Information on romance scams and scammers.
by lunastregata Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:22 pm
Hi to everyone here is my story it is brand new and ended thanks to this site i will explain you why.
Few weeks ago I was contacted from a guy ( good looking i have to admit) that found me on a site where i have pan pals. He told me that was an american gemmologist here in italy for business at at the moment he was in cape town Africa to buy some rubies.
After few mails, he seamed nice, i was kind of suspicious because few things didn't seem right. didn't last too long when at one point he told me that he was having trouble to get back to italy because the cost of shipment was too high from what he thought and he was out of money. I adviced him to go and ask for help to the american embassy being an US citizen in a foreign country was the wisest thing to do. He replied that was too far and didn't have money to reach the embassy. I looked on the internet for the consulate and when i send him the address and phone number i noticed that the area code was the same of his phone and i asked to myself why a person that goes to south africa for a week buys a number over there.
I pulled out his first mail where there was his description, work and other info and i cuted and paste some sentences on google...well it matched your site guys. Someone else here received the same identical letter with the only difference that was sent by a woman.
So i kept on cutting and pasting pieces of his letter ...the job description was taken by wikepidia and the letter i guess is the same that he writes to people like me.
The last mail i received from him asked 300 euros to pay the hotel bill and i answered him back by cutting a pasteing the story on this site that matched his letter.
Thank god i am by nature suspicious and i have been over internet so long and saw so many stories that the person that has to fool me still has to be born, but I am so angry with thsese people that really fool others and they have to be stopped.
I have his pics, phone number and mail and if can be helpfull to track him down i will be glad to submit them.

Love is outside a stupid box called PC so lets not be fooled :)

p.s. forgive my english :D
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by Helen Halper Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:32 pm
Hi lunastregata!
Welcome to Scamwarners!
I'm happy to hear that you used google and found out the truth about the scammer before losing any money.
Yes, please post the name, email address and phone number so that someone else can find the scammer's info, and hopefully be saved from being scammed.

by lunastregata Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:43 pm
thanks for the welcome :)
the guy that contacted me his name is:
Richard Cobwells
his mail is: [email protected]
ip address is 65.54.190.203

cell # 27733720459


hoping this will help someone else :)
by lunastregata Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:03 pm
he is on facebook as well
http://www.facebook.com/richard.cobwells

andon the basic information the description has been copied from a lady who wrote it on a australia dating web site..

what a scam!

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