by Marf
Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:54 am
Dear All,
Please watch out for this romance scam. He claims to be Sargent Anthony Vasquez who is posted in Kabul, Afghanistan. He contacted me via planetromeo.com (a gay social and dating website) and started writing on Sunday 3/29. He emailed me for 5 days. On Day 5 he sent the following email:
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Hello my Love,
How are you doing my love? I have been in a very bad health situation. I was hit by rebels and I'm badly wounded, though am recovering...
I'm so pleased to read from you. It has warm my heart and I'm hoping to get to always hear from you.Your prayers kept me going even when the dark took all over me, I felt strength inside of me and I want to you know that I appreciate your love and all your prayers coming from you. I'm so grateful for your love.
I'm a very sincere and honest person, I'm caring, kind, social,smart ,intelligent, passionate,friendly,romantic,and I believe in the truth and honest of love..I'm really a very sincere person when it comes to sharing feelings and emotions with that special person like you and I'm really down to earth honest about the things I say and do because I don't like hurting people's feelings because everyone has a chance to laugh. I'm really very easy to get along with, fun to be with and am very adaptive and communicative when it comes to conversant conversation. My life is based on the truth and honest of self personality because while growing up I found out I can build a man out of me even at my tender age, I understood that I have just me to tell my self the truth and learn from every of my mistake to be a perfect man, but still I'm very far from perfection. I will like to tell you that I will do anything to make you happy since we have Know more about each other and have much in common and I know something corresponding will come out of it..
I write you believing that you will work with me in trust and honesty because through our conversation you sounded like a gentle looking person and I think I can trust you. I'm telling you this because now I have confidence in you, listen very carefully. There was a project we handled here in April, 2013. A particular funds was brought hereabout ( $30 Million to be precise) to be distributed within this region to the refugee in war affected area.
I was made the distributing/Accounting manager, and the project ended in June 2013, and I was still left with about $ 5.3million after the project completion, I kept the funds in a metallic box . I kept the funds very safe because I always have the intention of quitting the military someday for a better investment, so I can be able to live a normal civil life. I'm telling you all this because I have maximum trust in you.
I was able to move the metallic box to Europe before this incident and it will be sent to you. My love please do everything possible for you to be able to receive the box and keep it safe for us, but in case anything happen to me here, Note, please my love take this funds to charity. I will do everything possible to be strong and hopefully soon I will be in your arms forever.
Get back to me for more details.
I awaits your quick response and your full details are
required such as:
Your full name..............................................
Your full address.......................................
Your direct phone number ............
Kisses and hugs
Anthony.
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Thanks to scamwarners I learned that he displayed classic signs of these scams:
1. Falling very fast, calling me "LOVE" within the first email exchanges.
2. Horrible punctuation and spelling - including not knowing the difference between "civil" and "civilian", "warm" and "warmed" etc
3. Claiming a sob story (orphaned, growing up without love, only choice was to join the military, having it tough being gay in the military etc.)
4. Asking to move a huge amount of money out of Europe that he claims was leftover from a military operation (same tactic as saying he was given the money, found the money, was given gold as a gift for saving a child's life).
5. Couldn't wait to come and see me and build a life together(frankly I laughed quite hard at that one).
And the list could go on. What I will say is that this scam is slick, is moving into the LGBTIQ community and is nothing more than a huge fraud to prey on the innocent.
I don't know how to post pics on this domain, but if someone would teach me I'd gladly post the pics of an honorable man that's being abused by this scam.
Thanks for reading.
Marf
Please watch out for this romance scam. He claims to be Sargent Anthony Vasquez who is posted in Kabul, Afghanistan. He contacted me via planetromeo.com (a gay social and dating website) and started writing on Sunday 3/29. He emailed me for 5 days. On Day 5 he sent the following email:
****************************************
Hello my Love,
How are you doing my love? I have been in a very bad health situation. I was hit by rebels and I'm badly wounded, though am recovering...
I'm so pleased to read from you. It has warm my heart and I'm hoping to get to always hear from you.Your prayers kept me going even when the dark took all over me, I felt strength inside of me and I want to you know that I appreciate your love and all your prayers coming from you. I'm so grateful for your love.
I'm a very sincere and honest person, I'm caring, kind, social,smart ,intelligent, passionate,friendly,romantic,and I believe in the truth and honest of love..I'm really a very sincere person when it comes to sharing feelings and emotions with that special person like you and I'm really down to earth honest about the things I say and do because I don't like hurting people's feelings because everyone has a chance to laugh. I'm really very easy to get along with, fun to be with and am very adaptive and communicative when it comes to conversant conversation. My life is based on the truth and honest of self personality because while growing up I found out I can build a man out of me even at my tender age, I understood that I have just me to tell my self the truth and learn from every of my mistake to be a perfect man, but still I'm very far from perfection. I will like to tell you that I will do anything to make you happy since we have Know more about each other and have much in common and I know something corresponding will come out of it..
I write you believing that you will work with me in trust and honesty because through our conversation you sounded like a gentle looking person and I think I can trust you. I'm telling you this because now I have confidence in you, listen very carefully. There was a project we handled here in April, 2013. A particular funds was brought hereabout ( $30 Million to be precise) to be distributed within this region to the refugee in war affected area.
I was made the distributing/Accounting manager, and the project ended in June 2013, and I was still left with about $ 5.3million after the project completion, I kept the funds in a metallic box . I kept the funds very safe because I always have the intention of quitting the military someday for a better investment, so I can be able to live a normal civil life. I'm telling you all this because I have maximum trust in you.
I was able to move the metallic box to Europe before this incident and it will be sent to you. My love please do everything possible for you to be able to receive the box and keep it safe for us, but in case anything happen to me here, Note, please my love take this funds to charity. I will do everything possible to be strong and hopefully soon I will be in your arms forever.
Get back to me for more details.
I awaits your quick response and your full details are
required such as:
Your full name..............................................
Your full address.......................................
Your direct phone number ............
Kisses and hugs
Anthony.
********************************************************
Thanks to scamwarners I learned that he displayed classic signs of these scams:
1. Falling very fast, calling me "LOVE" within the first email exchanges.
2. Horrible punctuation and spelling - including not knowing the difference between "civil" and "civilian", "warm" and "warmed" etc
3. Claiming a sob story (orphaned, growing up without love, only choice was to join the military, having it tough being gay in the military etc.)
4. Asking to move a huge amount of money out of Europe that he claims was leftover from a military operation (same tactic as saying he was given the money, found the money, was given gold as a gift for saving a child's life).
5. Couldn't wait to come and see me and build a life together(frankly I laughed quite hard at that one).
And the list could go on. What I will say is that this scam is slick, is moving into the LGBTIQ community and is nothing more than a huge fraud to prey on the innocent.
I don't know how to post pics on this domain, but if someone would teach me I'd gladly post the pics of an honorable man that's being abused by this scam.
Thanks for reading.
Marf
