Information on romance scams and scammers.
by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:01 am
Hi, girls

I'm a Chinese and met this guy on chinaloverlinks.com in Sep 2011. He might change the order of his name into Anthony Chadwick Graham. He claimed he is civil engineer, divorced, with an 11-yr old son lived in Newton, Aycliffe, Durham, UK. His phone number is+60 16 271 0292 and currently is in Malaysia.

He told me that he was born in Liverpool, UK and schooled in Imperial College, London. However, his accent does not sound like British nor American. One of his favorit singer was Usher.

Here is the faked picture that he used, i feel sorry for the one whose pic was stolen by this scammer.

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http://s1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/angelbird7/?action=view&current=2011919001.jpg

I did NOT lose any money to this scammer, coz i always suspect him is not what he said. Thanks to this forum, when i googled some words he said and written to me, i realized he was a scammer and blocked him and ignored him since then. He used other names before - Paul, Morgan, Ben Schmidt, George Marshall and so on. I just want to do the same as other girls did to give others a heads up.

He approached me first, pretending to be very cautious and asked the following questions which i also found in this forum viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21205:
Do you believe in Love, even admist this crazy world we find ourselves in?
Do you believe that happiness has value more than every material things we may get in life?
Do you belive that you have a good heart to care for people unconditionally?
If you found a hundred dollar bill on the road and see a hungry orphan, would you feed him/her?
If you get into an argument with me, and I pull you close to kiss you, would you kiss me back?
Would you love those close to me as I would love all those who matter to you?
If I bring you breakfast to your bed would you kiss after saying thanks?
Do you love to run away with me sometimes where we would be out of business environment to spend quality time together?
Do you believe the world should concentrate more on peace projects than war fundings?
Do you have faith that every man is the architect of his own destiny?
Do you believe that Life without Love is like a harp without strings?
Do you know that, You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, and the rest is up to the person to realize your worth?
If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You might be my rhythm?
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by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:07 am
Next, he wrote me a letter, claimed that he was so lucky to find me, his better half, which i didnt realize it was a scam, and was surprised that he was my "perfect match" and everything looked great:

Letter 1:, yesterday, i copied a para of this letter and googled, and again, i found it here, in the forum, without changing a punctuation: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21205

Hello dear i am so happy i found you I know the possibility of thinking, this man i havent met, how can there be these feelings? what does he know about me? But i can tell you the truth about life. The people you have met and probably fallen in love with them, what do they know about you that you think i dont know? probably, just some physical things, like smell, sense of touch, and body physics, and that is all. But these few things are the least things to love for. These are just sentimental values that are found in many at good lenght. The main things to love for are the abilities to agree on phenomena, and sense of directions. The unexplained attraction to someone's words. which is life itself. These are the only things that matters deep down.. How best can one get these things better than meeting in writtings? where you can escape the sentimental factors i mentioned earlier and once we meet, the biggest sentiments is there and one wouldnt be able to help but start the feelings from there. I can tell you that internet is the best and also the worst way of meeting people. In the sense that it is the best if two people meet and are as open as a book with eachother with no lies. I promise it cant fail . The worst in the sense that if these two met and there is even a single atom of lie in between, there comes disappointments, which is like a small stone that can bring down a big wall. Did you ever lie to me? cos i wouldnt ever lie for anything. My ma brough up a better man than that.LOL. Go and do the research about what i just said and you will find out whether the maths is good or not.
As food is needed for the body, the same way love is needed for the soul. Food strengthens the body while love strengths the soul. A person is incomplete without love. I will never give up the fight and will of love.. I did picture you with me on the cruise laughing so hard in my arms,lol.. Love is a noble act of self-giving, offering trust, faith, and loyalty. The more you love, the more you lose a part of yourself, yet you don't become less of who you are; you end up being complete with your loved ones. I do cherish your presence in me.
pls take good care of yourself dearest

Best Regards
Anthony
by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:35 am
I'm trying to walk through the whole progress:

1. On day 1, he asked some questions to help him to understand what kind of person i am, what would make me extremely happy; what i would do if i was to celebrate a huge success, etc. He asked those questions to evaluate what would be the best BAIT for me. Also, he claimed that he was a jealous person and he wanted me to date with him only and ignore other men. He also requested me to delete my profile on chinaloverslink.com and he told me he would delete his as well. I told him i just met him and other guys and it would take me days to tell which one i would go further, he then requested me to provide the account username and password to him and he would delete it for me. He told me that he got divorced because his ex-wife cheated on him, he could not allow his son to be raised by a woman without respect to family values so his son lives with him back in UK and now he came to Malaysia to bid a contract from Patronas Petroleum and he was tired of being a bachelor and this would be his last contract and all he wanted was a home, and his son would receive montherly love.

2. On day 2, He claimed that he wanted to establish a "serious relationship" with me and he liked me and wonder if i liked him as well. I told him i didnt not believe love on first sight and i thought online date was too dangerous and i didn't even know who was sitting behind the computer. To earn my trust, he told me he was old-fashined and this was his first online dating experience and he was scared of woman.
by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:04 pm
3. Day 3 - he asked me if i could get something for him, a perfume. I thought it was not a big deal and why not. So i agreed to bought a perfume as a gift to him and he told me he had never received a gift from a woman before. I told him how come, then he told me that he was a shy man, old-fashioned and scared of woman. This was a TEST, to test if i was willing to give in case he needed. He told me to send the perfume to him via DHL, yet he was unable to give me an address for shipping, i questioned why not send it to the hotel, he said he preferred that the perfume to be delivered to a nearby DHL office and he would have an agent to pick it up for me. The agent's name is Fredrick Ohai (cell phone: +60102536818). I never heard him mentioned this agent's name again, maybe it was his real name and real cell phone number.
He told me that he did not have friends because he trusted no one, also provided a story that how his best friend suggested him to find a mistress when he told his best friend that his wife was cheating on him. What a perfect story?Again, the story proved again that he was an honest man and had zero tolerance to cheating.

He requested me not to share our "love life" with any of my friends, because people would be "jealous about us". Girls, please be careful, the scammers do not want you to tell your friends because others would be able to help you analyze and figure out this is a scam!
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by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:17 pm
4. Then it came the baits. He implied that his ex-wife was after his money when they got married; he also indicated that he was fighting for the US citizenship because UK's tax is heavier (but when i told him as an accountant, i could provide some tax saving ideas, he was not interested at all). I was not interested in money nor the US citizenship and i told him i have been working hard and lived well. So he changed his bait to true love or affection, and became very sweet. In real life, i don't think i've ever met a guy that was so sweet, loving and caring. He also pretended to "hide his feelings" and but he would come to China and visit me as soon as he got the contract. I told him i was a slow person, meaning i would not fall in love with a man in a short amount of time. He became more passionate and even proposed to marry me. However, i always had a gut feeling that this might not be real, because it just sounds too perfect.

<to be continued>
by Bubbles Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:07 pm
Welcome to ScamWarners angelbird, I am sorry you got taken in by this scammer. It is great that you realized what you were dealing with. I hope you have stopped communicating with him. Nothing good will come from staying in contact.

Did you ever check the headers and IP to know where he is emailing from?

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

Rest in Peace 24 June 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.
by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:42 pm
Bubbles wrote:Welcome to ScamWarners angelbird, I am sorry you got taken in by this scammer. It is great that you realized what you were dealing with. I hope you have stopped communicating with him. Nothing good will come from staying in contact.

Did you ever check the headers and IP to know where he is emailing from?


Dear Bubbles,

Yes, i have stopped communicating with him and i did not tell him how did i conclude that he was a scammer. :laugh-s:

I'm glad i didn't eat any sugar baits he offered - money or citizenship and so on. :beer:

And i did not lose money to him, so i feel it's necessary to let others know there is one scammer outthere.

I tried to post the pictures and don't know why it did not work. I'll try.
by angelbird Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:59 pm
<To continue>

One day, i checked his MSN contacts and found out all his contacts are female of diff age and diff races. This was contradictory to what he said about himself - "i'm scared of woman". So i asked him why and of course he told me that he had not been talking to these ladies for months or years. He was not serious to them and i was the only one that he cared. I did not trust him but googled his name in www.192.com (a paid UK people search website), and it appears that there is a Graham Anthony Chadwick lives the address that he gave to me: No. x Cumby road, Newton, Aycliffe, Durham, UK. So i was not sure about whether he is a real one or someone stole other's identity.

He deleted all the MSN contacts and told me his hands were shaking, he dared not to make me angry or something.

He told me he owned a small company named A&P consulting and engineering services Ltd. I googled that company in UK engineers directory and no result was found.
by angelbird Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:05 am
Later, this scammer wrote me a letter and i regreted that i did not google this letter when i received it. I was so surprised instead, couldnt imagine an engineer only good at calculations and designes were also good at writing letters. :oops:

i Can't get the picture of you off my mind of you . i felt like giving a hug, lol. Just as the sun, lights up the earth, you light up my life. The only one i have met, with a heart so bright. Just seems like yesterday, you came around my way, you changed my whole scene right away, with your outstanding personality. The only reason this was possible is because you must have portrayed yourself well and you have been Yourself. That is good, because if i ever fall in love with you for beauty, I wouldn’t walk more than miles to see more beauty, If i love you for wealth, I wouldn’t walk more miles to see more, If i love you for smiles, I would see more in tv, lol But the only thing i can fall in love with is you, that cant be gotten by anyone else because its being YOU! that is absolutely what no one can ever be. Like i said, it takes a life time to try knowing the reason why you feel the way you do with some people. the answers are never there, trust me, the day relationships starts falling is the day people can figure out the exact reason they have loved each other. Life is boring if perfect. Life is worse when there is nothing to change about anything.

The balance in life is based on the facts that, there must be thieves and criminals for the police to remain employed. The medical practitioners would run out of business if we are all hale and hearty. The legal practitioners would die of boredom if there aren’t offenders. If everyone are vegetarians, Oh my! Guess how many people would not earn a living. Christians bring out the best in Christianity because of the presence of Islam. White gained from black, blacks earn from white. If everyone is rich, wealth would be meaningless. Who would do the laundry? who would drive the car? Who would guard who? Who would keep whose money? lol. The essence for this short word is that, if you can read the meaning in this. you are my woman for sure. The moral of the speech is that We were all created for each other. There is much fun in helping. We can all be better if we accept the fact that we can’t live without each other. The world would be a better place if we can start accepting things we can’t change. Because the only constant thing in life is CHANGE! Sitting here thinking about you, brings out a part of me that loves everything, lol.

I have a proposal for you this wonderful day. Because i know you at least care about me, after all you been waiting to check on my mail and know if i am still alive, lol. That is something. So i want your help today. There is this woman, whom I just met, and i could be scared about how she has gotten my attention, but i would be stupid to submit to fears. I noticed that she already has a place that can not be replaced in my heart. Who could ever think of hurting such a woman who only wants happiness? I want you to help me find her and tell her, i am not known for fears. I know a journey of a thousand years start with a single step. A man who wants to fly must at least learn to stand on his feet! tell her if she is willing, i would love to take her hands. I am a man who gives nothing or everything. Once i have her hand, i can promise her forever. Tell her i know this is not going to be a kid walk, tell her i know there are times we would argue in future. but tell her i would teach her to know that even while we argue we would still be holding hands. because there are two sides to a coin. Tell her life is short, but we can make paradise out of it. Tell her her worries have become mine, because i do not really know how she has done it. tell her that coming across her was by chance, communicating with her was by choice, but then falling for her is beyond my control.

You know where to find her my dear, just go to your dressing mirror and you would find her staring back at you, lol. Pls look into her eyes and speak this to her for me.
by angelbird Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:16 am
I trusted him. When we chatted, he always asked - "how much do you love me?", or "how far you would do for me?", and "to what extend you would do for me" and he swore that he could give me his kidney if i need. It just does not sound like people only met for few days.

Later on, he told me that he had invested so much for this Malaysia contact and he could not affort to lose it. And when he was interviewed for the bidding, he was told that the downpayment would not be enough to mobolize the project and he has $250,000 savings but he had to raise the balance.

So i "offered" to send him $50,000 to make up the balance. But i told him since the stock market dropped significantly, i would need to realize a loss to sale my stocks. And that $50,000 would be my life-time savings.

He told me that he did not want me to sell anything and he just felt be loved by me.

The very next day, at the end of our conversation, he popped the question - " when do you think you can send me the money?" I knew most likely this was a scammer so i cut all the contacts immediately.

:bondage:
by angelbird Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:21 am
Well, he called and sent me text message and begged me to back with him. He told me that he did not want any money from me, and he did not care about money, it was too trivial to him and he always lived well.

To make me believe him, he provided a copy of his passport and tax document:

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I edited coding so picture would show. ~Bubbles
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by angelbird Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:47 am
The next day, i guess he changed his strategy and told me that he was informed that he won the contract and he wanted me be the first one to know because i have encouraged him so much. I was surprised because just the dat before he told me that the evaluation took days and weeks. I also found another email in my mailbox that he meant to send to someone else with an invoice attached, requesting someone to pay his bills, but was sent to me "by mistake"

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I realized that this was not an email sent by mistake, it's just some sort of bait that he wanted me to believe that he was short of cash because his customer did not pay on time.

Then i google some of his letters and words, and found out this forum and other forums. And i was so glad that i did that so i concluded him to be a scammer immediately:
viewtopic.php?t=13567&f=26

http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewto ... =3&t=38227

I text him - " does the name Paul Morgan or Ben Schmidt ring the bell? how about George Marshaell then? Don't even try to reach me again, you know WHY". Then I cut ALL CONTACTS with him, ignored all the phone calls and text messages.

Just want other girls know that there are lot of scammers out there and they all appeared to be caring, loving and sweet. They fell in love with you immediately because of your beauty or your personality, etc, etc. Always keep in mind that send no MONEY, no matter what he or she said.

And, still believe in friendship, love and marriage. Good luck in finding your better half! :beer:

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