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

I had the same experience . pick on Instagram by a beautiful man named Nelson Rooney168, nice at first but started asking way too many questions. after a week said he had info on me and if i sent money nothing would happen. said he had stuff on me that would make me loose my Job. Reported him to the FBI. We need to report these low lifes that steal, lie, and treaten people for a living. if its too good to be true it probably is. so beware. i was one to say Never me.

Ladies, I was never scammed because I don’t easily fall into drama. I got into this page because I am convincing a friend to stop talking to a guy trying to scam her online. I want to show her this page to warn her about scammers she didn’t believe exist. Possible scammers: -Attractive guy, almost your match and person you are looking for. -profess romance quickly -located in remote places and usually far from you -not available on video calls , or calls. - tells you quickly his personal work family etc. it will be the backdrop of storyline -start telling you his lucrative money source but having difficulty -if a guy is fit, attractive but cant afford to buy his meal because of an accident, thats a scammer -he has many unfortunate events with money as only solution but he has no other family or friends to help him, but only you For some reasom even you havent even met - he call you gf or wife and make you feel youre making decisions together but things involve money. Hes not available when you want to see him personally and offer to see you instead. -they always ask money Whoever ask you money online, person you never met and have many issues in life- STAY AWAY Those names given are useless, addresses and stories. Forget them. They are all fake. Focus on the situations they tell you and you can identify a faker. They will even send you a passport to assure you of the loan and that they will repay you, but they are all fake and photoshopped. Nobody with sane mind sends copy of their passport to someone they never even met. They had accident, kidnapped, other crazy stories but why the heck contact you to solve the problem instead of their embassies or family? Coz they are scammer and will do plenty of strategy to steal you money. Tell your friends, loveones: NEVER SEND MONEY TO SOMEONE ONLINE YOU NEVER MET AND NOT FAMILIAR TO YOU. WHEN THEY START TELLING YOU THE PROBLEMS CONCERNING MONEY, REPORT IMMEDIATELY AND CUT IT OFF. Again DO NOT FALL INTO TRAP. JUST DO NOT SEND MONEY TO STRANGERS. THATS NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND IF YOU HAVENT EVEN SEE THE GUY. A GUY WHO REALLY WANTS YOU PAY HIS OWN BILL TO SEE YOU. Be smart girls. Crush these criminals!

I have been talking to a guy name Flores Hauptman Watkins stating that he is half Spanish and half American He's divorce because his wife cheated, has 1 boy and he is 41 but looks young in his pictures. Also is in Nigeria at the moment. He wanted me to pay for us to talk and video chat. I felt that it was not legit that why would I have to pay for him to talk. So I started investigating and landed here. Thank you for all your comments.

I am worried about a friend who has an online romantic relationship with a person who lives/works undercover as a non-military operative. My friend is receiving money wires for the non-military operative, from people who owe him money. My friend is then depositing the money into the non-military operative's bitcoin account. Is this legal? Or a scam? Plus there are promises of paying off my friends debt and planning a future together.

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Scammer Claiming to be on a oil rig.

Also this guy was very good at poetic Romance telling you he loves you within 2 weeks. Sent flowers, pizza and even some groceries. Also sent me quote a promise ring that he was going to marry me when he returned to the states.

Abrams Robert is the name of a guy said he was a soldier in Kabul Afghanistan. Needed iTunes card to call his daughter 12 yo who he couldn’t get hold of for 2 days. Wanted a $100. iTunes card. I didn’t think it sounded right. The network doesn’t work well there, wife died in car crash lost his dad, I almost fell for it. Met in word with friends asked to talk on hangouts because it’s faster. One morning he said you’re all I thought about this morning. I told him that’s scary. Anyway I never sent any money but he does have my email address now. I blocked him on hangouts and deleted hangouts and words with friends from my phone. Geez

Some 26 year old man from Ghana contacted my fiend 50 year old woman to adopt him as a son. He show his face they even had video chat couple of times. He pushes her and pushes> Is it real of is it fraud ?

Can someone please help me. I don't know if I'm getting scammed or not or just to scared to admit it. I met this guy on fb his name is paul hes an army guy and currently he's deployed in Nigeria he lost his wife in a car accident and has an 8 year old son he told me that he has lost his cards and has no money for food and to pay for his leave. I felt bad for him so I sent him some money and now hes constantly asking me for money. He has already professed his love for me and wants to marry me asap and saying that he's rich and we can have the perfect life together and that I will be the perfect mother for his son we have never spoken as he says that it's bad reception. And then tells me that he has spoken to his mom and son i asked him so you can speak to your mom and son but not me he replied that that its bad reception on the day i mentioned it to him

Hi guys. Think my mum is been scammed. Does anyone relate to a guy named Henderson Taylor?

I met a man on line nov. 2, 2016 was from ohio headed for n. Cyprus. His name was shawn c. Leon. I have many acct #'s and names he was associated with because he got me. An engineer. I guess i was a real idiot cause he really got me. I do know his address in cyprus & have alot of info but i & my mother were both taken by him. Id love to catch him cause my world has been turned upside down. Now i guess hes going by frank piero leon.Any advise?

It seem like this scanning things is a on time job for them and it's a same that some of us fall for it, I don't know what's going on I guess when they see me , they say she's the one I'll scam her. I'm on Instagram and I was told to be careful because there were men on the site pretending to be jw Jehovah witness because one sister had been chatting with one and she had send him money ,I my self is a Jehovah witness and it seems like this is the new scam they have been coming back to back get rid of one then there's another one , wanting to get to know you,asking questions like they have done there research ,I know that they are not because a real jw would not want to go to another app to chat yes I had to block a few, I have also had one came back with the same picture that someone else had used just with a different name also had the same sorry, the first guy name is James Gibbons, and the second guy name was GaydenEddie , ,Gayden he got off Instagram so fast after I shows him that I had the same picture of him that he had and he wanted to say that the guy stolen his identity ,I said okey yeah right . But it's a same that this is happening, they think because they give us time and show love and affection ,and it's also sad that some of us fall for this ,and I'm so thankful that I'm not one of them because no one is falling in love in no 24 hours ,I had one ask me to also get him an iTunes card 100.00 I told him with what because I didn't have it so he tired showing shad say because that's why I'm poor, and I said yeah I may be poor but who's the one asking.so he got blocked so his name is Robert 374q on Instagram his block also there is Bennett hansel, Dennis wood that goes also Patrick Fortune Ford . So lady's please be careful take the time to really listen to the men. They are not real the love is not real. They are only saying those sweet things because they want something that are only trying to set us up. Don't let it happen .

Yes happened to me too...made me feel like a princess...he was lovely looking...my daughter found out his photo was a fake...i was so upset cos i missed him lol....he never asked me for a penny though?

Has anyone talked to a Steve White ? Says he is in Florida and a engineer, 68 and never married. I take care of my mom and he has her hook line and sinker. She gave him our address and he refuses to give her his address. I am really afraid for her safety

Any one dealt with a Josh George who is supposedly a civil engineer in Dubai for work?

Does anyone know anything about Eric Martin?

Anyone had correspondence from a guy called Michael handro says he is from Dominican but lives in Utah a widow with two sons. Asked me to download hangouts. I find it hilarious there is no way I would part with a penny but play them at their own game

Just an observation, but based on my experience, especially that of a real American, male, not in need of money nor anyone/thing else, these forums on .gov websites tend not to be as safe as the obviously secured ones. In most, if not all the secured and monitored locations, you acknoledge the security of the site before being able to post. The reason I bring this up is that it may be easy to fool some people with messages of love and understanding, but it is likely easier to fool you with messages of comraderie and "OMG, I'm talking to him right now" messages. Scammers can plan operations out over time and as such, building relationships of trust over a perceived secure site is a great way to do it. Tell your stories, but trust no one who replies.

I believe I averted a possible scam attack. I was talking to a guy for only a couple of days who had contacted me on Words with Friends on 8-16-18, the day he signed up to play. He used the name Patterson Bobby. In the handful of message we exchanged, he included that he is 55, a widower, has a teenage daughter (16 yrs of age), is an independent construction engineer, working a job out of the country ( Poland), lives in California, has an accent. His picture reveals a white, fairly good looking male in his mid 50's. I was scanning some articles about internet scammers because I was curious about this guy, then came across all of the comments. I was surprised by how many similarities I found in the information he gave me and what many people have included here. When I messaged him on Words with Friends to tell him what I had found in the article, all of the similarities to his information, and that I didn't believe it was coincidental, he blocked me. I believe that is a solid addmission of guilt. If anyone knows how to report someone on Words with Friends after one has been blocked, can you please reply? I am so very sorry to all of you who have been hurt by and taken advantage of by these types of people. I am saddened by many stories I have read here.

I meet a guy on a dating site. Said he was a enginer in Atlanta Georgia. He has not asked me for money but did ask me to buy him a iTunes card to update his phone. Made no sense to me because my sister has a iPhone. Then he asked if he could use me as his payee. Where his clientes would send me money and i would send it to his colleagues. I have questioned him on it because it makes no sense. Why can't they send to you. I asked he didn't say. I have looked his name up and come up with nothing also his phone number. I asked for more proof and he ask why do I not believe in him. He sends me this certificate of his job that he doing in Nigeria. It looks so fake so I looked it up. And sure enough it is. He just changed it up a little. How do I find out who he really is.

Can anyone help me please!!! I need some of you on here to post photos of this guy that's using all these different names to scam people out of money. I joined words with friends and long story short a guy named Michael Raymond has gone from playing on words with friends 2 with me to hangouts in very quick time. Did video calls which I assumed is at his home, he is a Surgeon in the military and was being posted out to Afghanistan within a couple of weeks of us chatting, I was the one that befriended him because he is a handsome man and he caught my eye and decided to see if he would want to play the online scrabble game and after 3 or 4 days he game back to me to play..We did share video calls and he did woo me big time with his words and he said his wife and daughter was killed in a freak accident while his daughter was driving his wife to the hospital to have cancer treatment. He was left to raise his grandchildren for the last 6 years and the granddaughter was in a boarding school but now going off to college. Anyway he chats everyday and video calls and when he arrived in Afghanistan He video called to show me where he was situated and up the mountains and seriously it looked real.. Then came the punchline about his daughter turning 16 and could I buy her a phone with Amazon gift cards totalling £200 like an idiot that I am I did this, apparently the Nanny looking after his grandkids had overspent and used the phone money he had left her to buy her the phone. Apparently in the military when they go on a mission for two months they freeze there accounts in case of a hostage situation... He gave me his home address and I picked it up on Google maps but couldn't really pinpoint an exact point of which his home is at. As of last night he sent me two letters from a mortgage company saying he is about to lose his home and could I help with the 3000 dollars for his lawyers to go to court on his behalf on 1st September 2018. I sent emails to the lawyers and got a response almost immediately stating they needed proof from us both of who we are and sent my passport and driving licence to them along with his that he sent me via gmail. My daughter not quite a teen picked up on the fact that his date of birth didn't add up to the age he told me ( only 2 years difference bit still) he said an error was made years earlier but he never bothered to change it. We do chat to his daughter on hangouts and over the phone and he maybe genuine but now things don't seem right since these court proceedings letters appeared at his home that his daughter scanned to him. He never asked for the money last night so I was relieved but this morning he did.. I searched the mortgage company up and rang them only to find it was basically a dead line and the number and address was different to on his letter, the numbers on his letter were dead numbers on calling so I queried this with him over the phone and he explained it to be a direct address to the ones dealing at the courts. The long and the short of it is he is coming to take myself and my daughter to usa to live in October. . His house is apparently worth 2 million in an estate where his neighbours are celebrities.. He has my home address here in the uk, my driving licence details and my passport copy.. I have lots of photos of him but I would like to match them up to some if yours to see if he is the same guy going under different names to scam people. Any help would be appreciated before I leave my home in the uk to move out there with him. It's now been left for me to try and raise 3000 dollars on his behalf for his lawyers to go act for him in court on 1st Sept or he will lose his home..The home we're alk supposed to be living in once we get out to usa. He's in this debt due to taking loans out to cover the cancer treatment costs. Thanks in advance.

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Kelvin Jeff, he tried, it has become a joke for me. These guys should be charged and prosecuted for fraud. Few things are worse than stolen valor.

i've been emailing a guy that said he was a col. in the army and his account is frozen. he cant get any money out. he has a daughter and she needs to go to England for her school. she needs 1300.00 to go and has no way of getting it. he has told me he loves me and plans on marrying me. i am so confused. my granddaughter said he is a scammer. please help

Hello Bridget Small- FTC and All victims I was scammed for over 200 000$ FTC has done nothing so far (since january 2018). So, what is the point to file a complaint? Really...

Did anyone speak to Richard Greyson? He supposedly from Canada, working on oil rig in Venezuela and has one daughter. His wife apparently died a couple of years ago. He can't video chat because it is prohibited on the oil rig. His sentences really don't make any sense. If he is an Engineer on the rig, why would he mix up all his sentences? "I fall for you" "I just want you to know that I'm here for you ever if my sentence doesn't make sense to you" White male, glasses, blonde hair daughter.

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I met a guy named Mike Smith that lives in Alabama via Facebook. He says he was born and raised in Germany and left when his son Trey told him his wife cheated on him. His son is un a school in Louisiana. He calls via messenger and has the thickest Nigerian accent ever. Speaks brown Ken English, but is very fluent in French and some Spanish. He knows very little English. He requested I send his son a $100 iTunes gift card for his birthday. I bought a $25 one and took pictures of the card. A few weeks later he suddenly has to go to Africa for a contract he had been bidding on. He sends me a contract...douywording and looked copied and pasted and an airline ticket order. He goes to Africa and a week later cannot withdraw funds from his US account saying Wells Fargo says it will take 24days. The project is only to last 4wks and needs me to send money for equipment to finish the job. I said I was broke and he has his "financial advisor" send me info so that I could deposit a check and wire or western union the funds. He is still begging me and professes his love. I've blocked him in FB but he still uses messenger. Has anyone heard of him. His pictures are a bald headed black guy with a beard and 4 gold teeth(2 upper and 2 lower)

i met someone online. doesnt claim to be in the military or oil industry, but does claim to be a Dr in Sweden, here to re open a jewelry business his late father owned and has closed . He claims to have a 10 yr old son (sent a pic of the two of them) and the son is staying with his mother in Sweden while hes here working on the business. He claims his father has homes here in USA in TX, PA,CA and WI. He said his son needed an Amazon card so he could put it on his playstation account and couldnt locate one. so i got him one and took a pic of it and sent it to him. Now, he says hes got a shipment of goods stuck in customs in Dubai and the price is 2000.00. His mother only has 750.00 and needs the rest. He asked me if a customer could put the money in my bank account and have me send the money to customs for him. I told him i was not comfortable with doing that, and he said he would figure it out. He has claimed he loves me ect... and wants us to be a family. lost his sons mother a couple years ago before they got married, but in one of the pictures he sent me he has a ring on the ring finger.....cant tell if its a wedding ring or just a plain ring but still....now the last couple days his texting has slowed...and responses take several hours sometimes. weve been talking for several weeks, texting mostly and i have 2 phone numbers. one i searched is from Wi and the other from TX so i know that part is true. We have not yet met in person, but do plan on pushing that issue to see if i can get him to do so. if he does, and its really him, do i believe him?

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Met this girl. Heather Marie Roeder, even met her in person she asked for help with meds well thought we had a relationship going. But the whole time she was scamming me to get her heron and what every else. Took me for a lot of money . Now need help to find a way to get it back??

Itune cards: I kept trying to figure out why scammers needed iTunes cards, when I came across a site called income Nigeria, So they have a store where they can sell the iTunes, and most of them do. Also the sidewalk cafes in Nigeria is where most of these men work from, they are very good at pictures and heartbreaking Stories. I only know because I have spent a fortune in buying iTunes, and so I traced to see what they do with them.

This guy named Miller Smith Jay sent me a friend request through Facebook. I accepted, he claims to be a doctor for the U.S. Army, currently stationed at the city of Damascus, Syria. He claims I am his soulmate, has asked to marry me. He has sent pictures, he's very handsome. We chat via text messages on "HANGOUTS, " We starting chatting around the August 1st, he has asked me to send him ITUNE gift cards. I sent him one for $25.00 on August 18th. I told him I don't have money to buy ITUNE gift cards, please stop asking me to buy them. He claims he does not have access to his bank account because he's in Syria. He became very angry with me when I refused to send him anymore ITUNE gift cards. He claims he will retire at the end of the year and to come to the U.S. and marry me. I explained to him I can't be in a relationship or marry someone I don't know. I said people write all kinds of stories on the internet, that may not be true. He continues to profess his love for me, I don't believe him. Why do they continuously ask for ITUNE gift cards. As of August 26, 2018 he has stopped communicating with me.

I recently met a guy who said he lives in Atlanta Georgia who is a engenier he has a son and his wife died 3 years ago of cancer . A few days later he said his job was sending him to Nigeria.for 6 weeks. Sweet talker. So good that I was blinded by his words. It was like he has control over my mind. With the way he talked to the things he said. I never had a guy talk to me the way he did. I have such a soft heart that I'm easy manipulated and I fail for his game. I never sent him money. He said his job was by a private owner and his client's but tools and Well I'm sure you can guess the rest...yes I have him access to my account.now my account was over drafted and I don't use it. I have another account some place else. Now the first two where sent to me by money gram and I sent them off.So the first money came in and I wired it through money gram. Now I didn't know wat I was getting myself into at first. Now they wasn't going to him. It was to someone else after the 3. Transfer to my bank of a large sum. Thats when I snapped. This little voice told me to wake up. I sat at home and started putting things together and went on line. Searching. I was so mad at myself. I cried and after I calmed down I text him told I had questions. I might start off as easy to get over on but I'm not that stupid. He text back. Sweet talking. Love wat are you talking about. What is the problem. I told him. Why don't these people send this money to your companys bank. Are directly to you. What are you trying to do get me involved in your scams. He said it's all legal my queen. I would never do anything to hurt you are get you in trouble. He went on and on. Then said look my love two more well be in the bank tomorrow morning you take it out and stay with so much and send the rest and I promise no more . when I went to with draw and told the amount. I was stunned. My account was frozen.for unusual transactions. Ok now know what going on. What I didn't research was what are the consequences of holding a scammers money. Now I have to look over my shoulder and pray I get through every day and night. I was mad. Upset and when I get like that. I was played and used. Never once did I get anything out of it. Im Good person tell you play with my heart and emotions. You play me. I play you back and make you wish you never met me. Well yes. He said I made him look stupid but now it's gonna get ugly. He goes by the name of Herbert Steven Gregory Or Emmanuel for the middle name. That was his first slip up. The name. The pictures are fake also. If you know him. Please be careful. He is very dangerous. Some female friend of his sent me a text to warn me that his plans for me are not good.

I got scammed thru Word With Friends on Facebook. He invited me to play and it led to chatting on Viber. Seems the game has become dating site now. His fake name is Kelly G Roland, 50ish, attractive. He said wife died in childbirth along with the baby 7 years ago leaving him to raise 7 yr old daughter who lives in GA. She has a nanny living with her while he is working for Seadrill in Scotland. I lost $200 in itunes cards. He had a fantastic tale with photos, but didn't cover himself well enough and I found wife is alive and well. Also, he has money, and may like the thrill scamming people. Anyone else know Kelly G Roland?