by Kyra
Sat Jun 04, 2016 2:59 pm
Hello everyone !
First of all I'm posting from France and English is not my native language. I'm not the person possibly being scammed, but my boyfriend and I are worried about his mother.
Last June she met with a man pretending to be a engineer living in Miami and going for a big contract to Dubai. Sonce he finished his work he has been trapped there because he needs to pay big taxes to transfer his money (several millions) from his bank in Cyprus to his US account, but of course does not have any savings to pay the 200,000$ something he needs... Well this always seemed very strange but what is strange is that she actually met the man (once, so she tells us), he came to Paris near where we live, to see her, it is the man in the picture so he is not some Nigerian fake, that's why my mother-in-law did not think he was a scam.
However things got stranger. He finally had the money he needed and of course my mother-in-law gave him some (but not much according to her) however while he was supposed te leave Dubai shortly de sais he was given more money by his clients in Dubai and therefore had again to pay taxes, etc.
He gave her access to his accound in the bank in Cyprus but the account is blocked... But it feels strange, what kind of man would give a woman he met ONCe access to his account with millions on it ? I sure would not do that and neither would my boyfriend... he also talks about marrying her so she can come live with him in Miami when all of this will be over (she only has French nationality so she cannot go live in the US like that), well, once again he met her ONCE.
Other strange thing, I googled his name and found him on a scam romance alert website. My mother-in-law says she knows about it and confronted him, he said someone highjacked his computer and stole his identity and mail adress...
Other strange thing, he said his bank received a message from the IMF and he transferred the mail to her, which she showed my boyfriend, there is a mispelling in the bank name on the email adress and lots of mispelling in the mail, it doesn't seem serious for such an organization...
The website of the presumably bank in Cyprus has beem deactivated...
Well, I'm sorry if it is a bit confused but I tell you what I know and myself don't understand everything. We are just worried for my boyfriend's mother, who is actually not naive, she's a smart woman and does not seem to trust the man completely either, but...
If she hadn't met him I'd say it is a complete scam, but do scammer actually meet their victims sometimes ?
And of course he says he is a widower, half Italian and half Amercian (but with a more German accent because he supposedly studied in Germany), with a daughter studying abroad. This seems to be very classical of scammers.
Thanks for reading me and helping me !
First of all I'm posting from France and English is not my native language. I'm not the person possibly being scammed, but my boyfriend and I are worried about his mother.
Last June she met with a man pretending to be a engineer living in Miami and going for a big contract to Dubai. Sonce he finished his work he has been trapped there because he needs to pay big taxes to transfer his money (several millions) from his bank in Cyprus to his US account, but of course does not have any savings to pay the 200,000$ something he needs... Well this always seemed very strange but what is strange is that she actually met the man (once, so she tells us), he came to Paris near where we live, to see her, it is the man in the picture so he is not some Nigerian fake, that's why my mother-in-law did not think he was a scam.
However things got stranger. He finally had the money he needed and of course my mother-in-law gave him some (but not much according to her) however while he was supposed te leave Dubai shortly de sais he was given more money by his clients in Dubai and therefore had again to pay taxes, etc.
He gave her access to his accound in the bank in Cyprus but the account is blocked... But it feels strange, what kind of man would give a woman he met ONCe access to his account with millions on it ? I sure would not do that and neither would my boyfriend... he also talks about marrying her so she can come live with him in Miami when all of this will be over (she only has French nationality so she cannot go live in the US like that), well, once again he met her ONCE.
Other strange thing, I googled his name and found him on a scam romance alert website. My mother-in-law says she knows about it and confronted him, he said someone highjacked his computer and stole his identity and mail adress...
Other strange thing, he said his bank received a message from the IMF and he transferred the mail to her, which she showed my boyfriend, there is a mispelling in the bank name on the email adress and lots of mispelling in the mail, it doesn't seem serious for such an organization...
The website of the presumably bank in Cyprus has beem deactivated...
Well, I'm sorry if it is a bit confused but I tell you what I know and myself don't understand everything. We are just worried for my boyfriend's mother, who is actually not naive, she's a smart woman and does not seem to trust the man completely either, but...
If she hadn't met him I'd say it is a complete scam, but do scammer actually meet their victims sometimes ?
And of course he says he is a widower, half Italian and half Amercian (but with a more German accent because he supposedly studied in Germany), with a daughter studying abroad. This seems to be very classical of scammers.
Thanks for reading me and helping me !
