Information on romance scams and scammers.
by mariadelpilarc Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:57 pm
I was approached thru an email in Match.com by a gentleman the day after I joined, a little more than a month ago. The profile looked all right with 5 pictures of a pretty good looking East Indian individual. He claimed to be 40 years old, structural engineer, living in Dartmouth Massachusetts, where he moved to three months ago. Originally from India, adopted and raised in Canterbury, England. Working freelance and trying to open his own business. I have to say that it seemed too good to be true but I run the pictures on Google image search ( I watch Catfish) and nothing came up. I just got divorced so I guess he thought I was an easy target, he just didn't imagine that I'm happily divorced and that I do have "friends", so I'm not desperate.
For the first week we didn't talk that much but once we got into it there was daily text messages and emails, he sent me more pictures of the same guy. About two weeks into it I told him that I wanted to meet because I couldn't have a relationship with somebody I didn't know and then and there he told me he was leaving for Seville, Spain that same night for two weeks to finish a project he started some months ago and get paid. I wasn't happy but he said he will have his phone with him and that we could text and talk. I doubted right there but a couple of days after he sent me three emails, one with a very romantic piece that I googled and found out was taken from the internet, one with another picture of him in a place that could be Spain and another one from his business account with the designs and plans of some townhouse which he said it is what he was building. On the email he included a phone # where I could call him, a number from Spain. My doubts kind of disappear, he was really in Spain so we continued our communication daily. I had a hard time understanding him because of his accent so I preferred to text. After a week in Spain he stopped texting, taking my phone calls and answering emails, so I was confused, I emailed him almost everyday asking what was going on. Finally reappeared saying that he wasn't ignoring me but he had an accident at work and was at the hospital, with his phone off. That raised a red flag, his phone wasn't off because it ringed, when it's off goes straight to voice mail. I just waited for the sledge hammer to fall. It came the day after when he said that he had no cash and couldn't move because he cut his leg and had stitches. He wanted me to send him $500 thru his broker because the company wouldn't pay him in cash. I said I didn't have any money and if I did I wouldn't give it to him. He tried to convince me on the phone and by then I had a plan. I saw it clear, I told him I would try to see what I could do, that he should send me his info, he said he would once I had the money. So I sent him a text at night saying I tried but I couldn't get any money and the day after he texted me again pleading to help him out. He wanted to come home and meet me and be with me but he couldn't because I didn't wanted to give him money. Then he said he the company could deposit in my account if I gave him the info and the I had to send it to him once I got the money, because he don't bank in USA (how somebody who lives in USA don't bank in USA?). So I sent an email with a load of bull, fake account#, fake address (local police dept. address, and FBI address and phone number instead of the bank's) I blocked him from my phone but still can see he called me (goes straight to voicemail) twice yesterday and this morning he left me a voicemail asking to call him at once. I couldn't resist texting him and told him I wasn't going to give him a penny or my real information. He kept insisting I was wrong and finally lost his cool and called me dumb and pessimistic(?) and he said he thought I was more smarter (lol) I laughed my ass off.
So this are his emails and phone #s:
lifeisaboutus@outlook.com
michdutta@engineer.com
857-626-2529
011-34-602252775

I did google and tried to investigate with reverse phone # search and with the emails and nothing came back, no facebook account, no linkdin account, no google results on his name. I did the photos also and nothing.
His English is really good, written and spoken, he didn't sound African or black, there was some mistakes but I thought there were related to the texting, we all make some. One thing I thought it was odd and was that he wrote diabetics instead of diabetes but it could be autocorrect since he had an iphone which is known for autocorrecting with mistakes.
Of course I don't think it is his real name but hey, one can only hope to see if anyone else have heard of him.
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by nickzz Wed Aug 28, 2013 1:32 pm
its funny, how people go online and write blogs and lie. You have to be stupid and have a low life. All what you wrote is a lie. How can it be a scam when you didn't give him a penny. Instead you shared your bank information and stole $7500 and yet you have the audacity to come on here and write lies.. you are the Real Scam artist and Fraud.

Here is your info

Mod note - DETAILS REMOVED! Yet another scammer visits us in order to try and save his scam, only to try and threaten innocent people!


GROW UP, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A LOW SELF ESTEEM LIAR AND A THIEF.
by PKC Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:04 am
He connected me too but I caught his scam within a week.
by Grunt Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:22 pm
lifeisaboutus@yahoo.com is also in use

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by mariadelpilarc Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:52 pm
Those aren't the pics I got, I can't post them, I don't know how to copy and paste in here, I have them saved in my computer, there's no URL.
by mariadelpilarc Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:17 pm
I finally figure it out, some of these pictures are from the match.com profile and some he sent me via email, this is the Michael Dutta I thought I was talking to, I don't even think is the guy on the picture's name, clearly his pics are being used by the scammer.

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Mod note: Marked images as requested in forum rules - CW
by PKC Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:58 pm
Yes that's him....those are pictures I got too and some more too.

He is on another dating sites as well and reported him there as well.

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