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

Marilyn: I have the same guy! Engineer on an oil ship, son in Russia, needs equipment helicoptered in, I stupidly sent him iTunes cards, he sent me love songs every morning. Very attractive, dark hair with short beard, sent a pic of him & his son "Sal" . He used the name Matthew Papp, but I can't find anything about him anywhere!

hello, the same thing happen to me, a person had stolen the name and bio of LTG Fredrick B H Luckily, he did not get any money from me and when I challenged him, he blocked me.

i also fall inlove with a nigerian man,but when he start to ask me told him its over.most of them want south african papers and i dont fall for tht crab

I have him too,he needs 48,550 British ponds for his retirement certificate,i have played him for weeks,just to get info.i now have the bank details as to where to send the money.Result,report him now

He's a scammer...you need to stop talking w this person immediately. I have been scammed by smaller amounts like 50$ a month, but always there were excuses and not being a blessed to talk on Skype. If they say for security reasons, ect log off immediately no matter what their pictures look like. I was even asked for my bank account numbers....trust me their out to hurt you using LOVE as a pretence

I met a guy in social networking for about a month now who claims he is Captain John H Wilson and is 40yrs old. He is currently deployed in Iraq. He said he is widowed with a son who lives with his granny in Alaska. He even said he will be retiring and coming home in October. He says he is religious, wants to be my husband and marry me, etc. He completely ignores everything you say. However, if you didnt reply back right away, he just harassed you.

Today was were I drew the line and stopped all communications when he told me his " computer was affected with a virus and wasnt working anymore" In the meantime he is telling me this through a computer. The next second he is asking me to get him a computer through the military store at this website Us_army.s  @USA.com. Very bogus website and is a HUGE SCAM! I knew something wasn't right from the beginning but because he was coming from the military background, I figure he needed someone to talk to. I cut ties with this person before he could scam me. Be Ware ladies!

The same one contacted me and the conversations were so sweet and he wanted to marry me and take care of me and my daughter... However, he then asked if he could send jewels to my address that he found overseas and I could keep them safe until he returned home to me... when I refused to do that his page was taken down and never heard from him again..

You know your being scammed right. This is all the same lines they use I will marry you oh by the way can you open an Account. Stop right there and shut them down. Dont even think twice just do it and block them

hi dear.let me tell you what you should know...this scamar they always claim to be Government ARmy....someone that truly loves you will not ask you to open an account for money wiring dear..so please dont give him infact if you can block him just do.thank you

He tried thst with me. I got information and came against what he said. He is DEFINITELY a scam artist.

I was on two different dating sites and both men trying to scan me used the unusually fast love interest in me. I even broke up with one scammer because I thought the other scammer loved me more and I thought his picture showed a much more handsome man. Both claimed that they were from Europe but moved to the U.S. recently. One profile was Frank Dawson. The other was Jeremiah Clarke. Frank was supposedly from Dublin, Ireland but was living in Swansee in the U.K. Jeremiah was supposedly from Germany and moved to the U.S. about 3 years ago but was in Dubai for a business trip which he took a private plane to get to. He told me that he lost his wallet almost immediately after he said he arrived and he also said he forgot his baggage that had his I-pad in it. He asked me to purchase an I-phone and ship it to him at his hotel he's staying using Fedex express. I told him I couldn't and he got angry saying "you don't really love me or you would help me." I asked him why his daughter couldn't do it. He said she's not able to. I was the only one who could help him. I cut him off without sending anything and not spending a dime. These men are very tricky and tug at your heartstrings. The scammer named Frank Dawson held me on this love trip for almost 5 month. He said he moved to U.S. last year and went back to U.K. for whatever reason and when the pandemic hit, he was stuck over there. He was calling me "his wife" and claimed his 11 year old son was going to "love his new mommy". I only talked to him once and he didn't sound "Irish". He sounded like a man from a middle eastern country because the accent was deep and very hard to listen to. His voice was darn right scary to me. He told me he couldn't call me on the phone because it would be too expensive so obviously, he didn't want me to connect the dots. The very strange thing was that he actually sent 3 packages to me. He sent me a dozen roses and a teddy bear and box of chocolates. He then sent me 2 dozen long stem roses and another teddy bear and box of cookies. He sent yet another package with another teddy bear. After that, he got down to business thinking I was hooked, line and sinker. He asked me to set up a business account at a bank. Then he would get that account number of that account so people could send money to it and he could send it to the shipper of goods. At this point, I knew I had been taken all these months by a scammer who was trying to "butter me up". His tone changed very quickly around this time. He wanted to get down to business or his business partner thought it was time enough to see if I could be taken in. LADIES, please understand that YOU are not stupid for falling for these scammers. They are trained professionals. Remember, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

I met a handsome man named David Jeffrey did curly blonde is gray hair beautiful smile large chin who is 65 years old, had a picture of him with a little girl his daughter 10 years old sitting next to him and also another one of him standing inside of a oil rig on Facebook. He told me to immediately go on Hangouts for he cannot get a good signal on the oil rig. He was a petroleum engineer in Malaysia off the coast a said that he thought I was attractive and wanted to get to know me. Not realizing that he was a scammer. I was suspicious after sending me Love poems and repeating things seem to be copy and pasted from the internet. He continue on telling me how much he adored me and that he wanted to marry me. Said he had money and he's going to buy me a home and wanted to find someone that at had a family background because he had a daughter in boarding school in Georgia . Said he was in an orphanage growing up. Said that his mother had died at Birth later saying that she died when he was 10 years old and father died after being a military defense man. First told me that he grew up in Germany went back to the States to go to high school and college. Later married and lived in Berlin where he met his wife that died after a car accident about 3 years ago. Said that he had money had homes in Washington, California and Georgia. He was going to retire after his contract expired in September after 2 years. He wanted to meet someone cuz he was lonely. Thank God it didn't go any further than that although I did get my heartbroken after all the things he said to me and made me feel like a princess that he called me and he was my prince. I had someone do a background check and sure enough he wasn't who he was. When I told him he got very angry about it. Do not fall for anyone start Romancing you. I thank God I was not one that was taken advantage of to give money. This is a lesson for me that I had learned how men like to scam and romance you and then break your heart. I started talking to him only 2 weeks ago .

If your husband tells someone your bank account number, they can withdraw additional money.

You may want to warn your husband that if he deposits a bad check into his account and transfers funds, he will lose money and can get into legal trouble too. Some criminals develop relationships with people online, and then use them to help transfer funds through banks in the US.

It can take weeks for a bank to discover that a check is fraudulent. A bank may make some funds available on a check within a few days, but that does not prove that the check is good. This FTC article has more about fake checks.