Army from Afghanistan

I wanted to post this because I hoped to save someone else the heartache and money problems from this guy.

^^^
Yes, thanks for wanting to help prevent someone else from being scammed!
Would you please post the email + headers?

Helen. How do I find the header? I have AOL and the email came from Gmail.

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Re: ......Benefit and Leave Cost 1000 us dollars usarmyforce consultant to you - Oct 17More Details
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Date:Mon, Oct 17, 2011 4:10 am.




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US Army/Transit Process/ SGT James David Miller /APO /AE 09322



Dear MS,

Good Day to you Madam, In regards to your mail, I am pleased to tell you that we can proceed with the Transit Vocational leave application of '' Sgt James David ''. The Transit Vocational leave under the UNITED STATE ARMY Law and Policy is to last on 12 Working days , we shall require some certain information's about you and your fiancee , During this transit process, you are going to remit some Little amount of money to The UNIT Your fiancee belong too and It will be payed to his Unit financial officer for the process and every paper work regarding the Leave process and also the little amount of money to be remitted will be used to Deployed back to the camp another officer with the same skills and profession as Sgt James David... Note : This fund to be remitted are strictly refundable..

We have attached to this email a copy leave money back guarantee form, Please find the attachment, , go through and check it and submit the attached money back guarantee form through this medium (Email) or you email back to us with the necessary information needed.

More over, you are advised to make the payment of ( $600 )SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS for the claiming signing of Sgt James David benefit (400$)THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS..........UNITED STATE DOLLARS to one of his Unit Financial officer as soon as possible. This will use to facilitate and to carry out all the Necessary papers works Effectively within the giving time and to make the vocational leave successful. Your mean of payment is below this letter.

Once you provide us with this information you are no longer anonymous to us. (We) protect your privacy. We do not insist you to provide extra personal information than necessary. All information collected will not be used for any illegal activity. The information is what we are going to use in registration of your name with the Military Transit Department. We Only have just 4 working day to complete the transit Vocational leave and we Need you immediate cooperation to enhance this process..you have to know as soon as we confirm your payment Sgt James David FLIGHT DETAILS WILL BE EMAIL TO YOU AFTER THE BENEFIT AS BEEN GIVING BETWEEN 4 WORKING DAYS.
YOUR PAYMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE MADE ASAP

Your urgent Attention is needed regarding the commencement of the Leave process.

LT. GEN DAVID H. PETRAEUS
COMMANDER , MULTI NATIONAL FORCE
NATO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE FORCE
KABUL , AFGHANISTAN PAYMENT INFORMATION IS BELOW THE PHARAGRAPH




COUNTRY.UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
PAYMENT SHOULD BE MADE THROUGH VIA WESTERN UNION OR MONEY MONEY GRAM MONEY TRANSFER BUT FOR NOW THE USA ARMY BENEFIT AGENT MANAGER ITS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SO PAYMENT SHOULD BE MADE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

Hi Kasi!

How to get email headers in AOL or AIM ?

If the email is sent from anywhere OTHER then AOL, and you are receiving it in AOL, then open the email you want to trace, or have your client open the email, and look for the link Details. This link is usually just below the To:email in the email message. If the email is sent from an AOL user to another AOL user then the Reverse AOL Screenname search can help deduce the source location.

Helen. How do I find the header? I have AOL and the email came from Gmail.

Kasi, because the email came FROM Gmail, headers will not tell us anything of value. If you receive scam emails from others using Yahoo or something other than Gmail, the headers do usually give us good information regarding the location the email was sent from.

PLEASE GOOGLE

DAVID H. PETRAEUS

A general like he was wouldn't be arranging leaves. I won't say more because we want our scammers to carry on making ridiculous mistakes.

Here is the headers that were found on my Yahoo Messenger Account from this supposed Sgt James David.
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here are my old pics for you baby ok

I have received another email from the supposed ArmyconsultantForce. It is posted below as you can see they have asked for more money.

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Re: ......Benefit and Leave Cost 1000 us dollars usarmyforce consultant to you - 40 min agoMore Details
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Date:Thu, Oct 27, 2011 8:48 pm.

Dear Madam ,

i have to let you know we sorry that karen vasseur as an accident and the agent is just feeling better so now we have the flight details with us here and your husband is free to go home and meet you now but we have to let you know that you will be responsible for is flight fee now he as is load packed and everything set but now we have to have your email cause the usa army have to chat with you for some interviews then give you the form to sign and after you make the payment of 2000$ to an agent and it wont be karren vassseur anymore kindly send us your email address for further notice thanks for the co-operation.....General alenxandra and when you ready to make the payment send us a message to give you a well agent so that you can send it to him note that your money is strickly refundable

Hi Kasi!
Thanks for posting that email. I'm sorry to say that the scammer is using a trick to hide the location of where he's sending the emails from.
The best thing to do now is to stop all communication and block him from your email. It's best if you don't tell him that you know that he's a scammer. Just quietly disappear.

Thank you very much. I have already disappeared.

HI everyone! Lovely caterpillar here.

Let me just share my current experience... I have chatted with a so-called Sgt.Lewis Smith recently and claims to be in Afghan, and right away he said he fall in love with the pictures I have in tagged and he wants to know me and if everything goes fine we can settle down.


He sent me one 2 pictures of him. I asked him to send me another again to make sure that he is not a military scam and he said he wont send me another pictures of him because i dont care about the pictures that he send me before. I never told him that I saved it. And I am very curious already because he was so free to chat with me the whole day. Like he got nothing to do with work. Though I really dont know what a real soldier do, but if I will based on what I heard and seen from the news I dont think so a soldier will actually spend a lot of time in the internet and in fact he is using a yahoo address... he is chatting with me in yahoo messenger which I check from his profile its only activated not later than 5mos back and a resident in new york.



i remember he told me that he wanted to settle down in alabama. so i asked him where he is from again pretending that i forget what he told me and pretending that i never check his profile. so he said he is from alabama and i told him i thought u said ur from new york, and he said that im originally from alabama but i reside in new york. so i said ok and then we continue the conversation blah blah... i asked him for his pictures so many times and his excuses was the network is not good until im pissed of already and accused him that he is not real. So acted like whats wrong with me? he is coming home for christmas for his mom and visit me in singapore to just see him in person. so i said i want pictures. after a few minutes of arguing to pressure him to send me pictures, well he did send me again for another pictures and he send me the same pictures that he send before.

though on the pictures it says lewis, which match his first name... i am not really sure if he is only using the name and pictures of this guy... he is eager to see me on xmas because he said thats the only proof he have to make me believe that he is real. so i said ok.. then just talk to me once ur in the US with ur mom and i wanna do a webcam with u.

when he send me another pictures, im not sure if the link is pasted to the chat like this.. http://im002.shmessenger.org/eriwolex/Sgt2.jpg http://im002.shmessenger.org/eriwolex/Sgt3.jpg

he never do a photosharing with me like what he did in the first time we talked. when i saw shmessenger. i searched it, and found out it is an application from a mobile phone. ive contacted my friends who knows a lot of IT technology, so i asked is it possible that you used an SH messenger from your laptops and computers and they said no, you can download it from the computer but the application is for mobile phones... so i got curious again think that this person is using a mobile phone to chat with me thats why he cant do a photo sharing transfer or even a webcam.

Below is one of the pictures he sent to me... Pls do see if you recognized and if you can give help... I am not really sure who I am talking with because the entire day yesterday he was chatting with me from my time SG time, from 10am until 4pm in the afternoon which is he is very free as a soldier... and his english is quiet good however i noticed sometimes he have some grammatical errors which i sometimes think maybe a typo error but when i do check...like when he said "what a hell ure talking about", where in fact he could have said, "what the hell..", and some words like, he in lindston university.. it supposed to be he is... if you would think its a typo error, i dont think so because from the keybard, s is very from from n. so i would like to make sure who i am speaking with. and if he is not really lewis smith, i hope we can do something about this guy on the pic.. it is being abused...

I hope to hear from you very soon. It would be a great help! Thank you!

HI everyone! Lovely caterpillar here.

Let me just share my current experience... I have chatted with a so-called Sgt.Lewis Smith recently and claims to be in Afghan, and right away he said he fall in love with the pictures I have in tagged and he wants to know me and if everything goes fine we can settle down.


He sent me one 2 pictures of him. I asked him to send me another again to make sure that he is not a military scam and he said he wont send me another pictures of him because i dont care about the pictures that he send me before. I never told him that I saved it. And I am very curious already because he was so free to chat with me the whole day. Like he got nothing to do with work. Though I really dont know what a real soldier do, but if I will based on what I heard and seen from the news I dont think so a soldier will actually spend a lot of time in the internet and in fact he is using a yahoo address... he is chatting with me in yahoo messenger which I check from his profile its only activated not later than 5mos back and a resident in new york.



i remember he told me that he wanted to settle down in alabama. so i asked him where he is from again pretending that i forget what he told me and pretending that i never check his profile. so he said he is from alabama and i told him i thought u said ur from new york, and he said that im originally from alabama but i reside in new york. so i said ok and then we continue the conversation blah blah... i asked him for his pictures so many times and his excuses was the network is not good until im pissed of already and accused him that he is not real. So acted like whats wrong with me? he is coming home for christmas for his mom and visit me in singapore to just see him in person. so i said i want pictures. after a few minutes of arguing to pressure him to send me pictures, well he did send me again for another pictures and he send me the same pictures that he send before.

though on the pictures it says lewis, which match his first name... i am not really sure if he is only using the name and pictures of this guy... he is eager to see me on xmas because he said thats the only proof he have to make me believe that he is real. so i said ok.. then just talk to me once ur in the US with ur mom and i wanna do a webcam with u.

when he send me another pictures, im not sure if the link is pasted to the chat like this.. http://im002.shmessenger.org/eriwolex/Sgt2.jpg http://im002.shmessenger.org/eriwolex/Sgt3.jpg

he never do a photosharing with me like what he did in the first time we talked. when i saw shmessenger. i searched it, and found out it is an application from a mobile phone. ive contacted my friends who knows a lot of IT technology, so i asked is it possible that you used an SH messenger from your laptops and computers and they said no, you can download it from the computer but the application is for mobile phones... so i got curious again think that this person is using a mobile phone to chat with me thats why he cant do a photo sharing transfer or even a webcam.

Below is one of the pictures he sent to me... Pls do see if you recognized and if you can give help... I am not really sure who I am talking with because the entire day yesterday he was chatting with me from my time SG time, from 10am until 4pm in the afternoon which is he is very free as a soldier... and his english is quiet good however i noticed sometimes he have some grammatical errors which i sometimes think maybe a typo error but when i do check...like when he said "what a hell ure talking about", where in fact he could have said, "what the hell..", and some words like, he in lindston university.. it supposed to be he is... if you would think its a typo error, i dont think so because from the keybard, s is very from from n. so i would like to make sure who i am speaking with. and if he is not really lewis smith, i hope we can do something about this guy on the pic.. it is being abused...

I hope to hear from you very soon. It would be a great help! Thank you!

Hello lovelycatipillar!

From everything you have said so far this sounds like a typical military romance scammer. The picture you posted is very typical of the type they steal off the Internet and use to scam victims. It is just a matter of time before he ask you for money to buy a phone or to request leave. It's all lies just used to steal your money. Your suspicions are right. Please stop all communications with him. He will eventually give up and move on.

Justin

He is a scammer.

He is not coming to see you. He is only anxious to supposedly come see you, because he wants to use a "visit" as a reason to get money from you, most likely for imaginary leave fees.


As you thought, deployed soldiers do NOT have all day to sit around on the internet. They all have official military addresses too. And, I won't say what it was on the forum, because I don't want to educate scammers, but he made a major mistake with his made-up name too.

He is not getting on webcam for the simple reason that he is not the person in the photos, and he doesn't look anything like him.

Please drop all contact with this scammer immediately, and post his email address for other potential victims to find. It would help if you posted the early emails he sent you too.