Sergeant Cerwin Heller - Afgahnistan (merged topics)

Sergeant Cerwin Heller - Afgahnistan

Hello

I want to share my experience regarding military love scams and also ask for advice. My mother fell prey to a fraudulent person who claims to be a US military sergeant. He provided the name of Sgt Cerwinh Heller and told her all the beautiful things in the world and his desire of marriage with her. He wrote to be a divorced middle aged man with a small daughter and near retirement. He was supposedly deployed in a base at Afgahnistan. He later started to ask for money for being able to pay charges in order to come visit her. The person who was supposed to receive the money was a so-called Lieutenant Valerie Heiss who is the superior officer who could authorize the leave. Unfortunately, my mother sent the money and has been asked for more money for different kinds of paperwork and procedures. Sadly enough, she has sent the money and still doesn´t believe it is a scam. We are now accumulating debt. I have told her it is a fraud, friends have told her and she still believes it is truth and that a soldier will come and marry her.


The email addresses used for this scam are the following:
[email protected]
[email protected]


I have provided her with information regarding frauds including this forum but still haven´t got any good sign of any change in her behaviour and gets angry every time I tell her it is a scam.

I would really appreciate ideas of how I can handle this situation
Thank you for your time

I merged the two topics about this situation. It saves confusion for the original poster and the support team. Thank you. ~Bubbles

Hello

I need advice regarding a situation I believe is a scam. My mother is in contact with a man who claims to be a US military sergeant. He provided the name of Sgt Cerwinh Heller and told her all the beautiful things in the world and his desire of marriage with her. He wrote to be a divorced middle aged man with a small daughter and near retirement. He was supposedly deployed in a base at Afgahnistan. He later started to ask for money for being able to pay charges in order to come visit her. The person who was supposed to receive the money was a so-called Lieutenant Valerie Heiss who is the superior officer who could authorize the leave. Unfortunately, my mother sent the money and has been asked for more money for different kinds of paperwork and procedures. Sadly enough, she has sent the money and still doesn´t believe it is a scam. We are now accumulating debt. I have told her it is a fraud, friends have told her and she still believes it is truth and that a soldier will come and marry her.


The email addresses used for this scam are the following:
[email protected]
[email protected]


I have provided her with information regarding frauds including this forum but still haven´t got any good sign of any change in her behaviour and gets angry every time I tell her it is a scam.

I would really appreciate ideas of how I can handle this situation
Thank you for your time

Hi Fimu-Kool

Unfortunately some people will refuse to believe that they are caught up in a scam, especially once they start sending money.

Other than constantly showing your mother examples of similar scams, as you have done, and trying to convince her, until the lies and promises made by the scammer start to fall through, which could take as long as she has money to send, she will not believe you.

You could try your local church Pastor for help, if she is of a religious nature, or your local police if they are amenable to helping.

You have a difficult time ahead I'm sorry.

I wish it were hello under better circumstances. When a serving member of the military starts asking for finances it is a scam.
Yahoo says of the email address military_database , The person you have searched for either does not exist or has chosen to hide his profile.
Why is that address & profile hidden from view?
Another page you may wish to see http://netpatrol.org/consumer-issues_mi ... r_113.html
And on military leave: This is becoming a very common scam. First, the military does not ask civilians (relatives or otherwise) to write to request leave for a soldier. This is all handled by the soldier. Secondly, there would not be an exchange of money involved with it.
Also you may like to view here http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 920AAWxLLd
and then there is, http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 837AAghJDO
This is also interesting reading http://militarygear.com/asp/2009/10/28/ ... ting-scam/

Are you able to visit a local Defence Departmet office (or perhaps write or phone) and enquire about the person in question? That would be a good starting point.
Where are the emails originating from or what do the email headers tell you?

RE: she has sent the money and still doesn´t believe it is a scam. We are now accumulating debt. I have told her it is a fraud, friends have told her and she still believes it is truth

It is a sad predicament to find yourself and will be hard on everybody. Scammers are quick to play on peoples emotions and exploit them to the maximum. There is no easy answer I'm afraid until your mother realises the truth in this case.

Sorry to hear your mother is having a hard time. I know it's wrong but since you have the address why don't you write him?

^^ Writing to him will do no good. He is not going to drop a paying, hooked victim and won't intend to until there is no money left.

One way that might help convince your mother Fimu_Kool, is to take the "headers" from the scammers email and analyse them. This will show his approximate whereabouts.
I'm betting that both emails are from the same place thousands of miles from Afghanistan!

The headers can be analysed here: http://www.iptrackeronline.com/header.php
If you don't know how to get the headers, please either ask here, send me a message or email me at the address below.

Ok I pm'd the OP and she gave me pernission to send an email to her mother from my scamwarners address,

Glad to say it seems to have worked as i received this reply from her....

I just want to tell you that being part of the forum is one of the smartest decisions I have ever made. I am very happy with how my mom´s issue has changed. She told me she had received your email and read it and is now conscious that she is a victim of a scam. I wasn´t able to achieve that by myself, but thanks to your help she finally opened her eyes. At the beginning she felt very sad, which I think is normal, but I am pretty sure she will stop sending money to that jerk and the situation will improve.

Thank you very much for your help. I hope you keep doing that fine labour of helping people.
Have an excellent week

^^ Nicely done Gateway.

Nice one Gateway.
Hopefully, she'll stay off the hook.

Note by Dotti: This post was made by an idiotic small boi scammer (the same scammer who is calling himself cerwin H) who is unhappy that victims have stopped paying, and is trying another approach to make his phony character look real. He thought he was clever, hiding behind a proxy, but he doesn't realize his poor African English gives him away immediately, and that to anyone with a knowledge of dialects, he can't pass as an American for even a minute. We have left this post intact to show people the lengths to which a scammer will go to steal from his victims.


Hello this is Mr James and i am also one of the U.S. Army my boy cerwin H told me that he was posted was scams and all that in here but i must tell you that this is a total misrupt because he has never been involved in such right now as i speak he is in camp crying and thinking about all what you posted in here i don't know you but you can search for me on Google or see my wall on My-space i am begging you to take off this post else the FBI and the state CIA will investigate in this and take up the case because this is a total confusion somewhere so if you've been scammed by someone it cant be by Cerwin so email me back or check on my wall at my space..
xxx
or email me you can also drop a number in which i can reach you at.

Sgt James.

Once again, we have clear African English--and again the lying scumbag thief tries to salvage his scam with the (completely fake) claim that leave has to be paid for. THERE ARE NO FEES TO BE PAID TO GET LEAVE, AND PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE ARMY CANNOT REQUEST LEAVE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARMY. But of course the person writing this is a small boi in Africa, not an American soldier, and he has no idea how the US Army works. -Dotti

Please once again if your mother have paid any dime i have adviced him to try and pay back soon as he gets back to the states but it true that he was asked to pay because he still have much time to spend in the camp but he asked for a leave request which he has to pay for all that but since he had no money at present where he is he said that is why he asked your mother to help him pay and he will pay back.

Sgt James

Yes and we beleive everything you say

Bye Bye

Welcome James, or Cerwin, or whatever you are calling yourself today.
It was really very silly of you to think that you could fool people who deal with criminals like you every day. All you have done is show others how low scammers like you will go.

Thanks James for the insight! It really does help when you expose yourself as the lying lowlife you are.

Sergeant Cerwin, aka Heller Jack Cerwin is being portrayed by a scammer. The pictures of one of America's soldiers have been stolen and used by this/these cutthroat scammer(s) to prey on lonely women and steal their hearts then steal their money. The scam is not by a US Army soldier. It is also not just one person pretending to be this man. There is at least one female and possibly two different males who take turns emailing and instant messaging the intended victims. The female is kind and sweet and is usually the one who pastes lovely poetry into the messages. Sometimes she forgets she is sending it to a woman and it sounds quite odd to be referred to as "his" knight in shining armor. Most of this is spelled correctly because it is from a published source. The grammar is quite good for the same reason. She does not like to talk about anything of a sexual nature, but talks of hugs and kisses and being close. I say there are possibly two males because one is quite passive and the other is rather aggressive. It could, I suppose, be one male who is passive/aggressive, but I find it more likely that it is two different males. Neither one offers any advice on automotive troubles, which is a definite clue they are not American. American males have a need to appear knowledgeable of all things automotive - even the nerds will offer their advice no matter how off track they are. The passive male says "Okay Honey" a lot, especially when it is inappropriate to do so, and often repeats the word "Honey" as much as six times in the same sentence. The aggressive male is easily angered and is the one who tries to make the victim feel guilty about not meeting his requests. He needs a very expensive satellite phone so he can hear her voice. He needs her to request leave for him to save his life. If she wavers he threatens to give up on her. She is hooked on him by this point, as he has sworn his undying love for her, calling himself "Your Loving Husband". He has sent a number of these stolen photos showing a sweet-faced man with a small daughter whom he tells the victim she will be the new mother to. He selects middle-aged women usually, because he believes they are lonely and desperate. Unfortunately, he is usually correct, though the victim does not wish to believe this. There are emails sent, supposedly from the Department of Defense, that are intended to reassure the victim that the scammer is real. However, these emails are so poorly written and rife with misspellings. The US tends to spell certain words differently than other countries, and does not use the King's English. If the victim has been duped into sending any money, she will never see it again, nor will she ever meet her soldier or hear his voice over the phone. The money she has sent went to someone who was nothing more than a money launderer, and may only be one of several along the way to the actual scammer(s). If she tries to demand her money be returned, no matter how nicely she may ask, she will be threatened with harm to herself or her family. These threats are only that, because the scammer(s) is/are nowhere near her and are more afraid of being arrested than making any attempts to carry-out the threats. If "Cerwin" was indeed in the military and stationed anywhere outside the US, all of his emails would go through the DoD proxy server. His do not, but instead go through a proxy server well known to offer to hide the actual originating ip address of anyone willing to pay for their services. The actual originating ip is saved on that proxy server, though, and with the right credentials that information is easily obtained.

YOU DON'T SCARE ME, BUT YOU SHOULD BE SCARED YOURSELF. WE AREN'T GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE.