confusion

hi... my name is tini...
I don't know if I'm being scammed or not...

Ive made a friend from friendster.com, at first it was just chat to chat. I had a lot of friends chatters, but this chanter named Ricky morgan was different from others. He was a good man, he helped one at one time when i had a scammer chatter from Singapore, named , Sammy, a Nigerian, who wanted my money, in dealing to retrieve his money from my account once he had transfer it from uk bank. I didn't know who turn to help but to Ricky in which in he help me in defeating sammy in argument by using a combination yahoo messenger.

since that day, I and Ricky was closed together, taking what life in uk and dreams we have if we have the chances of being living together. it's just that we both have different religion but then he say he thinks about it.
but then one day, he told me that he was going to Nigeria because of making a project on road construction and he says that it'll take him only about 2 or 3 weeks to be there.

after 3 weeks, something bad happen to him, he told me that he was robed and all his belongings were stolen, and his daugther was shot at her back. But what matter most, I had a dream of him, and it was the same as he told me, the hotel, the shots and the tragic moments. at first i didn't want to believe his story, but when come to my dreams, i was confused , eventually i help him with sending him 100 us for food. i didn't know what to do else.

strange effects happens between him and me, whenever he's in trouble, I keep on dreaming of him having trouble in Nigeria. till this was last of his trouble

his trouble was that he told me that he was attack by Nigerians when he arrived at the airport, they stolen all his ticket money 2900 us, and they hurt his friend, uwa at his leg by shooting it. I didn't know what to do but then tonight he wasn't online. so i decide to check online if they have any stories or reports of him.

when i found out , i saw his named on the police report. but it had a different named by using morgan web, and he was writing an e-mail to another lady for help instead of me, it hurt me, i was concern on it, i try again...and i found 419 scam and again i saw his email and his friends named contacting another lady...this really hurt me much that Ive told him not to play me at my back.his emails was [email protected], as for his friend was named Owa Osagie. Im now more confused than ever...he was suppose to be my future husband as he already confess in saying the 'kalimah shahad' as now he is a muslim guy and he now he always say Allah. All i want to know if he is a scammer or not....

I'm afraid that this is certainly a scam.

The story about having to travel to West Africa (Nigeria in this case) is just to cover for the fact that he's already there. Being robbed and needing money for medical bills or travel is another common story.

You may have already seen this, but THIS post shows his email address is being circulated as a known scammer.

The best advice I can give you is to cease all communication with this man. Block his email and messenger addresses, ignore any phone calls. He is a liar and all he cares about is your money. If you confront him, he will just lie some more and try to get you to send more of your money.

Once again, I'm sorry to see that this has happened to you, but I'm glad you are now wise to the fact that he is a liar, a cheat, and a scammer.

If you have any questions, or just want to talk about it, you can post here or PM any of the support team.

Hi Motive77 and welcome here. I'm so very sorry for what has happened to you. As Dan said, this is definitely a scam. I know it is hard to believe that after he seemed to help you with another scammer he is turning out to be a scammer as well, but it is not that uncommon for scammers to be quick to get you away from a second scammer as they want to steal all of your money themselves.

Please stop all contact with him. It sounds like you've already done some research on him, good for you. We can help you do more if you post more information about him. Please include early emails he sent you, any love poems or emails that seem to have better English than the others as those will have been copied from somewhere else. If you can also post the header portions of emails from BEFORE he claimed to have travelled to Nigera we can show you that he was already almost certainly in Nigeria the entire time.

Please read the topics in the Romance Scams forum here at ScamWarners, particularly this one: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3607

If you have pictures of him you would like to post, read this information viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3219
or contact someone on the support team for help.

Hi Motive, thanks for coming over from 419Eater, the support team members here are also members of 419Eater but here you have all of the victim support specialists in the same place so you will generally get faster advice here.

I will be looking into this shortly and trying to dig up more information for you.

If you have read the information I directed you to you will have a good idea of what we need from you to find more information and you should now know that it is a scam.

As I mentioned last night, please do not make any further contact with the scammer he will only make it harder for you.

I am so sorry for what this man has done to you, we cant change that, but we can stop him from hurting you any more and we can make it harder for him to scam anybody else

http://www.flixster.com/user/nijoun1/comments

rickymorg68 Hi
am ricky morgan by name,a 45yr old engineer living in UK and am single too.i saw your profile read it and loved it and wish to know you more.we can also chat on yahoo messenger,this is my yahoo email id rickymorg_68.add me to your messenger list or send yours so that we can know each other better.thanks,
Regards
Ricky

I will keep adding as I get more and put it into some kind of shape later

http://www.persiangap.com/?yids=rickymorg_68

Search link

Another search link

search on section of profile



This is from his flixter profile

my name is Ricky morgan, I have a sense of humor and like to have a laugh. I am an honest reliable person who loves to have fun. I like biking, reading, doing jigsaw puzzles, going to the beach on a nice day,romantic dinner, going cinemas,love spiderman movie
I enjoy a glass of wine with a meal if I have someone to have it with.I value my friends and family

A search on a section of the above leads me to another profile Koolricky on this profile he uses a different picture but the text is the same
At that site he says

koolricky
Age: 44
Gender: Man
Seeking: Woman
Location: United Kingdom, liverpool, merseyside

Body type: Average
Height: 5' 11"
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Light Brown
Ethnicity: Caucasian (white)

Looking for: a lady that is kind, nice ,loving ,caring, understanding, honest ,sincere, accomodating etc.a lady that has her own goals in life,a lady that is not afraid to learn new things and one i can learn new things from.i dont look at faces cos faces are sometimes deceptive and she can come from any race ,from any part of the world

From Flixter he said

Name ricky morgan
Gender Male
I'm From london
Member For 148 days
Last Login Mon. Sep 14
Profile Views 103
Age 44

There is no doubt this is the same scammer, but the location is different

Engineer is a very popular "occupation" among scammers, especially romance scammers, I've no idea why. We have about 140 examples of this in our forums.

dear arnold,
I'm confirm that it is him as it is the same picture that he use on friendster.com. I have blocked his e-mail and messenger. I followed your advice .... as for the money, it wasn't mine, it was a bag of money that lying around in a empty house which was near my home. I guess that money was a forgery for nobody came into that house, so i use that money to support him which he didn't know of it.

I feel now so happy that your company and people helped me. as for the e-mails , sadly he never sent me any love poetry. perhaps in these days to come, i know that he might sent me one..i will sent it to u. as for his words, yes... those words were in my inbox of friendster, exactly the same.....

thank u for your help.....u made me smile again

Hi Motive

I am glad we have been able to help you to see the truth.

If you can give forward me some of the early emails I can put together a profile to alert others and keep other people from being scammed by him.

As we have mentioned, do not respond to any of his emails, ignore him and eventually he will go away, if you have any questions about this or any other person you meet online, please dont hesitate to ask

dear Jillian....

yes i have blocked his e-mail messenger, and he did buzz me on my yahoo messeger, but on his side, i was invisible ( not available to be with him). he buzz me around 7:28pm Singapore time. I'm surely that in theses few days that he will sent me a letter, and i will post it to u soon...

with my heart broke, Im just ignoring him. he hurt me too much...I think that he has forgotten of my waring in having relation with me. as i see it, he will have bad luck in his life as he has betrayed me. it's usually happens if i knew that my boyfriend betrays me about 90%.

as for his picture, he uses that one in the flixter as same as in the friendster .com

But now, i feel happy and i need to move on with my life. thank u so much for your help.

dear jillan....

before i block my messenger to Ricky Morgan, i left him a message saying that 'my doctor', Micheal Johnson, saying that i was i a coma ...coz i had swallow lots of different pills...and till now i haven't wake up yet. i did that due to he was cheating on me. hey...he made up scary stories of Nigeria...i also can make up scary stories for him too. this is because I'm supposes to pay his meal from the restaurant on this week. But then I didn't sent him money this time... .I'm still angry and mad of his work....

he surely reply to me and sent me a messenger full of romance talk...which i will not believe him again. he wrote his messenger in god's will and also misspell a word that is 'connren', which was suppose to be as concern . as i already read of tips of scams spells...

do u have any more information of him? so far, he has not write an email to me. I will update u more on his work if he sent me an email.

Hi Motive

Glad to hear you are not about to fall for any more of his lies.

As you are now in a coma you will not be able to respond to him.

Sadly, he will be upset, but only because he has lost another potential paying victim.

As to more information, so far we have not had too much luck in gathering more information, presuming he uses chat mostly it makes it hard to find too much on them.

If you have any more information, please post it and Jillian will be able to look into it for you and hopefully give you more advice

hello ralph & jillan

My ex so called guy, Ricky morgan has sent his letter to my e-mail. it's a falling e-mail...

this is what he wrote to me:

hello my dear wife
how are you honey and hope you are better now as i presume.hope you your mum the pets and all your other sibblings are doing fine as i am over here.honey i really miss you onlie and i just wish that you get better soon even if you aret as at when you get this mail.
well i really dont know wht to say honey honey as i presume that you are well,might be online or decided to put me permanently invisible to you.but i wish to let you know that as couples what is important is sticking together and talking thru every problems or difficulties.
i also want to let you know that this is not the first time we are have this kind of problem,you remember the western union problem and that of the money gram when you were told that uwas name was banned from receiving money and we did scaled thru right you love and trust me as i did.
did you remember the issue of your virginity that you were about to tell me about and i discovered that either you and i will be hurt and i ask you not to tell,you remember you almost tpld me that you were disvirgined at a teder age and am sure by your sibblings or relatives yet i didnt want to know cos i believe your past doesnt matter,that i did cos i love trust ad respect you and believe the past dies with the past.that is what couples that are genuinely inlove does.
did you remember the issue of a man asking you out in your office and your ex boyfriend who wated you back.i was never worried about all this cos i love trust and respect you even when i wasnt with you there.thats what couples does trust.
honey you read something or was told something about a man you claim to love and want to spend the rest of your life with and you concluded without talking it thru,are you saying that if we were already legally married and you see this things you claim you saw or read about me you would have divorced me and called me a hoaxed lover without talking it thru.
if i were in your shoes i wouldnt do such thing,you wanna know why dont believe all you see and read daily cos they might not be true,even if there is an element of truth in them as couples as a beloveth wife what you should do is talk it thru with your spouse as i would have done.
instead your first reaction was to pour accussing fingers on me,saying words i never tot could come from your mouth having know what you and i went thru,you even almost comitted suicide which you always advise me against,but am not surprise cos i know it wasnt you but our enemies at work cos i know you are the last person i know in this world to think of committing suicide.again i know you to always talk things thru with me before any decision and you know i listen to you alot.
well as it is i cant say much but this is what my mid wants me to say and i still believe in you and me ,i still believe i have a future with you and i still wanna grow old with you honey.i cant tell you what we are passing thru here.and i promise you that as soon as i can get out of here i will send you all your money that i promise you,atleast we have discovered how much will love eachother and have allow our enemies to conquer us finally.
i dont even know what to tell debbi and she thinks you are doing fine which i told her you are.we love you and will always do.i will be happy to hear from you or to see you online thats if you dont mind.
may allah continue to keep you and protect you and your family and may allah have mercies on all of us.thaks and do have a nice day as i await your reply.I LOVE YOU TINI AND STILL DOES ALWAYS,NO MATTER WHAT.
regards
ricky

to think that he thinks i would bow to him again.....

Hi Motive

I am so glad to hear you are not falling for his lies, it is very standard for them to send an email like that to their victims to try to drag them back in, just one of the reasons we suggest people ignore all correspondance, they are extremely good at what they do.

Now that he has sent you an email, it is possible to find out where he his.

Would you mind letting me know which email provider you used to receive that email (hotmail/yahoo) please dont tell me the first part, presuming it is yahoo, at the bottom right hand side of the page when the email is open you will see (I think) "full Header" click on it to reveal the full header, if you copy that and send it to my email address I should be able to find out where he is, it doesn't work all the time but in most cases it is fairly accurate.

If you dont use Yahoo forget the instructions, they will only work for yahoo, I can give you the instructions for other email providers

hello ralph,

I'm using a hotmail. I've tried to sent you the letter, but some how it couldn't send. what should i do?

Hi motive77,

Please ignore this scammer - it is not wise to play with or to reply to them.

Scammers lie - repeatedly lie - everything about them is a lie.

Fake name - fake photo - fake relatives - fake address - fake life history - fake events.

They are nothing but callous, heartbreaking and uncaring scum.

Any money you have sent is lost - you will not get it back.

Please forget this episode - totally ignore this scammer.

If you have any questions or concerns please post - a support team member will be glad to help you.

<hugs>