Information on romance scams and scammers.
by Bryon Williams Sun Jan 31, 2016 2:23 am
Yes, you are correct again. The best we can do is awareness.

Scams are nothing new and will not stop. Scams have existed for many years. Most people will remember the snail mail scams yet they existed many years prior.

We try to encourage members not to educate scammers and remove post educating scammers.

A lot of victims will show up here and may not even post. Yet, they will tell a scammer where they made a mistake or direct them to a thread. This only makes the scammer better at his craft.

Please contacta moferatorstor if you have a question or information about this post.



Please do not tell the scammer he is posted here.


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by LaraC Sun Jan 31, 2016 2:59 am
Bryon Williams wrote:We try to encourage members not to educate scammers and remove post educating scammers.

A lot of victims will show up here and may not even post. Yet, they will tell a scammer where they made a mistake or direct them to a thread. This only makes the scammer better at his craft.


It is important what you do, to remove educating posts. Those victims probably want to somehow and desperately takes an upper hand (or they think they do) by telling the scammers about their mistakes. It is in their emotional stage they do. Normal people like us do not know the mechanism of mentality of criminals until we encounter their crimes that all they do is suck everything they can from you for their gain. I studied criminal psychology but oh boy what on earth did that help? lol

There is this immovable "trait" about the scammers which is an absolute lack of humanity, no emotional connections with you, no communication skills and low level of education. Which when it is disguised by emails and text messages it can be overlooked so easily.

Do NEVER confront the scammers it will only educate them
Once you found out that you are in contact with the scammer(s), before you take any actions other than blocking them, you can CONSULT in the forums first.
by Bryon Williams Sun Jan 31, 2016 3:06 am
low level of education


Your post is totally correct accept for the above when dealing with West African scammers.

Most are University educated or currently enrolled supplementing their education.

Hierarchy will be the rule here.

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Please do not tell the scammer he is posted here.


Please remember the fallen. https://www.odmp.org/
by LaraC Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:52 pm
Bryon Williams wrote:
low level of education


Your post is totally correct accept for the above when dealing with West African scammers.

Most are University educated or currently enrolled supplementing their education.

Hierarchy will be the rule here.


Thanks for pointing that out, actually I realised my scammer was quite "educated", I should chose the correct phrase it is not "low education" but it is "low cultured" that's what I meant. For someone who pretends to be a Westerner(s) he (they) seem to know nothing of it and can't keep up conversation with me about it. (TV / music / pop / art culture references) That was one of the "red flag" I sensed, then his profile was "from Barbados" I think someone (former victims) pointed his lack of cultural knowledge out to him in the past and he learned it is better pretending an expat growing up in non western country.

Exactly for why we shouldn't let them learn.

Do NEVER confront the scammers it will only educate them
Once you found out that you are in contact with the scammer(s), before you take any actions other than blocking them, you can CONSULT in the forums first.
by LaraC Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:25 am
This scammer is now active on Asia Expat (http://hongkong.asiaxpat.com/) with the name Liam Johnson with email address of [email protected]
Using same phone number, +852 93357256.

I will re-type the phone number in case someone searched with different ways.

+85293357256
+852 9335 7256

Hong Kong number 93357256

Do NEVER confront the scammers it will only educate them
Once you found out that you are in contact with the scammer(s), before you take any actions other than blocking them, you can CONSULT in the forums first.
by sc2015 Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:10 am
This scammer is active on lovestruck.com.

He uses the name Liam S Johnson and Liam Johnson.

Email: [email protected]

Phone number: +852 9335 7256
I called the number and a number of cantonese speaking men picked up claiming to not know Liam. They speak English but appear to be local Hong Kong from their accents.
by LaraC Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:22 pm
sc2015 wrote:This scammer is active on lovestruck.com.

He uses the name Liam S Johnson and Liam Johnson.

Email: [email protected]

Phone number: +852 9335 7256
I called the number and a number of cantonese speaking men picked up claiming to not know Liam. They speak English but appear to be local Hong Kong from their accents.



Dear sc2015

Thank you very much for your report, the more report it will help preventing other women/men from becoming victims. Your report is highly valuable and appreciated.

Did you inform the admin of LoveStruck?
Upon the receipt of the report, LoveStruck will suspend this user.


Lara

Do NEVER confront the scammers it will only educate them
Once you found out that you are in contact with the scammer(s), before you take any actions other than blocking them, you can CONSULT in the forums first.
by sc2015 Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:38 am
Yes I did report this profile to Lovestruck. This scammers profile was removed very quickly from their website, I am unsure if it was the administrators or the scammers themselves who exited.
by LaraC Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:54 am
Hong Kong police traced the email of Johnson Mosley ([email protected]) to Indonesia and Nigeria. Interesting about the Indonesian connection when you can find the article like this about arresting more than 400 scammers in Indonesia and Cambodia last year.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law- ... d?page=all


One gang, set up in Indonesia, had allegedly duped Hongkongers out of HK$118 million in 431 cases this year, police sources said. The other syndicate operated in Cambodia and did not target Hong Kong.



Tells us Nigerians are operating big in Asia collaborating with local gangs.

Do NEVER confront the scammers it will only educate them
Once you found out that you are in contact with the scammer(s), before you take any actions other than blocking them, you can CONSULT in the forums first.

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