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by dm_67 Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:13 am
Has yahoo messenger and yahoo email which is [email protected]
Blackplanet profile name is wonderfulalbert111
BEWARE - Real charmer
asks you to send money via western union
Last contact Phone number is 0011447045787701
I met my scam artist on BlackPlanet.com a dating service online. Actually he found me, just 3mths ago. He sent me a lovely message, than I replied we exchanged email address and messenger details. Where we had been chatting and building a relationship, well that is what he led me to believe, we even exchanged phone numbers. We rang each other many times and he would leave messages on my voice mail how he really missed me and I was everything to him and meant the world to him and soon we would be together.

He said he lives in Jacksonville , Florida and was traveling to London for work. He was trying to sell a self funded project to the government over there. After a short period of time he told me that all his funds had been used up due to registering for licenses and permits etc and he needs funds to able to finish the deal and receive a large sum of money. I fell for his manipulation and he continued to carry on with stories of the project and I continued to send money to help him. Finally he told me he had received the cheque and was ready to travel to Australia and how we where going to be together and he was going to cash his cheque here and reimburse me all the money he took from me. However of course he needed money for the airfare, he sent me flight details etc and was having a stop over in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia once he reached there he started ringing me again saying he needed money to get through customs, for 2 weeks this continued as he was robbed and needed more money and than had to use that money for renewing his ticket to Australia it just went on and on. He kept promising me we would be together any day now. If I ever questioned him on anything he would say that he was hurt that I would think that, and he would says things like his word was his bond, he even swore on his mother's grave that he was telling me the truth and he would return my money and we would be blissfully happy together. He managed to scam over $6000 from me. I am a single mum with 3 children, I work 2 jobs and just wanted to find love and my life partner. Now I just have to find a third job to recover from all this mess. He has profiles on a lot of sites Netlog, my space, HI5, twoo and these are only the ones I know of.
He is very convincing and doesn't care how his deceit affects your life and what financial mess he leaves you in.
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by Arnold Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:16 am
Welcome to Scamwarners. Yours is a depressingly common story unfortunately. The requests for money and the attempt to make you feel guilty for doubting him.
The phone number is a free one that transfers calls to another phone, probably in West Africa.

by dm_67 Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:11 am
thank you for your email, and explaining about the phone number. I could never understand why when he was in Malaysia I wasn't able to call him. He called me everyday while he was waiting for the next lot of money.
Wouldn't he have to be in the two locations i sent money, London then Malaysia and wouldn't this be his real name and identity as he needed ID to receive the money from Western Union office.
I tried several times to explain who i was and my situation and he use to tell me he understood his mum was a single mum and knew what she went through and he assured me over and over 100% he was going to repay the money and it was then his turn to look after me and the kids. I feel like such a fool.
by Bubbles Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:22 am
I am sorry to hear you lost money dm_67

Scammers have figured ways out of following the rules Western Union has set as their policies. I hope you have stopped all communication with this scammer. He will only continue to try to get you to send money to him. Anything else he said to you is a lie. Anything else he may say in the future is a lie.

Have you pulled up the Headers? Those often can tell where the email came from.

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

Rest in Peace 24 June 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.
by dm_67 Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:22 pm
Thank you so much for your advice

I wasn't sure how to pull up the header but thanks to another very helpful person responding to one of my posts they gave me instructions and I traced him back to Nigeria. I guess I just have to add myself to that very long list of victims.
It makes me sick to my stomach that genuine people who really do want to find love are being used as a game, playing them to see how much money they can get. After just getting over my past relationship of 3yrs with physical and mental abuse and now this I have lost all hope.
Last edited by Bubbles on Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:28 am, edited 1 time in total. Reason: To remove quote of post above.

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