US TRANSIT LEAVE REQUEST

Hello cjr64, as difficult as it is to believe that you have been corresponding with a scammer, you have been.

If you did not know this person before they contacted you, you have been scammed. I am sorry to say that to you. This "person" will not be using your money to take leave. They will be using it to scam other people.

The best thing you can do is walk away. Don't respond any further to this person. I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your experience here. Hopefully your account will help others who might get caught by this kind of scam.

Dear Get Smarter,

OMG!!! When I read your reply to Worried, I was shocked.. I was talking to the same guy except he was a Ssg. and he goes by Chris lecain. Same story about the wife and kid, told me he was Iraq til June. Lived in NY. It makes me wonder how many other names he has gone under. He to gave me both emails. He definitely is a sweet talker and tells you what you want to hear. I do never sent him any money or did the phone thing. He has no idea that I know he is a scammer, so I'm having fun with him...Giving him a dose of his own medicine.

I'm so glad that I found this site...Beware all ladies....He's good, real good..

good luck to all..
justintime66

Welcome here justintime66.

I'm glad you didn't get scammed out of your money. What you're doing now with this scammer is what we call 'scambaiting' . It is something we don't encourage here when the scammer probably has your details, including your home address. Best thing to do is to drop him, and simply stop writing to him.

Hi
I am new to this site...
Yesterday i've recived a message from I believe scammer...
We were chatting for a quite long time and yesterday...
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:16:58): nothing much was on duty and later yesterday when i was free no puter to come online. couldnt logon on my mobil will at work
(13/02/2011 15:17:27): oh, ok
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:18:03): miss you
(13/02/2011 15:18:11): how is your daughter today?
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:18:24): tell me about it
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:19:09): she is getting better somehow and that remind me. you will have to some lil write up tomorrow
(13/02/2011 15:20:00): nothing has happened... I had a bad day at work yesterday- no reak at all so I was very tired...
(13/02/2011 15:20:13): lil write up tomorrow?..
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:21:46): ya babe i want you to mail my commander tomorrow requesting how soon i can be allowed to come home or get a leave
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:22:20): how so tired and fed up...hope you will tell me you are better now that im here?
oh Scott
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:24:21): dont tell me talking to here doesnt make any difference
(13/02/2011 15:25:24): when you ae here it makes a big difference... you make a big difference
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:25:39): ok
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:26:09): i may be furtunate to be with you soon, that will really make me happy
(13/02/2011 15:26:14): back to you... how could I mail your commander?...
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:26:56): i want you to email him...
...
This guy is using the real guys name and his photos.
I know because i was talking to the real James...

Welcome to Scamwarners Kataxa.
As you suspect, it is a scammer.
"i want you to mail my commander tomorrow requesting how soon i can be allowed to come home or get a leave" leaves no possible doubt.

Yes, looks like... Oh is so hard to believe how people can do things like that?!
Is there any chance to report him somewhere, or... I don't know... He is using somebodys name and photos... I believe that is illegal?...
He doesn't know i know. We are chatting like every day...

Forgot before- the email address he asked me to send the request is [email protected]
he also asked me to send him a copy of my letterer...

James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:41:57): send the message to [email protected]James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:42:12): you can send it today and make sure you send me a copy w when you did
(13/02/2011 15:42:26): do I need to tell who I am?...
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:42:38): include my name
(13/02/2011 15:42:40): why do you need a copy?
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:42:46): ya
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:43:16): my full nname
(13/02/2011 15:43:31): James Diagle ?
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:44:00): sgt. diagle s james
(13/02/2011 15:44:17): ok
James Diagle s (13/02/2011 15:44:26): i need a copy for record purpose

I would love to do something about this... not sure what...
Thanks for any ideas

Welcome here Kataxa.

The only thing you need to do is to stop all communication with this scammer. Don't waste any more time on him, as he will drop you as soon as he knows he can't get any money out of you.

does it mean we can't do anything about it?...
There could be another woman and she might give him money...
What a world
Thank you for all your answers

does it mean we can't do anything about it?...

If you have not lost any money, then what have already posted here is exactly the only thing you you can do... make people aware of the names, email address and phone numbers used by the criminal. (Pictures are irrelevant because they will be of innocent people).

If you have lost money you will not get it back and as you do not have real details of the scammer, and you won't get police action either. Fact is that because he is in a foreign country (ie: West Africa, as this type of scam is typically Nigerian), you would have to loose many thousands of Dollars to even get a sniff of any action... and that too would pure luck.

Victims should report to http://www.ic3.gov/ or an appropriate anti-fraud entity within their own borders (if one exists).

There could be another woman and she might give him money...

Unfortunately this is a guarantee, but there is nothing you can do about it directly.

The information you have posted will help someone out of a jam, just as you found the information posted before you.

Hello Kataxa, as Mac said above you have done well to post the scammer's information here. The name they use, the email address they use and the script they use. This is one of the frustrating things about scammers. They keep on scamming.

If you do read around our forum, you will see that posting this kind of information does help some. Please stay around and post up scams that you come across.

You can also warn people you know about scams in person. Learn what they look like and let others know. If you know the parable of the starfish, you understand what we do here.

I had to mail to [email protected]

then this morning I got a file, it is like a contract with 10 rules

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/t ... directlink

His name is Keith Engle, he says he is in Afganistan. I already found it strange a military could have MSN.

Also my computer has a malfunction on firefox, but not IE, I dont know if he has anything to do with it.

He sent me an email to my gmail account, maby we can track the IP, but I dont know how to do that.

Keep each other posted!!!

Thank you !

Yes I found it as well, However there are other IP's from different emails that he has sent whichx-orginated from the USA - Even more confusing. But agreed that I almost got scammed. Only lost a lot of time & energy.

Thank you everyone,
Heartbroken but not Stupid.

Hi there,

I'm from the Netherlands and always very suspicious about internet dating.. Thru a social site i met a guy, he told me he was a millitair stationed in Iraq. Within 2 days he said he'd loved me and wanted to marry me.. I played the game and I got a leave request.. (well.. it was a word document converted into pdf format thru the site: Mod Note: this was a link to a pdf converter site. We don't need the link. ~Bubbles. He had loads of pictures of a soldier in combat.. looked all internet for the name and pictures but couldn't find what I was searching for.. found this site thou.. so... I told him and got him the link to this site and to a intervieuw on youtube from the BBC about army scammers.. he was gone in a split second!

Welcome to ScamWarners BabyBear and Sandramhd. Thank you for posting here.

BabyBear, if you want to trace his email IP, PM me and I will walk you through it. It is great that you didn't get scammed out of money.

Sandramhd, you did great research. Do you have the email address this criminal wrote from? Also if you have any emails from him, that too is helpful for others to find as you did. Typically we do not point scammers to this site. I am glad that you got rid of the scammer before he took money from you.

Welcome to ScamWarners BabyBear and Sandramhd. Thank you for posting here.

BabyBear, if you want to trace his email IP, PM me and I will walk you through it. It is great that you didn't get scammed out of money.

Sandramhd, you did great research. Do you have the email address this criminal wrote from? Also if you have any emails from him, that too is helpful for others to find as you did. Typically we do not point scammers to this site. I am glad that you got rid of the scammer before he took money from you.

Well.. he mailed and most of the time was on msn with the mailadres: [email protected]
the originated IP adres is: 68.68.107.183 and when I traced it I came out to california. Another mail had another IP adres: 41.15.205.209 found out this is a vodacom server from Pretoria, South Africa.
He play's to be offended and I still talk to him .. hahaha I play the game with him now..
I only got 1 email from him.. with the so called Leave Request.. It was as fake as hell.. anyone, even a blind person could see

I too have received paperwork from the Lt. Gonzales. Same scam and I have another supposed soldier from the UK that keeps bothering me insisting on sending me a check to cash for him. Told him to leave me alone and not send anything and he did. So now I have to figure out who to go to with this scam postal money order sent fedex. Or do I simply rip it up.
Cathy