Information on romance scams and scammers.
by lackerman Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:55 pm
I began receiving messages from a man through eVow who indicated he was Sgt. Gough Pedersen a combat medic on a peacekeeping mission in South Africa. I was leary from the start. I checked him out on Facebook and there was very little info there but a few days later, when I checked again he had added photos and more information. He also sent me a picture in an email. Sometimes it almost seemed like I was talking to 2 people. He would send something so smooth and romantic then when he answered my questions he almost seemed like another person. He would often use british slang that you wouldn't hear from an American soldier. It was very strange. He has quit responding for now, which is good. But I wanted to share some of the emails so that others are aware also. I don't know if this man is using an army soldiers pic without permission but the one thing I had going for me was that my son is an army vet and he asked for his brigade/battallion and once I asked that he backed right off because, of course, he is not an army sergeant. Here is a sample of his writings:

Gough Pedersen in the US ARMY,am from Clare, Michigan,am currently on deployment to West Africa for peace keep,am divorce with a kid,i work with the combat medic dept,im the one and only born child of my parent, 6.2" 130 with a athletic build , mentally stable, physically fit, a bunch of laughs, warm, caring, honest, good listening, God Fearing, and a positive person.I am real easy person to talk to and a good listener. I enjoy chilling` with my love once, I like going to the movies , or watching movies in my room , I like swimming , fishing, listening to music and dance to any kind of music, traveling , going bowling and also a good cook, I can make crepes, pasta, Italian, and anything from scrape and my favorite are chips with chicken , shrimp , crab and rice . I am a family oriented person and There is more, but it would be better for you to find some things out for yourself..
I am really interested in wanting to know about what makes you the special person you are today, I want to know more about your family, your background, your life experiences, past relationships, your goals and dreams, your interests, and anything else you want to tell me. So come on and share it all with me. I want to learn about you and what makes up your heart and soul, as the friendship I want to build with you I want it to be like no other you have ever shared in or experienced. This friendship I want to build with you will be filled with substance, quality, spirituality and potential.I know that there is no barrier too great for God, when He chooses to bring two people together, i am at a point in my life where i would always be honest with the chosen one,and be there with the one God has for me 24/7.
I look forward to hearing from you with anticipation.It is better to try and fail than to give up and never know if you could have succeeded.

Warmest Thought

Here is another:

Hey, there is so much I want to tell you, a lot has been running through my head lately. I'm having trouble putting my thoughts into words so you will have to bare with me through this.
I keep thinking about the future, about life, and what I want out of it. I keep thinking about us and what this relationship means to me. I keep thinking about these things and I realize they go hand in hand. This relationship is my future; it's what I want out of life. I want to grow old with you. I want to experience this crazy love forever and ever, and I really think I'm going to get to. I want us to walk through new houses picking the one that would be just right for us. I want to see you walk around our house in a big t-shirt with your hair down and catch me staring at how gorgeous you are. I want you to pull the covers off me at night and then I have to get even closer, if it's possible, to you to keep warm. I want to see you laugh like crazy at me when I do stupid stuff. I want to rub lotion all over your body because you laid out in the sun too long. I want to hold you when you cry and smile with you when you smile. I want to fall asleep every night with you in my arms. I want you to fall asleep on my chest listening to the beat of my heart and know it beats for you I want you to be the first thing I see when I wake up and the last thing I see when I go to sleep. I want to see your bad morning hair; I think it will be so cute. I want to sit on the beach with you and watch the sun set, and I want all the people who pass us to envy the love that we obviously have for each other.
I want to see you walk down that isle and I want to take your hand for the rest of my life. I want to spend all night, and maybe the next day, making love to you with an undying passion (sorry to be so blunt).I want to cook a meal with you and us totally ruin it and end up doing take out. I want to sit there talking to you for hours about nothing at all but in the same time everything or maybe we won't talk at all and just grin at each other realizing how lucky we are. I want you to get mad at me for doing something stupid, and I want you to bust out laughing when you try to yell at me. I want to lay with you in front of a fireplace and keep the heat going long after the fire goes out. I want to take trips with you to places we've never been and experience them together. I want us to go skinny-dipping in a hotel pool and get caught and streak back to our hotel room waking everyone up because we're laughing so hard. I want us to go and pick out the hot tub we want with the biggest grins on our faces the whole time. I want the sales rep to get embarrassed when we sit in them and make sure we have enough room to do the things we want to do. I want our friends to come over and get totally jealous because they don't share a love like we do. I want to be walking into a store with you and trip and fall on my face and turn around to see you rolling on the ground laughing at me. I want us to run outside in the rain and act like total kids getting completely soaked, and when we come back in stripping down to nothing as we stumble into the bedroom, or the kitchen counter, or the balcony, or the dining room table, or an office desk, or the shower, which ever one we feel like at the time.
I want it to take your breath away every time I say, "I love you" because you know it's coming from the heart.I want us to sit down with a box of strawberries, a bottle of chocolate syrup, and a thing of mint chocolate ice cream; well, I'll let your imagination finish that one. I want to love you and be with you for at least forever if not a little longer. I couldn't really express in words what I'm feeling right now so I decided to share with you SOME of the images and thoughts that have been running through my head.I just want you to know that I had never found someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with until I met you. I really am crazy about you, everything about you.

That one really put me on edge.


All this from a man that has never met me, I have only emailed twice and wham he is falling in love? Yeah right. :shock:

Good luck to everyone that is being targeted by these idiots. I hope that Army does something about people impersonating our armed forces. These people put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. Shame on those who use their information for their own personal gain. They are spineless, worthless, low down excuses for human beings.

Linda
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by jolly_roger Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:30 pm
No, old Gough is not in the US army. Instead it's a slimey scammer trying to get it's grubby hands into your purse. If you visit http://www.stop-scammers.com/letter.asp?id=8353 does the (above) script look familiar?
by lackerman Fri May 10, 2013 11:14 am
I have attached a photo of him that was sent to me. He supposedly is the gentleman on the far right with glasses.

Linda[img]M:\Group-Adm%20Building\Linda%20K\Miscellaneous\Personal\Miscellaneous\Sgt%20Gough%20Pedersen.jpg[/img]

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