Military Dating Scam

I believe I was scammed by: [email protected] uses the name Williams Macdonald. I have sent him $1,415 via WU to Nigeria. (after he sent $1,500 via Intuit to my checking account) There is a paper trail. Is there something I can do with the banking or intuit to get my $$$ back ??? I have reported his frauding Identity on ym. that is how he contacted me originally.. He also gave me this # that he texts me from 330-333-0380 which is a landline from OH. When u call it is says "this google voice subscriber is not available, to leave a message wait for the tone" don't really understand why that is ??? He said that he needed me to apply for his LEAVE & send $17,000. Who do I need to contact to get an investigation & arrest of this man??? I see he is still online with ym & am scared to dealth that he is doing this to someone else!!! He needs to be in jail!!! Is our Government doing anything about this??? Are we doing anything to protect our men's identities???? I would like to apologize to the soldier who got his face mixed up with these disgusting individuals!!! (or is he mixed up in this scam???)
Please give me information so I may start working to get this prosecuted!!!

Hello!

I'm sorry to hear you were scammed. Intuit is a company that offers financial and tax services for small businesses. One of the services they offer is credit card transaction processes via the web and even on cell phones. This allows small businesses to handle credit card purchases withouth the over head is traditional POS systems. More than likely the scammer set up an account using your banking details and submitted a payment using a stollen credit card number. Essentially using you to launder money and turn a stollen credit card into cash having you send the money via Western Union. More than likely the stollen credit card will be reported and the charges reversed out of you banking account but I would call intuit ASAP and explain the situation. They may be able to help. Print off all the emails and keep them you may even want to go to a local police department as you have unknowingly committed a crime.

You can report the crime here http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx which is great for creating awareness but don't expect much to be done. There is very little chance of prosecution as the scammer is in Nigeria and all the details he gave you are fake.

The number he gave which is a VOIP similar to Skype. I'm not going to go into any more detail because we do not want to educate the scammers. If you have more questions you can PM me.

As a final note citizens cannot request leave for a soldier. It is also not something that is paid for by the soldier or the family it's awarded on merit. This is a common lie scammers use to steal people's money.

Justin

Sorry you were scammed. Thanks for posting his name and email here so others can find it before they are scammed.

I'm a bit more blunt than others. You have 0% chance of getting anything back, that's just the hard truth of it. The best thing you can do now is make others aware of these kind of scams and forgive yourself for making a mistake.