by poisonedpeach
Fri Jul 08, 2016 8:33 pm
Hello everyone. I just joined this lovely site here and for a very upsetting reason. My poor grandmother has been scammed multiple times.
My grandmother is a wonderful woman in her late 50s. Her husband of 38 years divorced her with no warning, and does not pay alimony. She has been looking for love on OurTime.com, but has had nothing but bad experiences. The first was a man claiming to be in the military. He wasn't, and I can't remember where but I found the real man's Facebook and the same scam was featured on this website somewhere. The second was a man who claimed that he and his son had a car business, transporting cars from America to Africa. Apparently there was a "problem" and he wanted her to send him $1,000! She doesn't have that kind of money and quickly realized the scam, ending the "relationship".
This last time was very obviously a scam. The details are as follows:
- Goes by the name of Kelly Hetrick. Claims to be Swedish, though when they first spoke on the phone my grandmother believed him to be Indian.
- Says he has an 18 year old daughter that does not live with him but will be returning. My grandmother is 58 years old, and it should have been a red flag when he told her he wanted to move in together and, in the future, "chase their children around the house".
- It seems to be a love scam because he proclaimed love and deleted his OurTime profile within TWO DAYS of speaking to my grandmother! He said he wanted to get married, buy a house, and be in love forever. What an actor, this one.
- Was supposed to meet with her, but the day before he was sent to Mexico on "business" and couldn't make it.
- Gained her trust by saying sweet things, rarely calling her by her first name (another trick of course, as we all know). He also bought her $52 in pizza one day, and $100+ in pizza a few days later. Clearly he was using scam money from someone else for this.
- The last thing he did was say he was sending her $1,000 in the mail, plus extra for her to send to "his workers" (he claimed he was an engineer). He sent a total of $11,000 in the mail! Each was a cashier's check from a real bank, but when my grandmother asked the bank teller about it the teller called the bank and they informed her that they never issued checks that came in the format that these did. All $11,000 was fraudulent! If she had cashed them, she would have been in big trouble and the money would likely have been untraceable due to the fact that no man named Kelly Hetrick even comes up in a simple google or Facebook search.
Here are 4 pictures he sent to her of "himself":
Here are some personal bits of information that he gave her, supposedly all legitimate:
Email: [email protected]
Phone numbers (he used multiple): 213-222-6459 & 1-424-242-9250 & 995-557-751-277 (I am not even sure what kind of phone number the last one is!)
Name is Kelly Hetrick as I've stated
Age: 53, supposedly
Here is an email he wrote to her (it is very clear he is 'love scamming' and he never uses her name once):
Here is a picture of one of the fraudulent checks as well:
There were 8 of those in total. Next, here's a picture of a text message he sent her about the money:
You can see how urgent he is in wanting her to get it all done quickly.
My reason for posting this here is to let people know that seniors or near-seniors are definitely targeted. If my grandmother hadn't been so technologically-advanced she might not have known to be so wary. Apologies for it being so long!
My grandmother is a wonderful woman in her late 50s. Her husband of 38 years divorced her with no warning, and does not pay alimony. She has been looking for love on OurTime.com, but has had nothing but bad experiences. The first was a man claiming to be in the military. He wasn't, and I can't remember where but I found the real man's Facebook and the same scam was featured on this website somewhere. The second was a man who claimed that he and his son had a car business, transporting cars from America to Africa. Apparently there was a "problem" and he wanted her to send him $1,000! She doesn't have that kind of money and quickly realized the scam, ending the "relationship".
This last time was very obviously a scam. The details are as follows:
- Goes by the name of Kelly Hetrick. Claims to be Swedish, though when they first spoke on the phone my grandmother believed him to be Indian.
- Says he has an 18 year old daughter that does not live with him but will be returning. My grandmother is 58 years old, and it should have been a red flag when he told her he wanted to move in together and, in the future, "chase their children around the house".
- It seems to be a love scam because he proclaimed love and deleted his OurTime profile within TWO DAYS of speaking to my grandmother! He said he wanted to get married, buy a house, and be in love forever. What an actor, this one.
- Was supposed to meet with her, but the day before he was sent to Mexico on "business" and couldn't make it.
- Gained her trust by saying sweet things, rarely calling her by her first name (another trick of course, as we all know). He also bought her $52 in pizza one day, and $100+ in pizza a few days later. Clearly he was using scam money from someone else for this.
- The last thing he did was say he was sending her $1,000 in the mail, plus extra for her to send to "his workers" (he claimed he was an engineer). He sent a total of $11,000 in the mail! Each was a cashier's check from a real bank, but when my grandmother asked the bank teller about it the teller called the bank and they informed her that they never issued checks that came in the format that these did. All $11,000 was fraudulent! If she had cashed them, she would have been in big trouble and the money would likely have been untraceable due to the fact that no man named Kelly Hetrick even comes up in a simple google or Facebook search.
Here are 4 pictures he sent to her of "himself":
Here are some personal bits of information that he gave her, supposedly all legitimate:
Email: [email protected]
Phone numbers (he used multiple): 213-222-6459 & 1-424-242-9250 & 995-557-751-277 (I am not even sure what kind of phone number the last one is!)
Name is Kelly Hetrick as I've stated
Age: 53, supposedly
Here is an email he wrote to her (it is very clear he is 'love scamming' and he never uses her name once):
Here is a picture of one of the fraudulent checks as well:
There were 8 of those in total. Next, here's a picture of a text message he sent her about the money:
You can see how urgent he is in wanting her to get it all done quickly.
My reason for posting this here is to let people know that seniors or near-seniors are definitely targeted. If my grandmother hadn't been so technologically-advanced she might not have known to be so wary. Apologies for it being so long!
Last edited by poisonedpeach on Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
