In general this is how it works. A male scammer contacts another man through an online dating service, posing as an attractive young woman, looking for a serious relationship. It all starts out as a harmless virtual friendship but soon enough the pretty young girl will ask the man for financial help. The excuses for this approach vary according to the scammer’s imagination but they tend to have a very strong emotional appeal to the victim. By the time the scammer starts to ask for money, the poor man is already convinced that she is looking for the same thing that he is: a serious long lasting relationship and is an easy pray to her charm.
Be on the lookout:
A scammer will try to get your money using extremely appealing arguments. Most of them are very smart and used to this kind of activity and they will easily find a way to your heart.
- Maybe they need money to help a sick or struggling family member.
- They need some money to start their own business and better their lives.
- They are desperate to meet you and they need financial help to get that flight ticket.
- They have suffered a tragedy, been robbed and they don’t have anyone else to turn to.
- And so on…
The excuses are as many as the scammer’s imagination can handle and you are their gullible prey!
Usually they will ask you to send them money using methods that are virtually impossible to trace, so be extra careful when your new virtual date suggests a wire transfer via Moneygram or Western Union. These methods are untraceable, irreversible and they don’t offer the sender any legal protection against fraud – a big no – no.
Does this mean you should quit online dating?
Of course not! There are lots of things you can do to protect yourself from fake online daters and many signs that can indicate you are being a victim of this type of scam. So, if your online date sends you a picture that looks out of a magazine cover, it probably is! Top models don’t usually hang around online dating sites.
Online Dating Red Flags:
- Your date does not give you a valid postal address and the phone number.
- Your date sends a lot of emails that seem generic and when you ask questions, the answers are always too evasive.. Maybe they are just sending mass emails to several other potential victims.
- They ask you for money.
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Once you start realizing a scammer always calls you dear. They can not remember more than the previous conversation (usually) like you are trying to catch them up. They never send a good pic. I wish there was a website that you could pics of scammers and look thru and see who pics they are using. The hard part of this is that people are having there identities stolen and name ruined because they are pics stolen. Several soldiers are soldiers are service people who have been killed and pics copied and sent all over the world. Who is going to complain dead soldier? These people need to be jailed not just for being scammers but taking something bigger a person memory and diginity.
These people who have taken on the identity of fallen soldiers or even living once on the Afghan front, have expanded their field of activity on the countries in which English is not the native language, like Germany. Thanks goodness we are not harmed, the CID was informed by us!
I was wondering if anyone had contact with someone called John Camp (US Army) I am very nervous about this situation and I guess after being shown the lovely emails, I am concerned that this is not true would love to hear from anyone who may have had contact with him.thanks
Hi,
I just thought of sharing my story also. Bellow is the mail I got from someone who got my contacts from a social network. But before I could further with him,I thought of “googling” what she kept claiming to be her father’s name. As expected, I found a lot of warnings about that that scam. one was on this site. Hence, my decision to add my warning.
Dearest,
Thank you for responding to my message. My Name is sabeen David Thiara, A young girl of 25 years from Sierra Leone,west Africa.I am single, never married.I came from a responsible family where I was showered with love and great concern.My Late father David Thiara was an adviser to the president of my country on political matters,and a very successful business man,We had a very happy family that was united with undying Love.We were preparing to celebrate My late father’s birth day,When Rebels attacked our home one early morning and killed every member of my family in cold blood.I managed to escape death by sheer stroke of luck,and made my way to (Senegal) where I am presently Residing in their refugee camp here in (Dakar)Through the help of Pastor Reuben James.I happened to be the only one from my family who survived this attack and cruel death.
I was in the second year in the university as a Law student before this incident happened and I ran for my dear life.I will still go back to continue with my Education as soon as I organize my self and settle things.
I will love to know your Hobbies,things that turn you on and things that you hate.I have attached my picture for you,and hope to hear from you soonest.
Please,I will look forward to reading your mail soonest.
I think my friend is being targetted by a scammer. This person contacted him on a social network. He has apparently no family – his parents died when he was young. He was born in Switzerland and his mom and dad immigrated to the USA. He is apparently stationed in Afghanistan in Kabul with the UN Peacekeeping Force. They have been chatting now for more or less 3 months. He loves my friend to death, is a Christian, etc. etc and wants to immigrate and marry my friend. First it was his birthday and a care parcel was sent with a request for a “gold” chain etc. The delivery address is somewhere in Malasia. The arrangement that was made was that a man he knows and trusts and who supplies the UN base in Afghanistan with meat will bring him the parcel. He loves my friend so much that he is also sending him a care parcel with money to the value of $35K. The parcel got stuck in Malaysia where the parcel was scanned. The parcel apparently contains small gold bars (whether more than one I don’t know) and the parcel with the $35K are now stuck. He must now collect the parcel in Malaysia, and he doesn’t have any money left (everything included in parcel)and my friend must send him money for the flight and accommodation +- $3,750 US. It must be send via a moneygram.
I know this is a scam, but have to convince my friend. Please give me your opinion.
Would like to follow up with you about this guy. May have been my ex husband who wad pulling so many scams. Im just trying to discover as much truth as possible. Believe me …I was scammed.
I would like more info on the scammer going by the names Captain Cross Repetto and Lind Anthony Repetto.I believe he is also a man I met on net log by the name of Repetto Baker and have been talking to him about 1 1/2 months now and also have him on my Facebook. I also like you have feel head over heals in love with him and he was suppose to be taking a leave from Kabul,Afghanistan to come here to be with me. Then said he would then marry me and wants to resign from the army. Then the other night I went to type in his name to go to his profile on Facebook and only get Rep typed in and it brought up the name Lind Scott Repetto and it has a pic of the same man. I confronted him and he said he went to it and it’s his pic. but someone else made the profile. When we first started talking he told me his mom and dad both were killed in a car accident and he left from N.Y. and moved to IL with his grandmother and she had died a year later but he finished school there. He said he has been divorced for 5 yrs. now and has a son that is 12 but lives with his guardian in KY.He has even asked me to open up an account at a bank we do not have here so then he asked me to open up one at Bank Of America and that his bank manager was going to send money for him to my acct. for when he takes his leave.I just can’t believe this is happening,so sad how someone can play with your emotions and feelings like this. But would love to get more info on these names I found on here.
I was enroll myself into dating site for a few days and closed the account for less than a week.
There was a guy named peter chris (I think the name itself is already a lil unusual), 40 years old, the only child of mum living in America. His wife died for car accident a year ago.
He said he is working as mechanical engineer in richmond company glasgow (he was surprised when i asked him whether he is working at richmond, i saw that in the picture he sent me — well of course the pictures he sent to me are all fake)
We started with daily emails, he was really kind and polite with a very good english then followed with yahoo chat with only fair english i can tell. Then we are texting with his number +447031913873 (I googled today and found out that this number related to scams). We called each other and luckily it was only few times and i was using VOIP so it wont be too expensive.
He said the wanted to visit me within a week and i felt something wrong with that as it was only after 2 weeks. I told him that he can come to my birthday on May and I will visit him in Glasgow on his birthday on June.
Then after he seem like accepting my request he suddenly said that he will go to malaysia to claim a big amount of money deposited by his late Father ( it was USD 878k) and told me that it is his and he will spend it with me.
Again I have a feeling that something was not right, he keeps saying about marriage which most of guys afraid of (hehe), asking about house price here as he wants to invest some of his money here (this is also really weird and i told him i will not accept any money from him before i met him).
The weirdest thing was, when we talked over phone he has a very funny accent. I thought maybe it was only his ‘weird’ accent but now after read a lot about nigerian scamers…i realize ahhhh it has something to do with the accent.
Then, when he said he is in Malaysia (yeah right, now I know many scamers in Malaysia), he needs money as it stated in the agreement that it needs 5% payment from total deposited money.
1. I don’t think any deposit needs any payment when it already reach the due date.
2. He should know that it needs any payment long before he arrives in Malaysia
3. Weird that he said his mum transfers him 4k, his friend 5 k, his agent in Malaysia 1 k and short for another 2.3k (amount he asked from me and will return to me with interest – what?)
He never shared me any chance to see him via webcam, that also weird. He said he doesn’t have one on his pc and phone but now I know that its because he is not the person as he told.
It only less than a month we talked to each other and honestly what woke me up is because he was asking me about this money.
I maybe interested in sweet words from a man, but when it going this weird i will know.
Scary, will never enroll myself into any dating site
I had been contacted in Nov 2012 by Sgt. Chris James. He stated he was divorced in Afghanistan and retiring in January 2013..He said his son was killed during combat due to an asthma attack. He seemed very charming and I was new to the online dating sites. He said he was from NY. He asked me immediately to go on yahoo.com messanger since his membership was expiring. So we communicated daily sometimes twice a day. He would call me early in the morning 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. when your tired and I guess your guard is down. He asked me for a computer (HP laptop) because it was his birthday. Then wanted it sent by UPS to Ghana because he would be sure to receive it from his friend who would deliver it to him in Afghanistan. He sent me numerous photos both military and civilian. I thought asking for a gift was outright rude. I told him I had never been asked by a man for a gift or money. I checked into getting the computer sent to Ghana via UPS it would cost $400. The post office will send a laptop to an APO but not through to an address. He wanted it sent without the battery..I did not send anything. Then he asked for Calvin Klein T-shirts which I thought would be reasonable. He did get irate when I told him this sounded like a scam. He sent me his military ID and don’t be fooled they can counterfeit anything. I have not had it checked out yet. PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TO ANYONE YOU DO NOT KNOW. I HAVE HEARD OF CASES WHERE THEY SAY THEY ARE CALLING IN REGARDS TO A RELATIVE WHO IS OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND NEEDS MONEY. I AM POSTING THIS BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS SMART AND HE GOT IRATE WHEN I CALLED HIM A SCAMMER. IF YOU HAVE A NAME PLEASE REPORT IT TO HELP OTHER WOMAN.
HI,.
I was introduced to a good looking man on eHarmony called ‘Rick from Melbourne’. After initial contact he asked quickly for my private email address because his subscription was coming to an end. Inexperienced with dating sites I gave it to him.
His love letters (in bad English) first touched me, when he was planning our marriage after 3 emails I got suspicious and also saw the flaws and mistakes he made during our correspondence.
He claimed to be Italian, living in Melbourne for the last 4 mths. with a permanent visa to stay. He gave his age as 62, I found out that nobody gets a permanent visa with that age. Like all other scams he was a widower, the only child, no friends, no family, therefore trying to start a new life with me. Sometimes a big chapter in his emails were so romantic and in perfect English that I typed it into Google. Well, the same words appeared on a website were you can copy poems etc.
So then I was stringing him on to get more information about him because I was determined to report him. It took me ages to find his IP address because I am not good with computer work. But one day I hit the number 41.58.32.147 (Ikeja-Nigeria), another one 41.58.23.35 (Mushin-Nigeria). So I knew he was definitely not in Melbourne. And those IP addresses, as I found out, had been used in the past for scams.
Now I felt like a scammer myself because I was baiting him, but who cares, I just wanted to stop him. After my last love letter he gave me his phone number. I couldn’t believe it, it was from Melbourne. So I rang 0385184707, it was diverted, I heard mumbling and stuff coming into my ear that I quickly hung up. Now I think it was diverted to Nigeria.
His email address is rm1951x@yahoo.com, his fake name is RICK MARINO.
I was ready to send him a nasty letter but on advice I didn’t. I ended up sending him a nice email saying that I had met someone else and I wished him good luck to find a god fearing woman (that’s what he was looking for as a godfearing man!!!!). Then I cancelled my email account and reported him to diff. organizations.
I am at peace now. In hindsight I learnt a lot, even know the time difference between Nigeria and Australia ha ha ha ha.
So, this is a warning to everyone who encounters a scam. Be careful, never get emotionally so quickly involved no matter how lonely you are, and never ever send any money, never ever give personal details away. Those guys are ruthless, they want what you have no matter what it is.
HI,.
I was introduced to a good looking man on eHarmony called ‘Rick from Melbourne’. After initial contact he asked quickly for my private email address because his subscription was coming to an end. Inexperienced with dating sites I gave it to him.
His love letters (in bad English) first touched me, when he was planning our marriage after 3 emails I got suspicious and also saw the flaws and mistakes he made during our correspondence.
He claimed to be Italian, living in Melbourne for the last 4 mths. with a permanent visa to stay. He gave his age as 62, I found out that nobody gets a permanent visa with that age. Like all other scams he was a widower, the only child, no friends, no family, therefore trying to start a new life with me. Sometimes a big chapter in his emails were so romantic and in perfect English that I typed it into Google. Well, the same words appeared on a website were you can copy poems etc.
So then I was stringing him on to get more information about him because I was determined to report him. It took me ages to find his IP address because I am not good with computer work. But one day I hit the number 41.58.32.147 (Ikeja-Nigeria), another one 41.58.23.35 (Mushin-Nigeria). So I knew he was definitely not in Melbourne. And those IP addresses, as I found out, had been used in the past for scams.
Now I felt like a scammer myself because I was baiting him, but who cares, I just wanted to stop him. After my last love letter he gave me his phone number. I couldn’t believe it, it was from Melbourne. So I rang 0385184707, it was diverted, I heard mumbling and stuff coming into my ear that I quickly hung up. Now I think it was diverted to Nigeria.
His email address is rm1951x@yahoo.com, his fake name is RICK MARINO.
I was ready to send him a nasty letter but on advice I didn’t. I ended up sending him a nice email saying that I had met someone else and I wished him good luck to find a god fearing woman (that’s what he was looking for as a godfearing man!!!!). Then I cancelled my email account and reported him to diff. organizations.
I am at peace now. In hindsight I learnt a lot, even know the time difference between Nigeria and Australia ha ha ha ha.
So, this is a warning to everyone who encounters a scam. Be careful, never get emotionally so quickly involved no matter how lonely you are, and never ever send any money, never ever give personal details away. Those guys are ruthless, they want what you have no matter what it is.
I joined planet rock dating. So far I have received over 50 messages. I have replied to most of them. However I have not received any reply whatsoever. I tried to cancel my subscription and was given 2 free weeks. I still have not received any replys. Hasanyone else eexperience this.
I joined Match.com in March 2013 and was charged £77.94 for a six month contract expiring in september. I suspended the account on 25th August. I only recently found that meetic affinity took £89.70 in April and £89.70 in August whilst this contract was still live.
They took a further £89.70 in November 2013 and another £89.70 in February 2014 after I suspended the account. I understand from looking online many other complaints exist.
Who should I see about this?
Have been chatting to an ex-soldier from the US army who is now working as a private contractor in Kuwait for the past 5 months. His name is Ben Monroe Roberts from California. Met him on Military cupid. Has anyone else heard of him?
was wondering if anyone has heard of a scammer named Baca Atkins. Said he was posted at Shoffield Barracks and now has been deployed in Africa for over 2 yrs. Anyone that has info on him please email me at the above address.