61-year-old Architect working in Malaysia

This guy is really good. He picked me up on Match.com, but then immediately removed himself from that site. I suspect he's been caught there before. All he cost me was time. He got no info or money from me but when I became suspicious, I googled a word-for-word long paragraph from his profile and found it on 17 sites! The main catch phrase was "long slow kisses," but the entire long paragraph popped up every time. Of the 17 profiles, 4 were supposedly posted by women, so those long slow kisses do get around. To me, he claimed to live in Portland, OR, widowed 6 years ago, raised in Germany and educated at Oxford in England. His parents both died when he was young. His late wife was "a prominent nurse" who died in an auto accident. He spent most of his life traveling. His father "did the same job" he did and he had begun traveling with his father as a child. He claimed to have a son "Clark" who was 18 and who is traveling with him now, but would go to Oxford to study medicine in the spring. He was in Kuala Lumpur bidding on a soccer stadium for his construction and development company. He kept saying he had an accent that I might not like. The phone he texted me from was 60163476642, which is indeed in Kuala Lampur. He called himself Taylor Chadwick. His email was [email protected]. He used the same id on Yahoo Instant messanger. He never telephoned.Probably because he figured I'd recognize his accent was not German/English. Good luck to anyone who encounters him because he is really good, and he constructed a character that was probably going to ask for a whole lot of money. He seemed well educated and wealthy. I was hooked for about 5 days. I don't want to include here the ways that he slipped up because he might read this and learn from it. I'll bet a lot of romance novels don't have a hero this good. I found an almost identical story reported on scambook.com.

Welcome to ScamWarners p3938. You have done some great detective work. Yes, scammers disappear off of sites like that because thy do get thrown off. Some times by people who figure out what they are doing and some times because they pay with a stolen credit card.

Searching for parts of the email you receive is a great way to see that if it is a scammer you are communicating with.

Yes, thank you for not pointing out all of the flaws. You are correct, scammers do come here and we do not want to point out their mistakes and make them better at their dastardly deeds.

Thank you for posting up the email address. [email protected].

Wow. He is good. He's been playing the same game with me and heaven knows how many other women at the same time. I have been playing him in turn, giving him all the emotional feedback without any money. I do not know whose profile he stole on Match.com, but in my case he lived in Jackson, Mississippi. Everything else is the same as what the other woman posted except his son was following in his footsteps and becoming an architect. His Stadium job fell through, but he was awarded a Shopping Centre instead. The Kuala Lumpur phone number and no information on the internet tipped me off.

He uses the name Taylor Chadwick, but he has a second email address [email protected] shorter and more concise then the other one. The phone number is the same 011 60163476642 Malaysia based. That set off the first light bulb.

I did speak to him and he does not sound German at all. He has a very strange accent, that was my second light bulb going off since I speak a couple of languages including some German.

I would like to know if he uses the same photographs on all the sites or if he uses different people's photos. In my case he was fair haired, 60 and quite attractive with a very warm smile. I wish I could post a photo. He used the name Jacksonlover11 on Match with an opening line of "LAUGHTER is the great elixir of life! It allows me to contend with difficulties, defuse bad situations and cure just about every ill."

He is good and even after confronting him with all the things that do not add up, he has an excuse or reason for everything.

Watch out ladies, this guy is after money. He starts with $5000, then to $1175 and eventually lowers it to $600 He has not cost me any money, only wasted my time.

Thank you ScamWarners for verifying my suspicions.

Welcome Gemstone!

I'm glad you recognized that he was a scammer before you lost money to him.

Scammers will try to get any amount of money they can from you. If you can't (or won't) comply with their original demands, they will make excuses (e.g. "I borrowed part of the money except for XX amount. Can't you just help me with that?) and essentially bargain down the total.

We do not recommend pointing out to scammers the things that don't add up in their stories. When you point out their mistakes, you are educating them and increasing the likelihood that they will improve their story for the next victim. We also ask that you don't point out that they are posted on anti-scam site, as that will encourage them to change their names, email addresses, etc. and it will make it harder for the next target to find out they are scammers.

They won't admit the truth anyway, no matter what you confront them with. Even if they "confess" to being scammers, their story will still be full of lies--they will simply be different lies, but again will be whatever they think is necessary to get you to send them money.

For posting photos, see the link in my signature line.

Thanks Dotti. I had already blocked him on my messenger. The problem is he does have my phone numbers. Hopefully I will not hear from him again. I do however plan to report him to Match.com, whether it does any good or not, they should know that profiles are being hijacked.

Hi Gemstone. It's happy to hear you realised and you only lost some time on the individual.

re: The problem is he does have my phone numbers.
If that concerns you, perhaps contact your telephone service provider and ask them to block incoming calls from the scammers location. Or simply ask for another phone number, although that can be inconveniencing.
When the scammer realises you are going off script, you shouldn't receive any more communications from it.

I was contacted by Taylor Chadwick in October via Match.com. He registered as "saltlakelover". Same story as others have experienced. He was due to fly home to Salt Lake City in 10 days after he received the contract for the soccer stadium, which he did. However, upon formally receiving the contract, he was told he had to pay a bond of $20,000 to get it. He, of course, asked me for the money. He even attached a colored copy of the contract to one email. Of course I did not send the money. After 10 days he stated he was able to raise the money but now did not have the money to fly home. He sent me a copy of the statement for reservations for 2 airline tickets (he and the 18 year old son) for nearly $10,000 and asked for me to send that money. I questioned that since he seemed to be having financial problems it did not seem prudent to spend the money on first class tickets and I told him I found tickets for $2,400 for both of them on Delta and I would be happy to make the reservations if he sent me his passport information, etc., which of course he did not. I was hoping for some information to nail this guy. I saved all the emails and sent them to match.com but never had a reply from them.

I have been contacted by an additional 4 scammers with the same approach - a couple even used some of the same phrases as Chadwick. All said their subscription to Match.com was expiring and I should contact them on yahoo instant messenger. I responded that I was sure they were scammers and that if I was contacted again, I would report them.

It is so sad that more scammers than real people seem to be on match.com.

Welcome to ScamWarners phnphd. If the scammer had sent you a passport, the information would not have been his own. He didn't want a ticket, he wanted money from you, so you called his bluff. None of what he told you was the truth. Scammers lie, then they lie some more.

Please post up the email addresses you received the emails from. That will help others to be able to find the information about the scammer when they search the email address. Thank you.

You know, I hate to say it, but the North American companies are to blame for all this scamming taking place due to their outsourcing. These people would not have the capacity, skills, nor the computers to play these games with people's lives if they had not been taught how to access information for phone companies, cell phone companies, internet providers, etc. They are taught the skills and then they abuse them.

I removed him (our famous architect) from everything I have, including blocking him on my MSN. Obviously he had not blocked me as this morning I received a quick "hi" from his email address [email protected] while I was in my Hotmail email account.

I am also blown away that he actually started at $20,000 with this other woman. Talk about gutsy.

I'll tell you one thing, I am reading the matches sent to me by Match.com a lot more closely these days. I wish I could figure out how to post a photo to this site. I would love to know if he is using the same profile and photos for every one of these scams. I know there are instructions on how to do this, but it is like Greek to me, not one of the languages I speak.

[AlanJones]

Hi Gemstone,

If you want to email me the pictures (address in the signature), then I will post them for you.

If you do, can you just put a link to this post in the email so I know where to post them.

Alan

This sounds very similar to an experience I had, but the guy was younger and had a different profession. Very smooth and very good. I didn't know he was a scammer until I realized he lied to me about a little detail and then I started googling like crazy. When I feel safer, I will return to post all his information. Unfortunately, I didn't know much about romance scammers before this and I gave out my information. Live and learn.

Happy New Year to all, especially you hard working people tracking down scammers.

I received an email today after a month and half hiatus from Taylor Chadwick...

Hi Gorgeous

I don't know why I have not heard from you in a while. I got my match.com profile activated so I was thinking maybe you could try and Log Into the match.com website to get to see some more photos of me and read more of my profile alright...click on the link to get to View my profile on match Ok.... http://85.17.159.77/~secure5/MatchUS2/ Have a pleasant day... Taylor

I tried the address he sent me out of curiosity, but it wanted me to fill in my own username and password in order to access it...I suspect this was done to get my profile on Match and steal it for personal use. It really is amazing what lengths these people will go to.

Is it possible for you to find out where this email was sent from??

Thank you for your assistance.

^^If you received an email from this person, you can gather the information to check where the message was most likely sent from. There is a link in my signature line which will help you find the Headers which give you the IP.

For the most part, an IP only tells you that the person is lying about where they are contrasted with where they claim to be emailing from. What you get is a city and country. You don't get a street address.

[AlanJones]

Here are the photos used by the scammer:

http://iwiw.hu/i/Barna-Fekete-15158945
shows the profile pic of the previous post
Bernard Black (Manager)
of

Kolibri Art Studio
333 E. 157th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90248

Age 57
Native language Hungarian
Languages Hungarian, English, French