US Soldier Scam

Hi All
I have been lucky, thanks to this site I have not gotten in too deep before finding out I was being scammed. Here are the details, hope these are helpful:

The name he is using - Jeffery Humprey
Rank - Captain
Deployed - Kabul, Afghanistan
Age - 46
Family - father american ex-military dead, mother english from swindon, son aged 19
Email - [email protected]
Met through - cupid.com
Photo - http://scamwarners.com/main//guestupload/73153Jeff.jpg

text from some emails I received from him:

Hey *****, good morning to you, oh yeah you can call me Jeff, am sure any photo you send me will blow my mind so am waiting for them so I can reply you with mine. How was your nite? hope splendid. how did you spend your friday nite? am sure you had lot of fun unlike mine.


Hi Angel,how has your day been? well i woke up about 2hrs ago, have been relaxing, just came online to check if i gat something from you before preparing for tonite patrol. what you gonna be doing this weekend? am sure you are havin unlimited fun there lol.........well as for me am gonna make sure there's no more attack from the Taliban this weekend, its really nice to hear from you again, hope to hear from you again and get to know you better. keep smiling.
Right now I dont really know what am gonna do when I get back there, cant really work under anymore lol, wanna be my own boss and am sure am gonna have enough funds to invest in somethings.


Well good morning to you, its really nice to hear from you again, I grew up in different part of the world cos my late dad was also a military man so anytime is deployed to another country we are always moving together, my late dad has been deployed to virtually all the continent in this planet, I grew up in Australia, Egypt, Asia, carribean, Italy and mostly California where I was born. Got married when I was 22yrs and after about 11yrs of marriage my wife left me for someone else. What else you wanna know?


Its nice to hear from you again, love music with passion ranging from rock and roll, country music, hip hop, R and B, jazz, I usually go to spain on holidays, am the only child of my parent, I have a dog, german-breed. would you like to go on holiday with me? where would you love to go with me?


Though the oceans separate us our love runs deep and knowing that i like you are precious memories that I keep.With only one word you found me..(Hi)and my heart skipped a beat, so I know that life has blessed us and someday soon we'll meet. But until that moment happens I'll keep you in my heart, Certain with the knowledge that we will never be apart.
My heart belongs to you *****, you and only you, And never have I felt this way so I know this love is true. And someday soon we'll be together and live a life of love, We were always meant to be together...a gift from God above.


Oh yeah I took my time to compose the poem for you myself, I can still send more as time goes on, I know I can write some good poem, its okay if I cant get one back from you for now but your response is enough to make my day a good one, so how did you spend your val? did you go out at all? I gat a pics attached for you hope you like it.


lovely photos. well what I do here in Kabul, you know am a captain and I got a team with numbers of soldiers which I control, its very demanding at times, passing instructions and all sort, am in the weaponry, am a combatant soldier which means am always in war front, hope that doesnt scare you away now *****, this is my second time here in the middle east. Well for my house in Austell for now, am gonna have to come over to take you there myself so you can see everything for yourself, love surprises, cant really tell you about it for now lol and my son is in U.S at the moment.


Hey *****, sorry about not answering some of your question just need to let you know that not all question I can answer on here, not everything I can talk about for security reasons but am still gonna try and answer some of your questions lol, I didnt just bought the house in Cornwall, have never been to cornwall before, it was a friend who said he has visited cornwall couple of time and he told me its a nice place to live in the country, couple of good places too but he said he would prefer cornwall then he convinced me knowing that I always love the beach close by, the dog and my son was at home alone with the housemaid but son travelled to U.S last nite for her mom's birthday and he's gonna be back in UK before the end of the month. I didnt just join the army, I have passion for it, have always love to protect my country, protect lives and properties, protect the women and the little children, always had passion for making the world a safer place my parent used to tell me that and I thought the only way I could make my dream realized is by joining the military which I did, the middle east is not the best place to be in the world but we are prepared, its my second time of serving here, its been so tough but we are also equal to the task. Like I said before, I think its time to retire from the army and pursue another career, I missed the social life, I look for soul mate, someone we can always be together, close by, love one another, stay faithful, loving and caring for each other so we can build a long lasting relationship together.
So tell me, whats your dream.


I just got back from patrol and I couldnt sleep cos I was thinking about you, and then i thought about something, this is what is going on in my head for you:
I wonder if I dreamed of you-
If you would appear?
To make my night full of love,
And always hold me near.
I wonder if I thought of you-
If you would feel it in your soul?
Like two spirits in the universe,
Who always seem to know.
Even if the stars went black
And the sun were to sine no more.
They could find their way to each other,
No matter how far the shore.
This is how I feel for you,
You are my one true love
My world.. My heart.. My soul!
And it because I feel like this that I worry a lot, you are effecting me in ways I didn’t know, I had all my emotions lock up and in order. How there just spinning around in my head.


Hey good evening *****, how was your nite? I told you before am here in the middle east on special assignment and I might not be leaving here soon although it all depend on the situation of things here, would really love to meet you as soon as possible so as to say to your face how much I really wanna spend some quality time with women like you so as to prepare for our future, I wanna start spending time with the woman I think I might spend the rest of our life with. The only way out of here regardless of the situation of things here is by requesting for a special leave for me, only my parent, my wife or my girlfriend are allowed to apply for a special leave request for me which can be processed within two weeks after talking on phone for like a week, thats the other way to meet you soon *****.

hi all i have been scammed by a REID FLORE BASTIAN on f,book thru a site called MEET NEW PEOPLE and i was scammed out of £1600 by him, he tlod me that he loved me and that i was his life and his heartbeat and that he wanted to marry me the whole works, he asked me to pay for private hme leave so that he could come home and marry me as i thot that he loved me i did then when i paid the money and waited to hear that he had landed in the states he came back online and said that his money cudnt be released until he had paid the solicitor £450 to release his account so that he cud have access to his bank account thats when the alarm bells started to ring as in i said to him if u were a british soldier that when u come home from tour u wud have access to ur bank account straight away now as i ttold him that i didnt have te money to pay for the solictor he started to get angry i then told him that my sister wud pay for a flight 4 him and that i wud send him the flight details he fliped and gave me dogs abuse sayn that i thot that he wasnt a man an thAT I cudnt trust him wit sortin out his own flight i really fell in love wit this man online and in his photoes as he was gorgeous i would love to know who is the real man in the photo that i feel in love wih andhow do i find this out

Welcome to ScamWarners ANGELAMCKEAGUE. I am sorry you got scammed out of money and thought you were dealing with a real person. This you have email contact with this scammer? If so, would you please post up the email address that was used? Posting the information they use to scam people with is the best way to get back at them. I am glad you found us.

[email protected] and [email protected] he is also on facebook reid flore bastian is ther anyway that i can find the real soldier in the photoes

[email protected] and [email protected] he is also on facebook reid flore bastian is ther anyway that i can find the real soldier in the photoes

my name is frankie m i have been also scammed by a wannabe us soldier called spc justin hatfield i to fell in love with the photos fortunately for me alarm bells started ringing and i called the us embassey near where i live lucky for me i sent a money gram and got all my money back it makes me sick that there are some sick people out there he used both yahoo and hotmail girls please be warned when i confronted him on line he waz vile be safe girls

Welcome to ScamWarners frankie m. It is real great to hear that you were able to get your money back. Calling the Embassy was a real stroke of genius.

I trust that you have stopped communicating with this scammer. That is an important step to get out of the trap the scammer has set. We are glad you are here and told your story.

Hi all,
I was contacted by an US soldier at http://www.finya.de. After a while he gave me his e-mail address which is [email protected] (Michal Landon). He sent me pictures and I could find them e.g. on http://www.datanata.com and here (Jeffery! AHA!!)
He claims to look for a long term relationship. That is what he has been looking for 2 years, at least. In the UK, In NZ, in Australia and in Germany.
Well, in Gemany he claims to be a divorced US soldier, 46 years old who has been deployed in Kabul. His father is American, his mother German, his son and his dog meanwhile live in his house in Berlin, Germany.
This is his profile at finya (and also at datanata): I am a loving, caring, faithful and honest man, love going out, to shows, live concert, the cinemas, movie theatre, love hanging out with friends, love walking in the beach at night with my angel, I am very romantic, sweet, passionate, honest, decisive, not afraid to throw myself in love with my whole being, funny, I like to joke, laugh, go out with friends , sometimes drinking and feel happy and free, love dancing, taking long walks in the woods, do trip, reading, do meditations.

And he used to write poems:
The last one I got was this morning:
Though the oceans separate us our love runs deep and knowing that i like you are precious memories that I keep.With only one word you found me..(Hi)and my heart skipped a beat, so I know that life has blessed us and someday soon we'll meet. But until that moment happens I'll keep you in my heart, Certain with the knowledge that we will never be apart.
My heart belongs to you golfcharly, you and only you, And never have I felt this way so I know this love is true. And someday soon we'll be together and live a life of love, We were always meant to be together...a gift from God above. am beginning to have feelings for you baby...!

Another one I received yesterday:
Don’t wait for tomorrow to kiss my lips
Don’t wait for tomorrow to hold me tight
Don’t wait for tomorrow to promise love because,
When tomorrow comes I may gone forever.
Don’t sail without me because I have the key to
Your heart and I’m the star that guides your life.
Don’t wait for tomorrow to call me back because
When tomorrow comes I will may gone forever and
Will not be there to dry your tears and take your fear.

Also I could find the same wording of his e-mails here. Exactly, he woke up 2 hours ago and just has been relaxing...BLABLABLA. Be carfeful!

Best regards from Germany

Welcome to Scamwarners golfcharly.
That is a typical romance scam, and I'm glad you spotted it for what it is.

I am so confused and feel so bloody stupid..............

About three weeks ago, I received a Facebook friend request from a guy who was supposed to be a Medic in the US Army in Iraq.

His name on Facebook is HENRY KINGSLEY
His email address is email [email protected]

The first thing I asked him was “WHY ME? IF YOU ARE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE, YOU’RE GORGEOUS IF YOUR PROFILE PICTURE IS ANYTHING TO GO BY” I asked him why someone like him who was so good looking and coming up to 40 according to his birthday could want anything to do with an old wrinkly like me who will be 54 this coming October. His answer to that was that he has chatted to younger women before but finds the older woman more mature and know what they want and no messing around.

We have and still do chat on MSN quite alot. He says he is a medic out in Tallil and has been in the army for 4 years now. He joined the army either just before his father died or just after, I can’t remember which and that his mother died a couple of months ago. He told me that before he joined the army he was a doctor in a hospital. I asked what hospital he said the Ridgecrest Regional Hosptial, so while chatting to him I checked to see if this hospital was anywhere near he was supposed to live in Ohio. But I couldn’t find a hospital there. So I asked where abouts it was i couldn’t find it. He said it was before he moved to Ohio it was the Ridgecrest Hospital in California.

I thought if this guy is a fake he has all the answers ready for the questions I’m asking – HOW?

As well as his profile picture when I started asking questions he sent me a couple more pictures but this time to my police email address. Oh yes, I forgot to mention I am a Police Officer in the London Metropolitan Police Service. Anyway he sent me two more pictures of himself, one of which he is relaxing in a hot tub he says is at his home and the other of him in full battle uniform.

I still didn’t believe who he was but a small part of me thought, how would he be able to get these pictures of himself if he wasn’t who he said he was.

Anyway after a couple fo days chatting he said he would love to hear my voice but couldn’t call me as he had lost his cellphone and asked if I could get him one and send it out to him. I was tempted until he told me where he wanted it sent to.....so he didn’t get his phone.

No more was said about that – we chatted again for a few more days then he said he wanted to meet me and the only way this could happen was by me emailing THE GENERAL and gave me an email address to write to

[email protected]

He told me that I was to ask for special leave so he could come to the UK to help me arrange our wedding. “But we are not getting married” I said to him. He said that by saying this it would guarantee his leave for him. I thought what the heck so emailed this so called GENERAL.
This is the reply I received....

Dear Elizabeth,

My name is Lt,Gen Charles Jacoby of the US Army. I have been put in-charge of the Transit process of Officer Sgt Henry jack kingsley by the Transit Department of the US Army. I promise to guild you through the process to the best of my ability.

You can now proceed with the transit application of your Soldier man, Officer "Sgt Henry jack kingsley "You should also be aware that, during this transit process, you are going to remit some amount of money to our finance department in the States. This will be returned to you as soon as your Soldier man's safe exit from the war zone is confirmed. You are advised to fill and get back to me with the attached money back guarantee form via email only.

Once you provide us with this information you are no longer anonymous to us. (We) protect your privacy and we do not insist that you provide extra personal information than necessary.All information collected will not be used for any illegal activity. The information is what we are going to use to register your name with the Military Transit Department. Get back to me as soon as possible.

Regards,
LT,GEN.CHARLES JACOBY.
Multi-National Corps Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342.


Attached to this was a form for me to fill out (sorry don’t know how to upload it). This was a money back guarantee form that I was supposed to fill out saying I would agree to paying some money for the safe journey of my soldier man out of Iraq and that once he wa out of the country safe, my money would be returned.

I thought to myself Ok I can play along with this, they are not asking for a bank account number or credit card number etc. So I filled out this form and sent it back to “THE GENERAL”. I then recieved an email back again to my police email account as I sent the form back to them from that account. There was yet another form attached to this email asking me to send $1300 for the safe journey of my soldier man.

I put a couple of posts up on the US Army websites and they sent me a couple of links. I thought I would check the links out, and when i opened them up my heart was in my mouth whose picture do I see with the words “SCAM” plastered across it but this guy Henry Kinglsey. Along with pictures of the documents I received again with the words “SCAM” across the documents.

I sent an email back to the so called “GENERAL” with the following – please excuse the language!!!

GO FUCK YOURSELF - THIS IS A SCAM AND YOU AIN'T GETTING A PENNY FROM ME

To which I then got a reply back saying...

Dear Ma,
This is not a scam,you are just trying to help your soldier man out of the war zone to meet you and we need to follow the normal protocol of the military.The money will be refunded back to you as soon as your soldier man arrives his destination.please bear with us.
Regards,
LT,GEN.CHARLES JACOBY.
Multi-National Corps Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342.


I again mentioned this to Henry (if that’s what his name is) and he again said that if I didn’t trust him then there was no point in us talking anymore.

Anyway, we have been chatting quite a few days now and he hasn’t mentioned any money, any phone or any leave to come and see me.

We were chatting on MSN on Wednesday just gone (3rd Aug) and he asked me if I had checked my personal emails. I told him I hadn’t and he told me to check as he had sent me another picture and as soon as I got home I checked my emails and there it was yet another picture of the same bloke sitting at a bar with a beer in his hand.

In one of the pictures there is a tattoo at the top of his right arm not easily recognisable, I asked him what the tattoo was of and he said it was an Eagles head, which on a closer look did actually look something like an Eagles head.

Is man is so playing with my mind, we were talking last night (thurs 4th) when he said he had to run as a fight had broken out in thr bar. When he came back he appeared to be quite distressed and upset. When I asked what the matter was he stated that some Taliban had managed to get hold of US Army uniforms and had got in to the bar, a fight started and a lot of US soldiers were injured two were actually killed.

If this guy is not for real then how can they play with peoples minds the way they do. .

I am still chatting to him, I thought what the heck I can lead him on just as much as he is me and if he thinks he is going to get a penny out of me he has another think coming.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Sorry Liz, but he's a scammer; there's no possible doubt about it. No military leave has to be paid for, and nobody other than the soldier concerned can apply for it. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6529. I know it's hard, but please break off contact now. Romance scammers are extremely manipulative and very good at what they do.

As Arnold said, it is bog-standard "US soldier" romance scam.

How did he get all those pictures? Easily.

He found the social networking page (e.g. facebook or myspace) or photo-sharing page (e.g. photobucket) of a real soldier. He simply saved all of the photos from that page to his computer. That way, if the real soldier discovered his photos were being used and turned his page to private, the scammer still has all the photos and can keep using them again and again. There is no way the real owner or anyone else can stop them since he has them in his possession.

Then he simply sends a few of the photos to his victim, but keeps some behind to produce later. And when you asked about the tattoo, he simply looked at his copies of the photos to see what it was.

As Arnold said, leave is not paid for, and only the scammer can request it. There are no fees, refundable or otherwise. The US military does not allow outside people to make requests on behalf of soldiers--not even wives can make those requests. It's just like your employer--your friends cannot request vacation on your behalf.

As to how he can do this? It's rather simple, really. I apologize for being blunt, but it's important to understand how these scammers operate. Scamming is a business. The scammer doesn't see his victims as real people. He is a misogynistic liar who sees his victims as fools who deserve to be parted from their money. His "job" is to say whatever he needs to say in order to be the one to take that money. He will copy romantic poetry and love letters from online, make incredible promises, and change his story as much as he needs to hook his victim (we say "hook" because scammers literally treat victims like fish on a hook). He will even talk to his victims' children, and tell them he is going to be their new daddy, if that is what it takes to get his victim to believe.

If you get suspicious but he thinks you are still believing some of his lies, he will back off a bit and just keep up the romance until he thinks you are fully hooked again (in fishing, this would be like giving a thrashing fish more line until it settles down and can be reeled in). Then he will once again try the money requests--whether he uses the same reason, or a new one. He will continue this until (a) you cut off all contact with him and refuse to respond (b) he reaches the conclusion that he is never going to get anything out of you or (c) he finds more promising victims that are likely to be more profitable, and he thinks are more worth his time.
You need to be proactive and make sure it is (a).

Cut off all contact. Do not chat with him; block him. Don't take any phone calls, and don't answer his emails. He will go away when he decides he has nothing to gain.

Been reading all about the other military scammers.....as the one who is talking to me has sent me a number of different pictures, the last one he sent was supposed to have been of him the the bar the night before he sent it.
So, I have asked him to send me a picture of himself holding a piece of paper with my name on it.....

He has started with the real emotional side now that I don't care about him or if he dies and that if he dies it's all my fault etc etc etc.

Wathc this space lol

I'd like to know who this really is lol

This is another one he sent me on the 4th August with the following text...hello honey, i think this pics am sending to you will let you know am really me.... i took this pics with a friends phone last night at the bar..... i love you so much liz......


and to my Police email address he sent another two but don't have them to hand




Would love to know who he realy is

There is a bar where he is stationed???

This is a scam. These criminals use pictures of attractive people and make up stories to support the scam. They often steal people's information from social networking sites, then use search engines to find information to support their lies. They are writing the same lines to more than one victim at a time. Their goal is to get you to keep sending them money.

Soldiers do not have to pay for their leave. Never, never, never.

Have you checked the headers from the emails you are receiving? Also you can search for the image using www.tineye.com or Google images.

You will be better off to stop communicating with this liar. The pictures are not of the person who is writing to you. Handsome, yes. The person you are communicating with, NO!