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

I can't honestly believe how many scammers I've come across in the last 2 weeks. Telling me they love me within days. Luckily none of them got anything from me and after asking for pics with Id they go silent...names are Patrick Anderson, Jordan Nelson Medina, Medina Cody Dickson and one was just Brandon. All from tinder. Be careful out there

Did anyone talked lately with a guy called Alexandre Danilo (Alex on Tinder). I have a friend who felt in love with this guy...me and other friend found out that he is using pictures from Gerald Rogers, guy that wrote a book and is quite famous...she doesn't want to belive in what we are saying to her...his story is same as many, he is engineer from Germany living in California and now he is on project in Turkey...wife died in a car accident, having one son...he wants to marry her and come to her

Has anyone been in contact with or communicating with a person named Mike Peace Jack?

Has anyone been contacted by a leo labin, he even video chatted me, liked me on fb dating, asked me to go to hangouts so we could talk, even said he had a daughter 15, who just last had a birthday, his son his 5, he had his daughter whose name is Stella contact me, he's very good lookin, his daughter asked for steam cards so I did get her one and sent it to her. He's supposedly in Canada now, he got robbed on a train and asked me to send him all my information so his boss can put his money that is owed for working into my account, I did send him steam cards to trade he said for cash, I fell for it and I feel so stupid and hurt, he even got me to send him pictures of me. I was hoping this wasn't a scam, they are really good at what they do.

Anyone out there been in contact with a someone named Lynn Owens! He says he is a widow, no family, works on a rig, 61 years old originally from Sweden but lives in Alaska. He was on a Rig off of Santa Barbara , California, and was the platform foreman (something like that) for the rig. He has been contacting a friend since December he has not asked for money, that we know of, but tried to send her 2 million in cash through a courier. We talked her out of signing for anything like that. He has indicated 4 times now that he was coming to visit but has not shown up yet, saying first he did not get paid and cannot leave without the money to pay his men, then it was he has to pay upward of $10,000 for a helicopter to get off the rig, then it was did not get his money from the company for the job and then this time was the money has not cleared in his account. He told her he would be in this Friday, but I do not think so and can't imagine what this excuse is. This man is very handsome, white hair professes his love for her and says he wants to take her around the world, buy her house and anything she wants. He asked her to look around for the house she wants and he will buy it for her. He says when he comes in to find him a hotel that he will stay in for a month while they are buying the house. Anyone dealing with this Lynn Owens please answer and if you have a picture great please share. We all think this is a scam but my friend is hook, line and sinker that this is real and she has met her ticket to retirement and someone to take care of her.

I’ve been chatting to a David Belman for the past week. He says he is a surgeon and is about to retire to Milan. He has a 14 year old son. I was also chatting to a guy called Curt who says he is in Ukraine mining diamonds and gold. Are these guys scammers ???

Hello Ladies, I have been corresponding with a gentle who says his name is Frederick Roland who lives in Texas and has a 14 year old daughter named Sandra who being taken care of by a nanny. He supposively is in Turkey working on an Oil Rig. He asked for a google play card, then he asked steam card and I couldn't find on so he said send him an amazon card, so I did. Now he wants to pretend to be his wife and receive money from a bank in the UK and I told him that I was not going to do that. He sent me a friend request on facebook, so beware, he sounds like one of the guys in one of these post.

Just told one of this scammers,whom I talk with for two weeks,good bye. If you will meet with Antonio Braya,who has 11 years old son Alex and lives in Florida,just run. It’s good,that I understood that he is a scammer,when he suddenly went for a contract work to China for 3 month and then asked me to make a transfers to his account,so he will be able to buy an equipment to start his work. Bullshit.

A week ago I met a guy on a dating app, we are in different states, after 3 days we moved onto another app to talk. He did started a lot of sweet talks and caring words, right after we start to talk on another platform. Since then we did talk about bringing each other to places that we went to that day when the opposite comes and visit. Also telling each other where we went and when we get home. He told me he trades bitcoin as interests. At the time he didn't proceed further about bitcoin trade. He started sending me photos of him (not anything sexually). Just normal daily photos of himself. I been careful about all the photo he send me. I even did a reverse image search on them, all photo results was 0 match. First time I felt something was wrong when he told me he just finish bitcoin trading and telling me how much it earns. At the time I have no idea how bitcoin runs, he even try to explain to me. He told me I should try it out too, I rejected and the topic was changed rest of the night. Second time he asked me again, and I directly told him I am not interested and I am not comfortable talking about it and can we stop talking about this in the future. This time he reply to me that maybe I don't trust him and we ended the conversation that night. In the past I have experienced romance scam but luckily I didn't fall into the trap of transferring any money. I don't know if I am just paranoid about this. I have deep feelings for him and I don't want to stop talking to him. Which I know maybe I should just stop and block him. We are still talking normally and that bitcoin topic never came up again. Can anyone give me advice if I am just overreacting because of the past experiences. He have never asked me personal details like address, date of birth, bank details. What he asked was only for me to consider trading bitcoin.

Hi. I have been talking to a Norwegian (from Ohio) living in the UK says he owns a piping company. Calls on WhatsApp on a +1 number and is called George Adamski! His photos show no sign of being fake and we have spoken on the phone. He even got his daughter to ring me. Asked for no money in 3 months. It’s all suspicious as he does not like FaceTime but keeps talking about meeting me in June when he is back from setting up a job in South Africa! Is this a catfish?

4 days ago a guy messaged me on Instagram. His name is Phillip Joe, he is 55 years old and has a son that is 15 years old. His wife died from breast cancer 5 years ago and his dad also passed away. He is from Houston Texas, but he is currently in Yemen contacted as a doctor and would like to retire once his contract is over. He sent me a picture of him and his son at the beach holding surfboards. I'm not ready for a relationship so I wasn't really into him, but I felt sorry for him as he said his wife died and I lost someone close to me a few years ago too. Over the past two days I have been extremely busy at work so I haven't been chatting to him which obviously upset him because he kept messaging me asking if I'm upset with him and he tried to phoned me multiple times while I was at work. When I got home from work I messaged him and said I am not obligated to message him as I am not his girlfriend and not once did I show any interest in him so how can he be heartbroken after 4 days. I had a strange feeling about him since he invited me on Instagram. HERE'S THE STRANGE PART!!!!! After I told him I am not obligated to respond to him he didn't read my message so I checked his Instagram and he deleted his account but the name he had on changed back to the original name sule_samaila which is a Nigerian name. Be careful!!!

Anyone talking to an engineer named Nicholas Benson?

Can everybody share their scammer number

Has anyone else heard of a scammer named Anthony Maxwell.

Anyone deal with a Maricon Escosis

Has anyone and talking to Rick Hermann supposedly from Germany but living in the US for the past 8 years. I met him on a dating site and a few days before we were supposed to meet, he got called to work in Libya where he is now supposedly. He asked me twice for Google Play cards and then wanted my Social Security, birthday, and my banking information so I could check his banking information because he was not able to check it from his location. I gave him nothing. I am sure he is a scammer

Stay away from Richard Albert, he says he’s an oil Engineer in the gulf of Mexico never facetime only texts and then asks for money!

I think there should be a way to find out if they are really who they say they are and if it is a lie they should be punished in some way Impersonating a military officer can’t be allowed either

Hello Has anyone heard of a person named Edgar Miker. I have been talking with him over 2 yrs. Sent him money a long time ago. Says he is in the UK as an engineer.

Anyone hear of a Richard Alexandra?

Has anyone been contacted by a female calling herself Beatrice Smith, she has been asking for money

I just started talking to a guy who says he is in the Army deployed in East Africa. First he asked for a picture of my drivers license, I looked it up in scams and told him no he got very angry and stopped talking to me, then came back apologizing we talked it n out he said he just wanted to see it , I said no. Now he is asking me to open a Willa App , gave me a code and is asking me to send him a screenshot. Is this a new scam? He and I really clock socially and I m newly divorcing so I m scared of getting scammed out of what little I do have or going to jail. Please advise me on this.

I have been taking to a guy i have met online for about a year i have sent £3450 over the year via his children's nanny, he says he is a pilot and needs the money to get out of his contract to transfer to the UK, he says he has sold his car to get the remaining money. He has now asked me to set up a UK bank account for when he transfers and wants to move his money from a Dubai account to the UK which has made me very concerned. After an argument i stupidly gave him my sort code and account number to return my money and i have worries this will be misused. Iam guessing this has been a year long scam

Scamming a friend. Says she is owned by Chinese mafia. Needed them to be paid off to let her go. Posted a photo after they supposedly beat her. Now claims after he's paid all this money that the driver delivering her to him ran off with her.

Anyone come across a man with an accent who says he’s an engineer and just want to contract and hast to go to India. He asked me to delete my account immediately and so did he. And he’s being all lovey-dovey instantly but he will not send me a selfie on the spot. He’s using the name Jose Branco

I recently talking to a a guy who followed me on Instagram we first talked in Instagram he has pictures and he said he is a 35 year old doctor from US he is currently working on a government isolation center. He told me he loved me and he was so happy that he found the love of his life, he called me love, honey or my queen. He never asked me any money I always asked if we can video chat but he said it is against government law he might lost his job i was so scared because we been exchanging picture. I wanted to make sure I wasn't dealing with a scammer. He also told me he is an only child his mother is from Sabah Malaysia and father from Missouri city Texas. I was unsure but i don't want to expose him because he might be a real person.

Its me again.. He send a package to me as he said and it supposed to arrived today but the courier ask me to pay 50 thousand Philippines pesos I told him that and he went nuts he will exposed my photos and everything..i don't know what to do..this might be a dangerous person.. i was so caught up on his romantic words, we are talking in whatsapp

Yes just had this guy wanting to rush into a relationship, but i am doing this whole enjoy being single thing and still calling me baby. Claimed to be a surgeon , some story of losing his mom 15 years ago being part PuertoRican and here in America land of his fathers. shared photo of "him his dad and aunt" ..day 2 asks to be wired a nike or steam gift card or something because banks having issues with pandemic but also claims it is joint account from office. then i remembered on facebook the profile picture seemed more northern look and though it said Canada at first but guy claims to be in miami. Photos do not seem to be same person and definitely using love connection lingo still despite just getting to know each other etc. Either bad at faking being bad at english or bad at remembering what level of bad english comprehension to fake . Though i imagine if moving here with his dad at least 15 years ago that english comprehension would be a bit better .

How about a Richard Figueroa. Says originally from Ukraine. Working in Singapore, widowed, has a son in Ontario living with his disabled aunt. Or Joseph originally from Greece living in Glendale. Parents & sister died in car accident. Girlfriend cheated 3 years ago. Either one sound familiar

Its me again.. He send a package to me as he said and it supposed to arrived today but the courier ask me to pay 50 thousand Philippines pesos I told him that and he went nuts he will exposed my photos and everything..i don't know what to do..this might be a dangerous person.. i was so caught up on his romantic words, we are talking in whatsapp

He gave me timeline on paying 50thousand pesos and I don't even have that kind of money. I asked my Instagram friends to report and block him posted it on Instagram so they can help me. I blocked the number that is asking for the money.. i reported him and blocked him in Instagram. I wanted to block him in WhatsApp but I am scared he might do something but if I did not pay him he will still do something. Im so scared and don't know what to do

He goes by Franklin Harrison saids he is Orthopedic stucked in Dubai Customs. He needs $5k to get back to Houston. I gave him $2k in Steam cards. Always huzzling me for money. He said he is a widowed & he has a son named Kelvin that stays with the Nanny. He promised me to buy me a Million dollar home, a car & always loved me. Always called me at 5:AM. Said he was in Syria & escaped War. Traveling with $4.2 Million Dollars &$500 K Blocks of Gold. He didn't declared it in Customs in Dubai, so he has to pay a Fee for his release. I almost sent him $15 K for his released from Customs in Dubai.

I started talking to Edvin Erickanders, a petrochemical engineer from Norway, living in Austin, Texas and working on an offshore oil rig in Dubai. Both his son and mother have contacted me to say hello. He’s supposed to be back in Texas next week, but suddenly there was a tragic accident on the rig and as the person in charge the government has taken his passport and there will be fines. He hasn’t asked for money YET but I have a bad feeling about him. Would love to see other people’s photos of their scammers.

I've being talking to a guy name Jacob Logan. He says he live in london and works in a vessel at the ocean. He said that he download software and direct vessel. He ask me for steam cards I gave him 1,400.00 dollars in steam cards. He also ask me for my bank account so he can have his manager to put money weekly in my bank account to pay for equipment for vessel. I said no so he broke up with me. I'm really hurt and depressed I had to get help from doctor. I know he scam me. He also say he has a dog name jack and a sister dying of cancer. I met him on meet me app. He has and account on instagram but he block me. I've being scam I wish i could post his picture.

is anyone talking to Goktas Hasan? He is on LinkedIn and says he is a doctor and a us solider assigned to the United Nations on a peace keeping mission in Syria .

Anyone talked to a Greg walker? Says he is an independent Marine engineer. Lives in Pensacola. Says he is on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico for over 6 weeks.

Anyone have any interaction with a Wills Clifford???