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- Bluefield, VA, USA • Nov 22, 2024
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Thomas Shaffer (Lam) contacted me via the Yahtzee with Buddies app. He asked general questions about me and told me about himself. He was 54 and his career was a diamond miner, he was the boss on his team, he lived in Miami FL, was born in Belgium, and he was a multi-millionaire. He told me I could Google his work website if I wanted to. Fortdrumcrystalmines.com. I did. Towards the bottom of the home page it listed the 4 top execs with their photos. Thomas was there. A little over a week later he asked me to go to the telegram app using phone number 413-300-1020. At first we just talked, but after a couple of weeks he began to tell me he loved me, and romanced me with words. He suddenly disappeared from the telegram app a few days later. He messaged me again in Yahtzee with buddies asking me to switch to the signal app using phone number 772-202-3483. He said his telegram app was hacked. He continued to woo me, and began gaining my trust. About two weeks later he said his work was sending his team to Turkey to mine diamonds, and they’d be gone for about 3 months. This would be his last mining job before he retired. While on the plane, he said he’d forgotten to buy gift cards to stay in communication with me, and he needed me to buy $500 of Razer gift cards for him. I argued with him. His private plane was delayed and he found the needed gift cards in the airport. He sent me video of his plane taking off. I was still upset about him asking me to buy cards so I deleted the signal app and blocked him from contacting me on my phone. About 2 weeks later I got a text from him from 305-990-0293 asking why I left him. He apologized. He asked me to go back to signal on his 772 number. I hesitantly did. He went right back to romancing me until I believed him and started to fall for him too. He worked hard to earn my trust. We talked on the phone through the signal app several times, and video called over signal twice (only one time he could see me but I couldn’t see him and the second time he kept walking down a hallway only glancing at the camera every few seconds). Over the course of the next couple of months he kept having emergencies and was afraid his workers were going to hurt him. He started asking for gift cards (Apple and Razer) in small amounts ranging from $100 gradually up to $700. I always argued but he promised I’d get my money back, double. Then one day he couldn’t get into his bank account. He sent me a screenshot where the bank displayed the message that it was unable to recognize the server. He asked me if I would login for him, and sent me the login info to my email. I was unsure, but he begged me until I gave in. The bank (westgatesavings.com) contacted me and asked for all my personal information so I could make the transfers for Thomas. Once permission was granted by the bank, I was able to login. Right away the account showed his picture (it matched his work website picture)and name as the account holder. Being that the bank had given approval and I now saw his picture, I felt much better about helping him. He said he was expecting a deposit into the account that he needed to pay his coworkers with. He had me do 3 large transfers into 3 coworkers’ accounts. Each transfer required an OTP before allowing the transfer. He wanted me to do a 4th transfer but the bank put a hold on it, requiring an IMF code. His account was frozen until it received that code. It was a percentage ($4150.00)of the amount to be transferred, and was to be a cashier’s check that had to be mailed to someone. I had been in constant contact with Tommy at the bank via email. Thomas wanted me to pay the fee because he had no way of getting his hands on the money from Turkey. I told him no, I didn’t have that kind of money. He wanted me to take a loan out from my parents, which I vetoed. Then he wanted me to get a loan from the bank. I said no. Then he wanted me to search online websites to get a loan. I told him my credit wasn’t good enough for a loan. He kept insisting, but I kept denying. He said if we couldn’t access the account, he couldn’t pay his workers or the locals that were also working for him. Then he would tell me the locals were getting angry and he didn’t know how long he could hold his workers back. He decided that gift cards would work temporarily. I tried to squirm out of helping, but he told me he loved me and knew I didn’t want anything to happen to him. Somehow he managed to get me to get him the cards every time. Once he had me open a crypto wallet and send him $100, which somehow never showed up in his wallet. I deleted my crypto account completely. He asked me to open a traditional IRA at a bank in person. His company was going to deposit money into it that I would then pay his workers with. I knew something was wrong so I researched IRA scams. I told him it was a scam. Very early on, when he told me he mined diamonds, he asked if I’d ever had a real diamond. I told him I’d inherited one. He never said anything else about it until now. Suddenly he wanted me to pawn my diamond ring to get him money. I outright refused. He said that was the only way I could help and I was refusing. I told him I’d been helping him for 3 months, ever since he got to Turkey. He said I didn’t need to help him any more and he vanished into thin air. I got really suspicious and started researching other things. I learned that I could do a photo lookup. His profile picture on his website, plus everyone else’s picture there, were not who they said they were. Then I noticed the contact info for the entire work website all came back to him. I checked his bank but I was no longer able to log in. I noticed that most of the bank website buttons didn’t work anymore. I have blocked every way Thomas can contact me based on the information I have on him. If he tries to contact me through any other phone number or email address, I will block those as well. I’m worried that he’s already scamming someone else. I was so hungry to be loved that I missed all the big warning signs. In all, he personally scammed me out of $2100.00. The amounts I transferred from his bank account were very large. I did not receive even a penny from him.

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