Information on romance scams and scammers.
by Daiva Sandberg Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:52 pm
Hello everybody
My name is Daiva and I live in Sweden. I am looking for a partner right now. I was contacted one week ago of one guy, named Stg Wilson Frank Lincoln , 35 years on www.badoo.com. He said that he was a solder and was looking for a truth love. He asked strange questions about my economy, how I live and so on. He said that he is from US army, sergant , E5 rang, lives in Afghanistan, Kunduz province, right now. But his location on badoo was changing 2 times. Now Ungern is his "location". He told that he had a house in Colorado city where nobody lives.. He started talk that he loved me, he proposed to me also some days later..
He wanted that I will apply for his leave vacation and asked to send an email to
[email protected]
Because he cant wait to see a woman he is in love and so on. Later he said also that I should pay for his ticket cos he had no money but he promised to pay double to me if I want. It would be 1900usd. I became very angry and I didnt believe him. We were fighting . I told him that he lied. He said that he wasnt on vacation in two years now. I talked about rules in NATO and he stopped me. He was very angry if we talked about military, he shouted that I must to believe him. Then I stopped talking with him but he was not supposed leave me in piece. He stopped pusching me for a while and then he started again. Now he knows what I suspect about him that he is a scam, but he doesnt leave me alone. He sent me some pictures of a very sexy guy, looking amazing. I dont trust him but perhaps I want to trust him cos he talks sentimentally too much.
How I can check his "story"?

His profile looks like that:

http://badoo.com/0317883680/
http://badoo.com/search/#/0317883680/?& ... 4439138664

He used [email protected] as his email address.
He used these photos to present himself..
http://badoo.com/0317883680/p1153704
http://badoo.com/0317883680/p1153702
http://badoo.com/0317883680/p1153706

I took a copy of our chat in badoo, it is 40 sides document..:((

I know that he looks as 100% scam but it is very hard to believe.
I need to hear other opinnion and I want that this guy will be stopped use girls as toys to get money.
I was very happy to find this site on internet and could read stories like mine. We need really sites like this.

Regards /Daiva
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by Dotti Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:12 pm
There is nothing to check.

He is not an American soldier. In fact, he is not American at all.
He is an African romance scammer, using a format and scripts used by hundreds of young African men who spend their days stealing from lonely women. He writes sentimentally because he has learned that this is what works to get money, not because he feels any of the things he writes. Most of his sentimental words are copied from romance and poetry sites. He may have taken letters and poems from those sites and changed the words so they seem more authentic, but much of the time these scammers don't even bother to put in that effort, and they just copy poems, letters, and even song lyrics directly into their letters. These scammers will say whatever they think you want to hear, and it all means nothing to them--this is business, and the words are just a way to get money.

How can I say this with certainty? Because he gave himself away completely when he asked you to apply for his leave. A real American soldier ALWAYS requests his own leave. If you were dating a real soldier you would NEVER be asked to request leave (or anything else) for him. He would request leave himself, and you would have absolutely NO part of the leave process. Some scammers claim this is a new policy. It will NEVER be policy, as the entire military is based on a chain of command that MUST be followed, and a civilian (this includes a wife) is NOT part of the chain of command. The email address you were given for the "leave request" is a free email address from mail.com. It is no different than a yahoo or gmail address. The US military does not use free email addresses for business, ever. Addresses connected to the real US military will end in .mil and nothing else. The military will arrange to fly him out. He would not be spending thousands of dollars for a flight. And he is only eligible for around 2 weeks of leave each year. If he doesn't qualify for leave, he cannot get it. There is no way to buy leave.

The scammer is not the man in the photos. He doesn't even know the man in the photos. He just stole the photos from the internet, likely from the real person's page on myspace or somewhere similar.

The best thing you can do is cut off contact with the scammer. He will continue to lie to you, without hesitation, if he thinks he has even the slightest chance of getting money from you.

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by Daiva Sandberg Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:43 pm
thank you very much for the answer.
I knew that he was no real, my friends was talking about that. Now I am very sure about it.
Thanks again/Daiva
by jolly_roger Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:06 am
Hello Daiva. I am very happy you asked the question. The individual you communicate with is a fake. The email address the scammer used (@usa.com) has no link to the military whatsoever. None at all. The usa.com address is a free email address anyone could sign up for from the mail.com webpage. It's like yahoo, hotmail or any free programme. I'm sorry the scammer has wasted your time.
If you scroll to the top of this page, you see the site search function. Type in the words, military scam, or words to that effect and the results will blow you away. If you take some time to read some, a familiar theme will soon become evident.

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