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- Bandy, VA, USA • Dec 04, 2024
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My girlfriend in Tokyo was going to send me $55,000 through a form of cash app. Had to pay $1600 in bitcoin. Meet her on Facebook a year ago. Never seen her.

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- Newcomerstown, OH, USA • Dec 01, 2024
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Willard contacted me on a dating site and quickly moved to Whatsapp. He appeared genuine, but i couldn't find any info online about him and he removed himself from the dating site. He said he was a cryptocurrency stock trader and tutor and he had helped a student a lot of the day.

He moved from Texas to Ohio a month ago.

No personal info was shared.

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- Chesapeake, VA, USA • Nov 19, 2024
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Scammer going by the name Richard Perez started messaging me through Silversingles around the middle of May. Shortly after we exchanged phone numbers all of messages were through our phones or email. He claimed he had to go to Dubai just days before we were supposed to meet in person. Once there he said he could not access his bank account because he forgot to tell them he would be out of the country and the bank blocked his account. He asked me to send a cashiers check for $22,500 to an individual named Marion Smith at 79 7th Ave., Carbondale, PA 18407-2432. On June 27, 2024 I sent him money was for $27,000 by wire transfer to Carmel Mullee's bank: Wells Fargo Bank 18 Main Street, East Hartford, CT 06118. Carmel's address is 14 Agawam St., Dorchester, MA 02122. I sent another wire transfer for $22,500 to Carmel Mullee's bank again on July 1, 2024. On July 3, 2024 I wired another 22,500 to Carmel Mullee's bank. On July 11, 2024 I sent another wire for $27,500 to Carmel Mullee's bank. All of these wire transfers were sent to help him secure his contract for the construction of a skyscraper in Dubai. He claimed to be stuck in Dubai until he could secure the contract. On July 15, 2024 he sent me by email what seemed to be a legitimate contract for the construction that was signed and approved. After getting through that process, the next thing he told me was the company he was working for (Alfanar) would not him leave the country until he had all the heavy equipment lined up and started for clearing the area of construction. This is when he suggested he set up a Bitcoin and Gemini account on my laptop so we could move money faster to him. So I allowed him to do this and he transferred what was left in my retirement savings ($318 thousand plus) over two separate transactions. All this time he was telling me he had more than enough in his bank in the U.S. to cover what I had given him plus interest and any penalties I might incur. Of course all this time he was love bombing the hell out of me, convincing me over and over that he loved me and wanted so badly to be with me. I finally realized what a fool I was when I received a phone call on October 23, 2024 from someone claiming to be a doctor at a hospital in Abu Dhabi, and he was telling me "Richard" had been in an accident and was in the ICU. The doctor would not give me any other information. He just said when "Richard" was better he would call me. That call never came, and it's been almost a month. After finding a website called Lenso AI, I was able to see "Richard" was on many other websites claiming to be interested in settling down with his soulmate. Each one, he used a different name, so I have no idea what his real name is. I have a copy of his probably fake drivers license if you need it.

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- Virginia Beach, VA, USA • Nov 18, 2024
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Romance scammers said he (name used Roland R. Brown, widower) was a Structural Engineer living in Va Beach VA/Alexandria VA. w/a 14 year old daughter who is in boarding school in Texas. He contacted me from Facebook dating site (which I did not know existed and started texting from there then started calling from what's app. Said he had to go to Ghana to get his daughter's inheritance (5.8 million dollars) from his late wife's late parents who lived in Ghana then he said got stuck there and 5 months into the scheme he started asking me for $$$$$$ and guilting me out of it saying things like he ran out of funds for food and could I send him money to eat & get home etc. I fell for it and lost my life savings my two vehicles my house. I ended up homeless for 2 years. It's more complicated than this and it's a lot more difficult to deal with because they're trained scammers and I'd never heard of scammers before so I had a very hard time dealing with this situation and blame myself nearly committing suicide. My family and friends absolutely abandoned me. I was completely devastated.

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- Croton On Hudson, NY, USA • Oct 27, 2024
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It happened through a dating site, no flags or emails came in negative, so we continued text messaging, and my guard wasn't up enough because he seemed so real. He said he was from NJ and had to travel to Spain because his aunt and uncle were killed, that was in March. He said he owned his own company, Atrind.com and has a warehouse in NJ. He claims to live in Edgewater NJ. We have not met, he allegedly is in Spain because he needs funds to get home. He claims his rental car was broken into when he left his bag behind behind and went into a store for five minutes, and in the bag was his license and passport, long story , I foolishly lent him funds through my credit card , via cash app because , again he supposedly had no bank account and he had a "wallet" where monies from the cash app can be deposited. I know nothing about these apps, I am not techy but I am kicking myself for being so gullible.. I don't know where to start so I looked into information and thought to start here, any further information or advice you can assist with would be most appreciated.. thank you in advance

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- Delray Beach, FL, USA • Oct 22, 2024
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Asked me for a big favor. He's at work & needs me to purchase $500. In a razor gold card as a bday gift for his 5yr.old son. Sending me a pic of him as a cardiologist in a miami hospital. A cardiologist floater never works in the same place. He begged & pleaded many times. Then he said his son was crying. Has a strong middle eastern accent. He prefered texting to the phone. I couldnt understand his broken accent. Said he was embarrassed of his voice. Only communicated through whatsapp after POF. He stopped using POF bc he loved me. Wanted both of us to get off of POF bc he can tell he loves me.(we never met) This continued for 4 days? Texted me every am & pm goodnite & good morn. Today, after his pathetic pleading & says Jesus wll take care of us. I blocked whatsapp, uninstalled POF. I feel like he's in my. cell. Yesterday, I had to get online to call Lyft. My cell would not get a connection (online).Never had that happen before. I would like advice if possible. Thank you in advance. **** ************

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- Jones, OK, USA • Oct 20, 2024
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She found me on a dating site and used her Touring in Syria and her need for a care package which was $200 dollars. She proclaimed how hellish the experience was. Scott ******** was the recipient via PayPal at *********************

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- Summersville, WV, USA • Oct 20, 2024
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Used romance to scam my husband out of about $30,000.00. He even is buying a house with her. He is in financial ruin.

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- Blacksburg, VA, USA • Sep 23, 2024
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I met this girl over LMK, and she pretends to like me and she borrowed money for some personal use but everytime was through cashapp and she asked me to show my card which I didnt give but she asks for money which i refrained but gave about 30 dollars rightly. But the cashapp ID used were different and I suspect that she is dealing with some stuff where she made me pay for that, today she told she has not had lunch and asked 20 dollars ,which is has kept asking till evening, I initially paid later cancelled realising possible scam going on with me

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- Leesport, PA, USA • Sep 21, 2024
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this person promises romance to my 84 year old mom. As a family we removed access to her savings but this person keeps returning as they know she will break. They will have her get gift cards and give them the numbers with the promise they will show up to love her and take care of her. They manipulate her into feelings against her family. she gave family cell phone numbers to this person and they manipulate the entire situation. Their story makes no sense but she is convinced he is real

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- Enola, PA, USA • Sep 13, 2024
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I was told that I had to pay for a fan card to keep talking to Taylor which was $5000 . I was then told that he was fined for $10,000 because he was trying to help me out and pay for half of the fan card for me because I didn’t have the money. I offered to help pay his fine but now I am being told that I am not paying enough money on every Friday. I have paid $9000 to several different people via cash app,Venmo and PayPal and I am not able to find the management company online. I am not sure if it is a scam or if I am being dumb but I would like my money back

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- Ferrum, VA, USA • Sep 13, 2024
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The man's name is Frederick Hill he claims that he's working in an oil rig off of Scotland & that his money is tied up in his contract..So he's asked my Mom to help him come on vacation & that it costs $55,500 but supposedly the company has let pay $10,500 instead & he told he'd pay for it by sending her the money through air mail...Now, she has been buying him apple pay cards, 2 cards for $50 a piece (that we know of) now he's claiming to have typhoid fever & instead of going to a hospital he told her to buy 2 $500 (Razor) Cards so he could get injections that would cost $1000 instead...My mom is 84 yrs old & really believes everything this man is saying...I've tried to tell her he is a scammer but she refuses to believe me or anyone even when we tell her about the shows like Dateline or the news storied about how men scam older women...Mom only has her Social security check to live on & I'm just praying it isn't too late that she hasn't given this man her banking information...I reported him to Facebook & they said it nothing they could do...He has 2 profiles, one says he lives in Los Angeles, California & the other says Red Bluff, California...I've seen some of their messages & when they're messaging back & forth he says he doesn't understand what she's saying, to me that's a red flag because if you're from the US then you would understand English.....According to her she was to get the $10,500 & send it to someone else once she got the money from him, through the air mail...She hasn't mentioned anything yet about that...She even spoke to a lady at her bank about this man & she told her he was a scammer but yet she's still talking to him...i honestly don't know what else to do at this point but to report him...my phone number is ************ & my email is **************************** if you have anymore question I'll try my best to answer them...Thank you

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- Radford, VA, USA • Sep 08, 2024
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I am a senior who met a man on Facebook who claimed to be Brigadier General Vincent F. Malone in the U.S. Army. This was in

August of 2024. I communicated with him from August until the first of September, 2024. He insisted that we communicate on Google Chat which I had never used. He said it was importance for his safety and security and of keeping his conversations private being that he was a General. During our conversations he mentioned that he had a diplomat working on his portfolio on his behalf by the name of Richard Paul. Malone communicated to me that his portfolio contained $10 million dollars which he was paid for getting a high ranking person in Syria and his family out safely. The portfolio also contained identification and Malone's retirement papers. He told me that this portfolio was being held up in a warehouse in Syria and if i could send him $3000.00 they (the customs in Syria) would release the portfolio. I was to UPS Overnight this cash inside a book and send to a Regina Romero. I was never told who she was or her title. I'm thinking that she was another liaison for Malone. The portfolio was released to the U.S. After this payment was made and thinking that Malone would be released to the states...he then said when it got here they wanted $25,000.00 in US customs to release. Malone told me early on that he was 62 years old and was just trying to get home to the states. So out of the goodness of my heart i sent this man 25,000. but it was in the form of a cashiers check. It was to be UPS Overnighted to a Sandra Williams. After this Malone said that he would repay me (the $28,000.00) out of the $10 million in his portfolio. However, after his "dilpomat" Richard Paul sent me an email saying that in order to have them deliver it to me to be opened with a code, he would need another $150,000.00 which Paul said he pleaded with the agents to come down from their original request which was $300,000.00. Needless to say, this is where it all ended. I still get request for money from him. I deleted his messages, google chats, etc. Out of the goodness of my heart this was done for a man claiming he was just trying to get to the states to enjoy retirement. Lesson learned.

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- Jupiter, FL, USA • Sep 07, 2024
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Used my name in the email subject line, but not when he started the email. Said he came across my name on LinkedIn then went on to compliment me, my looks, etc. Said he's never done this before...wants to connect. I saw the other persons note about Gregory Auger scamming her so thought I'd share this. I deleted his message and never responded.

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- Miami, FL, USA • Jul 21, 2024
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The scammer wanted to help me financially by paying my credit card He paid it gave me an acc number and routing the he asked me to go to a cvs that when i figured it was a scammer I didnt answer him and 30 minutes later got a bunch of threats from another number. 3 h later got an fake fbi badge foto saying to send money to the scammer

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- Summer Shade, KY, USA • Jul 07, 2024
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Asking for gift cards for food healthcare, pet veterinarian fee, grandmother burial. Airline tickets, medicine's, passport fee, transportation by bus fee,

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- Anna, TX, USA • Jun 29, 2024
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I was approached and have been texting this guy a little older and he emailed me a check for $1000. I thought it was real because we have called and now I know it isnt and am at risk of having accounts flagged

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- Douglassville, PA, USA • Jun 21, 2024
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Scammer Aliased as Lanie Gardner.

Proclaimed to need money due to Jonas Contract falling through and going into bankruptcy.

Wants to marry victim, wants to live with victim. (lies)

Sends false pictures or clearly photoshopped images of real person.

Takes only Prepaid cards, but has gotten checks from my father, now I fear they can forge his checks.

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- Accokeek, MD, USA • Jun 08, 2024
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Looking for romantic information to get together, by acting that we know each other in the past.

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- Blacksburg, VA, USA • Apr 15, 2024
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I met Marc through Elite Singles dating site. I did not like my options on the site but since I was in communication with Marc I didn't mind continuing communication outside of the site since I was no longer using it. Thereafter, I did notice that Marc's account was gone. Marc said he is a real estate broker and financial coach in trades. He stated having made projections and loved helping his students. He introduced me to an "AI Trading" site called PureTradeOption.com. Marc said to start small but the more I put in like $10K the more I'll get a return on. I only put in $200 and had to convert to bitcoin to invest. He suggested I use Cashapp but I used my Coinbase account. Once processed by Coinbase (took 1 week), I deposited it into the PureTradeOption account I created. After almost 2 weeks, the account grew to $9817.49 by 4/10/24 at which point I received an email that no other profits could be made until I "top up" by depositing "$6500." Marc stated that I would not be able to withdraw funds until my account reached $60,000 since I had a "basic level" account. I attempted to withdraw the $9817.49 for a deposit into my Coinbase account. Once the transfer on the PureTradeOption acct reached 86% transfer, it paused and prompted me to entire an access code, which I obviously didn't have. I then attempted to withdraw my initial $200 and received the same prompt again. Both of my attempts were followed by an email that stated my withdrawals declined. When I told Marc, I was not moving forward with the "top up" of $6500 he was aggressive by calling me "stubborn" and that I could not learn from him because I argue (when there was no argument). This is an odd response from someone who I met online for the purpose of dating. We never video called or met in person since he's supposedly in New Jersey and Hungarian. On very brief phone calls, he would just say hello and sounded like he had African heritage. When I emailed customer support to receive an access code, the person stated I could not withdraw because I had not reached $60K. When I stated this was a SCAM in my reply, the response was unprofessional, "Alright then you can go ahead with the report, it’s the criteria for a withdrawal in the basic account" and "Obviously you are trying to prove a point and we will do everything to sue you for a false allegation." Lastly, there was no withdrawal fee. Any reputable trade site would take a commission and/or transfer fee. Marc and PureTradeOption are likely just keeping people's money. Also, I could not find any discussions online from anyone in AI or Forex trading about this site.

I am concerned this has happened to others or will. And if I put in $200, I can only imagine how much they've scammed out of other people.

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