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

This might help people to identify romance scammers, here's what I found to be the scammers playbook: 1. Ask you to switch to Hangouts or similar app 2. Gets romantic quickly 3. Is originally not from America and was raised in a different country, parents from other country (this will account for his unusual accent). 4. His wife died a few years ago 5. He was cheated on and was deeply hurt 6. He has children in a different country from where he's currently 7. Sends romantic poems and youtube songs 8. Has a deep faith in God and says God brought you together 9. Uses pictures from somebody that has posted plenty of pics so he has a lot to choose from. 10. He's a very good person who helps elderly uncle etc. 11. Feels that you are "soulmates" 12. Says "my dear" and constantly calls you "baby, babe, hone, sweetheart, darling" 13. You will "break" him if you stop communications 14. Emergency happens and he needs money from you because he has exhausted all other options 15. He's well off or wealthy and owns his own company. 16. He's going to retire soon and he can't wait to travel with you and spend the rest of his life with you. 17. Use several variations of his name on social media, sometimes his nickname, or his middle name, or his first name 18. There may not be any evidence that this made-up name person exists when checking it on ancestry.com etc. 19. Wants to know your finance situation, career, etc. 20. Checking images on bing.com instantly shows the pics he sent you are actually of somebody else. 21. Guilt-trip you into sending money by saying things like he will be put in jail in a foreign country, etc. 22. Acts very concerned about you saying to be careful when going out due to the virus. 23. Bad grammar - like writes small caps "i" and wrong use of verbs, etc. 24. His accent is not distinguishable, not British, or Australian because he's likely from Nigeria 25. Quotes from the Bible so women think he's a good Christian 26. Messages are often long and written in a confusing way. Like they were copied and at the end he adds 1 sentence with a message directed to you by name. 27. He has told his children about you and they're excited that he's finally met "the one". 28. Says things like "I will always be here for you, no matter what" and "I'll wait for you forever". 29. Their romantic approach is so strong that you've likely never had a man say those things before because normal/real men don't act like that, they wait until they've met you and truly know you. 30. They have interesting hobbies like climbing mountain kilimanjaro and flying helicopters.

a user on Snapchat named micheal_sand20 is a scammer currently attempting to seduce a friend currently and attempting to gain access to their bank account. Need help removing this user

Has anyone heard of a Tantolet Perez, said she is frm SanDiego, calif. No family. Father died and left estate to her, /went to Dubaii for a jeweler class and her lawyer stopped communicating. She has no money, is stranded, visa expired, then when got money for a ticket, tested positive in Amsterdam, and was sent back to Dubaii. Cam on phone is broke. Lives is park when doesn't get money sent to her. I don't know what happened to her house in San Diego. My relative has send $thousands in gift cards. Sounds fishy to me. Always something happening to need money.

My brother just recently learned a hard lesson .he has been warned about scammers. The sad thing is he can fiqure out a scam on the phone or follow a letter. But not this one. He meet a women on a app he should have been after a weeks as of today he wired her $500.00 and just recently of about 2 weeks he send this women a $25.00 apple i.tune card and get scammed on that and lied to his wife about the whole situation and now he out $525.00 and told the family that money was going to his daughter from his frist married to help her with school supplies for college unfortunately his wife and the rest of family member dont believe him now he wont see that money or probably wont hear from that women again. His wife fells bad but she Hope's that he has learned this lesson about going on dating apps and looking for women and then he scammed the family fells that she fit the scammer mold.

I was scammed by a guy named Gary Lucio who I met on a dating site. He said he was 50 ...lived in Detroit. He was traveling to South Africa as a Geologist . We talked for a year. When he first asked for money I my scammer ears peaked. I did everything I saw on catfish. But I didn’t listen to my senses. I think now he goes by the name Luciano in Ca. Beware!!

Beware Susie I on scrabble go. Starts a nice friendly chat then tries to sell you bitcoins. Had scam written all over it. Politely told her I don't play scrabble to hear sales pitches, whereupon she stopped the game. We have a saying in the West of Scotland: do you think I came up the Clyde in a wheelbarrow?

Has anyone been in contact with a guy mamed Robert Coleman who claims he is Canadian but lives in the US? He also works for a company called Analytics Recruitment Inc. its a Linkedin profile. He looks legit with all the constant pictures of whenever i ask, however he has asked me for money because he is in debt The Linkedin profile looks legit as well and so does the company he claims he works for

Does anyone out there know Evans Alessandro Andersen? Met him on POF about a month ago. He claims he is a doctor/surgeon and is with the White Helmets currently in Aleppo Syria. He has already asked me for an Amazon gift card, which I did'nt send. I am assuming it's a scam!

Has anyone heard of a man named Steven (Steve) Caddle of Georgia? I met him on POF, we have talked on the phone and we have video chatted and looks like his pictures he sent me. He is now asking for money to get home from a oil rig saying his crew didn't finish their part of the contract and the vessel from Seacor Marine picked all of the men and they were left to finish their part of the job. He is asking for his part to hire a private boat to pick them up and take to Texas where they were picked up from.

Hey l have a similar problem am not sure if the guy is scamming me he said his name is Paul Casey he said he works in the Army force at the moment he said he in Baghdad.. we been talking for a good 3 going to 4 weeks he sound like a really nice guy and I just don’t want to be fooled. He says he has a daughter and he is divorced cause his wife cheated on him and he trying to find the right woman to settle down once he is back, someone who would accept his daughter as well. I have a picture of him if there is any way we can share maybe someone can help me out. He hasn’t asked any money from me. He has asked me once that if I wanted to video chat with him but with the time change and me working I haven’t be able to to. Let me tell you he found me on face book and from there is when we started talking and now we talk from hangouts. He cancel his Facebook account and he said he didn’t so I wouldn’t think he was talking to other women which tell me nothing . Just wanted to share that info But if there is way to share pictures please let me know cause , I am really starting like him and don’t want to get hurt

Anyone know of a Giovanni Alberto. Claims to be have been in USA now on oil rig west if scotland . Italian but luced in usa from young age. Wife died and has 12year old daughter?? Given all the hearts and flowers and got me believing but still doubting. Promising to visit!!!

Has anyone heard of a guy that goes by Richard Woods says he's on peace mission overseas and lives in California has a 10yr old daughter that stays with a nanny.... Talks about building a motel and has lots of money but bank account is froze until he gets back into the US and talks like he's in Love with you and calls you his precious wife????

Has anyone heard of a guy that goes by Richard Woods says he's on peace mission overseas and lives in California has a 10yr old daughter that stays with a nanny.... Talks about building a motel and has lots of money but bank account is froze until he gets back into the US and talks like he's in Love with you and calls you his precious wife????

We think this is happening to our mother, 85 years old, recently widowed, about to sell her house. I told her NOT to give this guy any money for any reason. Says his name is John Tyler Reed - 73, US Citizen, working in Canada about to close a big contract and move back to the States. Has a daughter with 3 kids living in England going through a divorce. Who plans to move here as well. I want to run a background check on what info I have but I'm not sure which sites to use.

Has anyone ever asked to send money via cash app ?? Do you know if we can find the person money was paid to?

Does anyine have contact with a Mark Richardson working on Gas rig in Norway?

A person going by the name Michael Wilkins friended me on FB. We had a few mutual friends. He wrote to me & we started chatting. I did some homework on this guy & I couldn't find him on any of the sites such as beenverified, etc. He speaks w/ what sounds like a German accent, writes German, nice looking. Same old scammer story - wife dead, has a lot of money, no kids, no immediate family, professes love, etc. He took his profile info. from a scammer site! When I confronted him about being a scammer he took his FB site down. Says his middle name is James, lives in Spokane, jewelry designer, 61 years old, birthdate June 17, 1959, has a dog named Bruno, etc. Says he is a God fearing Christian man, would never do anything wrong, blah, blah, blah. Just giving other women a heads up about this guy!

I am talking with Christian Hartman on oil l. He wants money vacation leave for chopper. Does anyone know him. Or a Curtis Morgan? Never enough money. I am in love and I know should not be doing this. Telling me to stop doesn't work. I need strong evidence. Please anyone.

Well my story is similar yet different. I was scammed by a guy named Maxwell Sebastien. Met him in words with friends 2. Same story, wonderful man, pregnant wife dead 10 years ago. Been alone for that time. Turns out he was not only a chef, and a travel agent. He was also a petroleum engineer. With an assignment in an oil rig the gulf of mexico. Long story short he introduced me to a bitcoin invest emend company (fake) and hooks me up with a broker who I'm convinced now was the same scammer. I needed money so I invested. My return was great but they asked me for so many fees I stupidly paid for. They also charged for taxes and other shot they claimed I would get that money back. Anyway I lost close to 25,000. Have a loan to pay because I loaned money to pay fees to withdraw supposedly $126k (profits). They came with other excuses saying I needed to send the payment again in its entirety because the bitcoin value changed. I did an image search and found out I was lied to. It is then when I realized. So stupid. I deserve it because I knew better at least to make reverse photo searches but his lies and the way he weaved his story was masterful. He sent me pictures of a Brazilian personality named Jayme Drummond. For whomever wants to check it maybe we have the same scammer. I wish we could do something to get these people what they deserve.

My mom, told us she met a man name Rex from Florida through her Christian dating site. He is French and his wife died 5 yrs ago. He is 62 and has 3 children who are 16-20 yrs old. He also is an oil engineer. He has told currently he is in the Middle East working and needs her to be his beneficiary for some thing would happen to him. She has only been talking to him for 6 weeks. Supposedly he is coming to visit her and wants to buy house to be close to her. Has anyone had a body like this.? Please help if you do because we are trying to prove this to her

I have chatted recently his name Harry hndrick, he said he is a sergion in Yemen, he has 150kg of gold bar from Yemen government gave him as a gratitude of his job. He want to send me, but he wants me to pay the shipping fee. He even sent me his certificate that he is the owner.. what do you think of this? I think he wants me to scan.

Step-dad is being scammed We think our step-dad is being scammed. Since our Mom died, he has been lonely and going on to dating sites. He is 66 and “dating” online Janet Allison 45 year old divorced British Nurse with Doctors Without Borders in Syria. He met her on a Christian Singles website. She is divorced from an American pilot and has a home in Texas and an adult son. She has asked my step-dad to send stuff on her behalf to her son, because she can’t order stuff from Syria. She paid the cost by sending money to his bank account. At first she asked for money for a plane ticket. We all said don’t do it, so he told her we were suspicious that it was a scam. She sent photo, with Bill, I love you sign on it to show it wasn’t. The photo shows an attractive 40ish busty brunette woman. He claimed he has talked with her directly when we asked why he never had face to face calls. We also noticed he is getting a lot of mail from SunTrust since he has been dating Janet, but he wont say what its about. According to our Step-dad, he isn’t out any money, since she always reimburses him or will once she gets back. Janet is supposed to come back to the U.S. soon and after quarantine plans to come to Florida. He said he is going to marry her and feels very lucky. What do we do? And if she send him money and pays him back, is a crime being committed?

Im on a dating site name POF and I have met 3 guys at different times and both of them says they are from new york,& 1 in the army stationed in Yemen and all of them has asked for money ,wants my bank account information, send them money. 1 in new york wants $500 to fly to Washington. 1 in the military wants me to get a $50 amazon gift card,plus has my bank information, asked me to open a Northone bank account,cash app and says when he is done in yemen he is coming to Washington to see me. 1 says he is from Cleveland and has his picture on POF with different names so i set him up saying something different to each names to make a person to person contact and each one gave me a excuse why they cant meet.1 of the different names same picture guy after talking to him on the phone says would i like to buy a house in Florida and my mortgage would only be $1300 a month ,sent me all kinds of pictures of this house and looks good. Then I get in my gmail from a real estate guy that says he is going to send me papers on this house and to sign them and send it back with $1000 for the monthly mortage . I have not seen this person thats a so called real estate guy,nor seen the house only pictures,nor I have heard of anyone trying to send me legal papers and putting my name on something that i was thinking of a Dream Home through the mail. Now Im talking to 1 of the other names same picture and he says to open a cash app and wants me to set up a bitcoin so he can put money on it , says he is from Seattle and after talking to him and all of them i have talked to have accents. And the more i talk to him i found out he is from Turkey. So now what do i do? And how to spot them before hand?

Thomas Johnson is who I got he says he’s in the military and then he stationed over in Japan right now he says he has a daughter but he didn’t even know that his daughter was starting school this week but he said he’s three months behind in his Internet bill and he couldn’t stand to not talk to me and that he loves me he asked me to marry him within the first week that he asked me to send the money on an eBay gift card so that he could pay for his Internet but when I asked what an eBay gift card would do he got a hostile and then he said that he was on the phone with his bank and the bank wanted him to come in to verify they needed his fingerprints which I called the bank and I asked they don’t do that and that the manager is willing to transfer money into a friends account accountI was going to give him a different account number and routing number but then he asked for my online ID my password my security questions and answers in my account and routing number and I told him I didn’t feel comfortable doing it so I guess I’m one of the lucky ones. I told him that people scam people all the time with gift cards and he said if I was a scammer I would ask for a $10 million instead of 100 which is wrong they always ask for low because people normally can pay low

Has any body heard of shawn webber on here I think I am being scammed

Does anyone know Thomas Roland from Vienna Ausria?

Had somone last year on Telegram say they was Leonardo DiCaprio he asked me for Itune cards £200 he then texts me one day saying that hes coming iget a text one day with him saying I'm.here look out of window didnt see him at first look put a while later see a car person in car looked exactly same as leonardo dicaprio he was in back of a very dark vehicle with what looked like 2 men in the front of the car only I would of gone to him but my mom shouted at me to go to bed saying whoever's outside ot wont be Leo she said. Anyway next day I get a text again from him saying you fooled me I never want to see you again. : (

How long do they take before they ask for money? I have had scanners before on dating cites and right away they ask for cash. But this guy I’ve been talking for 4 months and hasn’t asked for cash. There has come up issues that I’m waiting for him to ask but he doesn’t. Claims to be in the Army. I search his picture ask questions and search answers. I just don’t know. Help!!!!

hi, has anyone here encountered a nice looking bald and bearded guy? he said he's from Croatia but living in new York for the longest time already. works at one of the biggest shipping company. always out for business trip. petroleum engineer. he's nice, calls often, we would video call but he can only see me, I've never seen him in video calls because he was out travelling on a ship, he says it's not allowed. after 2 months of communicating he started saying he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me and doesn/t want to travel for work anymore. gave a business proposal, he said he has a doctor friend who works at a research laboratory who needs a certain herb and that he wanted us to supply for them. asked me to look for supplier. to make the story short, i found one but when i looked deeper into the loopholes, supplier, courier and this client all have the same IP address. supplier refuse to give important details about their company. this guy i met wanted me to support him financially in the business when i said i sense something wrong about the supplier, he got really mad and threw me all kinds of bad accusations. i tried looking up the guy's name in google, even his photos, but couldn't find anything. no social media account. he said he's a widower, only son, mom was old and staying in Croatia. anyone who encountered him?