military scam

NAV - feeling heartache over this is a waste of your emotional energy. To be brutally frank, if you'd lost a pet cat or dog you'd have good reason to be upset, but this person is a cockroach and this is a reply I got from one I was baiting when he found out I was not a real victim.

nna no play with me guy i dont tell u naya papa wey born u from ashawo

... and that sums up what scammers think of their victims. He's saying I'm the son of a whore, which is not upsetting to me, but you must understand that you aren't dealing with someone who has any interest in anything other than scamming money from you. Even paying him money doesn't make him have affection for you. He's looking for money, not affection.

American GI's get a salary - extra for operating in a war zone, and he could easily pay this amount out of his monthly paycheck.

Has anyone out there been contacted by someone claiming to be Sgt. Darren Manzella. He claiming he medic, stationed in Iraq @ this time. There is a real Darren Manzella, who was medic in Army. However he no longer in army. The real Darren is gay, that why is received an honorable discharge from army. This guy with eventually tell you he used to be gay but not anymore. This scammer claiming to be him will try to pull you in with romance. Then wants to finally talk on phone. You will get a e mail about obtaining phone contact, of course, a fee that is refundable.(yeah right) Luckily I was suspicious from beginning. I actually contacted the real Darren and let him know what going on. Didn't let on to the "fake" one what I was doing until he finally sent the e amil about phone contact. The real Darren says he aware of all this and other woman have also contacted him about it. This is not Darren Manzella ladies, he will start e mailing you pics of the actually Darren. Who by the way is very attractive. Too bad huh. After I finally received the e mail confirming the scam I confronted the "fake" one, sent him a link to the internet page about the scam he was trying to pull and blocked him from being able to contact me on my computer. These people are such losers. Hey guys go out and get a real job.............omg. Watch out ladies for the "fake" Sgt. Darren Manzella.

How did you contact the real Darren?

Why you asking?

Hi jtrizzy and NAV

Please see this report http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6986

Military scammers guide http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6527

If you have any questions/concerns/observations - please post - we will help.

Hi Jtrizzy,

Welcome to Scamwarners, what is done is done but I did want to point out for anybody reading along that it is not a good idea to tell scammers anything about why you know its a scam, it is even worse if you show them information about their scam, by telling them anything you run a very big chance of teaching them to become better scammers.

Lets say for instance that you realised there is something wrong because he tried to tell you that he is from London in the US, (its an obvious example to most but you will see what I mean), if he is never told about this mistake he will continue to use it and continue to inadvertantly warn people that something is wrong.

Now lets presume that somebody tells him "I am too smart for you, London is in the UK and not The US". what do you think the scammer will do?, he will adjust what he tells people and stop making that mistake which will make it harder for his next victim to see that he is a scammer.

Now consider how much better he may become at scamming by pointing out a whole page of warning signs about teh scam he is running.

Please, once you suspect that you are dealing with a scammer, cease all contact completely, any further contact will only give him the opportunity to further get his hooks into you or it will teach him

Hi Jtrizzy,

I was just asking because I would like to contact the real Donald Cox and tell him about the scam. That was the only reason. There has to be a real person because there were over 10 pictures send to me. That is the only reason. I don't have any contact with the scammer at all and don't want to. He still tries to contact me, but I ignore him completely. Thanks!

NAV

Sorry NAV guess I get little suspicious when people ask questions.....lol. The plus with my situation is that the scammers were using a well known person. I was able to obtained enough info off the internet to find him. Found his facebook page and that how I contacted him. As for the letting the scammers have to much info to better there ways. I didnt think about that until you mentioned it. I was just so mad at the time that they were even trying to scam. Sorry about that and thanks for the info.

There is no need to be sorry, there is lots to learn and frustration is certainly understandable.

I do need to mention it though so that anybody reading along can avoid doing the same

I have also been talking to this character... his heading seems to have changed abit. Here is his latest machinations:

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After i realized what was going on.... I sent copies of his site on "tagged.com" forum to both the military investigators AND the internet fraud division. Maybe they can do something about this person using one of our guys picture album for his fabrications AND fraud attempts... I should have known something was up when he couldn't even spell my favorite color... purple..... LOL he kept spelling out "pupple" ... good thing i found out before he got more than wasting my time...
Tami W.

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I was approached on lavalife dating site with the user name newliftwithsoo, (i believe it was that) and then he chatted with me on msn messenger account [email protected] to chat with me. He said he was in the US army and his name was Gary Jonh he has a picture of someone (not him I am sure) on msn in a boat fishing with a white shirt and a dog, and also emailed me a picture of him sitting on a bunk with a tshirt with ARMY typed across. Went into detail that he has a son by the name of Husein Dawuda and within days his so called son was emailing me and also sent a picture. Before you know it he wanted money for his son for food. Said he was in Bagdad in the army on mission and could not doing anything from where he was. I was wondering where this person would have gotten this picture of this military person because you can see that the surroundings are in the army. This scammer is using this picture on msn and who knows where else. Is there anywhere I can post this picture to advise this person that his face is on the internet and someone is using it to scam others?

Yeah,there are lots of scammers nowadays.You can find it more often in social sites.

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On july 24th 2010 i met Donald Cox on my-space.com he took from me $9000.00 dollars i send the money western union,i would like to find the real Donald Cox.He is in the army as engeenier,i was supposed to meet him in las vegas becasue hes from there i took a plain and i was waiting for him at the airport but he never showed up i have letter,pics of him and family,he stated that his wife Sandra past away 2yrs ago,has a son named Phillip,i did not know that there are people like that i did it in good faith because he stated that he couldnt get money from his account because he was out of state,now i know is not true at all.Please i need help i need to find the real DONALD COX thanks

oreck7

Welcome here oreck7.

I'm sorry you got scammed and lost money too. Why do you need to find the real Donald Cox? Do you want to warn him that this scammer is using his pictures? Or that his identity is being used for this scam? I think that the real Donald is aware of that already, and besides, the photo's the scammer has used could be from a different person, randomly picked from the internet. Everything the scammer wrote to you were lies, only to make you pay him. He was playing with your feelings to get what he wanted. You can read more about military love scams here: http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6527

Could you please post some of the emails he has send you? That could warn others and save them from being scammed.

I met Donald Cox on myspace....his wife had died two years ago and he has a son named Philip....he is from Las Vegas....I have lots of pictures he send me...I talked with Philip on email as well....I did some research and found this site and it saved me from sending money...I am so sorry for your loss. If you find him, let me know....

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