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Collins Mackellar
[email protected]

Good day sir

My names are (your full name), i want to make a request for a secureline for my fiance Captain mackellar collins.reason for secureline is to communicate with him cos really want him and really wanna hear from him to know how is been doing over there.These are his details below.

Name: Mackellar Collins

Station: United Force Operation Unit 34K.US Army Base kabul Afghanistan.

Rank ; Captain

Station : United Force Operation Unit34K/CombatTeam.
Kabul Afghanistan

Thannks
(Your name)

Reply I got back very quickly:

marvins collins < [email protected] >

HELLO

Concerning Your Request To Communicate With Captain Mackellar collins
Thanks for getting back to us,we are experience network problem that is why we may not be able to respond to you in time.
Note
Before any US Army can be deployed to Afghanistan they were notify to lists three people that they will like to be communicate with from time to time,and this call has been monitor by Ministry of Network Department and they can able to contact them free,no monthly charges or fund to pay,this order was given and sponsored by US Deployed Section,this people maybe friend,relatives,family and only this people can have access to contact any US Army deployed to Afghanistan for free of charge,so except from this three people chosen,anybody that have interest to contact any US Army deployed to Afghanistan,have to pay for the secure line..

This office will like to notify you that we have received your call request and approve it, base on the information and confirmation from the said officer, the least subscription tariff we offer are as follows:

4 weeks: $ 250
8 weeks: $ 450
12 weeks: $ 520
24 weeks: $ 750

Addition with your:
(1) Full address

(2) Mobile num

(3) Drivers license.

Make sure you mail all your info to us before any payment.

THANKS
Regards
Colonel Marvins Collins
Ts2 General Secretary

Today I got this from same Secretary guy:

Dear xxxxxxx

We are still expecting you to provide all the information requested from you,and we give you grace to pay this money on coming week,and if you don't made this payment this can take effective on Captain Mackellar Collins,because it has been recorded on his project so we advice you to respond to us quickly,so if you have any complaint on this you can get back to us


Regards
Colonel Marvin Collins
Ts2 General Secretary

Ok i know you are going to think I lost my mind but I met this guy on craigslist. He is also on FB: https://www.facebook.com/collins.mackellar?fref=ts

The only pics he has sent me are the same as the ones on FB. I really want to believe this guy is real but I am thinking this is a scam. What really worries me is I was actually talking to a couple different guys just as friends and another one ask me about arranging where we could talk on the phone. Totally different names but met them both via craigslist. I am sticking to guys I can actually meet face to face from here on out.

Added quotations (BW)

My Mackellar Collins who prefers to be called Collins has 2 children residing in CA and Fl both in college and a deceased wife that died in a car crash. We met on craigslist - I know how could i even be dumb enough to look for someone on there don't ask! Anyway we started talking via email which progressed to yahoo messenger and finally via text messages. Last week he suggested we get a "secureline" so that we could talk on the phone. He explained that when he went to Afghanistan he had to give 3-4 people for contact that he could call. If anyone else wanted to talk to him on phone special permission had to be granted and a secureline procured. He sent me a email of how to request permission to be able to talk via phone. I got a reply back within hours granting the request and how to purchase! secureline - $250 for 4 weeks and up. I immediately told him I could not afford that as I am going through a divorce and just getting started on my own as a single mom - he knew all of this already. He kept pushing the issue and even told me that this was going to get him in trouble with his job because I didn't follow through on purchasing secureline. I received a follow up email tonight about why I had not done so and that it could cause problems for him from some Ts2 General Secretary (same last name as Mackellar - go figure). I replied back why I couldn't purchase the line and that I would be more than happy to contact a General friend in Washington,DC at the Pentagon (my soon to be ex was stationed there pretty high up big help!) and ask him to assist in making sure Mackellar didn't get into trouble because I couldnt at this time afford to purchase this line. I told Mackellar about the follow up email. He emphasized that it really could cause problems for him. That is when I googled the secretary thing and found this site. I played dumb and told him what I had found and that he needed to go to his CO right away. He replied back he would talk to his LT - now why would a Colonel talk to a LT?? I didn't say anything as I would prefer this embarrassment just go away. I hope this helps someone else keep from being scammed. I am just glad I truly could not afford to send the money at the time. If it had been a month ago I would have sent it without even thinking about it.

Your hunch is correct this is a scam

Have no more contact with any of these people, just ignore them, they will go away when they realise that you are not falling for their lies

People in the military don't need people outside the military to request or pay for anything. People in the US army don't write like Africans. Military people don't use free email addresses for official business.

Thats what I thought just wanted confirmation. Thanks

mhchameleon, take this as a basic rule of thumb.
Whenever someone you have *never* met requests any type of money to be sent to him, it is a scam.