Almost Scammed

Wow, I am a little overwhelmed right now...and heartbroken! I am just lucky I guess to have tried to find out what an AKO Landing number is...this site was linked and I thank the Lord it was. I have been corresponding with an individual for a month now from the LoveAccess dating site. I was actually contemplating not paying my rent next month so we could be together! I will post the documents that I received incase it might save someone else from being scammed this way...how do I post the documents I received from his "GENERAL"?

I guess it really is true then, if it sounds too good to be true, then it is not!

Hi Mochagirl,

I am very happy to hear that you found us before you lost money to him, stories like yours help us remind that what we do here is not in vain . A guideline on how to post pictures can be found in this thread here: (click here)

Please post his email adress and his emails here too, to make sure he can be traced online

Thank you Micheal, I am trying to keep it together right now...he involved my 11 year old daughter in this as well and I just feel so very horrible right now.
I also have some history that I was able to save from our MSN conversations. He is very very good at what he does.
I think I might have made an error when posting the fake documents...could you please let me know. I am hesitant to post the pictures because they may be from an innocent person. They include pictures of (him?) with someone who is obviously his daughter. Where should I send the emails? There are quite a few of them...thank you for your kind words.

I'm sorry to hear that . These people are trained liars, it's all they do day in day out to dozens of victims at the same time. They are indeed very good at it. You are definately not the first or last person who believed him.

If you are having problems posting the pictures you can also send them to my email adress, I will post them for you. We are aware that the pictures used are not the actual scammers, which is why we always mark the pictures with 'fake' or 'used by scammer'. I will also edit the picture in a way so the child is completely unrecognisable. You can find my email adress just below my posts.

As for the emails, just copy them and post them in this thread

Oh, and I put your post from the documents forum and added them to this thread, in order to keep everything together. The only thing you had to do was wrap the link you posted in IMG tags, like this:

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Hello ********,

I will like to apologies for the delay in response to your email.

In respect to the REQUEST LEAVE you are making for Sergeant Anthony
Cole Handy. I will like you to print it out and fill in the form
attached and then scan it again and send back to me with a scanned copy
of valid driver's license or international Passport.



Thanks

GENERAL DANIEL FITZGERALD
Multi-National Corps – Afghanistan
Public Affairs Office, Camp Kabul
APO AE 09342


Hello *************,
I will like to apologies for the delay in response to your email.
In respect to the REQUEST LEAVE you are making for Sergeant Anthony Cole Handy. I will like you to print it out and fill in the form attached and then scan it again and send back to me with a scanned copy of valid driver's license or international Passport.

Thanks

GENERAL DANIEL FITZGERALD
Multi-National Corps – Afghanistan
Public Affairs Office, Camp Kabul
APO AE 09342

I responded 4 hours ago requesting details concerning the AKO Landing number and where I could optain the information...haven't received a reply yet...

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Hello ***********,
I will like to let you know that on the leave form you did not fill in the following space. Please I will want you to refill it and have it sent to as soon as possible.
DATE OF DEPARTURE:
DATE OF RETURN:
AKO LANDING No:

Now I have to also tell you that maximum period allowed to go on for the LEAVE here is 10 Weeks. So it all depends on when you want him to come home and then return back here. This is very important for you to know as we don't allow more that only on another request is made then it can be extended.
Reply ASAP


GENERAL DANIEL FITZGERALD
Multi-National Corps – Afghanistan
Public Affairs Office, Camp Kabul
APO AE 09342

Here is what started it all on LoveAccess, an online dating site....

- - > 01/04/2011 at 03:51 AM, handysparta wrote :

>OMG!!!! You are so beautiful, and you’re breath taking
>too baby and i just wish i had someone like you in my
>life as my wife. I am interested in getting to know
>more about you after reading your profile, I am new to
>this online thing so please bear with me. I am here in
>search of a woman to love and make her my queen,my
>wife, my friend and you seem to fit in for me....you
>seem to be a very nice and down to earth kind of person
>and I really admire that! .I guess I will leave you
>with this for now. I hope your day went well and I hope
>to hear from you soon.
>
>Handy.

I just googles Pringled Meat...nothing! He told me that it was something that soldiers ate!

HE ASKED ME TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT MYSELF...I THINK THIS CONVINCED ME THAT HE WAS REAL....BEWARE

Handy Anthony Handy [email protected]

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Hello Honey....

I would like to ask you some questions if you don't mind answering them...
Just copy and paste this email into a new email then answer them and send me the email. I've answered them already too, but I want to get your answers back so we can see how close we are in our answers! PLEASE BE HONEST....this will help to see if we think the same way on these issues!

Are you truly ready to move forward in your life, in a long term relationship?

Do you go to Church, and if yes, how often?

What's your favorite type of music? Who is the artist you listen to most?

Where is one place you did like to visit that you haven't gotten the opportunity to see?

Tell me the most memorable moment in your life and tell me the saddest times of your life?

What will be the your ideal first date with me?

Do you like swimming?

What's your favorite sport?

What's do you like doing when it's raining outside?

Like to shop?? where is your favorite place to shop?

What's your view on Politics?

Do you like to watch the sunset?

What dancing step do you like most, like going to concerts, or flea market?

Do you enjoy road trips???

What is one of your fantasies???

Do you ever get "Mad? Just go and do something without thinking? Have you ever broken something when you got mad?

Do you like holding hands, kissing or hugging??

How do you spend your holidays? How about your Free time?

Do you have several tasks going on at the same time?

Do you frequently have unfinished task and don't get back to them?

Do you smoke or drink?

What is you ideal income?

Are you financially stressed, just fine, comfortable or blessed?

When you get into a bind paying a bill, do you borrow the money from someone, or do you have a savings account to fall back on?

Where all have you lived?

Are you at ease in a crowd?

Do you assume responsibility?

What do you truly hate?

What can really get you upset?

Do you prefer to read a book at home alone or go to a party?

Do you trust your feelings rather than reason?

Do you ofter plan your day ahead?

Do you cry often?

What makes you cry?

What makes you laugh?

What would your family say about you?

Do you hurry to complete a job?

What do you consider more important, going out on a date, or paying the bill that's due tomorrow?

Are you a Christian?

Are you Born Again? When?

How old were you when you first fell in love?

Do you find it difficult to speak loudly?

Do you get bored easily?

Do you watch the tea pot or sometimes forget it's one the burner?

If you don't like someone do you tell others why?

If you run into a person whom has hurt your feelings or harmed you, do you act like you didn't see them or confront them head on?

Do you like adventure? What is adventurous to you?

Do you avoid obligations?

When Man make love to you, do you like it fast and hard, or slow and sensual?

Are your parents still alive? If so, where do they live?\

Do you have sisters and brothers? If so are you close to them. If not why and would you like to be close to them?

What is your favorite movie?

What is your favorite meal?

What is your favorite desert?

Do you go to clubs?

What is your plan after retirement?

What are the three most important things you want in a husband?

What are your expectations of a husband?

How important is communication to you?

Do you like Spades?

If you occasionally drink what is your preference or drink?

How many times a year do you drink? Why?

Do you jealous easily? For so how & why?

Do you tithe? Do you give offerings?

Do you believe GOD has created a husband especially for you?

Do you have an intimate relationship with GOD?

Do you have an active prayer life?

Are you a romantic? If so How?

If you discern that I was sad how would you handle it?

In a relationship is alone time important to you if so how much?

Do you wear glasses or contacts?

Have you ever been convicted of a crime?

Have you ever committed a crime and Not been caught yet?

How controlling are you...I mean, do you give space and like your own space every now and then?

Do you leave the seat up after you pee! LOL (Its just a question)

Did you go to college? If so, how many years?

What is "FUN" to you?

Do you have a group of friends that you go out with or mostly a person who hangs out with their family?

When's the last time you had sex with a woman/man?

What are some of your favorite things to do on a weekend?

Do you hate answering these questions? LOL

ok...I guess I have asked more than I should... so please forgive me if some of the questions are just too personal... just trying to know YOU as well as I can....You are very important to me!

Can you tell me if this email is from a scammer...I am finding so many signs that he is a scammer! This I received this morning from him.





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I miss you more honey and i am feel your love too. This is feelings will ne=
ver go ..its gonna remain like this forever even when i am around honey wit=
h you.
Well the kind of job i do in the military is the infantry unit of the Unite=
d States Marine Corps and we are the main soldiers of every army in the wor=
ld...that's okay ...lol

I am stationed in MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina. But my house is in Cal=
ifornia and not on the base cos i like my privacy a lot. Yes we will live t=
here together as one big happy family forever and forever but if you want w=
e can still be there in Canada maybe for vacation or where ever you you wan=
t in the world. And i will always come home to you for lunch and dessert. Y=
es i like what i am doing cos i am helping my country to fight terrorists..=
..Breakfast in bed honey this is very romantic but i will have whatever you=
have honey cos i am always with you so i will say i will never leave you a=
lone on the bed so i guess that means we will be having our breakfast toget=
her on the table....Lol
=A0And my house is large enough for every body and so does my shower for bo=
th of us honey so we can wash ourselves ...lol

You are my Great Woman
And I love you so much
Your Mocha Lion xo

Where ever he is telling you that he is, I would say that he is lying,

The headers put him in Nigeria

So I would say that he is a scammer

This was his ad on LoveAccess...I copied because I wanted to remember. The ad is now down and I have emailed LoveAccess to try to find out why it was removed. All it said was that the profile was removed because they had violated the terms of agreement. I have had messages removed from my emails on LoveAccess because they were found to be scammers, but his did not say that. Does this sound like it might be a scammer or a Nigerian?


I am an honest man looking for a stable relationship. And I understand it is important to lay down lasting foundation for a lasting relationship. I’m looking for a long term relations with the happy marriage and a happy family. I am sweet, thoughtful, kind,and have a great sense of humor. I am very easy going and laid back. I am often told that I am very easy to talk with. I am a person who looks beyond what may be the obvious. Character is worth more than flashiness. I am a person who appreciates honesty and a great sense of humor. I love to laugh and to enjoy the simple things in life. I would appreciate a person who has a good sense of who she is and a sense of direction about where she wants to be. I can appreciate a woman who sees a man as a friend and a partner.... Having past events shape your life is one thing, carrying the past as a burden that sits heavily upon your shoulders is not the way I view life., and my life i have a wonderful daughter, and I like to think it shows. I want to give all my LOVE to the Woman of my life with the whole of my HEART 99.9 percent and i will keep the 0.1 percent so that i can breath with that for you. Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love. I do travel much and, there is always room for new adventures. I love to camp, spend time out on the lake, hold pool parties and sometimes just relax at home in front of the TV. It would nice to meet someone with the same ambition in their career, with the same enthusiasm in their personal life and in their hobbies. If you’re interested in me just send me your id and i will email you okay....Just joking ...lol. Looking for Someone Honest, Caring,Romantic,Kind,Posses Great Sense of Humor, Understanding, Intelligent, Respectful &: Trustworthy

So it comes from Nigeria I was hoping I was wrong. Could you please tell he how to check email addresses to see where they originate from? There is also the email address from his "General"

Thank you for your help ... wish you were wrong but I must face the fact that I have been scammed!

His ad is copied from the internet. The very nice words are poems, verses or letters he found online somewhere. Based on those first ads and mails it can be hard sometimes to notice you're dealing with a scammer, as he has done virtually no input himself.

I'll write you a PM right now on how to check where emails are sent from

Mochagirl,

I'm sorry you have been scammed, but at least you didn't send money. I'm also sorry he involved your child--I have seen this happen many times before, and it just goes to show how incredibly low these scammers will go, and how little they care who they are hurting
.
While tracking an IP address is one way to identify a scammer, some scammers are more internet-savvy, and they will use proxies to hide their true locations, so you shouldn't depend on that method of identification. In this case, it is abundantly clear, even without a location, that this is a scammer.

It's good to understand signs to look for, so I am explaining some of them below:
First, and most important:
-The US military is a very self-contained world. Requests are made and handled internally.
-People who are not in the military can not make requests for people who are in the military.
-Leave is like vacation from your job--you earn a certain amount after the required amount of service, and you don't pay for it. If you haven't earned it, you are not entitled to it.
-A soldier requests his own leave, which can be granted only if he has earned it. He does not pay for leave, replacement officers, or any other "fees."
-While certain benefits are granted for families of soldiers, if you are not connected to the soldier by a legal marriage or by blood, in the eyes of the military you have no connection to them.
The moment someone you met online asks you to fill out any forms for the US military-whether for leave, phone, benefits, or any other purpose-you can know for certain he/she is a scammer. Just walk away.

Looking at a few other things:
Start with the leave form:
-these bright, colorful documents full of logos only exist in the minds of scammers. Real military documents are standard black and white business documents.
-There is very little English, and what is there is atrocious. If this were an official US military document, it certainly would not be full of grammatical errors (examples: changing from plural to singular and back; information's, resident expectant)
-zip code is two words, and if this were intended for residents of other countries, it would say postal code.

Move on to the letters:
-The "General's" English is also very bad. Anyone with a rank as high as General is going to be educated (actually is required to be) and can reasonably be expected to write better than that. I am not saying that an educated person is going to write perfectly, but I would not see things like "will like" and "don't allow more that only on another."
-Handy's letters:
- The first thing I notice is that he already jumps into excessive use of terms of endearment - "baby," "queen", etc. A normal man is NOT going to be calling a woman "baby" on a first email. Scammers do this all the time, though, because it makes it seem more like a relationship, and saves them the trouble of putting your name in.
-The choppy writing in the first email is because he picked some random lines and strung them together.
-The survey questions. First, ignoring the total randomness (he copied those questions from other surveys, and you can see where he tried to insert his own writing because the English deteriorates), some of those questions are WAY too personal for a stranger. He has barely met you and he is asking about your finances and your sex life? He doesn't care about your answers. (Well, he does want to know about your finances, because he wants to know what he can get out of you) He might use a few of those answers to adjust his scamming approach, but mostly he wants to know if you will be a good victim--and if you fill out the questions, he knows he is more likely to be able to manipulate you.
-Then the next letter posted. "cos" is typical of a scammer, and not of an American. Failing to appropriately capitalize "i" is a typical African mistake. Again, notice multiple uses of "honey" in one short letter. If he is stationed in NC, he can't live in California. He could have a house there, but he would have to live in NC while he is stationed there!! What does privacy have to do with having a house in CA if he is stationed across the country?
-Looking at the original profile you posted-once again, it is very choppy, and a mixture of good and poor English. That is because like in that early email, he has taken quotes from other sources, pasted them together, and then added some of his own language. Google most of the lines with good English, and you will find that he copied them.