[email protected] Staff Sgt Scott Handy

Well you can add Staff Sgt Scott Handy to this list. Daytona FL was his so called residence. I am not sure what his angle was with me. Daughter was named Nicole and he showed me houses and cars and wanted to take care of me. It was still so surreal so one day I went to searching his name with Staff Sgt Handy and I found this with 5 of the pics he sent me. My crazy tale should have known he was too good to be true. I should have known that there was nothing but copied lies in his notes were everything a woman wants to hear and I just got sucked in. Divorce made me stupid I guess. Oh well If it is too good to be true its probably false. Oh yeah he is in Kubal Afghanistan during this deployment. Does this man even exist?

Welcome to Scamwarners vanillaslt,

I am happy you found us and avoided being a victim to this scammer.

What email address did he use with you? Also could you post a couple of his initial emails to you?

[email protected] He emailed me several love letters, I should have known then were pre written and vague. If you ever find the originator of this, please let me join in the efforts of prosecution. He wanted no money from me but he was a fraud, he got information about me that was absolutely none for a fraud to have. I should have known better, I am learning and darnit that was the hard way.

He did talk of God and Karma, ironically at that rate. Pretty disgusting.

I was asked to provide an example of the emails. This man does have a way with words. He made me feel special in a matter of days. Crazy and I guess my internal need to want the happily ever after allowed me to even feed into it at all.

From: Handy Scott ([email protected])

Hi Removed (BW) ,

When I was a little boy, I dreamed of that one person that I would share my dreams, happiness and energy with ... I could not see her face but she was there. I always felt like she was out there, I just needed to feel her. I visualized the bond we would have and the courage she would give me to endure life's obstacles. All these years I was with others, and feeling my way through life, learning lessons that later on would prepare me to become the person that I am now. I have felt alone and sad. Then one day my eyes opened and I became that little boy again ... realizing that she is here now. Here in my world was the woman that I had dreamed of and I'd hoped would not miss our meeting in life ... that woman is you and on a day like this I promise that I will never let you slip away now that i have found you, i love you forever

Love always,
Scott
You are irreplaceable

From: Handy Scott ([email protected])

My queen..My Heart..My Love,

How is your night? I do miss you so much. I have never in my life met someone more beautiful, enjoyable, loving, and comforting as you. Since the very first day that I met you,I knew there was something very special about you. I had no idea then that I would fall in love, but now that I have, I am so grateful. I am grateful for us to have wandered into one another's world so softly and unexpectedly. Nature took its course on our hearts and joined them in a way never imaginable. I want you to know that from the very depths of my heart, I love you. And I love everything that creates you, from your hair - that I wish I could play in more often... to your forehead - that I wish I could kiss while you sleep; from your eyes - that sparkle when you smile (just for me)... to your nose - that I wish I could rub my nose against; from your lips - that I just know were made perfectly to fit against mine... to your chin - that I would love to place my finger under to pull you close for a kiss; down your neck and to your heart - that in my own, I claim as mine, and down past every inch of every part of your existence. I wish more than anything that you and I could grow together, love together, learn together, and laugh together, forever. I sincerely feel that between the two of us, we have the kind of love that some people never get a chance to experience. I promise to love you as much as I can, as best as I can, and for as long as I can. And no matter what, it's very important to me for you to know that you are an irreplaceable spirit that will always be a part of me. I love you with every fiber of my being and you mean the world to me.

Have a wonderful day ,
Your King,
Scott

From: "Handy Scott" <[email protected]>

Subject: You consume my thought
Hey honey ,
There is so much I want to tell you, a lot has been running through my head since our last chat. I'm having trouble putting my thoughts into words so you will have to bare with me through this.I keep thinking about the future, about life, and what I want out of it. I keep thinking about these things and I realize they go hand in hand. Another relationship is my future; it's what I want out of life.
I woke up with you on my mind. I just want to say thank you for coming into my life. I am glad we've met.Glad to know you are one. I want to see you walk down that the street holding your hands and I want to take your hand for the rest of my life. I want to spend all night, and maybe the next day, making love to you with an undying passion (sorry to be so blunt) always, lol.
I want to be old and still make out with you like a little schoolboy. I want to cook a meal with you and us totally ruin it and end up doing take out. I want to sit there talking to you for hours about nothing at all but in the same time everything or maybe we won't talk at all and just grin at each other realizing how lucky we are. I want you to get mad at me for doing something stupid, and I want you to bust out laughing when you try to yell at me. I want to lay with you in front of a fireplace and keep the heat going long after the fire goes out.
I am very happy to have met you. I want to get to chat With you today, I have something to always come here to. Thank you and I hope you are glad we have met. i love you forever

Your Soldier Man.
Scott

This man does have a way with words.

Not exactly. He copies his romantic letters off the internet. If he attempted to write english you will see that he is not familiar with the writing style.

[AlanJones]

This man does have a way with words.

They are not his words, they are the words of the script he is using and they appear in numerous other scam examples.

If he were to write in his own words, you would probably barely understand the semi-literate ramblings of an African scammer.

Thanks again.. im just glad it wasn't like the other women.

As Bryon and Alan have said, the words were not even his.

In many cases, it is very easy to search and find the source of stolen words.

For example, searching for "I dreamed of that one person that I would share my dreams, happiness and energy with" led me to several scammer profiles, and this blog, from which the text was most likely copied:
http://thereismoretolovethanlife.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

The second letter he stole from lovingyou.com, a favorite site of African scammers:
http://archive.lovingyou.com/content/inspiration/loveletters-content.php?ID=226

Same for the third email:
http://archive.lovingyou.com/content/inspiration/loveletters-content.php?ID=213

Just to clarify a few other things:

He wanted no money from me

He did want your money. He just hadn't gotten to the money request phase yet. Some scammers start the money requests within a few days to weeks, but others wait several weeks, even months to a year or more, before they go down the money path. More experienced scammers may even send you flowers and gifts (bought with stolen credit cards), and offer to help you out financially (though of course you will never see a penny of their money, anything you get will be stolen from others) in order to convince you that they aren't after your money, because then you are more likely to pay when they do get to the money request.

If you ever find the originator of this, please let me join in the efforts of prosecution.

This particular set of photos (photos of real man, completely unconnected to any of these scams, who most likely posted them to a social networking site like myspace for the benefit of his friends and family) has been in the possession of African scammers for years. The original source of the photos cannot be located--possibly someone did find the real person and tell him of their use, and he either deleted the page or made it private.
At this point, there is no way of knowing how many different scammers are using these photos to create fake profiles, which means that prior reports and yours might not involved the same scammer or gang.

He did talk of God and Karma, ironically at that rate. Pretty disgusting.

It is ironic, but it is unbelievably common. These scammers often have a completely incomprehensible view of life and religion. They will even go to church and pray for God to deliver victims to them! Many of them don't consider what they do to be stealing--they consider the ability to scam to be a demonstration of their skill and have absolutely no feelings of guilt about it, regardless of how much damage they cause their victims. It is truly a warped version of reality.

Gladly, Im sure he would never offer up any true info on himself. Complete sociopaths. Makes online dating a nightmare. I learned the biggest lesson. . If a man can't video chat or talk on the phone, even in a fictional war zone, he lying. If he wants a happily ever after he probably a scammer. Just sad its gotta be like this. Thank you so much for allowing me to find these photos with a "staff sgt handy" search. I was already in the "no way this stuff is for real" mode. My idiot wish factor allowed it to plant a seed. Sad part is, Im not desperate or needy but in one day I was pushed into both categories. Just nuts. But truly... thanks again.

I found him again on militarysingles.com joehandy41. HandyScam is everywhere ladies, make it harder for him to get the next woman, report his behind everytime you see him on a new site.

The truth is vanillaslt, he probably already operates under several aliases, all backed by sets of different photos picked up from elsewhere on the internet. He may already have other victims paying him money.

When someone has been lying to you and hiding who and what they are, the risk is that you don't fully understand how he operates. To all intents and purposes, he simply doesn't exist unless by some mistake by him or the work of a scam baiter, his real identity will never be revealed.

It's frustrating, but as much as your love and affection would be wasted on him, so is your hatred too because money is all he cares about. If you didn't pay him anything, then take satisfaction from that, because that's what will hurt him. Beyond that he is worth none of your time and energy.

Agreed.. He won't get any more of my time. But when I saw that photo again it just burned me up. Is it ok to continue to report where I see him at. I figure if I can make him searchable it only helps the next victim.

Of course vanillaslt, but don't let him waste your time as a focus for your hatred as he wasted your time as a focus for your affection.

The scammer wants to get in your mind and make you think that the character he has created is real, and the human mind is easily manipulated if it can be fooled in to believing it has found someone sympathetic and is possibly your future partner.

The risk is that in uncovering that you have been manipulated, you then focus your anger on this fictional character, which can be wasted because switching identities is easy for these fraudsters.

Identifying the phone numbers he uses and his email addresses is useful, and if you can use them to locate other profiles on dating sites and other identities. He'll often also use the same scripts, though scammers will share and steal scripts too.

He's back, same picture, new Handy http://www.blackplanet.com/John7689/. Disgusting.