Brian Resnick, [email protected]

Name used: Brian Resnick, also has a facebook account in that name.

Claims to be: US soldier on active duty, born march 17, 1974

In reality is a low-life African romance scammer using photos of a real American soldier he has stolen from the internet.

Like many scammers, he uses scripted messages that are likely sent to several women at the same time. He inserts their names and/or adds a few lines to make them seem more personal. Shows the typical range of English--very good when he is copying stolen material, and very bad when he is writing for himself.
Uses the standard "leave request" scam.

REMEMBER: If you are in contact with a soldier and he asks you to make any requests on his behalf to the US military, then he is a scammer.

If you are in contact with this scammer drop him now.
Block his email address, phone number, and messenger. Block him from your facebook profile.
Do not point him to this page. Showing him the mistakes he made will help him to become a better scammer.
Do not under any circumstances remain in contact with him. He will try to convince you that he is real, that he is innocent, that he loves you. The truth is he will say anything he has to say in order to convince you to stay in contact. He may even tell you he doesn't want money. He can be patient - he may wait weeks to months, until he is certain he has you hooked, and then he WILL try to get money from you again. If he is angry enough, he may threaten you or try to blackmail you. Again, the only way to handle this is to ignore him.

Photo used by scammer calling himself Brian Resnick.

Please note that the scammer is not the person in the photos. The person in the photos is a real US soldier. The scammer simply copied these photos from the internet, and then created a character using the same name and the photos. The scammer is a young African man who has very likely never even been to the US. Unfortunately, since he has saved these photos, even if the real soldier takes them off the internet, the scammer will continue to be able to use them, and will do so as long as he is making money from them.
Picture on his fake facebook profile:


Other photos used:

This scammer uses both email and messenger, depending on his victim.

Some examples of his emails:

Here the scammer does the typical copy-paste. This poem was copied from: http://www.lovepoemsandquotes.com/LovePoem74.html

How simple my life is now that i have you to keep (removed),
How I cherish each breath,
How I crave the light and laughter you have brought me.
I have fallen in love without taking a step,
Fallen into the sweetest of dreams,
How I hope no one wakes me.
The simplest gesture wraps itself around my heart,
Where I will hold it forever.

Each time we say goodbye a part of me weeps,
Though I know it is not forever
To my aching soul it is an eternity.
I see my happiness shine in your eyes,
Every time you hold my hand my heart skips a beat.
How sweet life is to be yours;
How meaningless life is without you.

They know nothing of the loneliness before you
Nothing of the empty tears I cried day after day,
How did you do it, I ask myself,
How did you banish the fear, the darkness?
You have made me see that nothing is that bad,
That I am strong and worthy of happiness,
You have saved me from myself.

Everyday I wake up and smile to myself
Knowing you are waiting for me,
Knowing you can't wait to see me.
How would I go on if you were not there to hold me up,
To bless me with your love and light?
How I am glad you have found me
Soon i will be home to you and forever.
I love you my (removed)

And another email as he sets a victim up for his phony leave request. Note how the English is very good, except for the sentence in red. That is because it is the only sentence that the scammer wrote, and in that sentence, we see the typical English mistakes of an African writer. This is a perfect example of scammer correspondence. The rest of the content is copied from lovingyou.com, a favorite website of scammers: http://www.lovingyou.com/content/inspiration/loveletters-content.php?ID=883

If only I could have come up with the right words to describe the depth of this beautiful feeling that I have for you, I wish we have met long ago before assign on this mission. The best thing that I can do is to show you now.

I love you so much, Sweetie. You are the best thing that ever happened to me. You are like the best poetry ever composed, the best song ever played, the best picture ever painted. I never thought that someone like me could get so lucky!

I love you more than my life, more than my world. I love you more and more each day and that is the most wonderful feeling any man can ever hope to experience. Just cant wait to hear your voice when you say those words to me. Hope to talk to you tomorow and have a lovely time with your family. I love you with all of my heart, good night. Hug and kisses.

Here is the details of my superior commander;

NAME- KELVIN OGUNSENI
ADDRESS- KM 4 EJO BARRACK.
CITY- AKURE
COUNTRY- NIGERIA.

Other addresses used for money requests: The scammer is likely located in the city listed, but the street addresses are likely fake.

OYINLOLA.O.A OYINLOLA.O.A.
C/O BRIAN R HIGH SCHOOL ROAD
MEGA LODGE BARRACK AKURE
AKURE ONDO
ONDO 23434
23434 NIGERIA
NIGERIA

Phone numbers used with his victims: 2347061599159, 23480126475748

O my God, I cannot believe this!!!! I know him too, I mean that man on those pictures! But he has got another mailingaddress, that SOB is also on www.mingle2.com as Brianr0000 "love love love" and on my yahoo as [email protected] that scammer just added an r on his yahoo account now! And I saw that Facebook profile too, he says he is born on january 17th there!
I HOPE THEY CATCH THAT SCAM for the lowlife he is AND I HOPE THAT THE REAL SOLDIER ON THOSE PHOTOS IS ALLRIGHT, hopefully he knows what they are doing with his photos, I feel sorry for that real soldier who is probably risking his life at the same time I am writing this message!
You go Dotti, get those scammers off of internet!
Hopefully somebody points the real person on those photos to this site, so he knows!
I know he can't do much about it but then he finally knows!
He looks like he is a nice person and does not deserve this to happen to him and all you women outthere, this is a real soldier and NOT THE GUY YOU ARE TALKING, CHATTING, MAILING WITH!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder how many addresses he still is using or how many identities and women!
He got me too, big time, well, no more!!!!!!!
Thank God for scamwarners and their moderators!!!

I can see a lot of people who are looking at this warning and also the photos, but no one except me is actually mailing anything!
If you people know other mailing addresses he uses, please do say so!
I can see 5 already here on this page, there have to be more!
They are:

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Brian Resnick on Facebook, says he lives in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and is from Houston, TX

Brianr0000 "LOVE LOVE LOVE" on www.mingle2.com (which is an Asian dating site)

On this site he claims to be Asian when you look at his profile!!!! NOT TRUE, and there he was never married, on facebook he is divorced.....that guy is a real piece of art I must say, don't understand he has never been caught before with all these photos now showing up I hope he will not be able anymore to use this honest soldier's identity to scam women into sending money, gifts and care packages or phone fee anymore!

Please, if you have yet another mailingaddress, do post it on here!

You can do this anonymous!

It is a little thing to do but it will make women outthere more aware of him being a scammer, once AGAIN,THE MAN YOU ARE CHATTING WITH OR TALKING TO IS NOT THE MAN ON THOSE PHOTOS!!!!!! IT IS A NIGERIAN SCAMMER WHO STOLE THAT MAN'S PHOTOS OF THE INTERNET!!!!! He is just a sorry excuse of a man who is preying on voulnerable women, believe me, I know, I was one of them!
I gave that dude my all! My God I was so stupid, but ladies, he is good in what he does and really will give you a sad sob story and will try to talk his way out of it when you are telling him he's not making sence.
He will go offline a lot because of 'bad wheather' man, NOT TRUE, he is just talking to other victims then!
And remember HE IS NOT THE PERSON ON THOSE PHOTOS!
I fell for the entire scam, I did, and he knows a lot about me, but you people need to know, that is why I am posting this, but we need some more mailingaddresses he is also using, on hotmail messenger for instance?
Do not point him to this site when you are talking, mailing, chatting with this lowlife!
And pray for that man on those photos who does not know his photos are being used to get money of women.
I hope the real soldier is fine and well.

I just got 2 other e-mailaddresses he uses. Boy, that guy just doesn't stop!
So here they are:

[email protected]

[email protected]

That's like 7 e-mailaddresses already, he must be a very rich guy now, having all those e-mail and messengeraddresses and all the ladies on there who are still sending him things and money.

Imagine that, I only had the yahoo one and the mingle2 one.
I received these mails through PM so people, if you know more e-mail or messengeraddresses or mailingaddresses and phonenumbers just post it. I did too.

Appears to be back on netlog using new username - vavadoom. Using photos already posted, same name, but now he is 35 years of age.

On netlog when you type in Brian Resnick you end up with nickname VAVADOOM, Abuja territory, Nigeria with the photo he is using from the real person holding that giant lemon and all of a sudden 35 years of age...
And on Facebook, when you type in Brian Resnick that scam is using real person's photo with the castle (I guess in Prague or Austria) on the background and there that scam says he is in Kandahar, Afghanistan... And is from Houston, TX...
That scam told me once he was from New York and lived in Chicago... and is born march 17, 1974...
And to a person (another one of his victims) that scam said he was from Oklahoma City, OK...and was born january 17,1974...
Guess he is getting younger by every scam he pulls now being 35 all of a sudden...

Where should I begin...he just got me for $4000 us dollars...he was born Jan 17...his mothers birthday was the same as mine...he plays you well and he found me on a dating site for bikers only...and yes all the pictures seen here, he has sent to me and I have saved the majority of our instant message conversations...he was from Houston, TX with me....his parents and sister were killed when he was young...he was sent to live with his uncle here in the states who was career military. I am now going to lose everything I have because of him..and I do mean everything. The email and im he used with me was [email protected]....said to say I should have listened to my 24yr old son..using the real pictures of the soldier is what makes you start to trust him...he told me he was 1/2 UK 1/2 Mayalsian.

Hi woodysmom!
Welcome to scamwarners!
I'm really sorry to hear that you have been scammed. It sounds like you're in a bad spot just now. I hope that you can get the support that you need from your son and other friends and family members. We on scamwarners are also here to help you. I'm glad that you've found us.

I found you by putting in the person he used as his captain's name...unfortunatly my family isnt in a position to help and only my son is the only one that knows about all this...I can not tell my family about this.

I have to seek an attorney because of this jerk...i had taken out payday advance loans for 1/2 of what i gave him...

Im not a trusting person to begin with and told him from the start I had nothing...no money, lucky to have a roof over my head and food to eat...but he got me to fall for that handsome soldier with all the pics that are posted on here...he spent many a hour talking to me and truly made you think he was in the army

At the end he even posed as his commanding officer with very good english skills to wish brian and i the best of luck in our future and told me how much brian is in love with me

The last words from him were
brianrr0000: Please take very good care of my heart cos I can't stand if u not there at airport

Well sorry to say......Im quite sure I was almost scammed by someone using the identity of who they said was Army Sarg Mark (rotts) Nevels........very similar to all the other posts.......Widowed .....house in Seattle Washington....parents deceased......wife deceased in a car accident .......8 year old son who was sick and he incurred debt to the army and will be denied leave because of it .......also mentioned a house in the UK england that was owned by his deceased father.......went to school at Covertry University also in the UK
Wrote to me on Personalls on Craigslist .......the man (person was very good and at first appeared believable) until I found another post on craiglist about a girl he said some angry things to on [email protected] IM......when checking out the name Mark R Nevels.....didnt find much or any creditable information.....also there was some grammer in the letters he sent to me that was a little off for a man that English should have been his primary language.....luckily I sent him this and he declined to produce any verify able information


Well Mark.......if you get mad about me doing this then you can be mad all you want .......Your credentials are very verifyable through the base here .......the Army
recruting office is 3 blocks from me ......the base is 5 blocks from me and my neighbor is in the millitary......should be an easy process......now if you do refuse my
request it is probally better we dont talk anymore becasue if you cant there is no reason for you to deny my request ......it can all be secured.......now this is what
I need you to do

FULL NAME
RANK
UNIT
WHERE THEY ARE
AND
A VALID MILITARY EMAIL ACCOUNT. Have THEM email you at least twice, and send emails back. Then take the info they gave you to a local army office and have the office run the info through the military database to verify their identity. If they tell you they cannot give you that info, they are FAKE. They CAN and SHOULD provide that info to prove their identity.

The REAL Officers being portrayed are aware this is happening, and they are investigating it and trying to stop the identity theft.

If you cannot do this then I am not going to do anything or give or send anything anywhere......I do hope you understand

Of course he declined told me I was endangering his getting leave at all......and did apologize for wasting my time and his.......I do feel sorry for the man s identity that was used here as the pics could be stolen or photoshoped......what a sin there are people using our military personalls identitys to scam women.....Posing as a Sargent stationed in Iraq.....

SunnyKeyWest.....Florida

To all you people outthere who got scammed (me included) by the person calling himself Brian Resnick or about to get scammed, I just want you people to know that I did find the real person on those photos and his name isn't Brian!
He is doing fine and well and is happily married, those photos that I let Dotti post here are 2-3 years old and he has never been in Nigeria or Afghanistan, I am not going to say where he was deployed to but not there.
He is at home with his wife now and doing fine.
Just want you to know that the person on the photos is fine and well.
My best regards to all of you and I know how hard this is to deal with, I've been there too.
That's why I (and friends) started looking for the real identitiy of soldier.
I'm so sorry for al of you who got scammed too.
All my best.

Hi Everyone:

I got scammed from this so called US soldier Brian Resnick on April 24, 2011. However, he told me that he was born November 6, 1976, he is from Houston, TX he closed down his facebook account cos he said he didn't need it. He said he moved to New Jersey but he said he grew up in Oklahoma. He also said he has traveled all around US. How in the world did i get duped so well by a scammer? I could never imagined I was going to get scammed!!! I feel very embarrassed and ashamed to myself and i am unable to trust men. The man that goes by Brian Resnick uses a new email address which is [email protected]. This guy needs to get caught by cops cos he has done so much out there who knows if there are more victims that hasn't come forward or don't know about this site. I am going through unimaginable debt because of him. It's not fair he is living the nice life and at the same time ripping women's trust and lives.

Tendersmiles