by Anahata
Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:15 am
Greeting, I just wrote a whole page of information and lost it.
My story starts with a soldier named Willis McDonald from Henning MN. He claims to be Special Forces in Iraq. A single father with a 12 year old son, who he has custody of after his wife cheated on him. This son James lives with his sister. He finally sent me four pictures, which if someone knows how to retrieve them from my hard drive I’d be happy to post them here. I wish the soldier that belongs to these pics could be alerted that someone is using his pictures to scam people. I’ll get back to the pictures later and why they also tipped me off.
I have a Private setting on my face book, so I was very surprised that a James Schwin and he had contacted me. I found that it was through a friend in the UK and he probably went through her friends and found me. She was also contacted through a friend that was engaged to a soldier in Iraq. The story is just like the others. He wanted $200 for a SAT PHONE, then as time went on he wanted money for Leave. I never gave him money thank God. I question him about sounding so much like my friends gut, both from the same town and having custody of a son that lives with a sister. I he brushed me off. I thought I could find the money for the phone and told him. He then said he found out that he need 400 pounds I think he said. I asked why pounds and he said I lived in the UK, so that’s how much it will cost. I asked him to tell me where I lived because it was not the uk. He said that he was sorry, that things were so bad over there and he had brain fog. It took him several times before he could tell me what state I lived in. I got suspicious and stated Googling to find these scams were out there. I only trusted him because it came through my friend. Anyhoo, I decided that I did not want to trust the information online and called the Army. The Sergeant I spoke to told me this was a scam, cellphone can be purchased with prepaid for 5cent a minute, Leave is free, etc. So I left a very confronting IM. I didn’t think I’d hear from him after that point, but he IM me. I thought maybe this guy is real, I told him we could continue to communicate but he would not get a penny from me. I asked him to send me some phots and a picture along with it of him sticking his finger in his ear. If all the pictures matched, then I knew he was real. The next day I received 4 pictures, three of him and one of him with his son but not one with the finger in his ear. The kicker of the picture of him and his son, no way has this young man 12 or even American. My best guess is the young man is someone that this soldier had befriended over there. So I had his IP tacked and sure enough it is in Nigeria. I sent him that information and he still tried to tell me he was for rel. My friend tried to tell me it was possible as there are soldier over there because of oil. There is no way this guy or her guy is real. She has already paid for him to come home and thinks see bought him out of his contract.
I have blocked him from my Hotmail and deled my account on Yahoo so that he can’t email me or IM me. I feel so lucky I figured things out before I got taken. I feel awful as I am certain my friend will be finding out that he is not here coming the end of June. Wish I was wrong.
Again, I now there is a way to relieve from the hard drive. If someone could help me to do so, I’ll post the pictures. I want to warn other woman and maybe the soldier will see them and can do something.
My story starts with a soldier named Willis McDonald from Henning MN. He claims to be Special Forces in Iraq. A single father with a 12 year old son, who he has custody of after his wife cheated on him. This son James lives with his sister. He finally sent me four pictures, which if someone knows how to retrieve them from my hard drive I’d be happy to post them here. I wish the soldier that belongs to these pics could be alerted that someone is using his pictures to scam people. I’ll get back to the pictures later and why they also tipped me off.
I have a Private setting on my face book, so I was very surprised that a James Schwin and he had contacted me. I found that it was through a friend in the UK and he probably went through her friends and found me. She was also contacted through a friend that was engaged to a soldier in Iraq. The story is just like the others. He wanted $200 for a SAT PHONE, then as time went on he wanted money for Leave. I never gave him money thank God. I question him about sounding so much like my friends gut, both from the same town and having custody of a son that lives with a sister. I he brushed me off. I thought I could find the money for the phone and told him. He then said he found out that he need 400 pounds I think he said. I asked why pounds and he said I lived in the UK, so that’s how much it will cost. I asked him to tell me where I lived because it was not the uk. He said that he was sorry, that things were so bad over there and he had brain fog. It took him several times before he could tell me what state I lived in. I got suspicious and stated Googling to find these scams were out there. I only trusted him because it came through my friend. Anyhoo, I decided that I did not want to trust the information online and called the Army. The Sergeant I spoke to told me this was a scam, cellphone can be purchased with prepaid for 5cent a minute, Leave is free, etc. So I left a very confronting IM. I didn’t think I’d hear from him after that point, but he IM me. I thought maybe this guy is real, I told him we could continue to communicate but he would not get a penny from me. I asked him to send me some phots and a picture along with it of him sticking his finger in his ear. If all the pictures matched, then I knew he was real. The next day I received 4 pictures, three of him and one of him with his son but not one with the finger in his ear. The kicker of the picture of him and his son, no way has this young man 12 or even American. My best guess is the young man is someone that this soldier had befriended over there. So I had his IP tacked and sure enough it is in Nigeria. I sent him that information and he still tried to tell me he was for rel. My friend tried to tell me it was possible as there are soldier over there because of oil. There is no way this guy or her guy is real. She has already paid for him to come home and thinks see bought him out of his contract.
I have blocked him from my Hotmail and deled my account on Yahoo so that he can’t email me or IM me. I feel so lucky I figured things out before I got taken. I feel awful as I am certain my friend will be finding out that he is not here coming the end of June. Wish I was wrong.
Again, I now there is a way to relieve from the hard drive. If someone could help me to do so, I’ll post the pictures. I want to warn other woman and maybe the soldier will see them and can do something.
