New to ScamWarners....not new to scams

Hi,
This site was referred by one of my Military Pen Pals. He wanted me to make sure that I let everybody here know what happened a couple of weeks ago. He took it very personal, but I have been his pen pal for about 2 years and we are good friends. Yes, he is a real military officer, and a true gentleman.
Here's my story:
I am registered with the all the military pen pal website, have been for quite sometime. A guy from the Army, be-friend me on face book. I accepted his friend request. He pops up on Yahoo messenger and thanks me. I simply replied, and the conversation began. He told me scantly about himself, and I told him a little about me. The conversation last about 10 min. Now, I know the time difference where I live to Afghanistan there is a 9 1/2 hour difference. It was noon there, and 4 am my time, I was up getting ready for work. I always log in in the morning, because I have friends getting off work then. Next day he logs in again. The conversation was very cordial at first. Then it got real interesting. He wanted my age, okay....np...of course I was older than him. He didn't care, then the first red flag popped up: he wanted to know my credit score, what my pay was like, what and how financially stable I was. He didn't get much from me. I told him it was none of his business, we were just getting acquainted. He backed off....apologized, and we talked about life things. Two days later it got really weird, he told me i was an angel from above, and that we were destined to be together...Red flag #2. I knew this was BS...I wasn't born yesterday. I guess you could say I lead him on, yes let say that. He told me about a adopted son living in Ghana, (Red flag #3). But he couldn't get him until he was going to leave in Dec. From then on I was the most level headed most caring and loving person he had ever met. Whatever.....the guy did not know me. Now we are 5 days into this whatever you call it, and he needs money. Red flags popping up everywhere. I told him I didn't have the money, wasn't going to have the money, wasn't going to send him any money...never. I then, became, worthless, uncaring, and a hopeless human being.
After that I did not hear from him for three days. The Army wanted me to pretend to have the money, and see if he would respond. He did, but never gave me an address to send it to. He wanted me to western union it, I did not of course. During these three days, I did my homework. I paid for a background check, I called the duty master over there to make sure he was even there, he was. I check some resources of mine, no son existed...but I knew that already. So I left him a short but firm ending, and let this man know, that he wasn't whom he said he was. Didn't own a house in Colorado...by the way was under water at the time. Said good bye forever. His name is Lambert McCalester, US Army. He is not a good soldier, which is sad, that like the men in the departments that I talk to said, there are lots of men pretending to be soldiers and there are bad soldiers. I must confess, I liked the attention but I also knew better. We never exchanged emails, or wrote letters, so instant messenger was the only form of communication. I would love to give you more info, but I just don't have it, I have his name, and he is on face book...just be careful.
A simple background check cost me $.99, and the phone call cost me $.20....so I wasn't out a lot of money. I'm too old for game play..but thanks for listening, just wanted to make his name known so other ladies won't fall for his charm.

Welcome to Scamwarners....

Thank you for posting this, it just shows that anybody can be nearly taken in by the lies. Mr Webber was lucky.

Well done to you for not falling for it

All you need to be, to become a victim of a scammer, is honest and trusting.

If anyone says you need to be stupid then that would have to apply to politicians and university professors who have been reported to have been duped, and companies and government departments are being duped on a regular basis. When I bait scammers I dupe them all the time, but I only do it for information, not profit.

The biggest fool is one who thinks he can't be scammed.

Could you post the conversation? Scammers use scripts; he probably said the exact same words to several other people, who may be searching the Web for them.

I emailed the following to A Soldiers Perspective a few hours ago. Ladies lots of good info here:
To whom it may concern;

I am a woman that has been scammed three times in a month. I felt privileged after reading some of the comments through your site. I got this site from scam warners.com...in which I am an active member. I am a woman in the target range for these scammers, but wasn’t born yesterday. My keen intuition is on the spot and after being contacted even the first time, red flags popped up often

(First scammer)...Sgt. Lambert McCalester...Not a service member; how did I know, researched the DOD. This is my advantage to all scammers. I research everything....I snoop for a reason. The story: Be-friended me on face book, now I am registered through Military penpals.com, but if he was real he would have a different signature ending....(.mil or .gov) I knew this already because I have been an active pen pal for 16 years. But, I indulged him none the same. Second day I was a angel sent from up above and was madly in love. (flag one). He had an adopted son living in Ghana. (flag two). He tried to get money from me.....I wasn’t biting. Dropped him like a rock.
(Second guy) came along about a week later...SG Micheal Hall. again on face book. No military signature either. We talked via messenger through chat on face book. Three days later he’s again in love....(flag one). These men don’t know me. Looked him up on the DOD site, he’s active but I don’t know where...nor did I care. He wanted to set up a satellite phone and he needed some money from me. I had contacted CID at this point. Now here’s where it got complicated. While chatting with him, one of my pen pals came onto face book, and found me. His email was not a military one, but I gave into it, because we had been writing about 8 months now. He helped me out in snaring Michael.....that’s where I knew someone had hacked my pen pal. No, I lost no money...but I dropped him after 7 days.
(Third guy): SSG Scott Jordan came into the picture on Sept. 29th, 2013. This was my pen pal....supposedly.....First few emails sounded like him. Oct. 1, 2013 it went down hill from there. Frist he wanted me to help him get home. I stayed up one night and read the 130 pages of military leave and passes. Yea, I made him believe I would help him.....I knew better. He made up this camp commandant guy, sent me a form (fake), and send it back to get things rolling. I didn’t. Then a couple of days passed and he wanted to set up the “phone thing”, I told him I would look into to it...I didn’t. But instead went snooping. He had sent me an email with personal information, and I went looking around. His address was a vacant lot in his hometown. The phone number he gave me...was for a Google account, ( The guy who owned the phone contacted me (this is funny), was not happy, very rude to me, and I blocked him). I did an IP address search for all of these guys. I paid for a background check on all of them, I did a reverse email search also. I even let Scott know everything he told me was a lie. I was re-baiting him. None of these guys were going to hurt me. After he confesses to me that he did cook up all that stuff about him, he just wanted to make sure I was the “real thing”...whatever............Next day he wanted to send his allowance to my personal banking account. NO I DID NOT FALL FOR THIS AT ALL. Of course, this is where we went down hill. The romance thing he thought he had went bye bye yesterday. I have ceased communication, blocked him on face book and all emails. I have let the real Scott know he was being hacked. But no details. I don’t want to involve a bunch of sources.
Researching did not cost me that much...DOD site is free if you have certain things. IP address search is free also. Background checks are $5. More extensive checks are $22.95...Better than loosing thousands of money. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Report them, report them...free also at the CID’s website.
Thought an update needed to be done...I am working with it to try and catch these losers. Thank you for your time...

Sincerely,
Carole Bush from Kansas City, MO. No one broke my heart, by the way.

Thanks for the info on researching... However, what things do you need for a DOD search?
How do you do an IP search exactly?
Where can you get a B/G check for five bucks?
Who or what is CID?
-- Inquiring minds want to know...!