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Scammer's website www.instagram.com/miguel7karam
Scammer's address Rua Conego Vicente Miguel Marino 32 Apt 101 Barra Funda São Paulo SP 01135-020
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country Brazil
Type of a scam Credit Cards
Initial means of contact Internet messaging (e.g., WhatsApp)
Miguel Karam Bencatel Canhao AKA Edward Sampson tried to make purchases with my credit card
Two months later, I received a shock when I checked my account statement and discovered that Miguel Karam Bencatel Canhao, under his alias Edward Sampson, had attempted to make multiple unauthorized transactions on my card. When I checked my credit card statement, I noticed a transaction was made to Rappi Rappi Brasil, a food delivery company based in São Paulo, which he successfully completed.
The reason I checked my credit card statement in the first place was because I received a fraud alert text message from my bank indicating that an attempted purchase was made to SA*Fastsigns, an electronics company also based in São Paulo, Brazil. After calling my bank I found out that this transaction was attempted three times, all of which were declined. These transactions were not authorized by me and are the result of fraudulent activity. I am certain that they were attempted by this individual because he is the only person I know who has lived in Sao Paulo and he had my card number from the attempted purchase.
Country United States
Victim Location NM 87110, USA
Total money lost $33
Type of a scam Romance
Fui enganado por Miguel Karam Bencatel Canhao
Miguel se ofereceu para comprar um souvenir para mim em uma loja chamada Profighters no Sogo Plaza, no bairro da Liberdade, em São Paulo. Inicialmente, ele tentou fazer a compra usando meu cartão Chase Visa, mas a transação falhou porque o banco acreditou ser uma fraude. Miguel então sugeriu pagar com bitcoin e eu concordei.
Após a compra da espada, Miguel me cobrou valores adicionais, uma vez de frete e depois de multa alfandegária. Porém, a espada nunca chegou ao meu endereço.
Miguel continuou a me contatar diariamente, discutindo investimentos em criptomoedas e recomendando uma nova moeda chamada “grama”. O objetivo disso era me fazer ver muitas moedas entrando na minha conta, mas eu não sabia como sacar. Miguel disse que precisava de acesso remoto ao meu computador para transferir as moedas de grama para o etherium. Miguel Karam usou AnyDesk para acessar meu computador. Ele então transferiu a criptomoeda da minha conta Coinbase para sua própria carteira e, por fim, para a Binance.
Cerca de uma semana depois, Miguel me bloqueou em todos os canais de mídia social e no WhatsApp.
Scammer's website instagram.com/miguel7karam
Scammer's address Rua Conego Vicente Miguel Marino 32 Apt 101 Barra Funda São Paulo SP 01135-020
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country Brazil
Type of a scam CryptoCurrency
Initial means of contact In person
Cryptography romance scam Miguel Karam Bencatel Canhao
I met Miguel Karam at the Rio de Janeiro bus terminal on my recent trip to Brazil while waiting for a bus to São Paulo. At the time he was really nice to me and outgoing. We exchanged WhatsApp numbers and the next day he offered to show me around São Paulo which I agreed to. After I returned home he stayed in touch with me and that is when he scammed me.
Migurl started messaging and calling me everyday asking me how I was doing and telling me about his life. One day I told him about a souvenir model sword I wanted to purchase in the liberdade district of São Paulo but didn't. The store where the sword was from is called Profightwrs and is located in the Sogo Plaza building. The scammer offered to go purchase the sword for me and send it to my address. He originally suggested payment by pix but as an American without a CPF, using Pix is not possible. Next Miguel suggested I do the purchase with a credit card. I tried to make the purchase with my chase visa credit card but the bank rejected the transaction as a fraud coming from Trevor Enterprises LLC. Miguel then suggested payment using bitcoin and that worked. The next day Miguel charged me for shipping. About 2 days later Miguel contacts me and tells me that he messed up the customs declaration and wantedme to coverthe fine. Needless to say, Miguel never sent the sword and it has never arrived at my house.
After Miguel Karam knew I had bitcoin, cryptocurrency became his new favorite subject to talk about. He would continue to discuss cryptocurrency advice with me daily. But the next scam involved him telling me about a worthless coin called grass (app.getgrass.io). I signed up like he told me to and noticed I was "earning" quite a bit of this "grass" coin. I asked him how to cash out. He said he needed to put a program on my computer to convert the grass to etherium and he asked me to download anydesk. Once he logged into my computer he distracted me on a video call by asking about the water. He then logged into my coinbase account and sent my entire cryptocurrency balance to a "random" bitcoin and etherium address that he claimed was my grass account. In reality it was his account and when I checked the hash ID I saw that the cryptocurrency forwarded to the same address I had sent for the sword purchase. He would later forward all of the cryptocurrency to his binance account. After this incident Miguel Karam Bencatel Canhao continued to contact me dailyby text on whatsapp, saying he was on a business trip in Rio Grande del Sol for the next week and then he suddenly blocked me from WhatsApp and all of his social media accounts.
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location MI 48202, USA
Total money lost $5,116
Type of a scam Romance
conversation and exchanged whatsapp numbers. Upon returning home, Miguel contacted me and asked how I was doing and told me that he missed me. He also told me that he didn't really have an opportunity to practice English since meeting me and we began a conversation.
I mentioned to Miguel that I wanted to purchase a model sword from Trevor Enterprises LLC in the Libertade neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil while I was in Brazil but didn't during and he offered to purchase the sword for me and send it to my address. At first I tried to make the purchase through Miguel over a
video call where I showed him the numbers on my chase visa card. The transaction failed and so he suggested that I pay for the sword in bitcoin. I agreed and sent him the bitcoin for the sword. The next day he said he went to the post office and told me that it would be almost $249 to ship the sword to me in the United States. The next day I talked to Miguel again and he informed me that the sword had been sent to me. Two days later he contacts me and tells me that he failed to fill out the customs declaration correctly and that if I wanted the sword delivered he would have to pay the fine. That totaled to $262.
It should be noted that the sword never arrived at my house.
Miguel continued to contact me daily on whatsapp and provided me with tips to invest in different cryptocurrency coins. He informed me about a new coin called "grass" (https://app.getgrass.io/) and said by signing up it would be a great way to make money. He gave me a referral code. On March 18 he contacted me and I asked how I would withdraw my grass. He replied by telling me to download anydesk and he said he would help me to withdraw my grass coins. Once he logged into my computer on anydesk, Miguel logged into my coinbase account. He then sent all of my remaining balance of etherium and bitcoin to a new bitcoin wallet, which would later get forwarded to his binance account.
Since the incident. Miguel has blocked me from whatsapp and all social media channels that he owns. In total, Miguel Karam Bencatel Canhao has stolen USD $5115.78 from my coinbase account.