United States Military international Leave Board

Hello,

would you please check:
I got a request in Facebook for a friendship in September this year and then a contact in the Yahoo messenger.
he said he is colonel in Afghanistan and this week he wanted me to ask at the US welfare to give him a break to be with me at christmas and then make a request for his early retirement.

I got a letter back (as PDF-file from the welfare-dress) that has the following content, similar to other topics that are listed here. The content of the first letter was:

RE: EMERGENCY LEAVE APPLICATION COLONEL ...
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your leave Application made on behalf of your fiancée. Colonel ... a US Special forces troop soldier on peace keeping mission here in Kabul Afghanistan under my command and military jurisdiction. I understand through this application and the previous discussions with him on his affairs and intentions to settle down with you and have so much talked on this matter and seek now to conclude with you to be his partner.
I must inform you that he is very important here holding a profound position in security and monitoring duties as one of our military intelligence here. Accordingly, you should also note that this is not time for his official leave but not withstanding he will be granted an emergency leave basically on your explanations and comprehensive introduction of your true personality coupled with his zeal to seek for this leave opportunity in other to get to your country to get a finalizations to settle down with you.
I must also bring to your notice that the United States military authority does not ask our troops to pay for their official leaves or holidays/vacations assigned and approved by the military authority but in a situation where any member of the US army on his or her own discretions and agreement with his fiancée apply or request for an emergency leave it must involve payment of fees which is refundable fee in line with the number of weeks or months of leave duration chosen as available for only emergency reasons on request by troops on peace keeping mission only. It is very important that you understand these points very well and the more reasons you must pay and support in other to give this office the support to give approval to your request to have him home.
We have the following leave durations to be considered and approved for accepted Applicants seeking for coming home of their fiancé on peace keeping

mission and as I have offered you the chance to choose from the below leave durations with non-negotiable payments because is refundable fee.
The United States military officers seeking for emergency leave to fulfill marital proposal and promises are entitled for the following leave/ emergency vacation options as stated below and must use it as requested and no misconduct is to be tolerated:
NOTE; ... that any payment you make here is refundable that is upon .... arrival to you in your country ,the united states military /government will refund the money within 72 hours into your designated bank account ,you are hereby advice to provide to us your bank account number ONCE HE IS OUT OF HERE
EMERGENCY LEAVE CATEGORIES
(A) ONE MONTH AND TWO WEEKS LEAVE DURATION: $2000 (B) TWO MONTHS LEAVE DURATION: $3000
(C) THREE MONTHS LEAVE DURATION: $3500
The above leave Durations are made available for you to choose and send payment according to choice made for your fiancé depending on your capability and expected time that you will want him to spend with you.
The reasons of payment for emergency leave Application is to assist the US military authority in replacement expenses and supporting of troops coming to take over duties from any one going on emergency leave and must be considered worthy and a way of ensuring that our troops are protected and allowed to judiciously make use of their times for reasons they are applied and paid for. This must be well understood for any applicant/fiancée, and instructions made herein must be dully followed with the payment of the amount fixed on each emergency vacation choice made in accordance of the rules and all guidelines clearly stated on this memo to avoid mistake or termination of approval.
NOTE: For payment of any choice of leave duration, applicants are to choose to pay all fees at one time or in two or three installments’ beginning with nothing less than 30% of the total charge for the leave duration option or choice made by applicants.
On the receipt of the full payment in less than 7 days of this notification the name of your fiancé will be processed and listed on the list of emergency leave to allow him to proceed on the applied emergency leave at the time you expected his arrival in your country to you legally.
Your fiancé will only be listed for emergency leave on receipt of the payment of the leave duration chosen OR on receipt of the part payment of 50% of the total amount or nothing less than 30% all depending on choice made among the leave durations as stated above in categories A to C.
For any choice you have made from the above leave durations, payment must be made in full within 7 days from today in full to get his name fixed on the

vacation list on time and to avoid mistakes or miscalculations in replacement expenses as explained above.
Thank You.
GENERAL ....
UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL LEAVE BOARD KABUL UNIT AFGHANISTAN PEACE KEEPING OFFICE.


I can send Facebook-Account and eMail-address of the messenger as well.

Hello check_it ,
This is all a scam that is an attempt to steal money from you. Everything this person told you was a lie to steal money from you.

Please post the email addresses, telephone numbers and Facebook page this fake soldier is using so that others can avoid being scammed.

hi and welcome to scamwarners, check_it.

Please see these articles to learn more about this type of scam : viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6117

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6527

email-address: [email protected]
yahoo messenger address: colmax12346
facebook account: Maxim Bentsler

please check, I don't want to black somebody that is ok.

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please check, I don't want to black somebody that is ok.

We did check. The Military does NOT pay for leave, it is earned just like vacation is.

Nobody but the person can ask for leave through his/her chain of command. Not an internet girlfriend / wife / child or anyone else, period.

Did you read the links I posted about scammers impersonating military?? Check the sources and footnotes in those articles to verify they are written by the US Army, and other sanctioned military.

Your romance scammer is a criminal. I know it is hard for you to believe, but it is the truth.

I checked the posts... but how can i know that he is really from the US military? I mean the one that posted here in the forum... this is the other question... i will not send money ... they wanted to send at a private person.

Here I send the second letter that i got:

RE:EMERGENCY LEAVE APPLICATION COLONEL SEAN MAXIM BENTSLER
We have received your mail and the content was duly noted.
Thanks a lot for the kind words and compliments, We appreciate them all and you deserve to spend time with your fiancée.
We want you to know that this payment is refundable and you will receive this money within the maximum of 72 hours after Colonel arrives to your country.
However since you are in Germany , we have a NATO representative in Germany that will receive this payment on our behalf.
Below is the details that you will use in making this payment via Western Union Money Transfer.
Name of Receiver: Elisabeth Stoever Address: Winzerstr Grafchaft 53501. Country : Germany
Kindly send the scanned copy of the Payment Slip and the MTCN number to us via email once you have made the payment.
Thank You.
GENERAL JOHN CAMPELL
UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL LEAVE BOARD
KABUL UNIT AFGHANISTAN PEACE KEEPING OFFICE.

so how should i treat with him - he is still writing me via yahoo messenger colmax12346... insisting that everything is the truth that he wrote...

yahoo avatar stolen from retired Colonel David Sutherland, US Army

Maxim Bentsler
Studied Electronics & Communication Engineering at American Defense Academy
Past: Santa Barbara High School
Lives in Kunduz, Afghanistan
From Santa Barbara, California
Relationship Single
Family Members sean gates perez, Cousin



stolen from here
http://studentveterans.org/index.php/23 ... -directors

Colonel David W. Sutherland is the co-founder and Chairman of Easter Seals Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Service

but how can i know that he is really from the US military?

so how should i treat with him - he is still writing me via yahoo messenger colmax12346... insisting that everything is the truth that he wrote...

He is not in the US Military. If you read those articles I directed you to, you would see that. Ask him to send you an email from his .mil email address, he will not be able to do that. Yet the US Army says it wants its people to send email from the .mil addresses they are assigned....

Scammers lie. That is what they do for a living. they rely on you believing their lies so they can steal your money. That is it, period. He probably has 10 or 20 other women he is doing the same game with right now, too.

You need to just stop contact with the criminal. Do not tell him you know he is a scammer, do not tell him he is posted here. Just block his email address, phone #, Skype, and any other method of communication you have had with him. Report him to CID if you want. CID may tell you he isn't real.

You do not owe this criminal anything. He has spoken kind words to you to make you feel good. He is doing that so he can dig into your pockets, not for any other reason.

hey ,

I understood that he is not in the military. but you send a link here of somebody that is in the military. So how can I be sure that this is right? The one inside here?

thanks

I told him that he is a scammer already... he didn't mind and proceeded... I will follow what you wrote me.... will You be able to catch him?
What punishment will he get for this?

what or who is CID?

I gave you 2 links. Each one of them had many more links inside of the original articles.

exactly what are you talking about? copy and paste the URL ( address) of what you are questioning please.

http://www.cid.army.mil/documents/Looko ... Scams2.pdf

United States Army
Criminal Investigation Command
Media contact: CID Public Affairs Office For Immediate Release
703-806-0372

CID warns, beware of email scams

Although warnings heavily publicized, crooks still persist, victims still fall prey
FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, July 23, 2008 – The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is
warning the Army community to beware of foreign scams or advanced fee fraud, using unsolicited
faxes, email or letters to obtain money or personal information. CID also wants to make the public
aware of the criminal implications for Army personnel who actively facilitate these schemes.
These foreign scams, also known as the “Nigerian Scam,” the “Iraq Scam,” the “Foreign Lottery
Scam” and the “419 Scam” begin with someone from overseas making unsolicited contact with
unsuspecting victims requesting their help in disposing of gold or money recovered from Saddam
Hussein in Iraq, or oil revenues from Nigeria or Russia, or lottery winnings from some other foreign
location. Other contacts request help to negotiate U.S. Postal Money Orders or traveler’s checks
that later turn out to be forgeries or counterfeit. The perpetrator uses false names - sometimes
even using the names of real Soldiers - or steals another person’s identity and then fraudulently
uses that identity.

In most instances, if the victim responds to the proposals, they are asked to do something to show
good faith with the person who sent the message. In the case of money orders and traveler’s
checks, the person is asked to cash the checks, told to keep a percentage of the funds for
themselves, and to send the remaining money to an overseas address.

In the case of gold or money dispositions, the victim is sometimes asked for personal identification,
to include bank account numbers, or as the scam progresses, the victim is asked to send money to
pay for unexpected fees (hence the name, advance fee fraud) that are needed to bribe an official
or free up a process so that the gold or money can be transferred.

Soldiers and civilians who knowingly participate in the negotiation of fraudulent money orders or
traveler’s checks in furtherance of fraud schemes are subject to Title 18 of the U.S. Code, Section
1343, Fraud by Wire, Radio or Television. The title states that individuals who devise schemes to
defraud, obtain money or property under false pretenses, representations or promises will be fined
or imprisoned for up to 20 years, or both. Violators that affect financial institutions can be
imprisoned for up to 30 years, fined up to $1 million, or both.

According to CID Special Agents, email fraud provides unique challenges for law enforcement
personnel, Soldiers, Army civilians and family members. Criminals can mask their identities,
locations and cover their tracks quickly. Web sites can easily be established and removed in very
little time, allowing scam artists to strike quickly and disappear even faster.
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CID officials remind individuals to never provide their personal identification, bank account
numbers, or other financial information to an unsolicited request. The unknown source could use
the information to the financial harm of the victim. Never travel to foreign locations to meet with the
individuals conducting these schemes for any reason. Victims have often been robbed, kidnapped,
or even killed, when lured to other countries.

The United States Secret Service (www.ustreas.gov/usss/) and the United States Postal Service
(http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/) are the primary U.S. law enforcement agencies dealing with
these types of scams. U.S. citizens or residents who have not suffered a financial loss and want to
report a scam may forward unsolicited emails to the USSS at [email protected]. U.S.
citizens and residents who have suffered a financial loss should contact the nearest field office of
the Secret Service by telephone.
Victims are advised to continue reporting these fraudulent scams to law enforcement agencies.
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CID Lookout is a U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) initiative to partner with the Army community by providing a conduit for members of the Army family, to help prevent, reduce and report felony-level crime.

The USACIDC, commonly known as CID, is an independent criminal investigative organization that investigates serious, felony-level crime such as murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, arson, fraud, and even cyber crime or intrusions into the Army networks (see CID Cyber Lookout).

Solving and preventing these types of crime cannot be achieved solely by CID Special Agents and the Military Police.
Together, professional law enforcement officers and the Army community must work hand-in-hand to fight serious crime.

As such, CID is On Point for the Army and depends heavily on Soldiers, family members and civilian employees to Be On The Lookout and provides assistance in keeping the Army Strong and safe.

CID Lookout provides the latest information to the Army community aimed at helping Soldiers protect themselves, their families and to reduce their chances of becoming crime victims.

For more information on CID or to report a felony-level crime or provide information concerning a crime, contact your
local CID Office or the Military Police, or visit www.cid.army.mil.

ok - thanks.

shall i send you all photos that he send me?