Information on romance scams and scammers.
by txpamela Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:06 pm
I met this creep through My Life, and he said that he was an American citizen who grew up in Ukraine. He said that his wife died a few years ago, and he had a 16 year old daughter named Vivian. He even let me talk on the phone to someone who was supposedly his daughter. He was posing as a petroleum engineer who worked as a contractor for Shell and Chevron, and I should have been tipped off immediately when he spelled Chevron as "Shevron". However, I let it slide.

After talking for about a week, he had to travel to Malaysai supposedly to start work on a contract there. After being there for a little while and talking on the phone daily, all of a sudden, he said that he realized that he needed to purchase an expensive chemical and didn't have access to his accounts over here in America for the purchase. He tried to get me to send him money...wanted me to take out a title loan on my car...however I could get the money for him. I explained that I could not do this. Then, he said that was fine that he would find investors himself that I would just need to give him banking account information here so that the investors could deposit the money, and I could just wire the money to him from the account after the money was deposited in the account.

I have filed a report with the FBI on this person and reported him to the dating site where his account has been deleted. The email account that he was using is [email protected]. I also received emails from his daughter at [email protected].

Watch out for this character because he is a smooth talker!
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by Arnold Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:20 pm
Welcome to Scamwarners, and I'm glad you didn't lose any money.
The money transferred to your account would have been stolen of course, probably from a phished bank account. A bit unusual for a romance scam, but he'd probably given up on getting you to "lend" him money.

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