I have 5 minutes so lets see what we can find
Starting with a search on the phone number; 447035979017
no luck with the first number
Click here it should show up on a search here in a few days
Now the email address;
[email protected] Click here again no luck
Trying a few variations on the email address as scammers often have other email addresses with diferent free email providors using the same username - not my lucky day but not giving up yet
Now for a search on the name, "John Ned" comes up 6,000 times so shorten it by adding the word scam
Click Here ok, we have narrowed it down to a little over 200 results and some are in relation to email scams, I cant tell if any of them are relevant to you without more information
The address is most likely fake and doesn't come up in any exact matches anyway
A search on the second phone number doesn't come up either.
Where I will be able to find hits is if I can see some of the early emails, scammers emails and in particular the early ones are pre written scripts, if you could please post some of them I can see what I can find for you.
There may be a few variations I could try on the name but it wouldn't really be evidence anyway as it is reasonable to expect there is another John Ned
As to the address being given to him, it is not ideal, but not a huge problem, she may find she gets some postal type scams or an email scam may include her name and address to look more legitimate, so long as she is aware of these and ceases all contact she will be fine, there is no money to be made by travelling to see here from where he is located so will be fine.
So, things to get me;
Links to any dating profiles
Email headers, if you let us know which email provider your friend uses we can give you instructions on how to retrieve the headers, they need to be original emails and not forwarded otherwise the IP will come back from the forwarded email
Early emails
Anything else you can provide such as photos will help but the above items should do the trick
Just adding, this was heading for a classic cheque scam, your friend will have been asked to recieve payment from clients and process (cash) the cheques, she will keep a percentage for herself (usually 10%) and forward the rest to the scammer (usually by Western Union) your friend will take the cheques to the bank to cash them, the scammer will try desperately to get her to send funds immediately but if not, all is not lost, "provisional clearance" is given on cheques, usually within 5 days, this will give her access to the money, the problem is that provisional clearance is just that "Provivional" the check will continue through the banks clearing procedure and some time down the track, (perhaps even months later) the check will be found to be fake and your friend liable for all of the value of the cheques. To make matters worse, the police will be called in and in some cases the victims of this scam have been prosecuted and jailed for passing fraudulent financial instruments.
I presume the scammer would have offered to pay for the ticket and send you a cheque to pay for it but need you to send money back to them or direct you to pay their travel agent for the ticket, of course, their travel agent is also part of the scam
The confusion over the 5 days clrearance is the reason why this scam is so successful, waiting 5 days for a cheque to clear will in no way show that a cheque is good.
