Scammer of Identity Theft?

The problem you have honey14 is that although he has been clearly demonstrated to be a liar, cheat and scammer, you still believe he has love for you.

To him you are just another victim and he'll soon show his true feelings if you don't pay him money. You can pay him any sum, and it won't stop there. He'll want any money you spend on medicine and food, and still his demands won't stop, because he only cares for one person, and most of these scammers have wives and children of their own, and they don't live in poverty themselves.

You will get his attention for as long as you pay him money, but he'll still be looking for other women to scam money from, because that is what he does. He isn't even the person you think he is. Keep him as a penpal by all means, but that's not what he wants - he wants money.

I posted the second email because the first one supposedly was a forwarded email sent by his son. What I think is that he just copied the body of the message.

I'll try to have the so-called son send me an email to my Yahoo account, so that I can get the header.

GomerPyle, I must fully admit what you clearly says here: I still love him. He knows his job very well, through poetry he made me fall in love with him. However, I am clear on this situation and will not start healing all the damage he has caused me.

If you consider it helpful, I could also manage to have his son's English Teacher send me an email, that would be the third differen email address used by these people. Just let me know.

This "General" has another email address in addition to the one I have sent, unfortunately, he only uses his Yahoo address to chat with me, not to send emails. If by any chance it would be useful to have information about this Yahoo account, can I get the data directly from my chats?

At this point, I am interested in helping other people as much as I can, so if you consider it useful I can continue having contact with him.

Honey, please understand that you are amongst friends here, people that want to help you. You already made the first important step by signing up and posting about this scammer. I'm not a trained counselar, but the way i see it is that you live in a fantasy, living in a bubble floating in the air. But one day the bubble will pop and you will land hard on your face. There are some fantastic members here who can help you. Accept our help.

Did this massively wealthy retired four star general and United Nations 'bigwig' ever explain why he needs a stranger to pay his bills ?

Western Union have offices in the USA too, and he could just as easily make the payment himself.

The real general wouldn't want to steal your money because he's already rich and you aren't in contact with him.

There is no teacher, no adopted son and no general.

Since the headers you posted supposedly came from the "General" himself, the fact that they trace to Ghana already shows you that he is the same character is the son, since I believe you mentioned he is supposed to be in Iraq. There is no need to go further looking for evidence.

I know that it is difficult to give up what you thought was a real relationship, especially since this scammer created the picture of the man you were looking for--no doubt he was incredibly romantic and said everything you wanted to hear. Unfortunately, he didn't actually mean any of it. He is an actor playing a role, and his words are nothing more than a script. He is actually nothing like the character he is playing. The character is a white retired American General who is gentle, romantic and in love with you. The real person is a young black African man (most likely no older than his 20's) who has never even been to America, and he is cocky, somewhat misogynistic, and in love with only your money. I know it's difficult to hear, but to him (and we don’t know his real name because all names he gives you are most likely fake) you are nothing more than a maga (foolish woman) who can be manipulated for his personal gain. He is good at manipulation—after all, he makes a living this way, mainly because he would rather steal other people’s money than earn his own through hard work.

If you have a basic faith in human beings, it is very difficult to understand that there are truly no limits to how low scammers like him will go. Here are just a few examples of real scammers—like your scammer, all of the scammers below were romantic, attentive, full of flattery and declarations of love.

-the scammer who convinced a victim that it was her fault that his (fake) young daughter had been hit and severely injured by a car (just so he could get more money for “hospital bills”)
-scammers who continually chatted with victims’ children, and convinced them that they would be their new daddy someday, only to destroy their hope and faith when they never materialized. Again, they didn’t care how much they hurt the children—their only goal was to get a few more dollars from their moms.
- scammers who routinely threaten to commit suicide when the victims aren’t paying fast enough
-scammers who convinced their victims that they would never hurt them, but when the victims stopped paying, the scammers turned to blackmail—threatening to send photos, emails, or recorded webcam to family members or even post it online if the victim didn’t pay further.

Even more sad is the fact that all of these scammers continued to play their roles after the truth was discovered, and some contacted their victims for months after the victim walked away, still professing their love.

This scammer has studied you, and he knows how to get to you. As long as you are in contact with him, he will lie, cheat, and manipulate to convince you he is real and get his hands on your money. By remaining in contact with him, you are giving him the opportunity to do that—and you are ultimately increasing the pain (and possible monetary loss) that you will have to deal with when it becomes impossible to believe him. It’s difficult to do, but cutting off all contact, blocking him from your email and/or messenger, and moving on with your life are the best things you can do for yourself now.

Posting any information you currently have (including his emails) can help other victims of the same scammer (and believe me he is scamming other women, very possibly using the same script)--but there is no need to go any further to get information.

The BBC 'Crimewatch' program, shown last evening HERE, had a report on almost exactly the same scam!

He called himself Steve Moon, and claimed to be an American divorcee and retired army officer. They were soon spending hours every day emailing and instant messaging. "He said he loved me and he wanted to come here and see how we got on", Dena explained. She had no reason to feel suspicious, but then the scammer struck.

"We'd been communicating for about a month and then he said to me, 'I have to tell you, I'm not actually in America at the moment, I'm in Iraq'," Dena said.
The scammer went on to spin Dena a complicated story and eventually persuaded her to part with some money. She remortgaged her house and sent him everything she had - £45,000.

At least, they managed to track down the scammer & arrest him!!

I hadn't made the connection Crispy Duck, but now I see that this script is going to be very popular, as news of the success spreads through the internet cafes. Even though this criminal was arrested, which is very rare, the possibility of stealing that amount of money will be too tempting, and every victim they get their hooks into, they won't be satisfied until they can get that amount out of you, honey14.

It's quite possible he also scams men, pretending to be a female. My inbox is full of mails from females who claim to have read my details somewhere and fallen madly in love with me. As far as I know, females who scam are rare, so it's not hard for me to be repulsed by men pretending to be women to steal my money, but if they really were female, it wouldn't be any different.

No one can and will stop you paying money, but you should realise that it will not turn the scammer into a real and honest person.

I hope this is my last post on this topic, but I would like to add two pieces of information that might be helpful to prevent other people being scammered by this "Major General".

My friend was sent an emai by the so-called Major General Joseph Taluto <[email protected]> who is supposedly in Iraq. However, the originating IP [41.218.231.128] is from Ghana.

Today I got an email with Major General Walter L. Stewart Jr.'s US Army official passport. This fake passport was stolen and reported as such to US Passport offices by its real owner. If you pay attention to the signature, you can see who the real owner is. In addition to a +10-year-old picture, there are at least three other mistakes in this passport. I marked it as fake and hope to upload it successfully.



It's time for me to move on and pray God this guy and his other identites will not disturb me anymore.
Hopefully, I won't be at risk.

Thanks for your help,

Honey14

Hi Honey

Thank you for posting.

There is a good chance that the same scammer will make more attempts to scam you, if you see anything that is even remotely suspicious, come back and ask and we will be happy to help you.

Good luck

On my last post I stated that I wished it was going to be the last one on this issue. Unfortunately, the fake General Stewart kept flooding my email with ecards and poems, as he used to do. He sent me an email asking "whether I had found another lover" because I refused to communicate with him. He stopped all communication with me, but suddenly, I started receving some messages from two other US Generals, similar to General Stewart ones. Today, I was sent this email, which I believe comes from the same scammer.

Should this be another case of scamming, I'd be glad to post all the information I have about this US Brigadier.
The header is:

From Nicholson Larry Mon Jun 21 18:48:22 2010
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholson Larry <[email protected]>
Subject: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.
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Thanks again for your help.

Honey14

Removed domain keys and quoted for clarity - Ralph

Hi Honey,

The IP = 41.190.88.250 = Ghana.

Definitely the same - or another scammers trying their luck.

My best advice would be for to delete and ignore them - perhaps filter their mail addresses straight to trash.

The scammer is using fake name and "pretending" to be "real" Brigadier General Larry Nicholson.

Real Army personnel do not use free mail addresses.

If you have any questions or concerns please post - we will help you all we can.

From the headers:

Received: from [41.190.88.250]

41.190.88.0 - 41.190.91.255

Zain Communications Limited GHANA
address: 3rd Floor Heritage Tower
address: West-Ridge
address: Accra

Edit to add: Brigadier General Larry Nicholson is NOT in Ghana! See Here

No real Army general is going to email people out of the blue looking for love either.

Can you imagine how unsafe that could be for somebody of his position to be meeting up with strangers, not that you are strange of course, but he would not know wheteher you were loving and genuine or a terrorist

Of course, to an African man pretending to be a General it is all very normal

Hi, this guy is still in business. Now as a Gen. Joseph Taluto. And the same way - nice words, pictures taken from internet, and English a bit different than usually Americans use. Of course with his son Omene etc. Are the people still so naive to believe such a cheater love them after 1 day ot to send money just like that? Girls. Be just very careful. Nice chatting is ok sometimes, but sending money. Not really. This guy was trying to pick me up on Skype. Nothing was right. Pictures, language, age, "Iraq" situation (he was not lucky - I was there).
Jimmy

Welcome here Jimmy.

It's not a case of being naive, but more of being vulnerable and perceptive to these scams. For most of these love scam victims, it seems like a dream come true. They believe that finally they found the love of their live. Someone who is kind and writes all the things that they want to read, sweet words, poems, love talk, getting attention, feeling appreciated again. But that dream turns into a nightmare, and most victims realize this too late. Unless they get second thoughts and do a search on internet and find the scammer reported on the various scamwarning sites.
So thank you for posting this new information Jimmy, it could save a possible victim.