Information on romance scams and scammers.
by scamsniffer Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:36 am
UPDATE July 20, 2012
Pictures she claims are really of her, but the search shows they are all over the internet using various identities, some using the Senegal scam.

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And on these web pages those photos show up over two dozen times using various fake identities.

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I have been in chat with a Christina Sarpong, email address [email protected] for a couple of months. She posted a profile picture of herself and sent me photos of herself that I doubted to be her. There is a tattoo, so I put the photo in photoshop and enalrged the tattoo to a humungous size so I could see what it was. It is an icon of a devil hoding a fork. I asked Christina in a chat to quickly answer without dealy, what was the tatto, and she said a flower. Well, anyone knows that a person would definitely know what was the tattoo on their own body, so I knew at that point the pictures were not of herself.

Eventually by reverse photo lookup I was able to find some websites thet show the model in the pictures she was depicting to be her own. Here are links to those websites:

http://sfw.org.ua/index.php?newsid=1148942823

http://www.fotosik.pl/pokaz_obrazek/3jltn8d0n8bizixp.html

http://cavemancircus.com/2010/10/22/the-daily-dump-83/

http://www.flogao.com.br/dieguinhu3/120228604

As time went on, she began begging for money, a lap top, and help to get a New Zeland passport. Problem here is that she is not the person she claims to be. She is impersonating someone else, plus asking for money. Here is a passage from the chat where she asks for money:

Christina Sarpong (1/31/2011 9:17:15 PM): honney so you dont want to give me the laptop by friday?
Christina Sarpong (1/31/2011 9:17:32 PM): i want you to see me before i come my love
Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 8:56:03 PM): i dont have anything now to spend and you are telling me to pay for passport?
Christina Sarpong (2/4/2011 1:37:05 AM): you know you are the only man in my life
Christina Sarpong (2/4/2011 1:37:11 AM): the only man i love for real
Christina Sarpong (2/4/2011 1:37:16 AM): its killing me
xxx(2/4/2011 1:37:17 AM): I want to discuss that with you NOW

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Christina Sarpong (2/16/2011 10:25:02 PM): no
Christina Sarpong (2/16/2011 10:25:10 PM): am even short of words now
Christina Sarpong (2/16/2011 10:25:38 PM): i dont know if i can ask you something one day if i really need it
xxx(2/16/2011 10:25:53 PM): well we had the discussion before. Perhaps you didn[t remember the result of the conversation.
Christina Sarpong (2/16/2011 10:25:53 PM): you think am a scamer and it makes me very sad
Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 8:56:13 PM): its unbelievable
Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 9:01:42 PM): put your trust and evrything in her and you will never loose
xxx(2/17/2011 9:01:57 PM): that is because MOST of what is on here is scammers.

Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 9:02:40 PM): am here for you everytime and you seems not to believe me and take good care of me
Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 9:02:41 PM): why?
xxx(2/17/2011 9:02:50 PM): stool box.
xxx(2/17/2011 9:03:10 PM): tool box. lol
Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 9:03:12 PM): so you look at me like one scamer who wants to steal your love?
Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 9:03:16 PM): for what?
xxx(2/17/2011 9:03:30 PM): Sweetheart


Christina Sarpong (2/17/2011 9:04:25 PM): if after sometime i see that you still dont have any trust for me, i will quit this relationship bcos its giving me headsche evryday
xxx(2/17/2011 9:04:47 PM): the money demands ( requests ) are what got me pissed off. and this set us back each time you bring up the topic

This scammer also uses facebook, aka Christina Carley, http://www.facebook.com/christina.carley.5
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Last edited by scamsniffer on Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:30 pm, edited 6 times in total.
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by Bubbles Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:47 am
Do you have an email address related to this scammer? Many people search by email address in addition to the name. Thank you for showing where the pictures come from.

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

Rest in Peace 24 June 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.
by scamsniffer Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:57 am
Thanks for calling it to my atteniton- was just an oversight, I KNOW people search both by name and by email address. I fixed it, email address = [email protected]
by scamsniffer Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:55 pm
Her real name is Vivian Nkansah and she is age 20 and rather pretty, but she is a liar and a devil inside. She has touched on a few of the scams- 1. win your heart for advance money, 2. has used the scammer term on me, PTA (personal travel allowance) which is a phony term used ONLY by scammers, and 3. Seeking pity, SICK MOTHER.

She "breaks hearts" for money- and she is good at it, apparently with no remorse. She has a pretty exterior and a rotten core. I think her inability to sleep at night is not due to the stench from the garbage dump she claims to live over, but rather her rotten ways, as she KNOWS she is going to be questioned about things that she will have to make up creative lies "on the spot." I finally decided to do it the correct way, like the lawyers do, by asking a question that you already know the answer. And here's what happened. I will deface the identifiable information to protect the identity of the particular victim, but this is legitimate. She volunteers her password information to gain TRUST. Trust is extremely difficult for scammers to get, so this is one of HER techniques. She attempts to remove any information about previous scams, but makes mistakes, as all of us do and sometimes leaves in significant details that will come back to haunt her, such as this:



----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Christina Sarpong <[email protected]>
To: Daren hidden@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 7:32 AM
Subject: My Husband



Hunny please this is the password for my yahoo messenger and my e-mail.

[email protected]
password-hidden1987


This is what I used for the Facebook but i stopped using it long time ago.

[email protected]
password- hidden


This is the information I have.


I will never let US go through what we have gone through again my love. Its a promise to You.


I Love You.


Christina.

Here is the example of my line of questioning that led to her finally giving up on me as a source of free money: Copied from ym

Vivian Nkansah: Honey am real ok?
xxx: I think so
xxx: but there are additional issues
Vivian Nkansah: I will love you forever like i have always done
Vivian Nkansah: What issue?
xxx: have you EVER done something similar to this to gain trust FROM ANY OTHER MAN?
xxx: I mean giving your passwords to gain his trust.
Vivian Nkansah: NO my password is not with anyone except you

Vivian Nkansah: why honey
xxx: have you ever TAKEN money or received money sent to you BY ANY MAN baby?
xxx: based on ANYTHING you said- or didn't say- ANY MONEY at all?
Vivian Nkansah: No honey

xxx: alright give me one second please
Vivian Nkansah: some people lied that they have sent me money
Vivian Nkansah: it was fake

xxx: ----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Christina Sarpong <[email protected]>
To: Daren hidden@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 7:32 AM
Subject: My Husband



Hunny please this is the password for my yahoo messenger and my e-mail.

[email protected]
password-hidden


This is what I used for the Facebook but i stopped using it long time ago.

[email protected]
password- hidden


xxx: explain
Vivian Nkansah: It was fake
xxx: is this why you needed to change the password from hidden
xxx: what do you mean FAKE
Vivian Nkansah: this person was always worrying me
xxx: it is YOU writing an EMAIL to hidden GIVING HIM that same information you JUST TOLD ME you never gave to another man
Vivian Nkansah: please i am not doing this anymore. why dont you just stop this? do i look into your affairs like this? am i your wife? why this?
xxx: to check your HONESTY when I ask you something
Vivian Nkansah: Bye bye


This pretty much "says it all" but there is MORE:

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Christina Sarpong <[email protected]>
To: Daren hidden@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2012 6:43 AM
Subject: OH DREAMS



I have grown up very much in this last one year. I have experience something I never thought could happen to me in my life. I thought everything was ok for me since i met you. You clothed me, fed me, gave me shelter and everything including LOVE AND CARE which i cherish soo much. I will like to write this thank you message for you this day and to tell you there in none like you ever. I have been here for sometime now and your thoughts and everything has covered my brains. I have tried to be free from it but it still comes to me that no ONE in this world can ever help me be someone in life except you and God. I dont want to ever beg you for anything or ask for anything again and I mean AGAIN.


I knew this wouldn't have ever happened and it was my fault to bring all this to myself. I regret so much for this and i want to tell you that I truly love you and will forever remember you for everything. Greetings from me here to your family and everyone who supported me. I am living in a single room which Fread's mum helped me rent.



Christina Sarpong

Well that was July 1. Didn't take her long to contact ME (it was about July 21) and try the SAME technique, only this time she identified herself because I had already caught her previously on the fake pictures. I knew that ANYONE who used various assumed names and different locations and scenarios, and created facebook accounts with fake profiles of fellow scammers in them, doesn't do that just for the fun of it- especially where internet costs money by the hour in Africa. Time on it is precious and is only used for meaningful conversations like priming a victim for a scam.

Here is a copy of what she claims is a scan of her ID, although it is questionable. Also- it took her about 4 days to do the scan using various EXCUSES for the delay- and I accused her of having a fake ID created in photoshop and it not being READY yet. The more I think of it- that's what I feel really is going on. The green band on the flag touches the words polling station whereas on the one obtained on the internet, there is a significant space. Also the aspect ratio of the photo is quite different. It is more square on the genuine sample and too rectangular on the one she sent me. It MAY be an actual scan of her voter card but with the photo replaced by a photo taken from a different person's voter card and pasted into this one in photoshop. There is NO security that ensures that a picture can't be copied from another card and pasted into a different one. White background makes this an easy project for the most beginner photoshop technician.

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On second thought, maybe both are fake, as the genuine Ghana flag has 3 stripes of equal width, with the star exactly centered in the yellow (center) band. See below
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