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

My friend a guy who claims to be Swedish and claims he's stuck in Cypress. Does he have a US number 317 exchange?

Was his name Mike Rogers? Similar story about wife, has 2 kids, married daughter 21 and son 19 trying to get me to pay storage fees of $5,750 for gold he purchased in Ghana. Works in Turkey supposedly from Huntsville Al raised in Norway.

Hi Kimball, Your scammer isn't Swedish he is Italian and his name is "Levine Shaffer" He also goes by the name of "Archie Belden" He was also my scammer. He is bald with sky blue eyes and has a beard and mustache. He speaks Italian. He claims to be in Lagos Nigeria and on a private investigation in West Africa and works as a protective agent with the CIA. He gave me a sob story while on a special mission in Afghanistan that his wife cheated on him really bad and was looking for a new wife and mother for his young daughter Kennedy. I met him on facebook last year through some lady by the name of Marguerite Owens. This is the pm she sent me, Hello, I want to tell you about my brother, he saw your picture before leaving on a private investigation in West Africa, believe me you have really captured his heart with your pretty face and smile, he said that you should add him up, he would love to know you. I have every reason to believe that she is my scammer Levine Shaffer, how would she know that he is in Lagos Nigeria and works as a protective agent with the CIA? He was also going by the name of Jim Kennedy Blackwell on facebook behind my back and asked many women to marry him and open up a bank account so that he could deposit money in it to help support them and their kids. When I questioned him about it of course he denied it, but gave himself away after letting it slip out that he deleted the account. I knew right away that it was him because he used his daughters Kennedy in his profile name and had numerous pics of them both on the page. Within 24/48 hours after meeting me he told me that he had fallen in love with me, asked me for my number and to leave facebook and that he was going to do the same out of his love and respect for me. He also asked me if I had a bank account so that he could have his money deposited into it because he didn't have one or access to his money, he also asked me to open up a Wells Fargo account for him which I refused to do. Starting on (12/1/18) I started receiving money wired to me via Western Union to pick up for him and wire back to him via Western Union to many different receivers to Lagos Nigeria. Eventually Western Union caught onto the fact that I was an innocent victim of Money Laundering Wiring Fraud and immediately put a block on me from being able to wire him anymore money to Lagos Nigeria. When I told Levine Shaffer about this he then suggested to me to start getting him ITunes Cards in specific amounts on a monthly basis which I did usually between $125 to $200 dollars worth. He even gave me a sob story that he fell in his motel room and hurt one of his legs and was in the hospital and was told that he needed to have a bone shaving procedure done in order to walk right again. He said that his doctor wouldn't perform it unless he came up with $200. Feeling sorry for him I wired him $200. A few months later he told me that he was bitten by a mosquito was diagnosed with Malaria and needed $200 for his medication, once again I felt sorry for him and wired him another $200. He took me for over $4.000. I did some research on Levine Shaffer and found out that he was also going by the name of a well known con artist "Archie Belden" whose story you can find on match.com. He may also have stolen the identity of some ladies on facebook named "Christine Imel". All these men are identical to each other and I have every reason to believe that they are my scammer Levine Shaffer. I have reported him to my Local Sheriffs Office, The FBI and Nigeria Police Department. I can only pray that he is found and thrown in jail where he belongs. Here is the cellphone number he gave me to call him (208-265-8058) .

Watch out! Definitely a scammer! I ran into the same person on internet this month and I almost tricked by him. He found me on a dating app called CMB and then asked me to chat with him on Wechat immediately. His fake name is Harry Chung / Shane Harry, pretending to be a Chinese. He claimed that he's an orphan and working as an Orthopedic Surgeon in Syria as well. We had talked for weeks and he kept sweet-talking me since the first day. A couple days ago he claimed that his camp was attacked by terrorists and some of his colleagues were killed. He then asked me to keep his life savings for him by delivery those things to me and need me to put the money into my bank account. Then I started to google him, I found out that his photos were all fake and I believe that he’s originally from middle east or place like Indonesia. Remember, DON’T fall for strangers online easily!

Do you have a pic of him