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

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Has anyone been speaking with a Luther Thomas in the Army?

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So my dad starting talking to a woman who goes by Patricia Mafoah She is claiming she is from California but living in GHANA! Because her mom does missionary work over there. They met on plenty of fish. So I’ve looked the number up and its from bandwidth.com! So then I looked up the last name on Ancestery .com and it say there is no geographical disruption on that name!! He has been sending her money and helped her get a “visa” to come back to the U.S! Now why would she need a visa to come back to her homeland? I need more help. I have a picture of the “visa” he got her and went to know if it a fake! Please help!

My friend started talking to a girl name Laura Stefline George. Her Father just died and apparently she needed help getting her inheritance out of Egypt. They met through Facebook dating App. They don't video chat. She doesn't have a phone and no computer. He had sent her money for hotel accommodations and bank fees. Always in Steam Cards. She is supposed to be Irish/,phillipino. Apparently she is 37 no kids, no parents and is looking to deposit 7.5 million usd into his account .

Ladies beware of a guy name Mathis Heinz. He lives in USA had a home in Germany and is working in Hong Kong as a Petroleum Engineer. Very sweet man. Had me at hello! Parents both died within months of each other in 1982. About the same time he met his wife. She got sick. Lung cancer and wanted to come back to her home town. Saint Augustine Florida. She died 3 years ago. He emailed me long letters everyday for weeks. Then I got the money request for 35,000. He sent me copies of his bank account in Germany showing his account had been blocked. He had a 1.8 million dollars in this account. Sent me copies of his passport. He had to leave Hong Kong to go to Germany in person to straighten out bank issues. He needed the 35,000 to pay employees to continue to dig for barrels of crude oil while he was gone. Thank God I did not send him the money. I almost did!!! He is really that good with his words. I am not a stupid women but he really pulled on my heart strings. When I refused to send the money he would always turn it around and try to make me feel guilty for not trusting him after all we had shared together. I could not locate anything on the internet about him. Not even reverse pictures in google imaging. He gave me his home address. It was an apartment complex. He said he and the wife had only lived at this apartment for 3 years. No where else in the USA. I search the complex and called to verify information. They did not start renting apartments till September 2019. You do the math. Lol I knew for sure that he was a scammer right then and there. Deleted him immediately. So please ladies be aware of this silver tongue man. He is very good at what he does.

I have a serious problem someone who is claiming to be a play girl who goes by the name Linda Roberts from Houston Texas and is asking me for vanilla gift card for payment method to travel I even have a picture of her her photo on hangouts app is blonde but I see red hair

Hello. I met a man named Anthony Blake online recently. He was on the zoosk dating website. VERY smooth operator. Claimed to be a Portuguese civil engineer living in Beverly Hills, CA. Widower whose wife died from cancer with a daughter in college-Princeton. Claimed to be going to the Ukraine to bid on major contracting job. Of course when he got there, began to have issues with his U.S. bank account and asked me to send money which I DID NOT DO! The day before he asked me, he actually sent me log in information to what looked like a real bank. The account showed there was over 3 million dollars in it. This was his bait. He used it to,try to convince me that he had the money and that he would pay me back-double if necessary. I have been doing some research and Anthony Blake has been using this same scam for over 5 years. Buyer beware!

Hi..Anybody had a scammer by the name Arnis Florien. Approached me on a dating site.Nov.15th 2019.he is a Marine engineer..Says he has 2 daughters in private school in Houston..2 yrs ago moved his business to Canada..selling rig parts. Recently went to Turkey..now asking for $3975.00 ..Bald ..nice looking..soft spoken..accent..broken english..from Lativia originally..no family..except the two daughters..widowed 4 yrs ago..I refused..and he said for love I should sacrifice the money..lol.. Finally today I blocked him on whatsapp..after 5 days of pestering and mad at me. I sure wish I could post pic..Wears suits..has sent me tons of pics..has a Instagram account..arnis_florientodd...but is it really him? Also..I ve tried to catch him on little things..he had dark hair on arms..yet I asked him to send me a pic of his dog lying on couch with him and the arm in pic had long straight blonde hair. This is what put my guard up. I told my girlfriend..we ll wait and see when he gets to Turkey if he asks for money..and sure enough..2nd day..So..Anyone else encounter this turkey in Turkey?

Has anyone heard of Lieutenant General David O Bryan (Army 30 yrs) stationed in Iraq? He sent me a pic of him and his son, 16. Said his wife and other two children died in a car accident a couple of years ago. Has anyone received pics from anyone? How have you found out if they are scammers if they haven't asked for money yet?

I met a man on Instagram, extremely charming and stated he was a God fearing man who works on Norway on an oil rig. He stated that he was from Brooklyn my, with 2 children’ ages 12 and 15, who were being care for by a nanny. The man is named Derek Worrell, I wish I could post a pic to keep others aware or his pictures. He has three pictures on Instagram gram , I just saw that he delegated his acct today after he told me, Good morning dear, how was your evening, I responded and never heard back until I notice he delayed his profile, apparently his wife died of cancer 4 years ago. He asked if I could go to Sephora or Walmart for two 100.00 calling cards, but I told him , I do not know you and I didn’t send anything, I did him my phone number and email, dummy me, but nothing else. I began to open my eyes quick after him saying he loved me and that once he finished his contract on the oil rig he was coming to see me,, I didn’t believe a word he was saying , but played along . When it’s too good to be true, it is. Watch out ladies.

Charles Covatta, stay away from him, he was pretending to be stuck on oil rig, got him from IG, he changes his story and recently became active again. He is good...

Had someone contact me via Instagram stating that my user name was the same as her dads who passed away. They asked me to switch to Google Hangouts because they liked using it. Their English, grammar, and spelling was horrible. When it came to when they needed money, I said I could send them a few bucks. I sent them a stock photo of three Milwaukee Bucks players and immediately blocked them and changed my profile name.

Was approached by a man, a month ago, through instagram. Claimed he was a doctor working on contract in Syria for the United Nations, his name was Eric Brown. In the beginning, he did not ask for any personal info, at one point he asked me to accept a large amount of money for him, I did not do it because I knew this could possibly be a scam. He did ask me for 2 giftcards from ebay with $100 each, supposedly it was for his kids. I ended up caving in and I was convinced and I did send it to him. The last straw was he asked me to send an email to ask for him to come home from syria, I did it only to see how far I could get in order to see if he really was lying or scamming me. I used a different e-mail from mine. Once I got my response asking for money to end his contract, I knew right away it was a scam. By researching the FTC website, I was able to see all the red flags and verify that he in fact was scamming me.

Had somebody been scammed guy named Mark Olson? About 40years old, dark-haired good-looking guy, work as U.S. Army, now in Afganistan. Widowed 3 years ago, 14 year old son. Lives in California when not at mission. Brown eyes, lots of big tattoos in breast and arms. Write good English, very lovely and caring Person. Asked gift cards, but I didn’t sent any, still keeps chatting in Whatsup with me.

The "Italian" guy I've been corresponding with and even talked to on the phone finally gave himself up (good fake accent). He asked for $8,000 to get $86m for a "contract". I'm not surprised. I was just waiting for it. He's pretty smooth. Goes by Will Patrizzi and David Marshall. Claimed to be in Dubai on an engineering contract, which made me suspicious right away. Supposedly "won" it yesterday and was supposed to get a check today. Now all of a sudden, he needs the 8 grand to get the millions. They always give themselves away. I blocked him without saying a word.

Anyone know a Larry Daniels

Contact on IG from an oil rig engineer who had 2 children from NY in a boarding school. Gave a tear dropping story of his wife dying in a hit and run while pregnant with their daughter. Believes in true love. He never really asked for money till the end. He immediately started telling how much he loved me and wanted to come straight to me after his contract was up. Did not want me to tell anyone. asked if I lived alone, etc. But I found lies and holes in his correspondence and he got defensive and angry.He wanted to send a package to me with his belongings from the oil rig which I did not want to do..He made me feel guilty saying I do not love him, etc. I asked for a passport photo, address, id and he always had a reason on why he could not send it. Wanted to correspond on whats app. Finally I agreed to the package after several weeks. then I was told that I would have to pay 750 dollars. Questioned why since he was so wealthy and it could be prepaid..then was demanded to provide payment. At this time, I provided my addressed but later told him no. I was not paying it and my neighbor is a police officer. He stopped contacting me. ....he said he was from NY but the whats app phone number was from Omaha, NE in the name of a Nigerian. Sometimes I think there was 2 people involved in writing to me. His IG account was a very handsome man with a lot of posts and following but it was private so I could not see the pictures.. HIs videos definitely had the NY accent. So not sure if the IG account was in on it or was a fake.

From what I've experienced and read, it seems a lot of these scammers say they are: from Texas, a widower (wife died in car accident), have kids, are in the military or retired military, and are originally from Germany ,Belgium etc. "Herbert" targeted me on Instagram. He is very handsome, salt and pepper hair, mustache and goatee, late 40'ish, medium muscular build. He said he was from Germany, but was living in dallas Texas with his daughter emily, and he was a consultant for the military. His spelling was very bad, and right after I responded to his friend request he wanted me to download 'hangout' so we could get to know each other better and start dating . He then deleted his account, and sent me a new friend request on a new IG account because he said "I couldn't get you on the other account.".....Huh?......I didnt respond again to him after that. Why are we allowing ourselves to get scammed like this?? Where are all of the decent men at? Good grief.

I was the victim of a scammed who started with a flattering msg on my Instagram page. I am 76 and she said she was 45 but loved older mature men. After a few texts came a request for funds to get her grandson a gift since she hadn't received her paycheck. She sent many photos that I was enamored with but they were taken from another person's FB and Instagram page. This went on for months. Requests for funds escalated always in cards or bit coin machine deposits. Claimed she was in an abusive relationship and wanted to fly to where I live and get away. After one report of abuse, I called the police and sent them to the address of the real person whose name the scanner was using. The police found no signs of abuse and told me I had been catfished. The scanner claimed she hid her injuries from the police, showed them an alternate cellphone etc. The story goes on. I remained a believer. She asked for funds to fly to a friend in Texas and, once there, sent constant requests for funds for food, medical treatment, cab rides etc. Claimed the friend paid a lot of her bills and would not let her leave without paying her for same. Never would provide an address or engage in live phone calls or video chats. Again, wanted to fly to my loxation, requested funds and then claimed her friend stole them. More incidents followed but she continued to provide photos that appeared to be real time. Claimed she would explain everything once she saw me face to face. Finally, had enough and called it quits after sending several thousand dollars in funds. My family and friends warned me early but I ignored them because the scanners texts were so flattering, romantic and intimate. Once the funds stopped, the texts became despair ate with things like "I just need a little money to eat!" And "I'm starving and need to get a room." I am a senior and live alone and this person preyed on my vulnerability, lonliness, and need for affection and attention. Hope this helps others.

Yes I was recently sent a freind request from a guy claming he was of God he was good at making himself seem he was saved keep telling me are you listening to me I went through his profile and he sent me pictures of hiss passport with the name Godswill Favor Chibueze documents with same name but keep telling me if I love him I would stand up on my feet and see to it he get here to USA he keep telling me he didn't like chatting on Facebook to download WhatsApp useing mobile number +971-52-160-8986 and keep wanting me to talk to his supposed to be married freinds about how I should set up western union account to wire him money keep calling me crazy makeing me out to be not godly because I wouldn't trust in him and he keep telling me he was in a very bad Muslim government which I seen some part of that but saying he was in Duabi on training for professional work but was only getting paid 50.00 month and that he was helping his parents and siblings out that he didn't have money but they were useing different mobile number call me and they speech was very wired sounding becareful they are very skilled they practice daily makeing like they have done anything wrong makeing themselves seem innocent please beware.

Has anyone neard of a man named Huang Kim supposedly at al-tanif base about to retire. He suppisedly sent me a box from aleppo and i am getting threatening emails from a courier service that you cant seach for called DelivMates express demandibg money or they will turn me over to german customs that have their couriers hostage and besting them if i dont give tgem 20,000 dollars to clear the hidden money in the box. Thix getting scarey

Does this sound familiar—Michael from Romania living in Nashville? Often overseas (Egypt) as electrical engineer. Different histories—wife died of cancer, no kids. Wife and son died in car accident. No request for money yet. She claims they have met I. Person?

My oldest sister has a online boyfriend Sam just flew into San Antonio but was suppose to fly into Dallas from Stockholm due to weather he had to fly into San Antonio . But know poor guy can’t get to his money to rent a car. So wants my sister to send him google cards. So he can rent a car to come to Houston to see her. She was going to drive to San Antonio to pic him up. I told her if she did she better watch the silver alert signs because I will report her missing. I went to her bank they told me she was scammed. I can’t believe this continues to happen . They said it’s not fraud because she did it herself.

Has anyone been contacted by a Mark Williams on Facebook? He said he was an Orthopedic Surgeon for the UN in Afghanistan. After a couple of weeks of chatting he wanted me to agree to accept a vault box that he wanted sent to me. When I said no then he wanted me to sent a letter to request a vacation leave for him. Be careful because he’s a smooth talker and doesn’t want to take no for an answer.

I have recently been talking to someone who says he works for Totalis Consulting Group and that he trains military kids. Says he spends 8 months in Germany and 4 months in the US. Goes by the name of Kendrick Paulson. Real first name is Robert. Sent lots of pictures and one of his granddaughter named Julia, but he calls her Sonia. Couldn't find anything on the internet with that name. Did anyone else talk to someone by this name?

My lady says that she lives in Miami, Florida, born April 4, 1988, both parents are dead, she has an aunt in Ghana, and is asking me to check the bank for a loan to use to gain access to gold bars, and $200million. We've chatted for 8-9 months, and I've sent her money to help her with a passport, food and to update her phone card. Is this a scam, or a real woman protecting herself until and if we meet in person?

I met mine on Tinder his name is John Maur he says he is an engineer in Gemstones. Right he had to go to Cyprus Turkey for a job for mining gemstones..First day there he had his lPhone and MacBook stolen and would I please go buy them and send them to him....I bated him and played his game for about a week while he professed his love and devotion..I knew he was a scam..never sent money and he said I attacked him personally when I suggested this is a scam. And when over he turned his anger on me and he fixed it so I can’t get on his Instagram and LinkedIn pages any longer. I couldn’t see anything on the pages anyway that he didn’t want me to see...

A Blaise Christopher Gregory from NY apparently. With a son called Josh. Wife died in car crash and he was said to be a medical doctor podiatrist, graduated from Columbia University. Also pretended to be hired by Americare. He said he travelled a lot and was in Burma. He lost his phone and wallet and only had some cash left. Asked me for money and gave me some crypto currency account from a man in Singapore. He then said to have travelled and stopped at immigration due to the place where he had been and needed medical insurance! He also claimed to have an account in the UK and would pay back. He used Dr Steve G Jones as coverup image. Has anyone had this guy? I’d like to say that regardless of how much education we have, we can be easy target if we are looking for love and we welcome people with open arms. I’m sorry to hear of our misfortunes but we have a difference with these criminals: we are honest and work to have what we have. So don’t loose hope, be more careful and don’t believe sweet words! I learnt that real honest men do not use romantic language as these scammers.

Yes mine was Brayden Copper48@ met me on fb and immediately told me he doesn’t like social media and to go to hangouts and we chatted for 3months and now it’s the holidays do he ask me to send the letter he wrote to U.N. and wait for reply and I did the reply was to send $5000. So to insure his safety he said he was stationed in sema,Iran an he was in the army as a lieutenant but the reply stated him as a general I questioned it to him he told me he was but had secretly told me stuff that he was not to tell he also called his queen or honey and sent me 4photos of him great he went from chatting 3xs a day to 2xs to once a day now he says he’s busy . Now nothing because I never sent money to him and he has stopped talking or chatting in hangouts.

Found girl on pof she seemed very down to earth and harmless. 6 months later I was winning the lottery and dealing with more Jamaicans running online banking scams and receiving 1000.00 Visa's, Wells Fargo, Amazon, Walmart cards and visiting money stores and many places that don't really exist. As month 11 & 12 came there was more & more information about her that she would never verify. Not even her own address, and even though we were to be married, she would not reveal her social security number. She lived in Tupelo, Ms her cell phones all had Texas area codes. All the while kept receiving calls from 876 area (Jamaican) I had sent money through Western Union, MoneyGram, Steam, MoneyPak,Amazon cards, etc. She lost her job & school transfers, missed flights, was arrested, had court dates, got sick, all with no paperwork, records, or receipts to prove anything lost money on an Amazon upload, got a refund on plane ticket and used for meds, but refused meds using an Rx discount card. Wanted cash to pay doctors and such. Unfortunately I had fallen in love with her while going through severe depression, anxiety and bad bouts with schizophrenia & COPD. Now she really was coming but the plane fare was higher. I again asked for physical proof of arrest, court, plane ticket, former address, identification, etc etc. She would not answer to these and many, many other questions. Around the 9th month after a big fight she informed me she had got her Marketing job back and was purchasing a computer for us to have when she arrived in a few days again. She picked computer through Walmart and at checkout had me type in the visa #, my name & address for delivery. Then couldn't get flight scheduled and told me to FedEx the box with computer to a different place. After it was supposedly lost I found out it had shipped to Malaysia. On and on with her. I'm trying to break loose from her but no matter what I say or write calling her names that anybody else would kick you to the curb for she keeps texting "good morning" everyday. I need help and totally, mentally unable to handle this. I'm also alone & disabled. I'll not give her another dime, but that won't get rid of her either Need pro help in many ways

Reading all of these makes me feel better. I am honestly a smart person and never thought I would fall prey to a scammer myself. When Martin Freeman started chatting with me on Instagram I knew it was too good to be true, but I thought heck he is saying all this TRUE stuff it may actually be him. We chatted for months daily and when he asked to send me a gift for Christmas I figured my address is safe enough data so why not. He said he was going to send it off. I started getting messages from a delivery company called Midvain deliveries out of Turkey. They listed all the contents of the package, iPhone 11, jewelry box, watch etc. I knew at this point it was a huge mistake. I tried cancelling the delivery and the company ignored my emails. They have advisesd I need to send $550 to release the pkg and pay for TSA fees and will also need my id on delivery..... UM NO WAY. I blocked the user on Instagram immediately and after my heavily worded emails declining the pkg I have not heard further from the delivery company. I refuse to send any money and if anyone comes to my door I will decline everything. It’s just so sad to me that these scammers prey on the kindest and Most honest people. I haven’t got tons of money and to think someone would try and steal the little I have because I care about their welfare is a disappointment to the human race. Thanks for letting me share and stay safe out there!

Does anyone know Larry Fods, multimillionaire from Houston, Texas. Went to London for contract, arrived there lost his phone, lost his wallet and the best is he cannot access his banking account. Has asked me for money - I didn’t send him anything - but stupid me gave my personal details, now I feel sick. I have not heard from him since Sunday, it’s now Wednesday.

I have been going through the same thing. I met a man three months ago. He told me that he is a widower with a son. He works on a rig in the ocean but he lives in Texas. But he is a Nigerian. He professes to love me madly and wants to marry me. He has asked me to set up bank accounts in my name so he can transfer money in them. The only thing about it is my heart is already involved. How do I let it go?

Have you guys came in contact with someone that claims to be a marine architect. He is 56 years old. He has been talking to me from hangouts he claims not to have a cell phone he only used his PDA device. He asks me to date him and promises to marry me. Supposedly he is in France in a contract for 6 months

does anyone know alexander roy. italian moved to america at 13. has a thick accent. he said he is a family practice physician. he said his dad is a diplomat that was poisoned. he says he is in america. actually in ghana. birthday 8/25/73. also says he has a shiba inu dog named bella.

So I been chatting with this guy Who is divorced, has a son with a nanny now cuz he out working out of country . He found me online . Of course he uses sweet words and confess his love to me even having met me yet. He said God brought us together etc. As time went by I get suspicious so I did google image search and found his pic on someone else’s profile . Will scammer use the name similar to other person, same job and what he is doing in life! Is this possible? Why would he pretend to be someone else and didn’t change his name or job title etc . I confronted him and he tried to explain. I half trust half no. I also messaged the real person that this guy is stealing his identity, but the other person never responded. . Also if he scammed money from u and u found out he is a scammer and confront him, would he deny or block you? Which he didn’t block me even if I said I don’t trust him anymore?