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

I have been talking to a Maxwell Hernandez for about 6 wks. I fell for all the romantic talk and sent him a $100 ITunes card. Last week he had me do a money gram for $200. I became very suspicious when he wanted it sent to New York. He is in Florida. Money gram would not release money so I got it all back. He became very mad at me thinking I did something wrong. I talked yo money gram and there was a flag on that person's name. I did send another $100 ITunes card and told him this was it. He tested me today asking for another card. I told him NO end of discussion. I feel kind of stupid that I fell for his romantic talk. But in the back of my mind I knew something was off. I kept it going too because I wanted to find out the truth. He is smart because he had an answer for everything. We women need to be strong and not part with the money we have earned.

I don’t know about this but this guy message from Instagram saying his name is jimmy Humphrey a doctor in New Jersey he confess his undying love for me days from talking to me asked me to sent an email to his superviser saying that I’m his wife and he need to get home because I need his presence at home. He wants to leave this facility he is in or he will be sent to Afghanistan. He hasn’t ask me for money, just that he wants to transfer his allowance to my account because that the only way he is going to get it from his employees we have only talk by messages on instagram. Is just weird

I have talking to guy named Maxwell Hernandez for a month. He is very charming and romantic so I was caught up in this web of love. I sent him an I tunes card for him yo complete some paperwork. It did not make sense to me but I sent it anyway. He claims to live in Florida but his phone number is a landline in New York. Last week he had me send $200 via money gram. He had me send it to Dominica Cottone in New York. This did not make sense yo me but he said his account was frozen and this woman handles his money. Lucky for me money gram would not release the money to her so I got my money back. I did send him another ITunes card. He would have me purchase cards and take a picture of the back so he could use the number. Yesterday he asked for another card and I told him NO end of discussion. I have not heard from since yesterday morning.when talking to me I sometimes felt I was talking to a different person. His voice when he called did not match the pictures he sent me. So after reading these blogs I feel used, stupid, and disappointed.

I've just dealt with one. Goes by the name Darrin Webber who is supposedly a Trinidad. Started texting on April 4,2018. He's already asked me to marry him. He refused to video chat or exchange cell numbers. Used TextNow to communicate. Asked me on April 13th to send him money to finish his project in Kenya. Claimed to only have 75k on hand but needed 90k plus another 50k. When I said no,about the no money he claimed to have found someone to send it to him but he needed an account to have it sent to. I refused again, he disappeared. He must think I'm a fool. If I had 65k, why would I send to a guy I don't even know.

Has anyone been contacted by a man named William Granth Ian or William Ian Granth or just William Granth? He was on Facebook but he's changed his FB page three time, supposedly because he was hacked. Part of me thinks he was using his own photos, because he sent me other photos in addition to the ones on his FB page. Anyway, I was a little surprised when he started calling me honey, dear, sweetie, love, etc so early on. He said he lived in London and had his own business which required him to travel. Soon after we met, he asked me to download the Viber app since his FB page was hacked. It took me a while to accomplish this and he kept getting more and more insistent. I finally got on Viber and we communicated multiple times per day. Overnight, he would send me a song via a Youtube video and a photo of some flowers. Sometimes his messages were very clear and concise with good grammar. At other times they rambled and were hard to understand. We messaged or talked (allegedly) from Barcelona, from Ukraine, and from Thailand. This went on for 3 or 4 months. Right before he went to Thailand, he was talking about the traffic in London and I asked him what he drove. He said he had a Porsche and a Chevy pick-up. I laughed and called him Richie-Rich or something. He said "I have not talked about this before, but you should know where I stand and what I have now because you are a part of my life" He asked how I felt about moving to London. I told him I hated to fly and I did not want to be so far from my family. He said he had no problem moving to the states. I was more reserved with my feelings than he was, but eventually I did fall in love with him. Or at least as much as you can when you haven't met someone in person. When he arrived in Thailand, he called me from the airport. He said he was trying to get to his hotel, and he'd call me back. Within 30 minutes, he called me back and we talked half the night. We laughed and had so much fun and talked about so many things. I had really fallen hard. On his second day there, he said something about he might need me to go online and access his account which a company had put a large amount of money into. I simply said "OK" but the warning bells went off. That night I did a search for "Online romance scams" and became far more educated than I wanted to. I was crushed and hoping the subject would not come up again. The next day he sent me a screen shot of his bank account which showed a large sum of money. He said he could not access it because he was working in a remote area. He said the corrupt local officials had charged him 3 times what they were supposed to and he needed to get his hand on some cash quickly. He said his assistant had sent him some but he still needed $6K. I was heartbroken. I told him I had just used all of my savings to pay my income taxes. He became a different person when I said NO. He sent me text after text saying how could I say I love him and then turn my back on him when he needed me. Didn't I know he was wealthy and would pay me back? And the more I refused, the angrier he became. I knew I would not give him money, but I wanted to see where this went. I also loved him so much (or the person he pretended to be) that I kept hoping something would occur that would redeem him. But it did not happen. He became verbally abusive. He said if I had a good job and had been working a long time, I had to have money saved unless I was a drug addict. So watch out for this guy. If anyone has had any dealings with someone by that name, please post on here and let me know. I need closure for this, as I am so angry and so heartbroken.

Has anyone chatted with a Steve Offulue?

There is a guy on Instagram named captain Scott 86 he also goes by a different profile name Nicholas Owuwonu. Same story he is on a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean and needs money to be rescued from the ship also needs money for his sons boarding school also request iTunes gift cards very amorous at the beginning tells you he loves you within three days sends lots of photos that are probably five years old ladies be where

Hi I have been scammed out off 2 thousands pounds through this was so scary a guy called Jacob Ross bill and many others I fell for it so stupid as well all the money I lost and nearly got in trouble with the police to until they release that I had beeno scammed to

I suspect this man David Albert is a scammer says he is a on an oil rig, asked me to send money to an address in Cincinnati to his attorney to assist with equipment needed on th he rig..and friend told me by his accent he us Nigerian has a daughter Sophie wife passed with breast cancer.ask for $18,000

I have been a victim of many online scams, as a result of seeking a female partner,from Russia, Ukraine, Poland Germany and many other countries including Ghana, please help me ?. I have even tried using alleged trusted dating sites and am now almost suicidal with being a victim.

I was just tried in March till April 2018 some guy claiming to be a Lawson Brown on Face Book.. Oh we talked and had good conversations of love and I almost fell for him till he ask for my bank information, well I blocked him. I feel bad for the real person who profiles they are using

Does anyone know Andrew Friday, who claims to be a project manager on an oil rig in the middle of the German sea? Evidently, there are a couple of guys with the same name floating around, but I'm not too sure about this. That's all I will say for now because, at this stage in my life, you would think I'd know better. All I was looking for was a pen-pal. Boy, do I feel like a stupid fool!

I recently became involved with a guy with the name mark Eden He has 2 children he lost his wife 4 years ago He has purposed to me and ask me to move to Dallas.we have known each other12 weeks. He is soppose to be a dr. Living in Syria.zTonight after this length of time he just stops texting.no warning... Just stops. 2 days ago he had ask me to barrow a1000 I told him i had no way to do that as i live on Dissability.bad to say buti really cared about him. Now i think because of the 1000 hes a scammer

Had this guy named Davis Manderson find me on fb before Christmas. After about 4 days he said he loved me. After about 2 weeks he deleted his fb said he got in trouble by his army commander. Said he's a staff sergeant in the army and been in for 11 years divorced his ex wife after 16 years. Yesterday found 2 fb accounts one with the name Johnson Manderson and the other Manderson John faith. Also found his Instagram page under the name simon Davis Manderson . I'm trying to find the real man in the photos . He told me if I truly didnt believe him I could go to the police and give him all the information and it would come back clean. He's asked me for money due to him being stuck in Nigeria and how it's a poor country and they have no money and he can't access his account. Anyways, has anyone dealt with him?

Anyone been talking to someone called Harris floydie ray say hes a riggerand has a daughter called sarah

Have you tried someone unknown number texted you to email him/her because he has something important issue to tell? Because I have tried it, after I emailed to him/her out of curiosity I have tried to response to his request due to the coincidence that I thought it was about my online package that was lost yet it was not. The stranger responded and was requesting to Call him the US Number so that we can talk regarding the CLAIMING of MONEY from an OFW who died in USA for me to be the representative relative of that person. His first step was asking only me the common details like Full Name, Address, Age, Occupation and Gender. I did not gave to him my details instead just go with the flow of asking him more about himself cause I know HE IS DOING SCAMS. IT WAS MY FIRST TIME TO EXPERIENCE THIS KIND OF SCAMS but I did not give in. I am just wise enough to just play with that SCAMMER.

I cannot see my previous post. It's my first time to be scammed talking to a Foreigner on phone I never knew he used the phone number in US while I am from another Country far away from US.

Has anyone talked to anyone named George Thomas from Military and has a son in West Africa in school when he is on duty because the child was adopted and doesn't have a mother?

I sent a previous comment about Maxwell Herenandez whom I believe is a scammer. On Monday he asked me to get a money card from Wal-Mart and his company would load it with money for me to buy itune cards. I of course said no. Since then he has not been talking to me but I have been getting texts and phone calls about applications I have completed for a job. I did not complete any applications anywhere. I have had four phone calls this morning and one text. Could this be connected to my scammer? His way of paying me back because I did not help him?

I have been in a scam with Sarah Brown claiming to be in Africa Ghana Accra and I have lost $28,000 to this person I am still paying for a lot of this money what's now actually goes up to $34,000. I cannot get anyone to help me find this person the FBI will not help me they say it is too much money for just that little bit amount of money so if you are not in a scam over $100,000 they will not help you. That pisses me off royally I am from the US this happened in July 2016 and the ended in March 2017. I hope everyone that is in the scams can get some justice out of what has happened to you but I never will.

A RICK CRAVEY VERY HANDSOME IN PROFILE PHOTO'S. OLDER GENTLEMAN IS ON A PEACE MISSION FOR THE "UN" STATIONED IN "SYRIA" BEEN IN THE "UN" FOR 36YRS, WIFE DIED 3YRS AGO IN A PLANE CRASH. HE WAS SEEKING SOMEONE TO BE A MOTHER FIGURE FOR HIS SON AND A WIFE AND LOVER HE COULD SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE WITH, HE WAS WAITING FOR HIS PENSION TO COME IN SO HE COULD RETIRE. FROM THE VERY FIRST I SUSPECTED SOMETHING WRONG BECAUSE THE LAST NAME SEEMED TO BE MADE UP. SMOOTH TALKER, WORDS OF LOVE. ALMOST HAD ME BELIEVING THAT HE MAY BE REAL, I WAS ALSO HOPING THAT IT WAS REAL EVEN THOUGH THINGS JUST DID NOT ADD UP. HE EVEN SAID IF I WOULD "LET" HIM MARRY ME. "TOLD" ME TO GET THE INTERNET AND WI-FI AT HOME SO HE COULD TALK WITH ME ANYTIME HE NEEDED TOO. AFTER ABOUT 2 1/2 MONTHS OF TOTAL LOVE AND DEVOTION AND EVEN SWEET TERMS OF ENDEARMENT LIKE CAN I CALL YOU "HONEY" ETC. ETC. THEN HE ASKED ME TO SEND HIS 17YR OLD SON THAT LIVES IN INDIANA A GIFT FOR HIS BIRTHDAY, WHEN I READ THAT I STARTED SHAKING I THEN KNEW HE WAS SCAMMING ME ("HE" MEANING THE ONE THAT HAD STOLE SOMEONE'S "ID" AND PHOTO'S). I EARTH GOOGLED THE INDIANA ADDRESS HE GAVE ME TO SEND HIS SONS GIFT IT IS AN BOARDED UP DILAPIDATED OLD HOUSE, OR IT IS THE EMPTY LOT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE OLD HOME. I TOLD HIM I ONLY HAD $10.00 TO $20.OO DOLLARS, THAT I LIVE FROM PAY DAY TOO PAY DAY THAT'S WHY AT MY AGE I WAS STILL WORKING, I HAVE NO SOCIAL SECURITY AND NO RETIREMENT, HE IGNORED ME, THEN ASKED FOR $100.00 SO HIS SON COULD GO SWIMMING ON HIS BIRTHDAY, I TOLD HIM I COULD NOT HELP. AFTER A COUPLE MORE WEEKS OF TOTAL LOVE AND DEVOTION HE ASKED ME FOR $200.00 FOR HIS SON THAT NEEDED MILK MONEY AND SCHOOL BOOKS. I COULD NOT. THEN $300.00 FOR HIS SON, THEN HIS SON WAS IN AN ACCIDENT AND NEEDED SURGERY BUT THE DOCTORS WOULD NOT DO SURGERY UNTIL THEY RECEIVED $2000.00. I TOLD HIM THAT THE "UN" HAS TOTAL INSURANCE FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY HE SAID THE INSURANCE WOULD ONLY PAY FOR THE SURGERIES AND HIS SON NEEDED A LIFE SAVING BLOOD TRANSFUSION TO RESTORE HIM BACK TOO LIFE HE NEEDED $3000.00 DOLLARS FOR THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION, HE EVEN SENT ME A PHOTO OF SOME YOUNG MAN LAYING ON A HOSPITAL BED ALL BANDAGED UP AND BROKEN AND BRUISED, MY HEART SANK THE YOUNG MAN IN THE PHOTO WAS NOT A 17 YEAR OLD HE COULD OF BEEN MAYBE 8YRS OR 10YRS AT THE MOST. I FELT JUST AWFUL FOR THAT CHILD IN THE HOSPITAL. I TOLD MY "HONEY" I COULD NOT SEND MONEY, WHY WOULD HE ASK ME AFTER ALL THE TIMES I TOLD HIM ABOUT MY SITUATION? HE SAID BECAUSE I WAS THE CLOSEST TO HIS HEART. HE ASKED IF I REALLY DO LOVE HIM? I NEVER EVER SPOKE THE WORD OF "LOVE" TOO HIM. I TOLD HIM I WOULD KNOW IF IT'S LOVE AFTER I MEET HIM IN PERSON. SO I TOLD HIM HE NEEDED TO FIND SOMEONE THAT COULD BE A MOTHER FIGURE TO HIS SON AND A WIFE FOR HIM BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN THERE DONE THAT. I ALSO SUGGESTED THAT HE SHOULD FIND SOMEONE THAT COULD HELP HIM FINANCIALLY BECAUSE I COULD AND WOULD NOT HELP FINANCIALLY. I ASKED HIM NOT TO BLOCK ME UNTIL HE FOUND SOMEONE ELSE AND TELL ME HE HAD SO I WOULD NOT WONDER WHAT THE HECK? EVEN THOUGH I KNEW HE WAS A SCAMMER. BUT HE BLOCKED ME WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. OH WELL!! I'M SAD BUT GLAD!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! ESPECIALLY THE OLDER LADIES THE ONES THAT KNOW FROM THE START THAT IT'S A SCAM. BUT THE SCAMMER CAN REALLY PULL YOUR HEART STRINGS. I'M SO GLAD I GOT OFF SO EASY ANYWAY I PRAY THAT I HAVE AND THAT IT IS REALLY OVER.

I have been scammed I think he says he is sgt chris Baez ever time I say can’t and won’t help give him money he constantly calls using various numbers if block I fall for at first and have given him a lot in iTunes cards but says Netherlands because of customs stopped him and has to pay for replacement sgt nigeria before he come uk is they anything that anybody can do to get verified or compensation for the money I’m single mum and he has made hard to live and dept

A man named Eric contacted me from Spain. Two children, independent contractor, very handsome. He thinks I'm beautiful and wants to be together, but needs money and iTunes card, oh and a new IPhone. I told him, I'm married, and he needs to move on.

Hi I’m not sure if I’m being scammed or not I need to find out please help me

Ok his name is Filip from a tagged website anyone talk to him from DesPlains ,IL

Hi I need HELP! Has anyone heard of a David Anderson Antonio who is a gemologist in Turkey and needs money to get his passport?

A male contacted me on a dating site. He gives his name as Muller Gillian. He says he is of German descent...living in Florida for last 5 years. Lost his wife in a car accident. He is a Road construction engineer..currently on contract work in Turkey..which is his project. One of the workers got badly burned..when the engine of one of the large tractor looking machines caught fire. I was sent a picture of an injired man on his hospital bed. Apparently All this man's budget is used up because he now has to rent a machine to complete the project..because to expensive to buy. But because his budget being eaten up by this..he is not able to pay the workers..So he told me he needed 10k...I told him straight away that I was not in a position to do so...but I would encoutage him..etc. it was only After He kept going on about this money...for a few days..that he asked me if I could help him with £1500. ..and this was after he said one if his friends sent him 6k. Then he said the injured man needed an operation of which that was what the 1.5k was for. I still told him I am not able to help..and that I needed help myself! The texting has slowed down..and non existent.. My head is telling me one thing and My gut is telling me another. However he told me that he is not angry..but very disappointed at the non willing to help in his time of need, as he would help out with no questions asked if someone else needed the help. So if anyone else dealing with Muller Gillian..49 yrs...German born. 2 kids..Sandra and Martins and wife died in car crash 4 years ago!..Post please!!!

Hello, this message goes out to each one who has posted as well as anyone posting after this date: You Are All being Scammed! If you are questioning it then you know it is. Just one word of advice to all of you... "RUN!!" I am "fully aware" of the scammers and ""exactly how they operate,"" I am telling each of you independently, You Are Being SCAMMED!! Once again have no doubt and RUN for all you're worth.