Romance scam

[email protected] claims he is from Brazil, has lived in Alaska and now is working in the UK. Can't get home unless someone sends him money. Uses having a son as leverage.

welcome to Scamwarners. That's certainly typical of a scam, but can you quote the email in full please. Without your email address, etc, of course.

Greetings sthorpe. Could you also include the email header in your next post. It's easy to edit out your name and your email address before publishing.It's best to do that for safety reasons.

Am writing to make a report of a scammer he tells me his name is John Ramos, he is in the military stationed in Kabul Afghanistan and we have been chatting he uses the yahoo id: [email protected] and he has sent me photos of himself, sitting in a car, another of him standing on a frozen lake, and another photo. He told me that he lost his wife 5 yrs ago and that he is looking for someone to have a relationship with and he tells me he loves me. I started to be suspicious of him when I asked him what is his son's name, he did not tell me, he said never mind, and then he told me that his internet connection was going to expire at the end of the month and that he had to pay for it monthly, he asked me to pay for it $400 US Dollars. I told him that I could not afford to pay for his internet connection. He had asked me to check this website: http://www.home.vaffairs.us and to contact them via email at [email protected] to ask for him a leave request. It did not make any sense to me that I would have to make a request for him to have leave from the Military. But after a period of time I decided to email the contact just to see what kind of response if any I would get back. When I emailed the leave redeployment I only asked for a leave request for Capt John Ramos, this is the response that I got back
Good Day,

We are very sorry for our late response kindly bear with us it was due to lots of leave redeployment processing batch by batch.
You are receiving this email in response to your leave redeployment request for your fiancee Capt. John Ramos of the United States of America Army,as a Captain with 1st Battalion,12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division that was currently deployed to Kabul Afghanistan. This process requires you to sign some documents out of which one redeployment form will be attached to the next email after you have paid for it, you are to download the attached file, print it , provide the required information , mark the check box below to certify that the information provided is correct, scan the completed form and send it back via email. after this is done, we can proceed with the remaining process. Thanks for your anticipation.

Below is the payment information which you will send money to in other to start the redeployment processing we strongly advise you that the earlier the better thanks for your anticipation.

Payment Method and Details:
Western Union/ Money Gram notify us for your preferred method out of the two mentioned above.
Name: Beth Ann Deanne
City: Hesperia
State: California
Zipcode: 92345
Amount to send : $997 USD

Yours faithfully

Department Of Defense.
Military Leave Redeployment Processing Officer.
COL Robert Kellum
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This is one of the photos that he sent to me. It sickens me to think that people would impersonate someone in the military and play people for a fool. I am thankful that my intuition told me that something was fishy about this. I don't know if this person pictured above is a person who is in the military or who he might be. Before I deleted him from my contacts he kept insisting that his name is Capt John Ramos of the US Army.

This guy has been around, using [email protected] and [email protected].
Trace header comes from Ghana Accra.

From Harry Willson Mon Jun 18 02:28:48 2012
X-Apparently-To: [email protected] via 72.30.239.237; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:28:49 -0700
X-Yahoo-Forwarded: from xxxx
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
X-Originating-IP: [72.30.239.215]
Received: from [196.201.52.12] by web141103.mail.bf1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:28:48 PDT
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.118.349524
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:28:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Harry Willson <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Harry Willson <[email protected]>
Subject: Hello Dear
To: "xxx"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-1369625431-2108023311-1340011728=:37205"
Content-Length: 2038

BEWARE, he also uses date stamp software to date stamp his photos so he can continue to con you into thinking that he is sending "real" time photos of himself.