ts2 phones

recently i upgraded to the internet world. my sister set up a myspace acct and next thing i new there was sgt derik palmer. swept me away w/ his sweet words i almost fell for him. day 3 he was telling me he loved me and wanted us to get married. lol rite then i new it wasnt rite. ive been taking for granted once b4 and swore never again. i turned to frenz who to b careful, next came he wanted tohear my voice and here came the ts2. i researched it found it to b true. i got a email from "ts2 satillite phones" to send 495 westren union to jennifer jones 334 duffy field road richlands nc red flag. she supposedly was corp. he also said that i needed to request his leave well i got frenz in the service and found it is all a lie. derik told me he needed the fone cuz he was gonna b tansferred. well thank god for my past cuz thats wut made me doubt dear old derik palmer. so any1 who is out there and thinking she/he found the "perfect" one check in to it. PLEAZ LISTEN TO YOUR LITTLE VOICE AND NEVER NEVER GIVE MONEY. this web site helped save me 500$. derik gave me this address [email protected]. he duz have a myspace but said he was having prooblems w/ it. i think he took it down cuz i wanted to post his scammer self,

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Hi Melissa, Welcome to Scamwarners. Good for you for spotting the scam before you became a victim. And it is great to hear that this site helped. Just to make sure we have some of the facts straight in case somebody else searches for the information.

The person used the name sgt derik palmer or Sargent Derik Palmer? Does he have a MySpace page? If so, please feel free to post that information too.

Also, the person that you were given to send the money to: "jennifer jones 334 duffy field road nc" Was there a town name given?

What do you mean by ts2?

Please feel free to post any email addresses or telephone numbers that the scammers used. Any information that might help somebody else from becoming a victim.

Welcome Melissa!

Glad you avoided being scammed and appreciate you coming to help get the word out! If you have any more information you can share (e.g. photos he is using, or his initial emails to you, as they are often scripts the scammer will re-use) and you can post them, it will help us in creating a more complete profile.

Welcome, thank you for posting! I'm so happy to hear that you were able to be suspicious and do some searching for yourself to find us.

For the benefit of anyone else reading this, there is more information about this type of scam on this topic, including a brief explanation about the satellite phones: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6528

hi all, fortunately i was not the one being scammed, it is a friend that i work with, i started to get suspicious about it... he goes by the name michael joe, claims he is a captain in the military, he found my friend on my-space... she has a picture of herself posted, from that picture you can tell she is physically challenged (perfect target) i would sit with her and read his conversations to her, and just as described he asked her to marry him, send money to get that phone line going, he told her she needs to request for his leave, etc...... im a suspicious person by nature and when i seen that it got my wheels turning so i started replying to him pretending to be her ( she was right next to me of course ) and when i started questioning things he would start with the..... dont you love me? are you playing me for a fool? why dont you believe me? etc...... and he wanted the money right away, claims if she didnt have it all right now she could send what she had as a deposit, i am still trying to figure out how to break it to her that he is a scammer without hurting her, he is praying on my friend who is so starved for male attention and affection ( you could say )... anyway jus wanted to share this, im glad i sneakily got all this info on him from her without her getting suspicious,,, again he goes by CAPTAIN MICHAEL JOE nickname micjoe ( i think )

You have to be cautious sugar808 because it may be totally apparent to you that this person is a fake and a scammer, but it's going to take a lot to convince your friend. It's sad to say that you're right that the disabled are a preferred target of these scammers, and it will be easy for your friend to see you as just another person who is trying to take away her happiness and dreams. I've known victims pay money to scammers ahead of paying for food and worse. The connection is probably a lot stronger than you think.

Your prime concern should be to ensure that she doesn't send him any money. If you are aware of a request for money you need to convince her that you don't pay a US serviceman money by Western Union or MoneyGram which is undoubtedly how he'll want it because he won't have a bank account, and certainly not in that name.

Maybe you can raise the point about sending money beforehand, so that when it happens, she'll be more cautious.