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- West Nyack, NY, USA
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the money was transfered via Brenda Ray** ********** she was using this Law Firm for her scam and checkeswere sent to me to deposite and cleared and the funds were sent to them via wire transfer and Ncargo shipping Co

I was Told by the Law firm I'd have my money back a year ago and been communicating via email since to gert this bac but keep gettint the runaround

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- Bethlehem, PA, USA
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Individual made contact via Bumble dating website. Stated he’s the CEO of his own business.

Then went on to state he was heading to Turkey for work. While there then proceeded with a story about someone owing him money and he wanted to the person to direct to me. I did not know him well and I basically told him 3x about him scamming and that it’s visible. I do have the the screen shots to that conversation.

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- Van Meter, IA, USA
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Scammer reached out to ask for coffee saying we met at a charity event. Sent me photo. Started down the path of a romance scammed and then I blocked number after asking multiple questions.

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- Glenpool, OK, USA
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This is extremely embarrassing! I’m older, recently divorced, recent loss, recent everything and whoever this person is has taken advantage of the whole situation.

March of 2022 I started chatting with officer Steven Armstrong of what I thought was the USAF but apparently is a person in Nigeria.

This person has been kind, sweet, but never listens always has an excuse.

He started off being in Ukrainian “undercover” then from there to Netherlands to Israel and supposedly home for the holidays, meaning Christmas.

Little by little he or I one have slowly stopped talking where as in the beginning we couldn’t stop.

Now that I really think about it on e the money stopped going so did the talking.

I’m overdrawn in the my bank. I gave this stranger access to everything I wouldn’t even give my EX access too!!!

Those are the basic detailsI’m praying those are enough.

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Said he was on a job in France but was from Los Angeles California communicated through text and phone calls said he was originally from Lithuania…sent flowers from Seattle Florist ask about my banking

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It’s a car, money cards romantic. Need money to get car sent. And now threatening my son. If u don’t. He is disable. Brain injury. Carline . Michael

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This happened in 2015

I was so embarrassed and humiliated to even tell anyone and I don’t have much information now I only remember he used the name Terry he friend me online we talked for a few months and then he said he would pay down my Credit cards he would pay off all the Bounces and Al I would have to do is take out the cash advance amount on them and send it to him Western Union I do remember most of my card I could take 1300 or a little more.it’s not like just Sent it to him. My cards were all paid off 100% I was so happy.so I took all the cash Advance cell and sent him all off them . So say I had 15.000 in debt and it cost me 5,000 to get 10,000 off of it .it was a really good deal .But weeks later everything was reversed back on plus all the cash Advance that I took out on them so now I was maxed out and over on all cards now up to $20.000 .

We always need to remember if it sounds to good to be true.” It’s a scam “ at this time I am still trying to fix my Credit .

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I was messaging someone I had just met on an app for queer women called Lex named *******. She mentioned that she had a “sugar mamma” and asked me if I had one. I said no, and she asked if I would like to be in contact with her’s. I said sure, as I was curious and had heard about sugar mammas before and felt it would be more legitimate if it was being referred to me by someone else as opposed to an app or direct message. I messaged her first. The alleged sugar mamma said her name is ********** she’s 56 years old, is from Florida, and has 2 companies of her own: one in construction and another unknown. She said she has no family, as her parents died in a car accident when she was 16 and she lived with an uncle who abused her until she finally left because of a boyfriend she was with at the time who got her into cryptocurrency and how to make money online. The phone number she uses is ###-###-####. She asked me questions about myself and answered any questions I asked her, which made it seem legitimate at first. She asked me what I wanted and about my personal values.

This is all occurring rapidly within hours of first contacting her. She asked me my name (first name only), where I was from, and other general questions. Then she asks me if I want to be her sugar baby. I said I was open to it, but wanted to know if she had any social media first and what she expected from her sugar babies. She said she did not have social media because she had been scammed by sugar babies in the past, and that she only expects pictures of me (primarily non-sexual selfies, but she also stated some sexual photos would be expected). She then asked me how much I wanted from her as a first deposit, and I said I wasn’t sure. Because she had seemed real at this point, I confessed that I was hesitant of course to use any banking information and would prefer to use a third party like venmo or Zelle. She claimed that she would be taxed heavily if she used those, and preferred to do a direct deposit into my account of $1000. She requested that out of the $1000 she sends me, I send $800 to a church she goes to that supports the homeless, and tells me she’s a christian. She asked me for my login information for one of my banking sites. I told her I wasn’t comfortable with that, but wanted to use another checking account I had that was completely empty. She was okay with that because she said she understood where I was coming from.

There was another issue with my account being closed, so I couldn’t use it. I told her I would likely have to wait until Monday for the issue to be resolved if she could wait. She said I could just use the other account with my savings in it and linked to my parents financial information because I can trust her, but I told her no I wasn’t comfortable with that. The next few days, she constantly asked me throughout the day if the account was ready yet, in which I case I kept telling her no. She has continued to ask me if the banking issue has been resolved, and I kept telling her the updates in regards to the situation without divulging valuable information.

She had sent me two selfies of herself, so I entered one of them into google and found that it was from an Instagram influencer’s page, someone who had a different name, age, and everything. The influencer was verified and had many followers, and even had a story on her page warning people about fake sugar mammas who were using her pictures. I told **********” that I found this and asked what was going on. She claimed that influencer was a scammer and that “this is ridiculous, I can’t believe she stole my identity” and claimed to have reported it. Both selfies were from this page.

I told “*********” that I did not want to continue this anymore because I am “busy with school” and she said she understood and was nice about it. However, she continues to text me asking how my day is and if I fixed the account issue yet. And today, she asked me what my mobile carrier is out of the blue. I will be blocking this number.

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well she suddenly show up in my telegram app she saying that she make mistake but she wants to make friendship we talk everything goes nice but suddenly she start complaining about her situation with bills and some other stuff so idid sent several times money but now that person dont answer the number or looks like and office aproximately i did sent her $1000 all togheter not all at once but tha is almost

the total i feel embarassedon this to be to stupid but well God Watch everything and they will get the karma some day

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they are pretending to be a sugar mommy on instagram. offering up to 3000$ a week.

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Person sent text to me with nude photos. asked me if they could call me or meet me multiple times.

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- Adel, IA, USA
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My wife is the victim of a online romance through an app called “Word Chums” over a 4 month period this scammer gained the trust of my wife my romantic sayings through endless amounts of text messages that would go on day and night to isolate her from me and our family and ended up scamming us out of over $54k, my wife will not talk about it what info I have gained is the name this person was going by *** and the phone number being used is 510-*** this number comes out of Oakland California but when I called the number I would get a recording of a person named Tobias ***, this is all I have to go off of .

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This scammer real bame is Taylor. He answered a widower/widows website and introduced himself as Master Sgt Carl B*** in the Marines snd stationed in Nigeria. Met February 2018 and Carl immediately wanted us to stop texting as he said cost him on his cell phone so if we could talk on google hangout. This is how we communicated. Everyday twice a day even with the time zone difference.

Within 2 months he saent me a picture and I sent him a picture of myself. Goid looking fella and attracted. He suddenly professes his love for me and how he wants to come home to US and be with me. Says he is 54 and ready for retirement and will request mandatory leave and can leave. So he needs airfare to fly commercial since military will nit send him back due to his viluntary request for early leave. So he says he needs $3000 so I sent to him but he does get on tge plane ge says because he has gold tgat he invested in and has to clear customs so he needs money for customs. I sent him $2000 then he says he wasrobbed walking from the hotel to airport so now he lost all his money.

So as time goes by, I am sending him more money to airfare, borrowed money for customs payment again. Then needed more money as customs wants storage fees for storage in vault. In a nutshell, Carl tried 8 times to catch flight each time failed due to was kidnapped or not enough money. Todate O gave him $30k and he is still in Nigeria. I finally had enough and broke it off and told him I found someone tgat I wanted to be exclusive with. Carl got in touch with me after a week of no communication and said he couldn’t sleep and he was bothered and had to tell me that everything he told me were lies except for 2 things and that he is in Nigeria and he is in love with me. His real name is Taylor and is 31 years okd and is black. He says the deal breaker. I played along and wanted to know why he did this and hurt me. Taylor says he is sorry and never meant for this to happen. Says truth from now on. I found out that tge money I sent him was used for his college education and has nothing left. He is looking for a job and bo luck yet. He expected me to be angry and hate him but I told him that i fell in love sith tge person who was writing me. So he sent me a picture of himself and he is black and you g. Taylor expected me to have nothing to fo with him. But instead I played along and let him keep texting me.

Taylor wants to still get married and think become a US citizen by marrying me. I know he has applied for a visa and waiting. I have no plans on flying to Nigeria and marrying this guy. He said he took this guy Carl Bisson identity and became him. So whoever this Carl is, has a real family and real life stolen from tgis Taylor.

I do plan to dump him in a month as I don’t want anything to do with him.

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- Hagerman, ID, USA
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I was scammed by a Nigerian posing as a man by the name of Gary B*** who claimed to live in California but was from Austria. I was contacted by him through Facebook and began an online romance with him claiming he was on his last job before retiring. He claimed to own an offshore underwater welding company. His job was in the Pacific Ocean. After approx 2 months he claimed all his money was tied upon this job and he needed money to service the equipment in order to finish after sending 5000 dollars he once again claimed he needed more money because he claimed he had a stroke and needed it for a medical transport helicopter to bring him to me in Idaho, I then wired another 3800 dollars and the very next day he said he needed 7000 more, it was then I knew I had been scammed. I wired this money using Western Union and Money gram, it was wired to 2 different people whom he claimed we're related to his workers. His friends name was Juan Adams of course a fake name. I did speak to the person claiming to be his worker. I also spoke with that mans so called girlfriend in the USA who told me she was wiring money to Nigeria for him, she was receiving and sending money so she was a money mule for them. When I let her know what I was able to find out she was in denial about this Juan being a scammer from Nigeria. After I did receive a call from him that originated in Nigeria. That's my story

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I had met this guy named oscar lundberg, he introduced himself as a pilot in turkey doing a private training contract. He said he was from sweden, lives in new jersey. A week after we started talking, we were talking around the clock and things were getting more personal , than he said he sent roses to me by his hotel conceirge and at the same time told them to send the bag to his hotel room he was staying at. At the end of a day, he told me he just found out they accidently sent all of it, his passports,debit card, cash. He asked me to pay for the customs and delivery fees that were a huge charge so that he can get them back and to cover my expenses with the cash inside. He said he had no way to pay because everything he needed were in the bag. I paid for them. After all that was paid, the delivery service said yes, we will send it. Later on they asked for a frieght bill. We both sent it. They asked for more money. I ended up getting a hold of the US border to assure me that there was an actual bag. They informed me it was all a scam and not to send anymore money. This website looks like a real website and alot of details. Its not.

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- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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I heard from "Nelson Spencer" through Plenty of Fish. He claims that he is doing contract work on the Henry Goodrich Oil Rig run by Husky off the coast of New Foundland in Canada. He stated that there was a terrible accident and since his accounts were frozen due to fraud by his ex brother in law, that he needed money to help pay for shipping of chemicals that needed to be replaced. This company is fake. He "accidentally" sent a copy of the contract with Husky energy and the passport that I attached in the photos below.

He emails, texts and calls. He uses the Whatsapp. His goal is to get bitcoin.

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- Pasco, WA, USA
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This fellow was a soldier in Iraq with a daughter & mother. He & I were friends & have been for a year. We gave been thru alot together. Now he says he is a mercenary & needs money to fly home. He is unable to get money from family in the US. I have given him money in the past for internet etc.

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About six months ago, I was contacted by this person through Match.com. He told me that he was a Marine deployed in Syria and would be moving to Anchorage after he came back in the country. He was very charming and had perfect grammar. I teach English, so I can tell if someone is not using proper subject/word agreement. We hit it off and began speaking everyday. He told me that he was not allowed to video chat because of his deployment.

After about a week he told me that he was involved in an attack and lost his bank cards and needed money for supplies. I declined the few first times because it was summer and money is always tight for teachers. We continued speaking through an online app called Allo. He did not mention money for the next three weeks. He told me a story that he was receiving some money through his lawyer, but needed a bank account to transfer the money. I gave him the information thinking nothing of bank fraud, etc. He was quite charming and I was trusting of him. I am going through a terrible divorce and wanted to take a chance with dating again. The bank transfers go through and I send him the allotted money through Venmo. A few days later I get a call from my bank stating that the account is overdrawn and there was a reverse payment of funds. Basically, the funds that were meant for him were red flagged. I lost about 2000.00 from this transaction. I closed that bank account under his direction and opened a new one because it was what the "lawyer" said to do.

This man or whomever this entity is has cost me a bank account. I started piecing this all together when I was contacted the other day by a "soldier" through Facebook. So, I did some research and did a reverse image scan of the supposed person I was speaking to and another name came up. Plus he texted like clockwork and it has been ten days and I am no use to him any longer because my bank account was closed.

This person has preyed on someone that has just gotten out of a mentally abusive marriage and wants to put trust back into the world. I feel stupid, betrayed, and angry! This person is very charming! Ladies, please be cautious! I am hoping my story will prevent someone for falling for this man.

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The guy pretended to fall in love with me on Instagram said he was flying here to meet me but oops he got robbed and needs $3000 set to him asap. Lol luckily I was not so star stuck that I fell for this. I have had numerous men reach out to me claiming to be on peace missions for the military but this one I genuinely thought was real. And I believed he was sincere. It’s sickening that people would play on others emotions that way... I am 44 years old and have never been in love. I actually allowed myself to be vulnerable with this guy, I think being on line made it easier... woman trust your inner voice, I didn’t listen to mine a number of times. I thought I was just scared, and he would talk me out of my feelings of doubt and disbelief. Talk to people you trust. Don’t ever give someone you don’t know money! A real man would never ask in the first place!!!

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- Richwood, OH, USA
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I met a girl on Facebook, Jessica Graham, about a year ago. She said her parents were from Texas, but they passed away. She lives in FL. She sent me a cashier's check for $2600 from Rosa Bandos. I think Rosa is her lawyer. There is a real signature in pen. It's written against Energy Bank of TX. She wants me to deposit the check into his account, and send $600 sent back to her so she can come to Ohio. She said she wanted a money order or a cashier's check. She wants to leave $2000 with me so that when she gets to Ohio, she'll have $2000 to help her grandmother. I've never met her in person she says she's been dealing with her lawyers.

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