Has an online love interest asked you for money?

Within hours of joining Instagram, I received a number of "Follow" requests from women I did not know. Within a few days of what were warm conversations, they all asked for money. One wanted money for her birthday, and then to buy a plane ticket to come see me. Another had an aunt get sick and needed extra money for the fare to go see her. I refused all requests, and then searched up "strangers on Instragram asking for money", and I found this site. People will say flattering things and act and talk like a friend. They are scammers if they ask for money.

A guy calling himself Colin Cox just tried it on with me, saying he worked on an Oil Rig, saying they work on an Oil Rig seems to be a popular story with these scammer's, judging by posts I've been reading. Luckily l soon sussed him out and gave him quite a telling off using some well chosen expletives. Other women beware.

Anyone aware of a woman named Racheal Wilburn? 30-something, supposedly from Peoria, IL? Met her, within a week she professed her "Great love" for me and wants me to "get a new post-paid phone so she can access it when she goes to Nigeria to reclaim her inheritance" When she said that, the alarm bells in my head started to ring like crazy.

I just got scammed by a man name Marcus Wong. He claimed he's from Singapore and been to the US since he was 16 but has accent of a dark color guy. He sent me a picture of his Driver license in CA and asked for my full name, dob, and address l. I trusted him and sent him the information. On my way to Walmart, he asked me to buy him an iTunes card with $100 vaule. I delt something not right since we knew each other for 2 days. So I didn’t buy it and he made me felt guilty for it. I looed up the information about con artist on this website and he has all the characters of a con artist, and I was in alert. He called me again at night time and made me felt guity of not fetting the iTunes card for him but I was caustious and on high alert. He hung up and I blocked his number.

There is a pathetic excuse for a man, who goes by the name “Sebastian Davis” posing as a Drill Sargeant in the US Marines. His story is he’s half Spanish half American...born in Texas, moved to England to live with Mum’s family. Then came back to Minnesota. Dad died at age 11. Mom is elderly and living in Minnesota where he supposedly lives. Has lots of pics and videos of this poor unsuspecting marine. Wish I could find the Marine to let him know of his Identity Theft. Says he’s deployed in Kandahar Afghanistan. Same story of bad food..needs iTunes cards to trade for energy drinks. Wanted $500 for a pair of boots!!! Told me to send it by Western Union to the name of “Olga Novolenova“.

I met jackson richardson over 2 yrs ago said he was in army in syria - orig from atlanta- said his wife died from ca' and he was retiring soon from military. Was trying to get me to hamdle his money at first and then to invest in bitcoin with him and later to send 4-100 dollar amazon cards - to his colleague who was going to gv him 400 in cash to help get him om a flight home from syria. Give me a break. Called me his fiancee and his queen.wanted me to come to new york n meet him at jfk on dec 16.anyone else know ths person? He took down his fb page and is on hangouts.

I met a girl on match .com and we talked about a week and she wants to come to be with me but said she needs $998 to get visa ,insurance, criminal background check, medical check up. Is this a scam? She is from west Africa Ghana.

I met a girl on match .com and we talked about a week and she wants to come to be with me but said she needs $998 to get visa ,insurance, criminal background check, medical check up. Is this a scam? She is from west Africa Ghana.

Hi I’m have been and currently chatting to a guy in Texas/ Houston off shore oil rig in Gulf of Mexico calls himself Harry Joshwells. Lives in Manchester or outskirts of Manchester it changes ...claims he’s Italian (Milan) but also partially raised in USA , only child, no family, parent both dead in tragic circumstances, ex wife cheated and died a few yrs ago. Been in the uk for 5 yrs with his teenage daughter Ariana who’s in either boarding school or with her nanny. Has an unusual accent, always seems to have a cold and is sick. He’s a drilling contractor and works underwater drilling/welding pipes etc. Very romantic, expressive and extremely confident, declaring his undying love for me after a few weeks. Calling me his wife and wanting me to be the mother of his daughter and him be there as father to my son. A good looking, elegant 50 year old with a beard dark hair and eyes. Lured me in with his chat about family, similar interests, photos of his dead parents, his love for his daughter, family and talking about our love, buying a home for our family and that he’s retiring to be with us all. This guy is good! My friends call me an ice queen and he charmed me to a degree. I could feel the tell tale signs creeping up just as he was about to ask me for money... crisis issues with bank and yep could I pay for his flight home.... £2,000 - I said no. The amount reduced and reduced and he began using his ‘daughter’ and if I loved him as much as he loved me then I would help him. He wasn’t asking for money just for my love and help for our families sake. He’s turned nasty, then turned on the charm again... I was hurting him and our family by not helping him. He kept trying very persistent. I didn’t give in and even called him a scammer! He said he was shocked .... oh and he shows you a fake bank account .... Be careful of this guy hes convincing he’s on badoo.... calls himself Harry J photos in Manchester markets, on holiday , at Italian Grand Prix.... Facebook pics of him on a boat, at hotel/pool with a blonde young girl in front of a cruise ship.

Talking to someone on Hangouts from Afghanistan he says and wants me to send money to the UN to go on vacation for two month in the USA,says he can't access his account till he gets home,I think it is a scam

I was scammed by a guy who was Dennis Fritsch a Sergeant 1st class in the military. claimed wife died and had 1 child. I fell in love he was so charming. I got took for 8,000.00 what a fool.

I'm currently involved with this girl from Owerri IMO and she told me she needed 80.00 to cover a bill of $200.00 to release her mother from a Nigerian hospital. I met her on Facebook and her profile doesn't look like a model or anything but still not 100% sure if it's actually her I'm talking to. I have mixed feelings about this. One I would feel bad if her mother has to stay in the hospital for Xmas but two I don't want to be played a fool either. I never sent the money so I guess I shouldn't worry.

Btw she goes by the name Precious Anyikwa aka Madu Precious.

Hi there... I came across this website and had to share my story. I used a website that a user above called "wronged" suggested. Tineye.com. I took a screenshot of a picture of a guy named Justin_Williams_002 from Instagram and searched on one of his pictures and found the real owner of all the pictures on Instagram. Thank you "Wronged"! "Justin" messaged me on Instagram about a month ago and we started chatting. He claimed to be a Turkish 6'9" contract engineer living in Madison, WI working for a company called Manson Construction. Has a 20 yo brother living in LA going to college. His parents died when he was 20. Been living in Madison for 7 years, but has no friends. Loves tattoos and working out. Very strong accent. Drives a Cayenne Porsche. Then a week later, he tells me that his rea name is actually Jackson Micheal. I asked why and he said "You don't think I'd put my real life on the internet". I was ok....There are so many red flags, but let's see how far he takes this. More conversation claiming that he loved me, wanted to marry me, and how much he missed me. He could only talk to me on Hangouts. Doesn't use the phone or regular text messaging like normal people do, but eventually called me on the phone . It's like...how far is this guy going to take this? Sure enough, last night he asks me for a $300 gift card from Amazon, claiming it was for his work project. He lost his bank card, supposedly. When I told him I didn't feel comfortable sending him money, considering I haven't met him and that it's inappropriate asking for money from someone you just started a relationship with....blah blah blah... He got really upset and quit talking to me yesterday afternoon. Today, he reached out to start a conversation with me and said that I didn't care about him. He was very upset and said he went to bed crying. Continued to say that he'd never ask money from me. He's asking for a gift care, not money. Just crazy! He did ask me... Did I tell you that I'm not a citizen? I pretended he didn't tell me that. I asked how he could work here then and if he had a VISA. He said he had a VISA, but it had expired and his work will eventually pay for it again. He doesn't know that I've seen this site yet. I might play him for a little while longer to see how far he'll go. I can see how people can fall for this. Anyways... I wanted to share my story. Thanks to all of you that have posted your stories and making us all aware. I'm going to report his Instagram profile before I tell him "I KNOW". LOL!

For a year I was used by a military scammer. He used me to send money to his mom and daughter and I thought I was helping. Also he got close to my mother where she sent money to his mom to help. after awhile I thought this is not right. Reason being I just had to stop to think about the men and women in my family who were in the military who did not have to borrow money to have it sent to their families. He used me and I felt like the biggest sucker. Beware of those men professing love to you and wanting you to do things outside the norm especially asking for money. Real men don't ask for cash.

Is anybody talking to a guy named Alexandre Sean Luca? Marine engineer, widowed, French Canadian living in Chicago. Please let me know.

Is anybody talking to a guy named Alexandre Sean Luca? Marine engineer, widowed, French Canadian living in Chicago. Please let me know.

Has anyone heard from a guy named Antoni maddox? He’s done the same to me, but got mad and made me feel guilty because I wouldn’t send money to his corporate for bottled water as he was very ill from something in the water on the rig out in the ocean by Scotland. Says he’s from Texas. A daughter and no wife. She supposedly died from a heart condition. Cut me off after claiming he’s a millionaire and can’t contact anyone due to security reasons in the rig and doesn’t have a phone, just a computer and had me get on hangouts after we first met. Cut me off finally because I wouldn’t send the money, first wanted 1,000$ then said 500.

Really - there's no reason to send ANYONE - and I mean ANYONE - from the Internet any money whatsoever. Even if there by some off-chance they are real, it's not your responsibility to save them. And believe me -- 99.9% of the time they are not real. One thing you can do if you aren't sure is play along... entice them with the promise of money, but tell them that you can only send a certified check to a home mailing address. If they battle you on it (and they will), then you know it's fake. If they give you an address - do a Google search on it and compare it to everything they've told you. I guarantee you it won't match up. I have talked to 2 women recently both asking for money. I did exactly what I stated above, and they both came up with very silly excuses as to why they could not receive mail at their address. Here's an example of what was said below. Of course I had no intention of sending her money -- but I wanted to see if she'd give me an address at least so I could reverse lookup and even possibly report it. --- Begin Transcript (actual conversation is longer, I snipped it for sake of brevity, but main points are there) Me: Morning Mary. Hope you have a good day today. If you have time to talk let me know. Mary Izobo: Good morning how are you doing and how was your night hope you slept well and good and dreamt about us and me and me alone kisses and hugs muaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh love you so so much more babe [Major red flag - we had never expressed 'love' before... that came out of nowhere] Me: Well that was a very sweet morning message. Would love to kiss you. I am off work today Mary Izobo: Okay so you are at home then Me: Yes I'm at home. What will you do with your friend? Mary Izobo: Don't know yet till I get there want too ask for somethings though Me: Ok sure. Ask for what Mary Izobo: So so what did you eat for breakfast and Financial assistance Me: What type of financial assistance Mary Izobo: For my daughter and myself and also for the xmas and stuff like that. But I pray she capable or able too assist Me: Sure let's discuss this on video Mary Izobo: I told you I can't. Any pics I take or snap is whenever am with them then I would transfer it too mine [Of course this is another Red Flag to watch for -- people who won't video. But even if they do video or voice - that does NOT mean they are real... they could still be scammers.] Me: Ok send me your information. Full Name, House Address (I will only send to a home), and Phone # Mary Izobo: Sending too my home would take days. I would give you everything full name and house address zip code state and city. But would find another quicker way for you too send it Me: Yes it will take a couple days to get to you. Mary Izobo: Can you send it through Walmart service too send it Walmart too Walmart Me: I can send to a home address. I don't know what you mean to send to Walmart. Let me know your home address, and an amount. Mary Izobo: I said I would give you my house address but don't want it mailed can't you understand that also Me: This is not debatable. I will send to your home address only. Mary Izobo: Why too my home address only Me: You can either get the money in a couple days through mail, or you can get it never. Because I will only send to home address. Your choice. --- END

My sister is being scammed by someone using name of Davis Wilson or Wilson Davis. Unfortunately, she is not listening to all her friends and family telling her that she is being scammed by this person.

My guy is in Dubai building a 3 mil dollar project Yet he needs Amazon gift cards for supplies. From Spain and has Son. Wife died be in childbirth. Sends pictures all the time. From LA. Has family money. A real charmer

Has anyone heard of a guy calling himself David Ambrosini, also an engineer working in the oil industry and supposedly currently on a platform in the North Sea. I’m reading a theme here in a lot of these posts ... seems like a lot of scammers are out in the ocean somewhere, have a dead wife and a young child being looked after by a family member. This is also this guy’s story. We’ve been talking on Whatsapp for the past 3 months and over the past week and a half, he’s apparently been dealing with an ‘accident’ on the rig which is his responsibility to fix and pay for before Cmas or he’s in breach of contract. We were supposed to be meeting and spending time together over New Years. So just today, he asked me to loan him £37K to finish the repairs on the rig in time! Holy cow!! That’s not an iTunes card or two. Any advice on the best way to respond? Do I confront? Or do I just block him and ignore him? I haven’t and won’t ‘lend’ him any money and am now completely turned off !

Anyone had contact from a Rose lanana.met on match .com ,works on gas rig in Qatar,would only talk on hangouts , has profile on facebook and skype , has a son in nigeria ,training to be a footballer now asking me to send money via western union because her son has lost his phone and 3dglasses for training. , pictures of her are very attractive blond long hair .and a dog in some pictures .be aware she is a scammer.!

Richard Schnabel contacted me Nov 11 from FB , professed love ! Accent British? Wanted $ for Alaska engineering project, called and Texted and called a family member! He’s good ladies beware ! One account he gave was Nigerian!

This man now goes by Shawn Williams or micheal williams has a daughter Sarah, he wanted 56k for equipment repair and 5k to get off rig to pay a bill for food. Then he get 4.5 million when getting off rig. Took me to vigor immediately told me not to tell anyone we were together, got 900.00 in itune cards from me and that was it wanted me to find a big house and he was coming home to marry me, I told him to much about my family! To much of lots of stuff! He sent me roses candy and a bear 1st day! Cried all the time said now he was gonna drink poison he stole from doctor as I didn't care I wasn't getting him off rig to be with his daughter and us for Christmas! He called me dirty names at the end! He called me babe and hunny he always would avoid personal questions and uses Paul Hollywood pictures when sending picture but used a small dog for a profile picture and claimed to be Christian very good actor and lier! So charming and wrote long messages professing his love to me, texted all the time, had a accent I did a reverse photo from utube Google, surprise! He's good at what he does and does it well a pro! I hope he gets caught! Look out ladies!

Hello, has anyone chatted with a guy named Anderson Skylar from New York. Wife cheated on him with best friends and parents both died in a terrible accident. He just asked for iTunes gift cards and I refused.

i have been talking/texting a guy who is German, claims to be from Boston, had to leave to go to Denmark on a contract a few days before we were supposed to meet, that was back in Feb this year, he is still there, unfortunately I have sent him large sums of money, he had me log onto his bank account and make transfers for him, then he suddenly got locked out of his account. How can someone have a fake account where you log in and make what seemed perfectly legitimate transfers? what made me comment on here is he is still in Denmark and asking for I tunes cards.

I’m at someone online through Instagram we talked for about two months and they sent me a check and think I deposit the check but found out that it was a scam and contact my bank and they stopped the check. Now that guy is Threatening find me under military search if I don’t get the money. And I went to the police and told them

Ladies (& Men!) I'm sorry this happened 2 so many of u! It's awful! These Scammers are awful! I do have 2 say though: The "Pictures" of themselves they send u? (These "Gorgeous" Pics?) Are NOT the person (scammer) u are dealing with! I guarantee it! Please don't fall 4 it!

This guy said his name was Prince Hamadan from Dubai and would call and message me from this phone number (631) 633-3350 on WhatsApp. He would ask for money to be sent to him through western union and money gram and iTunes cards. He would threaten, belittle and insult me all the time. I reported him.

Hi I got scamed talking to a guy for over a yr, that was working in China, his name is Harry Taylor.... he got a lot of money out of me. Believing he is visiting me after he got home to NY... I'm very upset with myself

I'm writing this hoping it helps someone else. Please don't fall for these guys or girls. Mine started 3 months ago on Words with Friends. His name supposedly is Richard Barris or Baris. Very handsome man from Turkey with a dead wife and a dead daughter, raising his 2 grandchildren. Very romantic, knows all the right things to say, professed his love for me very quickly. I remind him of his dead wife. After a few weeks started talking on WhatsApp because he had to go to Germany for a job. Talked for a few weeks on there when he was "mugged". His "friend" even sent me a picture of him hooked up to an IV on a gurney. Now all of his money for the pipes he needs to complete the work has been stolen and he needs me to help him so he can buy his pipes and finish the job and come back to the US. I'm too embarrassed to say what I sent him, but it was a lot. After that he kept requesting Itunes cards that he needed so he could resale them to buy food because he wasn't getting a paycheck until the job was finished. I sent a good bit in Itunes cards too. He eventually said the job was finished and was flying back to Texas last Thursday and would mail me a certified check on Friday to repay me. Of course on Friday I didn't hear from him. He eventually texted to say he was sorry and none of it was true and he would pay me back some day if he could. Of course that will never happen. Now my heart is broken and I've lost more money that I care to say and I'm humiliated. I hope this prevents someone else from falling for it.

I also meet scammer that ask for mony I block her quick. And close all my profile. He know my fly booking what now!?

I have the same experience. I met him then after a few days he started professing his live. He said that he was deploy in the country where I am currently working and me being “stupid” fell for him. I sent him money but stopped after I knew that there was someone else too. I’ve stopped communicating with him after. And now he is contacting me again and one of his colleague messaged me threatning me about some pictures that I sent the guy before. He knows where I am working and also my address. What should I do? I need help.

I’m going through a similar situation. A woman I’ve been in contact with Lives near me and every time I tried to meet her, she couldn’t or wouldn’t answer my text for hours. She got me cancel my POF account, “we found each other, we don’t need anyone else.” Clamming fast that she loved me and we’re perfect together. All before meeting. She has a local area code for her phone. Not sure how she can do that. She all of sudden had to travel to Turkey on business. Now she’s in jail because she can’t pay her workers. I have some guy now claiming to be her lawyer and he’s asking me for money to help her get out of jail. Btw...her lawyer called me honey. I texted her saying I was going to contact the news station in her area and even though she’s in jail, she was able to text me telling me to not do that. I texted her a little while ago telling her I was going to contact my local police to see if they can somehow help. We’ll see if she contacts me again, even though she’s in jail. These people are evil and have no heart. This is the second person from online dating that’s tried to scam me. The first one was a woman claiming to be in the army. She sent pictures of her in camouflage gear. After further inspection of the camo, I noticed it was marines. They used someone’s pictures from instagram. She asked for money for food and a new cell phone because hers broke. When I asked her how long she was in the Marines, she got mad and said she was in the Army. I texted a picture of the person she claims to be in her Marine uniform and that’s the last I’ve heard from her. These people tug at your heart strings. They all claim that they’re parents are dead and they don’t have any other family. They say that you’re the only person they care about. If you’re a sensitive person, its hard to not want to help.

Patrick Rosaert-Army Sergeant.

Has anyone else been friend requested from; (305) 832-1074 from Rose Lund Staff Sergeant stationed in Bagdad, Iraq?

Has anyone ever heard of a Juliet John? I am trying to find out if she’s a scammer.

I have been scammed and if I was only more proactive , but got clouded with the thought of romance. This guy Christopher Anderson from Colombia SC ,said to be in Nigeria as US army MP conned me for over 10 months.Wants us to meet up after a couple of months but of course he needs plane fare once he gets back I will get it.Foolish of me there is no getting back that money. Just a warning did some research and told him he was a scammer and he denied it vehemently, now I recently saw the pics he sent me on faces of Nigerian scammers . I told him the game is over and got off KIK as that was our means of communication. I also found the real name of the individual and wonder if I should confront him with all the information I got . Never thought this would happen to me but this forum helps me to better understand my situation is not unique.These people need to be brought to justice. Lost some money but I will survive and learned the hard way that there are cruel people out there seeking to hurt you.