Re: help! boyfriend embroiled in scam.

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Welcome to Scamwarners kitty3. It is very worthy of you to be looking out for your friend in this way.

The support team will help you and your friend any way we can.

Please mail your friend these links;

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3607

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=25

Or ask him to visit this site. He may also PM in privacy - I will help him.

Hi Kitty and welcome

I am short on time but just noting you suggest there were 2 different people writing because of the 2 IPs, it is more likely the same scammer in this case, operating from 2 different cafes, the writing that is different is more likely stolen script.

Take a closer look at the emails, you should notice sudden writing changes within the same email.

Please direct your friend to this thread and also show him the sticky post at the top of this page which is here viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3607

Good luck with convincing him.

If need be you can PM his email address to me and I or one of our Suport Team members can contact him

Hi Kitty3 and welcome here. Good for you for trying to help your friend. The story has all of the classic hallmarks of the scams we see over and over again. The domain you posted is likely fake (gregthomchambers.com) and set up by the scammer. Can you get a copy of an email from the domain and send it to me? Either way, I will have fraudulent site investigators at our sister site take a look at it and if they can prove it fraudulent, it will be reported to its hoster.

If you would like a warner from here to contact your friend without mentioning you to see if we can get through to him, please do let anyone on the support team know. You can use the private messaging system to give more information. We'll make sure your friend gets an email and/or phone call from us.

Edited to add: I have taken a quick look at the domain. Please show your friend this: http://whois.domaintools.com/gregthomchambers.com

Of specific note, the registrant for the domain is:

Registrant:
Durubata
Imole Ajiboye [email protected]
Ikeja
Lagos
Lagos,23401
NG
Tel. +234.8033794080
Creation Date: 17-Dec-2008
Expiration Date: 17-Dec-2009

which appears to be the contact information for the company that set up the domain, working out of Nigeria. (They may not be involved in the scam, but used by the scammer for setting up the domain). http://www.durubata.net

Also note that it is set up for a very short time period. That alone doesn't mean a site is fraudulent but it is a red flag. Couple that with the information you have and the person running the "law firm" using a company from Nigeria and it's definitely fraudulent. I'll pass this information on and report back with progress on getting it shut down.

Hi Kitty

This post deserves it's own thread so I have Given a more appropriate title, split it and moved it to our romance department, please let us know how you would like us to help.

The domain mentioned above, gregthomchambers.com, has been further investigated and entered into the database of fraudulent sites kept by Artists Against 419 (http://www.aa419.org). The entry is here: http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=40296 The fraudulent domain is awaiting reporting by one of the site killers at our sister site (419Eater.com) and will likely be killed very quickly by the registrar, Directi, once it is reported.

Trying to locate the scammer - discovered this;

Lakeside Dating and Personals - Topix

eavos1. "looking for my heaven sent...! " Hi everyone, my name is Avos, i am originally from London Uk but i came to the state to further my education, i am a loving, caring, honest.

But after extensively searching this site and match could not find profile.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped. Thanks to the domain info and other links you provided, and to me showing him the IP addresses are in Nigeria, not the UK, he now gets it. In fact, he is happily turning the tables on them.
What a learning experience for me too. You are an amazing group of people. Thank you.

Hi Kitty

that is great news

I am so glad we have been able to help

Please direct your friend to us and we can help him to stay safe in the future as well as ensure we make this scammers job of stealing as difficult as possible

Kitty3, I hope your friend is not using his real information in "turning the tables" on the scammer. It sounds like he may want to do some baiting, and that's good, but it's not good for him to take on the scammer who tried to scam him.

If he wants to learn more about scambaiting (or if you want to, as well), may I direct you to our sister site www.419eater.com. There you can learn about safely running scammers around in circles and wasting their time.

Kitty, I see you have removed all of the information from your first post here. I'm not sure why. Having it there will help others find it and be protected from falling victim to this scam. Will you please re-post or send me a copy of the scam email so that I can include it back on this thread? Thanks.

The domain registration for gregthomchambers.com has been cancelled by the registrar, Directi.

Domain Name: GREGTHOMCHAMBERS.COM
Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Name Server: NS1.SUSPENDED-DOMAIN.COM
Name Server: NS2.SUSPENDED-DOMAIN.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientHold
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 07-oct-2009
Creation Date: 17-dec-2008
Expiration Date: 17-dec-2009

One of our support team members is gathering more evidence which will be added to this thread. Thanks, Kate!