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

I chatted with a man Turki Naibil from Germany and using telephone from USA . He doesn’t show face only voice on WhatsApp

I started talking to a man claiming to be a doctor stationed in Syria called Alex Ray.He only chats on Google hangouts and won’t let me see him on video chat as he says it’s not allowed on his mission lol.After three weeks he asked me to send him a google play card for $50 because his phone is full and he needs it for making more space on it to make room to chat to me.I sent him stupidly only a 5$ card .After a few days he asked me for a $50 one again claiming he had no credit cards in Syria.I said no . Yes know he is fake and I wonder if anyone else has come across this person .He claims he is Dutch but grew up in Virginia.I don’t understand why he asked for google play cards.He still talks to me after I said no to him

Words with Friends on Facebook is covered up with them. I'm not looking for a relationship, don't usually like to even chat but will try to at least be cordial until they immediately start asking about relationship status and/or if I will chat with them on hangouts. I shut them down immediately.

I was on Tinder and was contacted by John Kennedy who sweet talked me and we talked for and are still talking, I want to see how far he goes. He has pledged his eternal love for me and what not. He had a business trip to Lome, Africa to help build something on the border with Ghana. Three days into his trip he says he needs a Steam card so that he could download games. I pretended to send it but never sent it as it seemed fishy. A week in a half he says that he tried to take money using his ATM and that it doesn't work. He has contacted his friends and nothing so far. He hasn't asked me for me yet and I haven't offered either. His WhatsApp is not receiving messages. I put his pictures through TinEye which is an image search and recognition company, but he did not pop up anywhere on social media which raises more red flags. So we will see what happens

I answered this dude on facebook after a while his request was removed. He loved me and wanted to marry him wanted money and sent him 12,000 thru a friend of his. Now he wants 4,700 for a flight ticket. Had a very loving relationship . Now I feel I was used.

I have girl who is thirty telling me she will send money but wants money in exchange how do i get rid of her

Hi,beware of a Robert Petruzzi,I chatted to him on pof,then on Hangouts. He was very nice,drew me in,saying he had lost his wife and child through the delivery,lost his parents etc,was in Malaysia,going to be a millionaire,due to his inheritance,asked me to send him an Amazon gift card as he needed £100,I blocked him straight away,a very sick,nasty person

Just wondering if anyone has come across a guy that goes by johnsonmonland1111 on Instagram then soon asks to chat on hangouts. Apparently in the us army on a peace mission in Afghanistan. His parents were killed in an accident when he was 10 years old He has a 9 year old daughter but lost his wife. We started talking just as friends but he soon turned it romantic anyway to cut a long story short he said he's sent me a parcel. I then get an email of 'ups' saying i need to pay 3180 so the parcel can be released from Turkey international airport and delivered to me. When i tried the tracking number on the main ups site it didn't work, but if i followed the link i was sent by him then it work. I told him last night i had no way of paying it and he went on about me finding a way so we can start out life together. Ive had a look on Google and the same pictures go under the name Johnson Morrison.

Today I just talk with a sergent Melissa Roberts, from Delaware. She said to me that she is sergent right now in Afganistan and she is in love with me. I don't believe this and I will not send any money.

Mine wasn't match but words with friends online game. Got friendly. Was going out of country for work. His name using James Smith LOL. WAS SENDING ME A PARCEL FROM A COURIER IN Bahrain. Get an email from courier telling me I need to pay $12,750.00 for a permit to send to the USA. Told carrier no. Told me authorities will take care of me. Then Mr. Smith gets in touch with me and he has a plan to get me the money to get this parcel. He needed bank info user name password etc. Yeah right. He's also sending authorities and I will rot in jail. Come get me.

Anybody know a Richard Adams oil rig guy in Lagos Nigeria????

After meeting on Online Dating Site (Zoosk) and talking for about a monthPatrick Cook asked me to open an account on Coinbase which I did but never completed. He said he did very well and wanted me to. I said I did not want to do anything until I returned from a 30 day trip. Upon my return Patrick asked me to open a new bank account but not tell the bank it was for crytocurrency. I didn't open one. Then he asked me to look through my stock portfolio and see which stocks were not doing well and cash them out. I didn't and he got very angry and said I must not be serious about making money. I told him I did not want to discuss any financial information with him until we had met in person which was supposed to be this June. He said he wasn't go to waste any more of his time and hung up. He had been very kind and solicitous up until this point. I have since blocked him on my phone and on Skpe. His Skype name was Patrick.Cook34 and his Zoosk online name was fantasticsmile. He also is supposed to have a residence in Cleveland Ohio. He is supposed to be originally from the Netherlands. Has a daughter named Rosemary who is a stockbroker and a grandson named Eric. His wife died from cancer 8 years ago and of course he took care of her. (see a pattern here)Supposedly he also worked in design. I have many pictures as well as texts but really none alluding to him wanting to get money from me. He was a very attractive 61yo DOB 7/11/57. Completely gray, piercing blue eyes and supposedly about 6 ft tall. Tried to a reverse image search but never found the pictures elsewhere. He claims to have 2 homes one in Cleveland, Ohio and another in Panama City, Florida. He played me because he knew I have a strong faith but don't assume kindness as weakness. I would like to see these kind of scammers stopped before they take advantage of anyone else. At least I did not loose any money however because it was so subtle I wanted to make others aware. I think on some level I wanted to believe his profession of us being meant to be but never really did.

I also have a conversation with a woman from USA she asked me to send her 80000000 million dollars God punish all of una way they here dey waste time time wasted na e be una name

I was followed on Ig by a guy named Austin Bryan proclaiming to be interested in me. When he asked me about buying Google cards a red flag went up!!! How you ask someone to buy something for you and you haven't ever met in person.!!! Really?Then when I didn't do what he wanted to do the communication started to decrease. I Thank GOD for clarification and confirmation.

Anyone hear of a scammer named GoodKendra22 @gmail .com? Apparently getting money directly deposited in Green Dot accounts?

Ronald Maverick Carson, AKA Carson Ronald, AKA Roland Maverick Carson. Anyone come across this guy run, run fast and far away. I fell into the scam and I'm an idiot. Love blinds everything. I wish I could post pictures of him. So he can be found and imprisoned for life.

Are there any stories where scammers come back after weeks, months, or years to revisit victims?

I have a friend who is in her 60s , living on social security, and has been talking with this guy for 3 years. I dont know tons, but he has said that he is on a secret mission and she cant tell me anything else. But, he said he was in Syria, and she helped him out. Then he made it to somewhere else, and is supposed to be in south Africa now, and needs 20,000 us to get home to Idaho. If there is a mission why cant the company get him out? I suspect a scam, but she wont listen, is there anything I can do?

Benson_clair on Instagram sob story of parents dying in fatal crash and about her boyfriend cheating on her. She then goes on talking about her struggling with money. So she sent me a gorgeous pic of "herself" so I did a reverse look up with her pic and found her as an escort along with other titles.

Anyone heard of a guy Daniel Earnest.. works on pipelines widow.. wants to transfer almost a million into a friends name.. geez. These people are nuts!

So what's up with the iPhone cards? What are they for?

My friend was approached by a man on LinkedIn who called himself Engineer Alex. They communicated through linked in for a while before switching to whatsapp. They talked on the phone multiple times daily and messaged constantly. He never came out and asked for money but he did tread lightly when discussing bitcoin and of course he’s in they oil industry trying to get an independent contract valued at $1mm. He has multiple linked in profiles as a medical dr, veterinarian and oil worker. He also has several online dating profiles there are at least 100 different pictures of him and yes he’s very handsome, has a Swiss accent and is very suave. Beware ladies these cowards are predators with no qualms about defrauding you. If it sounds too good to be true it is.

There's a military man from Turkey named John Thomson asking me for money ...5500.to get his brief case from Australia. Saying his brief case with money and personal documents are in it from a company that he says that is folding up closing business...its Hidrosecurity.com. There's a website with this business ..it all looks legit but I think it's a scam....has this happened to anyone else...

Anyone talk with a David McCord....in Yemen, Peacekeeping mission? $ involved

So about 5 weeks ago this guy found me on instagram and started talking to me on there. He said he was from California and was a surgeon. After a few days he said hey let’s chat on google hangout. So we did after talking and him saying oh I love you I want to come visit you blah blah blah.We talked everyday day Morin message, midday messages and night late night messages. He they said he was having problems getting financed for his new clinic he wants to open up. I told him no and that started a huge fight. Like big so we stop talking. He got mad when I called him out about being a scammer. And was pissed. He messaged me again and made comments how easy it was for me to for and we started talking again. And now just yesterday he said he wasn’t feeling well and couldn’t go to work but his service for his phone isn’t working right and neither are his apps to message or anything. But asked me to get 2-$100 iTunes cards for him. Just to get him to drop it I said I will see what I can do. Well today he is mad because I never did it and I guess I don’t care about him. At first when he asked for help with the clinic I gave him benefit of the doubt best from day one I knew what he wanted to open. But then he got pissy and then the iTunes cards. Come on. My family is mad at me for still talking to him. As of today. But no money has been sent and there won’t be.

I've been chatting with a guy for a month now, no mention of sex or money, til last night. He is a contractor in Dubai and suddenly has a bunch of fees to pay and has all but $1500. I have nothing and told him so. His tone def changed. We have been texting on google chat since we "met" on pof. We have even video chatted and his pics are the same as the video. How do you do an image search???

Ladies question anyone hear of a James Scoot James Ken or a James Calvert I’m afarid Ive been scammed dupped He’s a Private Doctor he lives out of San Diego CA He promised me a new car a house money marriage anything I want He’s stuck in Europe He’s Swedish He owes me 1400

How do I post pic of whom I believe trying scam on hangout

I been chatting with a soldier deployed to Nigeria from Texas on secret mission at the British tobacco company. For the past.8 weeks he goes by Raymond.

Has anyone who there been scamed by a girl called Salamatu Johnson /Maddy Laura pretty sure my son is being scamed

Talking to a supposed detective in the military now. I cant write to him at first hood?? His number is searching as a Florida number no reverse images found and he has to register for video calling supposedly have a video call later we will see. He hasn't asked yet but have told.him do NOT ask me for money

I've met scammers on her app and now getting scammed by millions of Facebook users and people on words with friends getting tired of them all

Anyone tell me if they have encountered a Ralph Patrick Walters? Supposed American Air Force intelligence officer ?