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

Site coming from zorphia..real american online talks, was convinced it was real and used christianity in family. Very convincing trap. Used sweet nothings words and phrases. Then after 3 days he sents these 'good to be true' packages and used a legit courier company. Then email came from the national airport with the legit courier company; and package arrived and be delivered at once to mailing address but have to follow instructions before delivery of parcel. Have to pay first $400 before delivery and send money to this bank account via the express delivery money send out. The online mate burst out when I said will then have to RETURN ADDRESS the parcel. He asked me to bargain and email the person. Then there's this text that followed, follow ups if money had been sent. I replied the Police Office will attend to your texts. They stopped and I learned these were all fraud..hoax..PLEASE BE AWARE

I had one guy Micheal scott miller, he said that he has a son, that he micheal was in Nigeria and that his son stays at grandparents place, i meet him on line about a year ago i was one of them that fell for his bs, i did send him money via Western union, more then one time, then I told him that I was not going to do it no longer because I didn't have the money, he played the if you don't then that means you don't love me card, so i broke it off, did not talk to him for a really long time,

i have the kik, hangout apps on my phone for my family, and he found me again first on hangout i blocked him, then he just found me on kik, he began to tell me that he still love me and that he hasn't been with anyone else or even talked to anyone else because he only loves me, he said he had great news i ask what was it he said that he was going to get his retirement and is coming home, all he didn't was my address and my phone number, so i gave him my old address but told him that i was not giving him my number, told him that im not going though that again and that i will not be helping him anymore,

so he was black meilling me by telling me that all of my pictures my information that i sent him in the past, if i didn't send him 1000.00 tomorrow morning that he was going to make my life miserable and that no one would want me after he does that, so i told him that he'll get the money, and that I knew all along tgat he was a scammer, that by him threading me was only making mader and that i didn't believe a word he said, that was the last time I heard from him, but he did say he had to get off the computer and that i better be sending the money tomorrow morning,

I was almost scammed... I met a man in Ourtime. Successfull architect, I'm an interior designer. His pictures 2 were head shots only. After a few days he won a big 16 million dollar government contract in Accra, Ghana. Needed me to send iPhones and iPads for the Chief's approval of the land use for affordable housing. I did research on the project and the guy general info checked out, however what successful business man would ask someone he just talked, never met to do this. I played along and as I asked him more and more about his upbringing, family, work etc...he was inconsistent or using the same story over.

Beware...this guy had a German accent, said his mother was born in Germany, but he was born in San Fransisco. He got his masters in Germany, however he did not speak German??? How can you have a German accent if you do not speak German?!! Bottom line Ghana had a heavy German influence at one time. So the possibility of a scammer having an accent is likely. I asked for him to text me a realtime snap shot.. He did it was a shot of a picture. Also, there is an app called dingtone...you can download into your phone and get a phone number from another country you use your phone but the number that shows up is a chosen number from wherever you choose. For example this scammer had a Colorado number. He contacted me on the dating site, I believe they study profiles and then create a person around your profile. They know just enough. Don't send anything....I played around with this guy and he became edgy when I told him my brother was a fraud investigator.....LOL! Report them and block them. I suggest if you choose to continue using dating sites get a seperate phone and email address.

I had a man name Joshua Gallagher birth date Sept 24 1962 he suppose to be working in the army as an engineer along with Nato. he lost his wife five years ago has a daughter mary who is 12. He got me off of a post I had replied to on facebook and he read it. we got to talk he did talk some sweet things. I feel for everyone until his daughter's birthday I was going to send a gift card and he got mad said no send her money through money gram I said no I told him I was told by my FBI friend and Police friends never use that or western union. He told me not to listen to them and wanted me to make his daughter happy to give her what she wants.

I said I would send a gift card and that was not good he got mad he would not give me an address at all. red flag- then he told me she wants an iphone and some electronic game I said well i sure hope your able to get it for her. Then he asked me to tell him how much I get monthly I said I make enough for me and that I am not asking him for anything. so then I got on hear read all the stories and it all sounded the same. I called him a scammer and he said I hurt his feelings I said I am not the scammer. oh another red flag he took and left facebook the next day after getting together no picture no nothing well I had already saved his picture the day we got together just in case then I asked for another one and he was much older that the face book picture, his daughter looked more 15-16 then 11-12 he had three numbers never answered any of them.red flag.there is nothing I can do as no money was given I don't believe thats his real name and not even sure if that is his picture or did he get into stolen id's as well. My mistake he has a picture of me, what will he do with it. any help on it,

I met this woman online on a site called mingle2. After we talked for a few days she gave me her Kik profile name. We talked on there and I asked her do she have a phone so she can call me. She said she can only use her phone for texting.

Within the 6 months I known her I helped her out by sending money via money gram because she swore she was going to pay me pack. I still have the receipts. I helped her out with her school things and also her gas and internet bill which she needed 250$ for. I even sent her aunt money 150$ one time for her to send back to her for a flight to Virginia.

She says she from Iowa but lives in Ohio currently for school. Her dad past some years back and she was going through a process with her lawyer with whom I talked to via email. Back in August I sent her 300$ to help her with the hotel costs because she had to fly out to California to meet a man name Mack then goto DC to meet her lawyer. She never went to DC and came back to Ohio.

She kept saying I swear to God my money will be refunded back to me. Her excuse was that the day her lawyer wanted to me up with her she didn't make it in time because she was still in California waiting for some documents to be released. After all that I still believed her until recently as of Friday 10/14/2016 she told me she had 160$ and told me to give her 180$ for she can book the flight. She said the flight was already booked and she was suppose to be at Richmond international airport on 10/17/16 at 9 pm.

She never showed up I waited there for 2 hours almost. I confronted her on kik tonight about it still waiting for a response. All she said was sound good when I told her she lied to me and I told her don't text me again. But messages prior to that as well. So I don't know what she was replying too, but I called her out and told her I hate her for lying and doing to this me. I am going to email her lawyer as well. What should I do, please help me. Her name is Susan Bill and we been talking to each other only through Kik profile since around April. I don't have her email address just Kik profile. She attends Winnepeg University.

I didn't want to file a complaint just yet, but she didn't say why she never shown up. I don't want to believe I've been getting scammed this whole time. And when I do send her money its to her friend name Maria her information for money gram is Maria Bright Arizona. I don't understand why is it going to Arizona and not Ohio. She told me that's how she gets her money. She mentioned the money gets send there first and then sent to her friend that lives there.

And she also stated that since she is a student they are not allowed to pick money up by them living in a dorm. I never heard of that but she told me to Google it. The flight tonight was from 17-24th but every time I asked for flight details and airline she never gave me kept saying she will send it to me she hasn't forgot. In all to it I invested over a thousand dollars to this person now I don't know if she is real or anonymous.

All her pictures seem like the same girl. She was begging me for a last chance after she kept letting me down. So this is why I'm here. I don't know if this the right way to file a complaint? But I am giving it a shot. I hope she still shows up as promise so nothing will happen and everything will be okay, but I have lost trust. She claims she loves me but way too many times problems occurred and I have got nothing but lies.

I was scammed by a man I met on a dating site. Hindsight is wonderful after the fact. The sole reason I believed his ruse is because he had an 'official' military email. firstname. lastname @us. army. mil. He did a lovely job of pulling the wool over my eyes. I don't understand how banks allow people to set up fake accounts (there were about 8+ accounts I sent money to). It was a complex ruse involving shipping a package, the Federal Reserve, a foreign exchange company, Amazon, a bank in Hong Kong, a travel agent and of course me, the victim. I lost a massive amount of money. When I asked the Federal Reserve about it, asked if they wanted info, they ignored me. Local cops here thought it was a new scam.

My friend is also having this story... we suspected that shes being scammed... she dont want to believe us.. shes so into him.. The guy is David Scott.. a military, widow and with kids. He's from US but doesnt even sounds like American. He is currently in Nigeria and said that he is being shot. And that they need money for the operation.. He put my friends name as his direct family members (he said he no longer have family). And thats why the doctor contacted him for money for operation.. also the general ask her money.. and they also have wired money transfer before... to japan then nigeria..