. I think he drives a newer white f150 and lives in Washington DC. He says he's currently in China on an oil rig last time we talked. He says his equipment broke so he needs 10,000 for new drill plate. Before he left for China he was asking for money constantly to cover cost of hiring workers to go to China with him. He says he's madly in love with you. Doesn't care if you're married. He calls you baby dear and sweetheart. He acts like he's very financially stable. He supposedly just got some really lucrative engineer oil rig contract in China. He was suppose to be there month and 2 weeks. This guy is a charmer up until you tell him you won't give him money. Then he's mean selfish and doesn't care about your well being. I deleted my Twitter acct but I blocked him on Hangouts, which has used several times a day. Probably talking to new victims. I never gave him money bank acts etc. So he must've gave up on me bc he basically stopped messaging me.

Anyone heard of a John sidel from Afghanistan which might be a scammer

So pleased I found this page.. have this doctor Robdavid500 following me on Instagram for about 6 weeks now. So handsome. Has little girl 12 year old in boarding school in America so he said first of all. He wanted to start messaging via hangouts. Said such nice things and asking me for face pictures. He is working for UN as surgeon in Iraq on Contract. He asked for money to be sent via money gram to his daughters teacher as his daughter had been overspending but gave some address in Nigeria !! Alarm bells straight away. He said he wanted to leave Iraq but needed money to buy out of Contract. He said his full name is Doctor Robert Lawrence Jones. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Yes he too seems to follow many women on Instagram.

I get at least one a week contacting me through words with friends. They are so predictable! Works for either the UN or NATO as a Doctor or Consultant/surgeon on peace keeping missions in Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq. Alternatively they are oil engineers working offshore or some remote place! All are single parents with children living abroad, boarding schools! They use words of endearment such as my dear (really winds me up!), lots of compliments and proverbs about friendship and love! Usually ask you to go on hangout or request your email address! English is poor and I have asked whether English is their second language. Sometimes they admit they are and say they speak a European language. I had one who said he was German so I started writing messages in German. He then admits he can't speak German and left there as a child! What a crock...........! 2 questions 1. Do you give people so much information about yourself in the first five minutes of knowing them 2. Do you speak to strangers using terms of endearment? If the answer is NO then you are dealing with a scammer. They are trying to pull on your heart strings and gain your trust quickly. Don't fall for it! 2 bits of advice 1. Don't give them your email or engage with them on another forum 2. Report them as impersonators on whatever online site you are on. Don't let them get away with it! They really pee me off and sometimes I play along to waste their time....... whilst they are talking to me they can't be bothering someone else.

Any one heard of Greg Whitespencerman?.. on instagram or Whiteman Ricotta on Facebook?... same person, said I was special loved me etc.... was a freelance contractor, just had got a contract to build an underground train station contract was worth $11,000,000 then suddenly had to go to Dubai as he had to supervise some job , 2 days ago asked me for some help $300 worth cos he needed to recharge his ph as his money was tied up in the contract , When I refused .... he totally abused me and told me I was worthless etc etc,

Has anyone heard of Dr. Walker Evans1??? Or Walker Glover??? Living in Syria for now as an Orthopedic Surgeon, has worked for the Unitrd Nations Security Council for 25 years and is the Chief Executor for the United Nations as an Emergency Dr. permanently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. Wife died years ago in a car accident. Has a son by the name of Jerry in boarding school in the U K. Needs you to E-mail the United Nations and ask for permission for him to take a 2 or 3 week vacation to come and see you. A small amount of money will be asked for to go to the United Nations for him to get vacation. Professes nothing but pure love for you, asks for your picture and sends one of himself. Says he is 60 years of age.Has to be a complete Scammer!!!

Hi I'm talking to a guy name Jeffery mendoza working for US army blue angel.right now posting in nigeria he has asked for $200..I haven't transferd it any..we are still talking about marriage..he has big tattoo on his hand..Very good looking..dimple on right chin..if anyone has been duped by tis guy

Has anyone heard of a John Wilson. Claims he is on an oil rig in the gulf. Has a 15 year old daughter in the Uk.

Has anybody been contacted by a USA Dr working away with a daughter in boarding school asking for money Thanks

I've been talking to a man from a dating site through email. He uses the name of Mark David Lee . He claims to be a self employed Contractor , with a Company named Empoint Construction . I've already found out that there in no such company . He claims to be in Dubai working on a contract job now . He said he froze his bank account before leaving the states . Now he is saying that he has to pay taxes on the money upfront before they will pay him on completion of the job . He said his daughter sent him $30,000 and he has paid $ 75,000 out of the money he took with him over there . He said he still needs $50,000 , and asked if I could send him the money , and he would pay me back double when he comes home . I know he is a scammer because I've already caught him in several lies , but he has tried to lie his way out of them . Now he is wanting me to let his bank manager transfer funds out of his account and into mine so that I can send him the money . He must think that i'm the biggest fool that ever walked this earth ! I told him there was no way in H - - - I would ever give out any of my personal information to anyone that I have never even laid eyes on , or even know that he is the man in the pictures that I am talking to in writing . I told him he could be Joe Blow on the street corner as far as I know . I told him to send me a copy of his Drivers License , and a copy of his passport , his Social Security number and Bank Account number , so that I could have him checked out . Guess what ??? I haven't heard back from him !! Remember the name : Mark David Lee