FAKE.... [email protected]

Firstly i want to say how sad this whole thing is. This man contacted me thru a dating site and after a week i had a gut feeling something wasnt right. I wanted to believe in him so badly all because he said he was a US soldier and i have so much respect for soldiers from any country. When he asked me to request leave for him i felt very suspicious yet i e-mailed the address he gave me i guess just to see if it worked. Well it did, i got a reply from [email protected] explaining things to me and then telling me i would have to pay money. BINGO there it was, i knew right then it was a scam so i went in search for info and found this site. I can not believe there are so many "soldiers" our there that have been used in such a sick way. All day i fought with the idea that maybe, just maybe this man i was chatting to and i might add really feeling connected with was one of the very few real ones out there but then i kept reading and yes i found the proof i needed to add his name and photo to this site. please just be careful, i have another 2 soldiers on yahoo i am chatting to, one seems like he could be real but i am baiting him to get more info. i will post him if needed.
So here is "Sgt Aaron Mateo, i might add also, i can not find out any info about this name so if you do keep it lol. I just feel like crying now. Makes me sick to think there are people in this world destroying any chance of innocent people getting to know each other.

Hi ozziewhisper and welcome to ScamWarners – I’m glad that you found out that this is a scam before you sent any money to the scammer. It is always upsetting to discover that the person you have been trusting is actually a liar and a criminal, and is only writing to you to trick you into sending him money to steal from you – but at least you didn’t lose your money as well as having your emotions played with like this.

It is likely that the other two soldiers you are chatting with are also fakes and scammers. It can be useful to ‘bait’ scammers to find out their scams and lies and the names and email addresses they use – but this must be done anonymously and safely; never using your real name, real email address, or any other genuine information. If you are writing to a suspected scammer from your real email address or through PMs to your real dating site profile, please drop all contact immediately. If you wish to bait other scammers to collect their information and expose them here to warn other people about them, please firstly visit our sister site 419Eater:

http://www.419eater.com/

to learn how to do this safely. You can also find specific guidance about baiting romance scammers in the Love/Dating Scams forum there:

Romance Baiting FAQ

There are many scammers with fake profiles on dating sites. You may find it helpful to read the following:

Are you falling for a love scammer?
Scammers Impersonating Military Personnel

Thank you for posting the information about this one, which will help to warn other women about him. You may also like to post a copy of his first email to you – this is probably a pre-written letter that he sends to all women he is targeting for theft. And if you can also include the headers of the email (make sure you delete your own name and email address first!), we may be able to tell which country he is really located in. If you are not sure how to access the headers of an email, just say which email provider you are using (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc), and somebody should be able to assist with this.

I was so relieved to find you website you have saved me a lot of heartache and money.
This man contacted me through a dating website and was so charming, paid me compliments and when he found out that i had just been through a relationship breakdown he knew i was vulnerable.
it started off by telling me he loved me and when i asked him how could he possible know he had feelings like that he gave me a very convincing answer. now he is telling me he is in love with me.
Last week he stating telling that he had seen so many bad things and that one of his good friends had gone out on patrol and not come back. being me i was deeply upset by this i would not wish this on anyone and expressed to him how sorry i was to hear the news. it was then that he said that he wanted to take 4 months leave to think about what he wanted to do. He said that he would like to spend the time over in the united kingdom with myself and my children and asked me to marry him when he arrived over here. Then out of the blue he needed money to do it £1075 to be exact. I got the details but then had second thoughts but told him i had done it to see the reaction when he found out. This made no difference and he is still saying all the nice things and sending poems by email. He will never learn cos now im just teaching him a very hard lesson in life. Mess with me and you will come off a lot worse. Sgt Aaron Mateo you are a big FAKE and there will never ever be a Mrs Mateo not from me anyway . I hope he reads this web page and then maybe just maybe he will realise what we all think of him,
He is the lowest of the low taking advantage of women in vulnerable situations and he does not derserve to be given a chance in romance cos he will hurt anyone he comes across.

Welcome Babecakes!

I'm glad you were able to avoid being scammed.

I just want to make sure you understand, though.
The person who has been writing you is not the man in the photos. He has never even met the man in the photos. He is an African man who has nothing to do with the US military. He copied those photos from the internet in order to use them in his scams. In spite of all of his romantic talk, this is not a romance for him--it is nothing more than a business. He never had any intention of marrying anyone, or even meeting them. He may say he is coming to meet you, but there will always be fictional problems that will prevent him from getting to you. He will promise you the world, and say and do whatever he thinks is necessary to steal your money. He does not care how much he hurts his victims, or even if he completely destroys them. Reading what is posted here will not make him feel guilty or make him any more likely to stop scamming. It will, however, encourage to change his name for the next scam, something we don't want him to do. For that reason, we ask that you never point out to a scammer that he is listed here.

He may continue to send you romantic emails. He may claim his innocence, and try to make you feel guilty for doubting him. This is all part of his scam. If you haven't done so already, please cut off all contact with him. Do not answer his emails, and do not take his phone calls if he has your phone number. Eventually, when he is certain he won't get anything from you, he will stop trying to contact you. For some scammers, this will happen in a day or two, but for others, they may keep trying for weeks or months.

Hi there....

I'm not sure what to say here... I'm totally floored. I went in search of a soldier I'm currently talking to on a music site.... yes, a music site. These guys have turned Imesh and it's sister site, Bearshare in a dating site. You can't find a decent person to chat with on there anymore.

I'm currently talking with this man... or at least the picture because it could be a different person using it. Unfortunately he got me with the phone scam, but when the leave came up, well I had become a little smarter by then. I delayed having to send the money.... btw, I do have the name of the person where the money has to be wired via WU. I thought he would drop me but no, he still came back saying he loves me and wants to get married.

So... last week I came across his picture, one that's posted here already, on facebook under a completely different name. I confronted him with it and he swore it wasn't him, that he had never sent me pictures... unfortunately I can't find the email so I started to doubt myself at that point. I agreed with him but knew I wasn't wrong.... he must have showed me the pics through yahoo photo share. So I started to google his name, every way I could and ended up here. Along the way, with no great surprise to me, I came across his FB profile with the same picture that he argued less than a week ago wasn't him.

BTW, I will post both links here as neither one are listed yet.... I had been wondering if he was real because I put this man through hell and back and he kept coming back but I know now it's just a part of their scam.... I won't be fooled again.

So.... on with the info....

This person I have no info on... I came across this FB page through google photo search but I'm sure it's the same guy I'm talking too.... it's the same photo at least.

Daniel Richards... http://www.facebook.com/search/results. ... chards.180

This guy I'm currently talking too...

Tim Albert Mateo.... http://www.facebook.com/search/results. ... 3103306629


The email we chat with is... [email protected]
this email isn't attached to the profile we met on, but it is linked to 2 others on imesh...

Aduraagba and Ogbodosele

I'm not sure if either account is active but the posted picture is the one he uses for his yahoo profile pic, so I know it's him. Another account he has there is....

godsfavor4141

This is the account we met through, but I can't find an email to go with it... although I am going to try some of the ones I found posted here. The little girl in the pic is supposed to be his 7 yr old daughter.... whom he never talks about.... at all... his angle isn't through the kid.

This person is very skilled at what he's doing... he isn't a newbie, they are very easy to spot... he's done this many times, he knows exactly what to do and say.... even though it may go against their scam, this person has been very supportive of me..... he's even helping me block these "idiot" nigerian scammers from my imesh account... telling me how to get rid of them... lol, of course I know it's only to benefit him but, I'm gaining some useful info from it....

Anyway, I have all email, including the phoneset request, phoneset activation request and the leave of absense request and a form I was supposed to fill out and send back with my $1200 usd.... yeah, getting my man home was gonna be expensive, lol. I figured after I sent that money he was gonna hit me up for money for a plane ticket.... I don't think the US Army is is too much diff from where I live at. They must pay the men and women over there and let them call their loved ones without charging them for it....

Anyway... I will be back to post more... I am talking to 3 other "soldiers" and the "15yr old son" of one of these men currently.... yes they are all scammers.... I know they are. all but one have asked for money in some form.... the son has made me feel very guilty for not sending it to him.

Well... that was very interesting indeed... note there is an hour between this and the last paragraph I wrote... While writing I had at least 6 guys hit on me on imesh.... I was very surprised when the soldier with the son showed up there.... of course it's a different name. At first I thought he was spying on me but I figured he wouldn't be dumb enough to use a different name with his "own" pics. So when he asked for my yahoo id I gave it too him, after he added me on imesh of course.... so I now have another email address to post here. At least this guy is using the owners first name, though i'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

I'm curious to see what will happen when my soldier comes online tonight... he warned me about the nigerian scammers too, and how to make sure they can't find you again when you delete them.... and he always checks my profile when he signs in there.... imagine his surprise when he faces himself there.... I bet that will cause some crap to be said at home base, lol.... this is also a guy thats been around for awhile. He knows what he's doing and he's given me some very good information about these scammers.

Paul disappeared when I told him I was talking to someone on the net... he signed out a few minutes later but to be fair it could have been the net... losing connection alot is another sign you're talking to a scammer, my soldiers get very upset when they keep going offline, they tend to lose their marks like that.... as well as when they answer "oh ok" to everything you say no matter how good or bad it is. I've really come to hate those two words....

I could go on and on with email and things from these guys.... but I will come back to post again....

Take care....

Mateo is his favorite name
numerous profiles on FB
today
yahoo avatar shows first pic in starting post

Mateo B Carlson
Worked at U.S.Army
Studied at United States Military Academy
Lives in Kabul, Afghanistan
From Watertown, New York
Joined Facebook January 30

badoo

Mateo anderson, 45
Wants to go on a date with a girl, 30-55
Gunnison, CO, United States
About me
I'm mateo anderson..born and raised in the united state ..i'm cool calm and honest.

FB

Vergara Mateo
Went to Miami, Florida, USA
Male
Joined Facebook September 8, 2012

pics stolen from the 2007 MS album of Drawoh V., Kahului, HI
http://www.myspace.com/266931721/photos ... tos/367627

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