Possible scam: [email protected]

I was approached through a dating profile in The Netherlands, by a woman called Lizzy.
She uses [email protected]

During the chat I had for several days, she wanted to borrow 100EUR and finally 1.500 EUR to transfer by MoneyGram and/or Western union.

Other information she shared:
Phone: +2348034460715
manager info:
Name: ADEFIOYE ADEKANMI
ADDRES 19,OGBNI STREET
CITY ILE IFE
STATE OSUN
COUNTRY NIGERIA
ZIP CODE 234036

Birthday Lizzy: 5 february
Current age (she said): 28 years

using Google I didn't find anything, but some pictures were sent which show the same woman.
Does anyone has the same issues, and is this scam? Probably is due to the moneygram/western union (and as I cannot verify her personally).

This certainly screams scam to me. I can't find any evidence from the info you've provided, but this falls into the pattern used by love scammers.
Why did "she" say she needed to borrow the money? As it was only after a few days, probably for internet fees, or maybe hospital fees.

Could you please post some of the first emails/messages sent to you? you should elete any of your personal info from them.

Don't send her any money.

Thank you, Newdonym.

Definately a scam and the emails she sent you should be able to prove it.

I did a quick search and found this http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=li ... tnG=Search

I am sure most of those will be the same person if not all of them, why would one person need so many profiles, unless they were scamming of course

Closer inspection of those hits may well reveal a few discrepencies in the details provided, the varying age and different locations are things to look out for.

just adding the later hits suggest the person is Asian while some of the early hits suggest African, the writing style also suggests African.

Once the scammer realises you will not be paying they will leave you alone, ignore all future emails and please provide as much detail as you can here to act as a warning to others

I see you have a "manager name". Is "she" claiming that she is staying in a hotel, and (a) she is about to be put out on the street or (b) the hotel manager is holding her passport and documents until she pays her bill, and requesting you send money to the "hotel manager"? If so, this is a textbook scam script.

Now that I have a little more time I am taking a closer look at the search results I posted.

Please be warned that many of the dating sites I have linked to are of an adult nature unfortunately I have to show them to prove that it is a scammer

According to this first result http://www.face-pic.com/pages/view_prof ... zzyrichone

Female
26 years old
chicago, United States

Last Login:
20 Jan 07

Joined:
20 Jan 07

No picture available

Then on the second result http://www.blackplanet.com/lizzyrichone/ she has said this

Member Since: February 05, 2008

Sex: Female

Age: 28

Last Login: 5/23/08

Location: Chicago, IL

Zodiac: Taurus

Being a Taurus her birthday is in April or May, so 1 year later she is 2 years older according to the second hit, there are too many similarities for it not to be the same person, then according to what she told you, 1 year on again and she is still 28

The next result goes back to 2006 http://profiles.lovingyou.com/view.php?uid=91107

Member Since: 08/09/2006

Age 28
Birthday 05-07

Gender female

Location chicago

Note the age again, she should be 30 now

The next site Click here doesn't say when she joined but it does show some information that helps to paint the picture

Height 5' 3" (160cm) this may be handy later
Then this, note the poor writing skills, the lack of space after the punctuation and some of the words just dont fit right, typical of an African scammer

Description
my name is lizzy,im well brought up,humble,caring,self discipline and honest.
(Looking closer at the above quote, I did a search on it, and got 5 matches Warning, Some Content is of an adult nature Click Here all the same person and all dating sites,
Looking for
i need a handsome man a little bit,self discipline,caring and honesty that want a serious relationship.

The next hit Click Here definately the same person again but note this

Ethnic origin: Caucasian (white)

The following hits are all much the same, note that there is no change in the age

Then amonst the last few results it says this

Love-Town.com, the leading online community for dating ...lizzyrichone No Photo, i like honest. Age: 28,

Race: Asian

. For: possible marriage, Country: USA. State: Illinois, City: chicago. glory4love No Photo ...
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She is Asian now, previously she was white, prior to that she was on a black dating site.

There is absolutely no doubt that its a scammer, could you please post the emails, photos or any other details you received as that will help other potential victims to find this and perhaps avoid losing money.

If you are unsure of how to post pictures you can email them to me if you prefer, I have an email address in my signature line

Here some images she sent during the online chat:









she didn't sent an email sadly, but added me to her MSN.

The money she needed is to pay some bills and to return to The Netherlands where
she will stay. She's in Nigeria for her education as a nurse.
Ofcourse I smell SCAM written over it.... so nothing harm has been done

I have just done a tineye search on the photos but no luck this time, somebody may recognise her, it seems the pictures have been stolen from a soft porn site, not uncommon for scammers

It is a little unfortunate that there are no emails to help with searching but never the less we do have some good searchable information here for potential victims to find now.

BTW, google search is picking up details here already