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

I fell hard for a man claiming to be in Forsvaret, the Norwegian military, He said he was being sent to Afghanistan. Of course, I was very worried and even more caught up in the emotional rush. A few days after getting there (haha), he told me his Italian grandmother was hospitalized for severe asthma, and that he had left his card at home, since he didn't need it. Could I pay for her treatment and medicine? It would cost about $3,000. Well, I knew that Italy has a national health service and that no way would they withhold treatment from his 109-year-old grandma (according to him, she's 109!!). Furthermore, I don't have money to sent to strangers. He became very angry, and has attacked me verbally for a week, calling me greedy and a terrible and uncaring person, etc. "If I loved him,...." You all know how that goes. His name on Instagram in Matteo Vangen. (vangenmatteo) I mean, I tried to be reasonable and told him banks wired money and so on, but of course he scoffed at me. By the way, he also claimed his parents died in the American Airlines crash in New York, flight 587, but Wikipedia lists the flight manifest and no Norwegians or Italians (his mother was Italian, father Norwegian, according to him) appeared on it. He is super charming and handsome, so be careful!

My aunt has been communicating with a man who says he’s from California but is in another country right now working on a project that involves illnesses in reptiles. He wants to put money on her credit card so my aunt can buy gift cards so he can pay off the IRS and get his equipment out of this foreign country. He gave her his bank account info and when she logged into his account there was 1.4 million dollars in it. I keep telling her this is a scam but she won’t listen. They’ve been talking on and off since October and he wants to marry her too. She’s convinced this guy is legit. He even sent her flowers and candy. Does this sound familiar to anyone? How can I convince her this is a scam?

Got another military doctor on Facebook this time his name is Christopher Bogdan for the Syrian war that is going on. It sounds like he has one son in academy school in Africa. Has anybody heard about one? I think these men just need to give up.

If u come across one by the name of Dempsey Silva stating he indeed money or itune card for something run - he will state that he is in the military sation in Nigeria and trying to get his retirement to come home to texas or come home to j

I've been chatting for some time with a Captain Peter Terry in the Army stationed in Syria. Has anyone heard of this guy before. I've sent him Itunes cards, but don't want to send anymore if he is for sure a scammer.

Im at a loss, and need help.I believe my mom is being scammed from a formed relationship stemming from eharmony.This man,named Kenneth Laundry, starting wooing my mom through eharmony. Within days his profile dissapeared, and wanted to continue chatting through email. Every email he sent my mom included beautiful poems some about love some spiritual. Within weeks emails stretched into emails,text messages and phone calls. He professed love within a very short time. He said he is a civil engineer, widowed, and has a son who works for the government in Greece. Supposedly he lived in the same town as my mom, but after a few weeks he had to fly to Dubai for work, something about some real estate, building gig. Its been about 6 months and they are still only emailing, texting and phone talks. At one point he had given my mom his address in their town, and my mom sent him a small thinking of you gift, and a man with the same first name called and said wrong person/house. When my mom told him, he never offered up a correct address or reason. Still in Dubai, "working", he has gotten my mom to buy him a brand new exspensive phone through her plan, and has asked a few times for monitary amounts, 1 was really large. Believe me she tried to, by trying to empty her retirement plans, her financial planners shut that down quick. There has been a handfull of times he was wanting to come home or about to but something always came up, like: he met the Sheak of Dubai and was given a gift of a large amount of gold and raw diamonds and needed money to pay to allow him to travel back with them, another time he was sick, then something for work, then he had his ticket and missed his flight, then detained and arrested at airport for having to much gold. I know my mom has sent him a few thousand dollars already. I truely believe he is an internet romanance scammer, but my mom is convinced he is the real deal, no matter how many stories Ive shown her of the same stories and reasons other people have gone through. I have searched the few photos he has sent her and found nothing. I have and also a fraud specialist through her financial planner have tried to find info on this guy and nothing, yet my mom still thinks he is true. I dont know what to say or do to make her wake up and see the truth.

Thomas Richard - sirrichard 5000@ gmail .com - same story- widowed -wife dies in car accident has 15yr old daughter that needs a mommy- charming as a snake- sent pictures of his daughter and email address (which I believe was just another one of his); spills on the love and charm, calling you sweetheart, baby- the I love you- now come on how can one fall for the BS so fast- sends youtube love songs- talks like we are all going to be a family after his 6 month contract on a rig in Holland,is up, blah blah...and then bam- send me $200 on ITunes! Don't fall for the snack in the grass - he is quite good! And whoever identity is stole is really good looking!

I am not sure but has anyone come across a Dalton Benoit from Santa Monica Ca. Claims he is an Civil engineer in Dubai. asking for Itunes for his sick dog? Strange and he lost his wife in 2014. no kids, not so sure if he is real?

I wish I had read these before getting scammed. I met Frank Land on Words with Friends. We chatted some and then he wanted to go on Hangouts. I was already on Hangouts. Within a week or two he said he loved me. He is a widower with a 11 year old daughter. He said his wife and son died several years before in an accident. He then needed a ITunes card. I was stupid and sent him one. He said he would pay me back. I am married and was upset with my husband. Frank made me feel special. Well I sent a nude picture of myself to him. I wish I hadn't. I gave him my cell phone number. He would text me. He asked for another ITunes card for $100.00. Said his daughter needed it for school. I said I didn't have any money. He said he worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. His daughter stayed with his aunt. Well recently, he asked for $2,500.00. I told him I didn't have that much. Nothing even close. He said he would call my husband and ask him to help. He supposedly had called my husband before asking if I was okay. He would text me that if I didn't answer right back he would call my husband to see how I was doing. He didn't like I couldn't give $2,500.00. Well he texted my husband and said he had some information about someone in his family and wanted money for the information. My husband called me and asked me to look up a number. I told my husband I had been chatting with a guy and that he was blackmailing me. We talked after I got home. He said he lost trust in me. I told him I was sorry. I was told by the police not to respond to him and don't give any money. I have deactivated my Facebook. The guy said he was going to put the pictures on Facebook. The guy the other day texted me and asked me to forgive him. He was confused and frustrated. He said he lost the contract for the company. He said he needed the money to fly home to go to his company and get the money from them to finish the project on the oil rig. I hope he gets caught. Also, I met David Dani, Teddy Douglass, Ryandavis on Words with Friends. I have deleted that app on my phone.

I think I been scams friend of my have been talking to for months, got caught trying to smuggle gold out of Ghana, the police say they have my address and I need to pay 5,000 dollars or they coming to lock me up....can they do thst

Has anyone been scammed by a James Mark Leo?

Has any meet a man that goes by Alexander Hall that is stationed in Nigeria working with the UN. He will talk for months and then start asking for gift cards, tokens, and now my bank account info. I have said no and he continues to talk to with my I have blocked him from Facebook where we mostly talk but he will then create a new profile and start talking to me again

Hello Bridget, I had been helping a man in Dubai who said he needed money for shipping cost for his gold in Dubai. The shipping company sent me an email asking for a copy of my drivers license fromt and back. I like an idiot sent it. What can I do now. Who can I report this too. I live in Phoenix Az?

Does anyone know Coleman Powell he says he is in the army and is stationed in somala east of Africa

I was talking to a guy named Christopher Kevin.Hehe is from Texas who work as a petrolium/gas engineer and owns a construction firm. He asked me to communicate through email and we were exchanging photos.I trusted him and almost fall for him. I just realized that he is a scammer when he asked me to help him in Netherlands because his passport was confiscated in the custom because he needs to pay the products he bought from China.He even sent me a letter from the custom,Netherlands. He asked me to help him raised 5000Usd and even encouraged me to get a loan. I never send him though but i feel like I was so foolish for talking to a big scammer.

Hi, I believe I have been a victim or romance scam too. I have just now started to read everything on the net about it, and I am quite shocked I must say. However, your information helped me so much...I am still looking for my next steps, I believe it is my duty, despite my feelings of embarrassment and humiliation to help other women...can I report the scam? I am sorry, this is all so new to me.

Do anyone write with a guy named Dimitri Rhodes?

I have been talking to a guy named Michael Smith he is supposedly Italian lives in New Jersey but traveled to Nigeria to do a job building roads he caught me in the middle of the night said his plane landed and the airport lost his luggage his documents passport and money.He said his wife was killer in a car wreck four years ago and has One son he is wanting thousands of dollars in iTunes cards he has now supposedly been a Nigeria for three months we have spoken on the phone several times his accent is very very heavy

I have been talking to this guy for two and a half months now Bruce Gillard says he's a widower has a daughter in the Air Force his mother is passed away while we've been talking but he's some kind of broker for an investment firm he's been in Dubai the UK and now he's asking me to open up a bank account in my name overseas because he is retiring from his job and he's made an investment in order for him to get them vestment he is done he'll have to put it into a bank account that's not in his name so he wants me to put it into my name so totally confused don't know what to do

I get a lot of guys messaging me through Instagram. After reading your comments above, I think I have just avoided three scammers in quick succession. One asked to go to Hangout straight away and the other two wanted my Whatsapp. One said he was an American Engineer but I feel his English was too poor. He didn’t take time to ask general get to know you type questions but went straight to professing his love pretty much. Even telling them you are married has no effect. When I told him I thought he was a Nigerian scammer he suddenly got angry at which point I blocked him. Names. Donald Eric, Adamson 2257, and Alex William.