Information on romance scams and scammers.
by Tronic Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:20 pm
Hi.
I’m new here and this is a long story, I will try to get to the basics and I hope you can forgive my English, I’m from Scandinavia.
I get contacted by a girl on match.com. She tells me she is a sergeant in the US Army, stationed at Camp Victory Iraq. We exchange mail addresses and start talking on msn and yahoo messenger. After few days she asks me if she can come visit me. I am divorced and living with two children so there is no way I’m doing this so fast. But I kind of enjoy talking with her so we are talking as we speak. She started with trying to get me to fill out her permission for a leave of her duty to visit me at this e-mail: [email protected]. When I did not fill out this form, as she asked me to every time we talked and after a few days she complained about me not filling out the form like she knew it was not send. So suddenly she disappears for a few months and the next time we talks she tells me about her sick aunt who is supposed to be a US citizen who has marriage a Nigerian who she lives with in Nigeria. Her aunt’s husband has passed away and her aunt has a serious heart condition. She asks for money, about 5000 EUR. I tell her I don’t have any money to spare at this time. She won’t give up and then she is gone again for a while and she is back calming to be in Nigeria, taking care of her aunt now asking for money for her aunts operation. I expressed myself clear that if all she was going to talk about was money, I did not want to speak with her. She’s gone again.. A little later she is back in Iraq her aunt is better, so worse… Now she don’t ask for money, but she asked if I could arrange for us to communicate with a satellite phone that the US Army would supply her with if I sendt a mail to [email protected]. This was something I would have to pay some sort of rate for too. Is this a scam? I have not sent mail to either of the addresses mentioned here yet so I have no reply from them. But I have many pictures, and a few yahoo and hotmail addresses we have been using. Are these e-mail addresses fake? Is this a scammer??
Last edited by Tronic on Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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by John DeLaney Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:59 pm
Hi Tronic, yes, it is a standard US Military scam.

Several things that are easily proved to be scam tactics are

Requesting leave. Nobody outside the Army can request leave for any serving soldier, and the email address you were given is not a US military address. It is a free email provider, and these scammers use it all the time.
[email protected] is NOT a US army web address

Now she don’t ask for money, but she asked if I could arrange for us to communicate with a satellite phone that the US Army would supply her with if I sendt a mail to [email protected].

Again, this is another fake email address, it has nothing to do with the US Military. If you do write to that address, you will find a request for money will arrive very quickly.

The mention of Nigeria is enough of a warning sign on its own.

This is a scam

John DeLaney
by Tronic Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:21 pm
Hi.
I want to thank you for your answer!
Where do i inquire to give out the names, e-mails and pictures who are probably stolen identity, I have also pictures and e-mails to her/his "roomate". So I can warn others about this?
by David Jansen Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:41 am
Welcome here Tronic.

Just post these emails and photos here in this thread, so that other potential victims can find it. In this topic you can read about how to post photos.

Being a victim doesn't mean you stand alone. We're here to help you.
by Tronic Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:04 pm
Hi again.
I have now been contacted today by both these girls who claim to be in the US army, I confronted them with the facts I got from you here. I even told them I had contacted a site like this. They still claim to be who they say they are. I even told one of them that their name is mention in a romance scam on the internet. That person is actually mentioned here on this site as Sgt Mabel Rodgers is this post viewtopic.php?f=26&t=15483&p=45823&hilit=mabel+rodgers#p45823 traced most of the emails for this person to Lagos, Nigeria. The other one, Sgt. Jessica Long seem to be a little cleverer. She seem to use Europe ip’s mostly somehow Anyway I hesitate to go all the way with publishing email addresses and pictures. I have sent a few pictures and stuff of my family and me back and they don’t seem to disappear like other scammers would. I got a spoof email from paypal (also Nigerian person) once and this person disappeared as soon as I confronted him or her. They just continue to insist that they are who they say they are. Both From Maryland, Baltimore, both at Camp victory, both lost their parents while they were young.. They are not asking for anything now of course.
Any Idea what I should do??
by Helen Halper Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:48 pm
Hi Tronic!
Welcome to scamwarners.

Any Idea what I should do??


Yes, stop all contact with these scammers. There are no army members, male or female, that are on dating sites looking to meet someone. That whole scenario only exists in "scam land".

by gotrippedoff Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:17 pm
THIS ARMY GIRL IS A FRAUD!!! WE LOST 2000.00 TO THIS CHICK CLAIMING TO HAVE A MOTORCYCLE FOR SALE...WE WERE SCAMMED BY CRAIGSLIST.COM...GOOGLE CHECKOUT...SHE IS UNDER THE EMAIL ADDRESS [email protected] WANTS MONEY SENT WESTERN UNION TO A LINDA HILL...STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by jackamo1991 Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:07 pm
I to have been contacted by someone claming to be Jessica Long, a sargent in the US Army. The story she/he gave me was almost identical; grew up in Baltimore Maryland, dead parents, blah, blah, blah. Asked me to buy here a satilite phone (cost $420 US) so we could talk. Said I had to go to [email protected] to buy the phone, and it would be issued to her. I'm assuming this total B.S.
by AlanJones Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:35 pm
Hello jackamo1991 and welcome to ScamWarners.

You are quite right in your assessment that it is total B.S. :)

The buying a satellite phone line is one of the many that scammers use when pretending to be a member of the armed forces.

Please do not tell scammers that they are listed here - it will take them seconds to change their fake details and their new details will not be listed for any future victims to find.

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