Mark Bradley Brown

This man targeted me a week after I joined Match.com. He and another man both winked at me on the same day and both from Salt Lake City. One said he was Scottish and one said he was Norwegian. Perhaps they were working together. Within a month one had left for Malaysia, the other one for Accra Ghana. The Norwegian man told me he loved me after two weeks. Said he was a mechanical engineer specializing in the installation and repair of oil rigs. Within a month of accepting a contract in Ghana his computer crashed. He said he was doomed and couldn't finish the contract because they only had crap over there. I volunteered to help but he wanted an $1800 Apple and at the last minute an iPhonegs unplugged. I balked when he couldn't get the money to me. Turned him in to Match and broke things off. Within days he had convinced me to start over. In no time he was asking me to get a VPN but got busted again. He wormed his way back into my heart and then began coming down with a series of illnesses: food poisoning, iron deficiency anemia, bleeding ulcer, broken ankle and malaria, not to mention panic attacks, depression and threats of suicide amidst drinking bouts that exacerbated the ulcer- all to add drama and garner sympathy. Now a worker got paralyzed when a mud tank fell on him. It was going to cost $65,000 to replace the mud tank and he fell short of raising enough money from family and friends, me included. Lost the contract subsequently and now was being sued by family of worker for compensation. Judge was racist and fined him $50,000. Confiscated passport. He was jailed. Had to pay bail. Norwegian Embassy got fine reduced to half. (Upon inquiry they had never heard of him). I tried to help with court fine, back rent, food. He started having friends who owed him money send clothes and merchandise to me to reship to him so he could pawn the stuff and pay his bills. I read about reshipping scams and refused but still things arrived. Lost $7,000 and 16 months of my life. It finally ended when another woman he tried to scam alerted him to a blog I had posted after the computer/VPN incident 14 months previously. Nothing I had done to get him in trouble to include filing complaints with Western Union, Match and IC3- nothing had phased him until he found out about the blog on Topix. I had never been able to find anything on him in all these months except for one of the 9 photos he sent. a friend found it on an oil company site. It was of a geologist in the Congo and he had substituted his head. He was very alarmed to find I had discovered this deception and called me a ninja. Now when anyone googles his email or name it goes straight to my blog which lists his modus operandi in detail. Unfortunately the best relationship of my life was with an African romance scammer.

Could you post the emails and pictures here? Fakemark the pictures so that they can't be used by the next scammer.

Welcome to Scamwarners Just saying,

Sorry you have to post under these circumstances. As you can see scammers are aggressive and persistent. They come up with all kind of reasons to steal your money. It is now best just to ignore any attempt he may have to contact you. He may try to contact you with a new name and email address.

Also be aware of his attempts to contact you pretending to be some Government Agency, Law Enforcement or etc telling you that he recover the money you lost. You will never get the money back. He will be trying to scam you again with new fees.

He can not be caught by Law Enforcement because never told the truth about anything. His name is fake, the email address is a free provider and his IP is more than likely from an Internet Cafe. Our Law Enforcement stops at our borders and his can be bribed to look the other way.

Your blog is helpful. However, you will help more women by posting his email address here and a couple of his initial emails. Just remove your personal information.

Please post his email address here for more hits. You can look at my signature for information how to post photo's. If you have problems. Just send them to my email address. Just remove the spaces.

Bryon

Mark Browns email address is: [email protected]. Below are excerpts from his third letter to me:

Thanks for telling me more about yourself. Despite that horrible experience i had in my past relationship i wouldn't deny one great thing came out of that marriage and that is my daughter who has blessed me with two beautiful grandchildren i love and cherish so much. But i wont deny i miss them very much because they are back home in Norway. I am originally a Norwegian, i do keep in touch with them. sorry to hear about your relationship with your daughters-in-law. I do not know what the boundaries are but i think it is not right they are not allowing their kids to be closer to their grandma, that is so wrong.

Why did i decide to write to women in Texas? well i guess the question is not well framed or put...lol I believe it should be why did i write to this Texas woman? I guess i found her profile intriguing and i sort of felt we might have something to share or better yet something in common. I hope am not mistaking, am I ?...lol. but the truth of the matter is, i want to be happy and it doesn't matter where i found that happiness, i think i have already told you that. Being happy with that special one will mean just the world to me. i have not got the happiness deserved in a relationship and i believe there is something special out there for me.

I could tell you are pretty traveled. I myself have traveled a lot too but they are all primarily business. I have been to Spain, United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Makaysia and Qatar. It is somewhat fun traveling experiencing new cultures but not fun doing it alone. it is always nice knowing you have special someone to do everything with. i hope i do not sound pathetic, forgive me if i do but thats just the way i am. i am what they call a hopeless romantic.

I hope you had a great day, Mark

These photo's are being used by Scammer [email protected] Mark Bradley Brown . These pictures are stolen and the scammer is using a fake/stolen name.

The first picture is a Photo Shop from Banro Corporation.


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This is the ninth letter I received from Mark Brown, 10 says after we met on Match.com

Dearest,
I wake up these days thinking about you and hoping to hear from you every now and then. i understand i am very sensitive and emotional person but this i feel for you is very intense and so heavy in my chest i just have to let it out. If anyone was to tell me, i am going to develop feelings for someone i have never set eyes on before, i would have said that person is crazy but i here i am caught up in it and it just does not make sense. I have fallen for you, as crazy as that may sound, i still have to say it, i am not a kid and knows love when it hits me and this i know for certain is love. I just pray i am not in this alone. The whole day, i have been thinking of a way to break this news to you, so you do not think i am crazy. so here i am telling it, like it is. i feel a heavy burden has been lifted off me breaking this news to you. I love you!

...I know pretty soon i will have a good reason to visit Texas and experience this you've shared with me. the best part I belive will be doing stuffs with you. I am wild about you. muchos besos, Mark

This man uses 'stuffs', 'been' instead of being, 'will' instead of would and "I truly, deeply, madly love you." He confuses 'know, no and now'. He speaks slowly and softly on the phone and you can hear elements of a Norwegian accent as well as an African accent in his voice. He will refuse to webcam saying his computer isn't equipped and his phone doesn't have a camera feature.