Single DAD Mobile +447011140179

Hi,
Am current victim of this scammer and only just searched his number and found many listings on this page.
Email ID: [email protected]
Name: Marcus Leonardo
Singapore Expat Dating and Friends: Marcus Realest

Single dad of 2 kids, daughter with a heart problem, has been searching for heart for several months and found 1 on black market in Nigeria, had me send money to Nigeria several times, to make up the total of what he claimed he paid at auction, to release the blood, to get his passport off the auction man, all the time telling me his daughter was dying in hospital in London, and she only had a month to live. We spoke on the phone many times - using the above number, and when he was at the black market in nigeria he had a nigeria number : +2348036725469
He told me the transplant was just last sunday and they needed more blood, so again because I was in singapore and could money to them quickest, I sent money for the extra blood, and then because he was so emotional on the phone, crying, telling me he loved me, I have flown to the UK, to be at his side with his daughter. When he didn't meet me at the airport, I got suspicious but still refused to believe, and it wasn't until I was sitting in a hotel room, getting more and more concerned that I had been scammed, that I found this website, and sure enough, the same mobile number appeared.

I feel so pathetic and ridiculous to have fallen for this, not to mention many thousands of dollars having been lost. How do we get these bastards!!!! Its the humiliation of it all, falling for the story, the emotion and being tricked that is so disturbing. Guess no point in me being in london any more, will fly home tomorrow, I will kick myself for ever over this.

Deeply distressed.

Welcome great26day,

I am very sorry to hear that you were scammed.

First of all, don't beat yourself up for believing his story. Scammers often do this for a living, and they are good at it. If you are basically an honest and somewhat trusting person, it is also very difficult to imagine that someone could make up a tragedy like this and prey on your sympathy (and often your religious convictions)--and the scammer takes advantage of this.

I just want to make sure you realize now that everything you were told is a lie. The man you were speaking to was never in UK--he is Nigerian, and he has been in Africa the entire time. There is no heart, and chances are he has no daughter. Most likely, he is a young black man in his late teens to early 20's. 44-70 numbers are premium rate redirect numbers, and they are used most often by scammers who are pretending to be in UK--in reality, calls are actually being forwarded to the scammer's cellphone in Nigeria.

Unfortunately, because everything he has told you is a lie, catching him is nearly impossible. The names and addresses you were given for the WU payments are most likely fake. The Nigerian phone number is an untraceable cellphone, and even if you could trace it to him, a corrupt police force is more likely to demand a bribe than arrest him. The computer he was sitting at is most likely in a busy internet cafe.

By posting his details, scripts, and information he has given you, you can at least help to reduce the odds that he will make even more money with his current story. You can also help to save some other victims from heartache.

I do need to warn you about recovery scams, too--at this point, since you have lost quite a bit of money, it is very possible you will be approached by "law enforcement" or other "authorities" (e.g. police, FBI, EFCC) regarding this scammer. They will tell you they need information from you, and that they can get him arrested, or can get your money back. In reality, this will be your scammer or an accomplice who is actually trying to get even more money from you (yes, they really will sink that low). You are also likely to be approached with many more scams.

As far as this scammer goes, the best thing you can do is cut all ties with him immediately. Block his email (or better yet, change your email), don't take phone calls from him, and block him from your messenger. Don't try to make him feel guilty or try to get him to confess, because in reality, even if he does "confess" or claim to feel guilty, it will simply be more lies, once again with the purpose of getting more money from you. These scammers truly have no conscience--no matter what they say, they see you as nothing more than a means to an end. Remaining in contact with him has the potential to do much more harm than help.

Dotti,
Thanks for the information, if only I'd known about sites like this before I got scammed. I will be all more vigilent from now on, is there any other useful information that is needed, I kept a lot of the emails, and even chats, but of course during the whole black market negotiations, most instructions were over the phone. He did get me to book accomodation in singapore for him using his own marriott card, this was how he gained trust, by giving me his marriott card and then praising me for the fact I didn't use it for my own purposes. When I did question him initially, he brought this up again and said he had trusted me, I look back now and its all so easy to see how you fall into the trap - NEVER AGAIN I say. Thanks to this great web site, I will be more aware.
Thankyou

Unfortunately, the card he gave you was most likely not his, but a phished or stolen card belonging to someone else--he just bought the card number off a hacker. This is the normal practice for these scammers.

If you post what you do still have from him (as I said, remove your info), we can most likely point out some of the other characteristics of a scammer to help you with signs to look for..

Hi,

Here is the header from his emails:, whilst I reported him through World Friends and his profile has been disabled, he still has the Yahoo account, and has contacted me several times, even rung a few times, with a lot of excuses and blame toward me, I have blocked him now from my messenger, but he still has my mobile, but I have told him I know exactly what he is and not to contact me any more. More research on your site has pinpointed many signs that I could have looked for but was naive and unaware. Not so now, and I always check the originating address of emails now and am highly suspicious of everyone - sad but necessary.

Thanks for all your support and keep up the great work.
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Removed domain keys, these are long continuous strings of text that even we cant read, they make it harder for us to find teh information we want and they cause some smaller computer screens to blow out so we sometiems remove them - Ralph

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Hi There

I have also heard from this guy on Worldfriends and will let them know that the profile is a scammer.

All his photos on there look like professional model shots - which lead me to believe there was something not quite right about him too.

I have the same mobile number.

Although he has changed his name and email. Here are the updated details.

He uses the name Quintin Brown when he first talks to you then uses Alexander but tells you his real name is Alejandro (spanish for Alexander) but most people in business can not pronounce this name so he uses Alexander.

The email is [email protected] and he uses this email and yahoo chat.

The story is similar in that he has a little girl with a heart problem. Her name is Rosalyn Brown or Rosy for short. She has a brother called Jay R. She is 11 and Jay R 9.

Their mum was a Dr and had cancer for 8 years and he divorced her but went back to her when he knew she had cancer for the last year of her life as she kept it a secret from him. Her name was Lizzy and they met in France he married her a week later. When Lizzy died he ended up with her best friend who is a photographer and that is how he explains so many professional photos. He says he is from Bolton in Nth England near Manchester and has a house there where his kids live and are looked after by his parents.

He says he is 44. An oil engineer who is a private contractor and he lives at the Marriott on Orchard rd, Singapore.

He is hoping to bring his kids here and is looking for a house to buy and has 4 million to spend.
He claims to fly home every Fri to spend Saturday with Rosy to take her to the Drs and then returns to Singapore for early in the week to work again.

2 nights in a row he was planning on meeting me and on both those nights something came up so that he could not - this started to get me really thinking this guy is a scammer - as all of the above just seems so too unreal.

He recently sent me airline and hotel confirmations for Singapore as he went home to see Rosy and she has less then a month now to get a heart on the black market. Either out of China or Sudan. He wants a white persons heart though so I was like why would you be looking there???

His hotel confirmation dates did not match his flight arrival date and of course he never turned up. When I emailed him out of curiosity to say I have not heard from you he claimed to have had to go to China to check out a heart for Rosy - which is also so unbelievable. So he paid 4000 pounds in flights and $42,000 sing for a months accom in a hotel and didnt turn up. Um I dont think any normal person would do this.

He asks you to call and says call now - I have never called him at the time he has asked me and when I have tried the number he never answers and I get a msg a little while later saying I was cooking the kids bfast or some other excuse and asks for 30 mins and to call back then. I guess he needs to be ready for your call to get his scamming story straight.

This is not my first time I have met a scammer and they are easy to read once you know the signs, I played with him a little so I could get as much information as I could to share with other people. He has however not asked me for money but has asked me to speak with his little girl and he pretends to write like an 11 year old girl who cant type.

There are things that give him away such as he writes mom instead of mum (English spelling), his names - no one uses that many different names and we can all pronounce Alejandro - even Lady GaGa had a number one hit called Alejandro and its not hard to say at all.

Do not believe this guy he is a liar and a scammer and he definitely does not have kids and is not in Singapore.

I hope this helps others. Worldfriends should start to put a warning on the profiles that are scammers so scammers are more easily deterred from using the site.

Good luck.