SGT MAJOR A US MILITARY SCAMMER

Hi,
I have this very interesting love affair with this military officer in the name of Tony James, he claims that he is a Sgt Major (Spike 7, E-9) with his email add, [email protected] and was assigned in Afghanistan for UN Operations. To tell you, we this have this professed undying love and never ending commitment. In short I have fallen in love with him over net in a short period of time.
Our communications starts, October 21, 2010 at night in http://www.netlog.com and it ends, October 29, 2010. On the very first day we meet, he sends me his photos and his 2 siblings (10 photos), and in his letter says so “Here are some of my pictures together with the pictures of my kids... take it with love, and I really want you to know you look so pretty. Please take good care of yourself for me, and i want you to know I have the passions for you. I want you so much. All I need is for you to understand me and trust me. I will be waiting for your response. Take care and keep safe. Tony. As per our conversation, he said that, he is a Widow with 2 siblings, his wife died of a cancer. He is already 45 years old. He is a US Soldier with rank Sgt Major E-9 with a salary earning of USD 120,000. His father is already dead and leaves one company (Eco Shell) where he gets his monthly share of USD 320,000.00.
From them on, we have so many talks, after 4 days he said he will be going to take a military leave and he asked me to write a letter that he will be taking a military leave in order for us to meet each other here in our country, I follow his order and that’s it, he give me this email add; [email protected]. And so I open the website, http://www.militarytransleave.com and I found out that this website originated in California. He confronted me why I open a website where in fact he told me that I must have to trust him, there my doubts begin.
When I have free time, I search his name in facebook, my space, Linked in, friendster, and all other websites. I found him in facebook and in my space (tony james, us soldier), and I confronted him what I saw and read. I told him the real thing that he is already married, he has this lovely wife whom he called as High School Sweety and 2 siblings. As per details, he lives at Fort Polk, Louisiana, USA. All photos send were genuine and true, but I am still wondering up to now, if this is a Fake Tony James, why he can access the facebook of Tony james? (After my confrontation with him and I went back to face book he deleted his account there).
But still, I continue talking with him and told him that I already received a notification from [email protected] for his “military leave”. I told him that there is a clause “stating that Spouses or family of the employee is requesting for a leave must a pay all necessary charges accordingly”, he said I have to pay it but I said YOU are the MAN, you must pay for it and he told me he must sign out to look for money. After the following day, we talk again. He said, he can’t find money for it and I told him so do I, perhaps he have so many friends there all over USA who can help him over his problem and later on, he says FORGET ABOUT IT and sign out, he also deleted his profile in netlog and in facebook. Until then I haven’t seen him online.
HE HASN’T STOLEN MY MONEY BUT HE HAS STOLEN MY HEART.

Welcome Rosalie,

I'm sorry you were targeted by this scammer, but glad you didn't lose any money.

The man you were talking to is not named Tony James, and he is not an American soldier. He is an African man who makes his living by stealing from others.

If he was able to delete the profile, then he must have created it, and it is a fake. I can't research it now but it's very possible the myspace and facebook profiles are both fakes--I will do a few checks later. He may have accidentally copied the "married" piece from a profile he was copying, or he may be further into a scam with another woman--sometimes romance scammers will start calling their victims their husband or wife. They will put that on their fake pages in order to make themselves look more devoted.

Just so you know, there are no fees or charges to be paid for military leave, and nobody but the soldier can request leave. American soldiers also do not need satellite phones to talk to you. The moment a "soldier" who is emailing or chatting with you asks you to send him or her a new phone; sign up for satellite phone, or apply for or pay for leave for them, you can be absolutely certain that he or she is a scammer, no exceptions.

Thanks Dotti,
but it is still logging in my head why these people keep on scamming other who is earning on a right way. After searching the profile of tony james in facebook, wow, it appears again. i dont know why... this made me a head ache..

Hi Rosalie,

It's almost 2 a.m. my time, and I need to go to bed now I looked for the profile before but couldn't find it. Can you post a link to the profile you are talking about, so I can check it out tomorrow?

Hi Rosalie,

I don't know if you're still interested in what is happening with this man or not but I came across your post here when I was looking for anything about this email address [email protected]. You see, I received an email on Facebook out of the blue from someone called Tolla James and, as I have been approached before by a person who ultimately turned out to be a liar and a cheat, I decided to check this one out because alarm bells began to ring when I read his message and that's when I found your post.

I think he is the same person but with a different name although the email address is the same and so is the story he tells. Here's a link to the Facebook page this Tolla James has:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002553884940.
This Tolla James also states that he's a member of the US Armed forces though he does also state that he's from Madrid in Spain which doesn't really make sense.

He has sent me an email telling me about his dead wife and his children and other stuff. There's been no talk of money yet but I do think he may have intended to at some point. The thing that made me wary was the way he talked about God. The other scammers who have contacted me did the same thing. Then, when I saw your post, I noticed the other similarities too. I received rather a lengthy email from him yesterday in which he talked about the future, what he wants from life, his two children, the fact that his wife is dead. The freaky thing was, he sent me the unexpected first mail on Facebook (I never chat online or use such websites, my Facebook is set to the highest privacy levels, so his message was a surprise) and then in the third email he was already talking about wanting us to provide a "peace home for one another where we feel loved, cherished, respected, and not taken for granted", and other such ridiculous stuff. He has no access to my Facebook page. All he can see is a photo of my fiance giving me a kiss (we are getting married in a few months so there's no way I would look for someone else!), he saw that and yet he still sent the messages. Like I said, the alarm bells really did go off and I can see now that there was good reason.

I replied to his final email saying (politely) that I would not be communicating with him but would instead be communicating with Facebook and Yahoo about him. He's not replied since. I also found his email listed on this website http://afroclub.net/advance-fee-fraud.htm (you have to scroll down. It's not in alphabetical order but it is there towards the bottom of the 'Rs'). The site claims to be a Billboard of Shame for those fraudsters who are in Nigeria.

I am sorry you've been hurt Rosalie, but please be assured that it's in no way, shape or form your fault. This is down to a lying, conniving, no good, waste of space, who preys on innocent people. You're a victim in all of this. I don't mean to rub your nose in this by sending this message to you but just wanted to say that he, and people like him, don't care about the feelings of others, they care only about their own self-centred gain. Hopefully, other people will read this post you started and will also be warned off him.

I hope you'll find someone who is by far more worthy of you than him.

O.