Help with email [email protected]

I know somebody who has been communicating with a woman named Elizabeth Clauss for over a year. Apparently she is a teacher for the deaf and works for Unicef. I have contacted Unicef today via email to ask if they know anything about her, but have not heard back yet. He has sent her thousands of dollars in order for her to "move to the United States" - the money goes to Nigeria - yet every day when she is supposed to travel something comes up (she has been arrested, in a car accident, her grandmother died, her luggage was going to cost more than she expected, she had problems with her visa, etc.). They have conversations about being in love and that they can't wait to see each other. She apparently hearing impaired, so they have never spoken on the phone or used microphones in computer chats, though he has been on video chat with her.

On her current Facebook account there are several photos, but she has only 47 friends, most of whom are male.

I looked up the email address on Google and it came up with some Russian scam website which I did not sign up for and therefore cannot read (when I translated it, it said something about having to register? I don't know. Not entirely tech savvy).

I am worried because this friend of mine has literally sent thousands of dollars to Nigeria to "help her out" and it is putting him in a difficult financial situation. Can anyone help me figure out if this is a scam, and if so, how to go about shutting it down? Help!

Here is the link to her Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.clauss.3?fref=ts



Basic Information
Birthday March 14
Gender Female
Interested In Men
Relationship Status Single
Languages ASL
Religious Views
Catholic
Political Views
Liberal

Mod edit: Marked image - CW

What you are describing is textbook scammer. If she was really working for UNICEF, they would get her home.
If they wouldn't (which they would), she could go to the American embassy. She would NOT need some random stranger to get her home.

Looks like this scammer has been using the same ID and storyline for quite a while:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/message/85858?threaded=1&var=1&p=2

Webcam/video chat can be faked. All that is needed is footage of someone who looks like the person in the photos (the scammer is NOT the person in the photos, and is more likely male.) Scammers most often use saved "live webcam" footage of porn actresses to create fake video.

I thought she was a scam. Is there any way to stop this person? She has now told my friend to Google her email and that the reason the one page comes up is because Germany is trying to get info on her, and that her ex boyfriend was the London bomber in 2005 and my friend is believing all of it! Even that she now is dying of cancer and is bleeding out of her mouth and ears! I just don't know what to do or how to get my friend to listen or believe me. The whole situation is making me sick... she wants another $2500 to seek refugee in New Mexico. I'm thankful he doesn't have it to send to her right now.

Lizzy James is with the email address provided on MS

also on migente

lizzy J
32, female from Ankeny, IA