US ARMY - REQUEST FOR LEAVE PERMIT

It would be easier if we had more information.

Take her to a Recruiting station, Military Base or National Guard Station. She can ask there.

This is a West African scammers stupid statement.

they can talk on the phone and she would be able to collect his things if anything were to happen to him

For one he is free to talk with whoever he wants to. Only a child needs permission to talk on the phone.

She could not collect his things in anyway. Military makes you have a standing Will.

The scammer is going to ask for fake fee's. He is playing all roles.

Also read: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6527

This is a warning from the Army about this scam.
http://www.army.mil/article/130861/Army ... nce_scams/

QUANTICO, Va. (July 30, 2014) -- Special Agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, commonly known as CID, are once again warning internet users worldwide about cyber criminals involved in an online crime that CID has dubbed "the Romance Scam."

CID special agents continue to receive numerous reports from victims located around the world regarding various scams of persons impersonating U.S. Soldiers online. Victims are usually unsuspecting women, 30 to 55 years old, who believe they are romantically involved with an American Soldier, yet are being exploited and ultimately robbed, by perpetrators who strike from thousands of miles away.

"We cannot stress enough that people need to stop sending money to persons they meet on the internet and claim to be in the U.S. military," said Chris Grey, Army CID's spokesman.

"It is very troubling to hear these stories over and over again of people who have sent thousands of dollars to someone they have never met and sometimes have never even spoken to on the phone," Grey said.

The majority of the "romance scams," are being perpetrated on social media and dating-type websites where unsuspecting females are the main target.

The criminals are pretending to be U.S. servicemen, routinely serving in a combat zone. The perpetrators will often take the true rank and name of a U.S. Soldier who is honorably serving his country somewhere in the world, or has previously served and been honorably discharged, then marry that up with some photographs of a Soldier off the internet, and then build a false identity to begin prowling the internet for victims.

The scams often involve carefully worded romantic requests for money from the victim to purchase special laptop computers, international telephones, military leave papers, and transportation fees to be used by the fictitious "deployed Soldier" so their false relationship can continue. The scams include asking the victim to send money, often thousands of dollars at a time, to a third party address.

Once victims are hooked, the criminals continue their ruse.

"We've even seen instances where the perpetrators are asking the victims for money to purchase "leave papers" from the Army, help pay for medical expenses from combat wounds or help pay for their flight home so they can leave the war zone," said Grey.

These scams are outright theft and are a grave misrepresentation of the U.S. Army and the tremendous amount of support programs and mechanisms that exist for Soldiers today, especially those serving overseas, said Grey.

Along with the romance-type scams, CID has been receiving complaints from citizens worldwide that they have been the victims of other types of scams -- once again where a cyber crook is impersonating a U.S. service member. One version usually involves the sale of a vehicle; where the service member claims to be living overseas and has to quickly sell their vehicle because they are being sent to another duty station. After sending bogus information regarding the vehicle, the seller requests the buyer do a wire transfer to a third party to complete the purchase. When in reality, the entire exchange is a ruse for the crook to get the wire transfer and leave the buyer high and dry, with no vehicle.

Army CID continues to warn people to be very suspicious if they begin a relationship on the internet with someone claiming to be an American Soldier and within a matter of weeks, the alleged Soldier is asking for money, as well as discussing marriage.

The majority of these scams have a distinct pattern to them, explained Grey.

The perpetrators often tell the victims that their units do not have telephones or they are not allowed to make calls or they need money to "help keep the Army internet running." They often say they are widowers and raising a young child on their own to pull on the heartstrings of their victims.

"We've even seen where the criminals said that the Army won't allow the Soldier to access their personal bank accounts or credit cards," said Grey.

All lies, according to CID officials.

"These perpetrators, often from other countries, most notably from West African countries, are good at what they do and quite familiar with American culture, but the claims about the Army and its regulations are ridiculous," said Grey.

The Army reports that numerous very senior officers and enlisted Soldiers throughout the Army have had their identities stolen to be used in these scams.

To date, there have been no reports to Army CID indicating any U.S. service members have suffered any financial loss as a result of these attacks. Photographs and actual names of U.S. service members have been the only thing utilized. On the contrary, the victims have lost thousands.

One victim revealed that she had sent more than $60,000 to the scammer. Another victim from Great Britain told CID officials that over the course of a year, she had sent more than $75,000 to the con artists.

"The criminals are preying on the emotions and patriotism of their victims," added Grey.

The U.S. has established numerous task force organizations to deal with this and other growing issues; unfortunately, the people committing these scams are using untraceable email addresses on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., routing accounts through numerous locations around the world, and utilizing pay-per-hour Internet cyber cafes, which often times maintain no accountability of use. The ability of law enforcement to identify these perpetrators is very limited, so individuals must stay on the alert and be personally responsible to protect themselves.

"Another critical issue is we don't want victims who do not report this crime walking away and thinking that a U.S. serviceman has ripped them off when in fact that serviceman is honorably serving his country and often not even aware that his pictures or identity have been stolen," said Grey.

What to look for:

DON'T EVER SEND MONEY! Be extremely suspicious if you are asked for money for transportation costs, communication fees or marriage processing and medical fees.

Carefully check out the stories you are being told. If it sounds suspicious, there is a reason, it's routinely false -- trust your instincts.

If you do start an internet-based relationship with someone, check them out, research what they are telling you with someone who would know, such as a current or former service member.

Be very suspicious if you never get to actually speak with the person on the phone or are told you cannot write or receive letters in the mail. Servicemen and women serving overseas will often have an APO or FPO mailing address. Internet or not, service members always appreciate a letter in the mail.

Military members have an email address that end in ".mil." If the person you are speaking with cannot sent you at least one email from a ".mil" (that will be the very LAST part of the address and nothing after), then there is a high probability they are not in the military.

Many of the negative claims made about the military and the supposed lack of support and services provided to troops overseas are far from reality -- check the facts.

Be very suspicious if you are asked to send money or ship property to a third party or company. Often times the company exists, but has no idea or is not a part of the scam.

Be aware of common spelling, grammatical or language errors in the emails.

Be cognizant of foreign and regional accents that do not match the person's story.

WHERE TO GO FOR HELP

Report the theft to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) (FBI-NW3C Partnership) at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx.

Report the theft to the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/idtheft.

Your report helps law enforcement officials across the United States in their investigations.

Report the theft by phone at 1-877-ID-THEFT (438-4338) or TTY, 1-866-653-4261.

Report the theft by mail at the following address:

Identity Theft Clearinghouse
Federal Trade Commission
Washington, DC 20580

Report the fraud by email to the Federal Trade Commission on Nigerian Scams via at [email protected].

For more information on CID, visit http://www.cid.army.mil.

Mod Note: Poster is unaware that military members are not committing this scam. Scammers have stolen the identity of members to commit this crime.

Hi! I have been talking to a soldier named James Hall, Christian Salinas, and Richard Patrick...I got a letter from the DOD or who I thought was the DOD for Christian Salinas stating that if I didn't pay 1,000.00 then he wouldn't be able to leave..I'm still talking to Richard Patrick and James Hall and I'm getting ready to put them all on block cuz its all a scam now that I have done some reading...I want to report these guys so everyone will be aware that there doing it too...I didn't think that the military would stoop so low as to let their guys get away with this...If I can press charges against all of them I would love to...I have given James close to 3,300.00, Christian 50.00, and Richard nothing at this point but he was asking me for 350.00 cuz he was short on his plane ticket...You know I try to help everyone that I can especially the soldiers cause that was how I was raised.I want to help in any way possible to get these guys punished if this is fake and to put a stop to it...How do I check their names and find out what is real and what ain't?

The military nor any military member is involved with your scam.

The people behind your scam have stolen the identity and pictures of a valued military member.

Stop all contact with these scammers. Quit giving away your money.

tweetybird78011 wrote
.I didn't think that the military would stoop so low as to let their guys get away with this.

^^^^ You are totally wrong.

It is 100% a scam.

He is a thief. Everything he has told you is a lie.

Military members do not pay for leave. They earn free leave each year. Also only the member can request leave through his chain of command. His wife, mother, children nor internet girlfriend can do this. Also they would never have contact with his chain of command.

Military members have access to their money. They also do not pay for phones, internet, flights home or medical.

Military provides all meals.

Please stop all contact with the scammer. If you confront him he will continue to lie.

Post his fake name, rank and email address/phone numbers. Also post the complete email address of the fake leave office. This will help other women avoid his scam.

It will also be helpful if you post a couple of his initial emails to you and the fake leave office email. Remove your personal information from them prior to submitting.

This is a warning from the Army about this scam.
http://www.army.mil/article/130861/Army ... nce_scams/

QUANTICO, Va. (July 30, 2014) -- Special Agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, commonly known as CID, are once again warning internet users worldwide about cyber criminals involved in an online crime that CID has dubbed "the Romance Scam."

CID special agents continue to receive numerous reports from victims located around the world regarding various scams of persons impersonating U.S. Soldiers online. Victims are usually unsuspecting women, 30 to 55 years old, who believe they are romantically involved with an American Soldier, yet are being exploited and ultimately robbed, by perpetrators who strike from thousands of miles away.

"We cannot stress enough that people need to stop sending money to persons they meet on the internet and claim to be in the U.S. military," said Chris Grey, Army CID's spokesman.

"It is very troubling to hear these stories over and over again of people who have sent thousands of dollars to someone they have never met and sometimes have never even spoken to on the phone," Grey said.

The majority of the "romance scams," are being perpetrated on social media and dating-type websites where unsuspecting females are the main target.

The criminals are pretending to be U.S. servicemen, routinely serving in a combat zone. The perpetrators will often take the true rank and name of a U.S. Soldier who is honorably serving his country somewhere in the world, or has previously served and been honorably discharged, then marry that up with some photographs of a Soldier off the internet, and then build a false identity to begin prowling the internet for victims.

The scams often involve carefully worded romantic requests for money from the victim to purchase special laptop computers, international telephones, military leave papers, and transportation fees to be used by the fictitious "deployed Soldier" so their false relationship can continue. The scams include asking the victim to send money, often thousands of dollars at a time, to a third party address.

Once victims are hooked, the criminals continue their ruse.

"We've even seen instances where the perpetrators are asking the victims for money to purchase "leave papers" from the Army, help pay for medical expenses from combat wounds or help pay for their flight home so they can leave the war zone," said Grey.

These scams are outright theft and are a grave misrepresentation of the U.S. Army and the tremendous amount of support programs and mechanisms that exist for Soldiers today, especially those serving overseas, said Grey.

Along with the romance-type scams, CID has been receiving complaints from citizens worldwide that they have been the victims of other types of scams -- once again where a cyber crook is impersonating a U.S. service member. One version usually involves the sale of a vehicle; where the service member claims to be living overseas and has to quickly sell their vehicle because they are being sent to another duty station. After sending bogus information regarding the vehicle, the seller requests the buyer do a wire transfer to a third party to complete the purchase. When in reality, the entire exchange is a ruse for the crook to get the wire transfer and leave the buyer high and dry, with no vehicle.

Army CID continues to warn people to be very suspicious if they begin a relationship on the internet with someone claiming to be an American Soldier and within a matter of weeks, the alleged Soldier is asking for money, as well as discussing marriage.

The majority of these scams have a distinct pattern to them, explained Grey.

The perpetrators often tell the victims that their units do not have telephones or they are not allowed to make calls or they need money to "help keep the Army internet running." They often say they are widowers and raising a young child on their own to pull on the heartstrings of their victims.

"We've even seen where the criminals said that the Army won't allow the Soldier to access their personal bank accounts or credit cards," said Grey.

All lies, according to CID officials.

"These perpetrators, often from other countries, most notably from West African countries, are good at what they do and quite familiar with American culture, but the claims about the Army and its regulations are ridiculous," said Grey.

The Army reports that numerous very senior officers and enlisted Soldiers throughout the Army have had their identities stolen to be used in these scams.

To date, there have been no reports to Army CID indicating any U.S. service members have suffered any financial loss as a result of these attacks. Photographs and actual names of U.S. service members have been the only thing utilized. On the contrary, the victims have lost thousands.

One victim revealed that she had sent more than $60,000 to the scammer. Another victim from Great Britain told CID officials that over the course of a year, she had sent more than $75,000 to the con artists.

"The criminals are preying on the emotions and patriotism of their victims," added Grey.

The U.S. has established numerous task force organizations to deal with this and other growing issues; unfortunately, the people committing these scams are using untraceable email addresses on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., routing accounts through numerous locations around the world, and utilizing pay-per-hour Internet cyber cafes, which often times maintain no accountability of use. The ability of law enforcement to identify these perpetrators is very limited, so individuals must stay on the alert and be personally responsible to protect themselves.

"Another critical issue is we don't want victims who do not report this crime walking away and thinking that a U.S. serviceman has ripped them off when in fact that serviceman is honorably serving his country and often not even aware that his pictures or identity have been stolen," said Grey.

What to look for:

DON'T EVER SEND MONEY! Be extremely suspicious if you are asked for money for transportation costs, communication fees or marriage processing and medical fees.

Carefully check out the stories you are being told. If it sounds suspicious, there is a reason, it's routinely false -- trust your instincts.

If you do start an internet-based relationship with someone, check them out, research what they are telling you with someone who would know, such as a current or former service member.

Be very suspicious if you never get to actually speak with the person on the phone or are told you cannot write or receive letters in the mail. Servicemen and women serving overseas will often have an APO or FPO mailing address. Internet or not, service members always appreciate a letter in the mail.

Military members have an email address that end in ".mil." If the person you are speaking with cannot sent you at least one email from a ".mil" (that will be the very LAST part of the address and nothing after), then there is a high probability they are not in the military.

Many of the negative claims made about the military and the supposed lack of support and services provided to troops overseas are far from reality -- check the facts.

Be very suspicious if you are asked to send money or ship property to a third party or company. Often times the company exists, but has no idea or is not a part of the scam.

Be aware of common spelling, grammatical or language errors in the emails.

Be cognizant of foreign and regional accents that do not match the person's story.

WHERE TO GO FOR HELP

Report the theft to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) (FBI-NW3C Partnership) at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx.

Report the theft to the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/idtheft.

Your report helps law enforcement officials across the United States in their investigations.

Report the theft by phone at 1-877-ID-THEFT (438-4338) or TTY, 1-866-653-4261.

Report the theft by mail at the following address:

Identity Theft Clearinghouse
Federal Trade Commission
Washington, DC 20580

Report the fraud by email to the Federal Trade Commission on Nigerian Scams via at [email protected].

For more information on CID, visit http://www.cid.army.mil.

Thanks so much for clearing that up for me...I thought it was not true but I don't know what the military rules are these days..I'm blocking everyone that I have been talking to...Your heaven sent...If I have any more problems can I message u bout it?

Hello

I think someone on Google hangouts have scammed me last month. She was in hurry and want me to send Money for her Christmas leave. She sent me an e mail address regarding to her military welfare camp. She said introduce yourself as your fiancee so i can leave the Afghanistan Kabul military camp.

Then i have mailde for 5 times to address below:

UNITED STATES <[email protected]>

I really believed that it is real militrary camp. There were also written general name at the bottom of mail:

Best Regard,
Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr.
Commander Resolute Support Mission
and United States Forces – Afghanistan.


All mails were finishing same. First they told about leave periods over 3,6 months for marriage leave and Money they want. I did not have that Money. It was about 2860 dollars

Then she said me to ask miltary welfare to ask for only christmas leave.Then welfare mail said it is just 1860 dollars for flight tickets.

After that she said a nurse friend help her for 500 $ and she needed just 1360 $ now.
Then i convinced and sent that Money to address welfare sent to me.

After that welfare sent me tickets date and time on Kingdom of Netherlands planes..But they also wanted Basic Travel Allowance Money from me about 1500 $

After that i understand that they are really scammer. Iwanted my Money back.But they said it is not refundable Money.ı said i am in debts and need it.but they did not say where Money has göne.

The Money address that i sent Money was in Maryland

After all i researched over internet and find welfare e-mails real place on IP .That was surprising where they sent that e-mails from.I am adding an attachment Picture below
about it. It was from Wayne,Pennysylvania

Be aware of such demands from military soldiers please. After all i had one more e-mail that they made discount on Basic Travel Allowance( BTA) Money and they said they need just 1000 $ for her to come to my country.That mail was like below from same address:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JOINT FORCE WITH NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION –NATO-                                                                                                                 PEACE KEEPING CAMP KABUL AFGHANISTAN.
                                                                          UNITED STATES MILITARY INTERNATIONAL LEAVE BOARD
Good Day,
Cun.
 
The flight ticket and leave vacation of your fiance Sergeant Lilian Morgan to Turkey is still 
active. It will only be terminated after Ninety working days (90 days). It can also be terminated
if there is any change in the Military calendar in the areas of Illness, Redeployment and when on
a Crucial Mission. 
                         As a first class Sergeant, hardworking and Decent staff. We the welfare has decided 
to give her a prefrence in order to take her leave after the discussion at the admin with the sum of One 
Thousand Dollar ($1000). It's expected of you to make the payment in order to issue her the leave 
certificate. 
 
 
Best Regard,
Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr.
Commander Resolute Support Mission
and United States Forces – Afghanistan.

Dear all,

the "US Army - Request for leave permit" is going around again. I met a woman on Badoo.com and we were chatting for a while. She said that she was from California attending a medical conference in my city and that she is working as a medical doctor for the US Military.

We soon changed to chat on WhatsApp but the next day she said that she is too busy to meet with me because she is on special assignment. So she suggested to me that I should help her to "apply for emergency leave" so that she could meet with me. She gave me her E-Mail address and said that I should send her a mail so that she could send me a drafted application that I would have to fill out and mail to her superiors at the military welfare board.


So here is the "drafted application" that she has sent to me:

Hello dear this the drafted application, write your names in the spaces provided and send it to the email below,

Below is the Email address of the welfare service board
Email address([email protected] )

Hello sir my name is....................... , i'm contacting on behalf of my fiance, Dr. JULIE WILSON, US Special Marine Corps of batch number: UN/US/CORPS 0A06/1678/UNAMILQ, i really want to apply for emergency leave of my fiance to enable her to come and visit me for emergency purpose, I will be grateful if you can grant my application, also give me guideline on the procedures?
Thanks for your consideration.
Yours Faithful
......................................

please write your names in the space provided in the application and submit it to the welfare and follow it up.

The person called him/herself "Julie Wills" on Badoo.com. The Profile is already deleted even though I haven't made a complaint yet. Someone must have been faster.

She used this E-Mail address: [email protected]

And I was supposed to mail to this address: [email protected]

Both are free E-Mail addresses. Beware of scam.

In addition to my previous post on Julie Wills / Julie Wilson:

This image was used on Badoo as well as on WhatsApp

Please note that [email protected] belongs to a scammer. Any threats he makes are fake.

The scammer that I have been communicating with is Mike Ellisworth. His profile on Facebook says that he works for American Red Cross. In communicating with him, he says that he works with the Foreign Disaster Relief at American Red Cross. He told me that he lived in Rogers, Arkansas. His messages were very sweet. In fact, I found some of them to be copied and pasted from different websites on how to write love letters. He never asked for money, but said that he really wanted to meet me, but was "financially unstable". Said that his ex left him with a mountain of debt. Then I noticed that he was off line for 1 week. When he came back, he told me that he was in the Asia region. Not too long after that, he started telling me that there was no good food and water in the city, and told me he had to go to the nearest town to get things. He said that his colleagues have been receiving help from their friends and family, but he has yet to get help from anyone. I am sure he was hinting for me to sent him money. I questioned that, because if he truly did work for the Red Cross they would supply their needs. I told him that I was sorry for what he was going through, and that someone would come through for him. Well, the loving messages went on for weeks. Now he tells me that he has been discussing with his boss, about a leave to come to see me. He just needs to get a leave permit. And that he was concerned on how to raise the "fee". I told him that loaning money was not in my budget. He came back and said that he has some money, but that it is not enough. I told him that I was a self supporting person, with no help from anyone. That was the final straw for me. I have ceased communication with him. If he did really work for the Red Cross, I don't believe he would have to ask for a "leave".

[AlanJones]

Thanks for posting pat01reev, he's a definite scammer.

Do you have any email addresses or telephone numbers for him and can you post a link to his Facebook profile.

Thanks for posting pat01reev, he's a definite scammer.

Do you have any email addresses or telephone numbers for him and can you post a link to his Facebook profile.

We were only communicating via Facebook messenger, so I do not have a phone number for him. His Facebook address is mike.ellsw5. I do not have access to Facebook at the moment. I will try to post a link to his Facebook page a little later.

[AlanJones]

Thanks, I was able to find it from the Facebook ID you gave.

Facebook profile for Mike Ellisworth

Stolen photo used

Wow! Thank you!

So, my mother is being scammed by this disgusting piece of work.

His name is Pham Morris Tran. They connected via Facebook (here's his profile link: https://www.facebook.com/PhammorrisTran I have reported him). I don't think she KNOWS she's being scammed which makes me super annoyed and upset. They no longer talk through Facebook. He emails her now through an email address of [email protected].

My mother has questioned him on why he has a lot of phone numbers he contacts her from. One of them being from Nigeria. She confronted him and asked where he lived to which he responded with a bunch of bullshit lies.

"Love i told everything you needed to know am on peacekeeping in Afghanistan, i called with the radio roaming and the signal came from a different location because you blocked me on Viber and i was worried aout you, i had to find possible means i talking to you love, please lets talk on viber am sick here"

He has already emailed her requesting for a "care package" in the amount of $650 USD. I have tried to talk some sense into her, but she seems stubborn about it.

She has sent an email to [email protected] asking if "Sergeant Morris could come to Canada for a vacation". Typing that out just sickens me to my stomach.

The email replied with:

CATEGORIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF EMERGENCY:

(A) DURATION OF 3 WEEKS DURATION:
1300.00 USD
(B) DURATION OF 18 WEEKS DURATION:
2.500.00 USD
(C) SEVEN MONTHS (HONEYMOON) DURATION OF THE PERIOD:
5.200.00 USD

Please choose the options of your choice and return to us. We look forward to your urgent response.

Thank you.

Army Gen. " M " Nicholson.

May I mention that the email to send the money to was a f*cking money gram.

I'm going to post the pictures so that anyone who encounters this man knows he's a g*dd*mn FAKE.

https://imgur.com/Oavpyl0 https://imgur.com/XYR7asY https://imgur.com/tb4E8pk