SCAMMED

I met a man on Zoosk. He went by the name ALLAN SMITH.....Down 2 Earth 007. We talked for a bit on Zoosk and then he asked me to talk to him on Yahoo,which i did as i saw no problem with that. His email address is [email protected]. He also gave me his phone number which is.....+971553625982. I met him on Dec.10th,2012 and on Dec.28th, he got up to catch his helicopter to where he was working which was a oil rig in the Sharjah Ocean off of Dubai only to find out there was a accident where 4 men were hurt and one killed. He told me this accident would cost him well over $57,000 but in the long run it cost 84,000 out of his own pocket.He asked me to send him $4500.00 to help but being a single Mom I do not have those types of funds and i told him that and he seemed alright with it. Then he asked for $1500.00 and in the long run i sent him $1000.00 in total through western Union. He thanked me many times and as time went on he still talked tome and finally told me the job was done and he was on his way home to Canada to finally meet me. Before I sent him any money i asked for proof of who he was and he sent mea picture of his passport and 2 letters from the bank in Dubai....the biggest bank in the UAE and that was the only reason I sent money as I thought he was legit. Ireceived an email from him a couple of days later stating he had to pay $1000.00, non residential tax in the amount of $1000.00 and could i please send it to him as he had no one else to help him. I told it was not possible and That was the last time I heard from him...over 3 weeks ago. He won me over with his beautiful emails,poems and songs. He asked me to marry him and promised me a life of luxury as he told me many times he was not a poor man. I fell for everything even though my friends and my youngest daughter said he was a scammer through and through. You will never know how much i had listened. He is a very nice looking man and comes across as very sweet. PLEASE BEWARE.......of......ALLAN SMITH. He is one of the best out there.

I'm sorry to hear that! Could you post the emails and the passport? You can post it on http://scamwarners.com; please mark it as "used by scammer". Did he claim to be from the Emirates, or from somewhere else, or military? The phone number is Emirati.

Unfortunately I have taken everything out of my computer and can not retrieve them as I tried. He told me he is Canadian and had been in UAE since July 2012.

When you say

I met him on Dec.10th,2012 and on Dec.28th

tulips126, do you mean that you met him face to face, or is that when you first came across him online ?

It won't help you now, but if a man is in passionate love, he isn't thinking about money, and would never dream of asking his lover for money no matter the circumstances.

When someone online you've never met asks you for money - they're a scammer. If they've told you how rich they are - they're a liar too.

I know it doesn't help you and it's probably hurtful to be told it, but it's important that others know so that they can be saved the hurt and anguish.

I never met him face to face just on the internet. He emailed me agin on May 9th 2013 after 3 weeks and is still looking for the $1000.00, non residential taxes.

Scammers like to us this word "MET" and like everything else they distort the meaning and truth as part of the indoctrination of a potential victim.

meet 1 (mt)
v. met (mt), meet·ing, meets
v.tr.
1. To come upon by chance or arrangement.
2. To be present at the arrival of: met the train.
3. To be introduced to.
4. To come into conjunction with; join: where the sea meets the sky.
5. To come into the company or presence of, as for a conference.
6. To come to the notice of (the senses): There is more here than meets the eye.
7. To experience; undergo: met his fate with courage.
8. To deal with; oppose: "We have met the enemy and they are ours" (Oliver Hazard Perry).
9. To cope or contend effectively with: meet each problem as it arises.
10. To come into conformity with the views, wishes, or opinions of: The firm has done its best to meet us on that point.
11. To satisfy (a need, for example); fulfill: meet all the conditions in the contract. See Synonyms at satisfy.
12. To pay; settle: enough money to meet expenses.
v.intr.
1. To come together: Let's meet tonight.
2. To come into conjunction; be joined: "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" (Rudyard Kipling).
3. To come together as opponents; contend.
4. To become introduced.
5. To assemble.
6. To occur together, especially in one person or entity.

The first 3 apply and you have done none of those things and only exchanged a message or two or an email. He is a total stranger and what you actually know is nothing, aside from him being a liar, and a life form that shouldn't coexist with human beings.

I have been talking to this man since Dec.10th up until present time,so more than a few emails. More like 200 or 300 emails. The last email I received was on April 15th and now I just received a couple from him on May 9th.

I met this man on facebook, He's name is Mike Gardener Woodson. Nice looking man. In fact his picture is already on this site. He has a very silver tongue with words. Very charming and very romantic man. His profile had 52 women as friends including myself, only women. What won my over with him was he would write me a very romantic love letter every morning. As I got up every morning to a letter that made the start of the day to be a very good and happy one and that's what I miss the most now. He living in Kentucky. A couple of weeks after we started talking he went to Ghana Africa to pick up some gold that he's father (deceased) owned. He declared his love for me and made promises of marriage and a wonderful and adventurous life together. He always called me "my lady". I started getting suspious of things cause he would answer questions every once in a while off the wall. That's what happens when you joggle to many conservations at one time. We talked on facebook, yahoo messenger, text and he'd call every once in a while. His email is [email protected]. Phone number he gave me was 011-233-26537272. 5/7/13 he asked me for $500.00 to help pay expenses so he could get back home earlier. Red flags!! I agreed. He told me to send it money gram no later than Friday. I needed to know if he was doing this to others so I went into his profile and started sending posts to each of his friends one at a time so he wouldn't see. 1st post was - If you have any contact with Mike Woodson Please contact me ASAP. I got a few hits right away. I then asked them "Did he ever ask you for anything?" One admitted he asked her for money, $200.00. She sent it. He also had her open up a account that he could supposedly put money back into it. Then he asked for $4000.00 more. She hadn't sent that yet. So now I knew for sure. I played my part with Mike and worked on to getting a hold of the other ladies. I was running out of time and still needed to get to 21 of those ladies. So I posted to them a 2nd post - ' Mike is a con artist. He sweet talks women out of money. Please don't give him none. Talk to (gave the other ladies name)on his friends list. She already gave him money and now he wants $4000.00 more." At leest this way when he found out what I did and he blocks me they will know the truth. Friday at 5pm all but 9 ladies read the post or/and responded to me. I wrote Mike a letter of what I knew about him after talking to most of the ladies and comparing what he said to us and what I knew he was doing. Posted it on Yahoo Messenger cause that's where I was to get a hold of him after I sent the money and he was there waiting. And I posted it on his facebook Timeline for the ladies to read. MAD HE WAS, but I stood my ground and told him off. He signed off. Within a couple of hours he was gone. every trace of him. EXCEPT I knew he would do that so I copied all pictures he sent me, all letters he wrote me and all conservations, even his IP Address, Phone Number and the address he gave me to send the money to which was Johnson Gabriel - West Africa - Ghana ACCRA - 00233. A lot of his victims has become my friends on facebook. I have gotten a lot of "Thank You ' from them which made me feel good but yet sad. Don't understand how a man can do that to so many women and feel nothing over it !!!!! Only God knows the answers..........

Welcome to Scamwarners mimilgs and the good you've done in saving others from hurt and financial loss has probably helped you take your mind off your own suffering.

You deserve every praise for your commitment to think of others even when you've lost money yourself. I regret that the picture you have in your mind of this person is a complete fiction he has manufactured. It's hard to shake free from it once it's there bit there is little doubt that he's a West African scammer, and probably more mature and professional than the average one from what you say.

What you've done is what a lot of active warners do in the background. What you've detailed is a very useful insight in to how these people operate and gives a pointer to things to watch out for - a massive number of all female contacts for one thing.

I was contacted again by Mike Woodson on May 16,2013 at 2:36am on Yahoo messenger....He unfriended me on facebook....so I figured he was gone.......He let me know how wrong I was and he"s still on Facebook Scamming women out of their savings and their hearts.......Why cant anyone stop him? His picture is already on this site........I thought he was gone so I used the yahoo messenger site that we use to talk on to vent my anger at him not knowing he was actually there.........so stupid of me to do ...I see that now.....he wrote on may 16th........something might be wrong with your head.....don't ever contact me again.....or you will live to regret it.....
I wrote......Ahhhhhhhhh the real man comes through......yes ur right something is wrong with my head......I believed you and fell for you and your games and yes I'm having a hard time getting u out of my head but I will........Goodbye Mike......Have a nice life.......
Do I have anything to worry about?

mimilgs, I'm sad to hear the scammer has wasted your time. Not too long ago, facebook indeed say there are millions of fake profiles on the site. The best way for you to move forward positively is to completely stop all communications with said scammer. Do you have anything to worry about? That depends. If you've supplied personal details such as your banking arrangements, credit card numbers etc, you have a great deal of worry and you should contact the relevant companies to have them changed. If you have not supplied real personal information, no don't worry too much. As you have now seen, honest folk are just told more lies if they confront the scam artist. If you simply cease communications with it, the scheming individual will leave you alone because they see you are too difficult to fleece. The scammer does not love you, has not fallen in love with you or anything of the sought. They see honest people as simply a source of revenue.

I was scammed too and they are very good at it. I did the same thing as you have done I find him on Facebook and I send messages to these ladies warning them he is a liar and a con-man. and I have made friends with these ladies to. I will do everything in my power to make sure this man can't come on Facebook with out me finding him, and making sure he doesn't con anymore women. Just in case you have contact with him. His name is Richard Gonzalez, or Michael Gonzalez, or Hector Gonzo. And as far as hurting you. they can only hurt you if you gave out personal information. good luck