by Machi
Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:12 am
First of all sorry for my poor english, i'm not native. 
About end of may my mom met a guy at tagged.com by the name of Charles Anderson from UK. He claimed to be a divorced with one daughter name Princess. They build a serious relationship quickly through intense communications by mail, chat, sms and phone. By the mid of June the guy proposed my mom. He said that he has a business in Malaysia and need help for opening a non resident account in local bank there. He borrowed US$1,500 for that. To prove it, he send her a letter of intentions stated that he will marry her and pay back her money.
Few weeks later he told my mom that he wanted to move from UK to Indonesia to live here together with her. He also told her that he wanted to build a strong business in Indonesia. In order to do that, he told her that he would transfer his funds (GBP640,000) from UK to her account in Indonesia. He make a letter of authorization to his bank (crfinancesecurities) to give her an authorization to release his funds into her account regarding with his intention to build a family with her. To prove that his letter of authorization is legit, he send her his passport even his username and password for his account. Then, based on his letter of authorization my mom makes an application to the bank (crfinancesecurities) to transfer the funds. In the process, she got a replied email from Mr. Loh Mee Sim as crfinancesecurities director of foreign operations malaysian branch which stated that the money is already moved to the paying bank (HSBC Kuala Lumpur), and she has to pay some charge sum of US$45,000 for administration and anti money laundry certificate and transfer to his account in HSBC Selangor Malaysia.
Charles asked my mom to pay a part of the charge, sum of US$20,000 (as his debt to my mom) and the rest of US$25,000 is his responsibility. There fore he issued a letter of undertaking which stated that he will come to Indonesia and marry my mom and pay his US$20,000 debt to her. Then, my mom transfer the US$20,000 via bank transfer to Mr. Loh Mee Sim account in HSBC Selangor, Malaysia.
Several days later Charles talked to my mom, asking her to pay the rest of the charge sum of US$25,000 with the reason that it is already the deadline (unless the funds will be moved to the diplomatic hands) while he doesn't have the money at that moment. He said that he is having an accident and needed surgery. My mom advise him to make a letter to crfinancesecurities requested to extend the deadline till end of July, my mom told him that she won't pay anything more until he came to Indonesia. He has sent the letter of extending deadline. He's remain asking my mom to pay the US$25,000 first by the end of this month, then he will payback all of his debt sum of US$46,500 plus all the transfer fees. My mom said no pay anything more.
Thanks to this forum, now we realized that this case is just like one of the case in here. So we would like to know your opinion in our case. Is this a scam ? If yes, what should we do now and is there any ways to get our money back? We already lost US$21,700 now. Thanks.
So far this is what we know about Charles Anderson :
http://www.tagged.com/profile.html?uid=5419494175
divorced with 1 daughter
address (from sms) :
No 4 Abbot Street, E8. London Borough of Hackney
phone :
+447031830355 (UK)
+60129446553 (malaysia)
his passport :
About end of may my mom met a guy at tagged.com by the name of Charles Anderson from UK. He claimed to be a divorced with one daughter name Princess. They build a serious relationship quickly through intense communications by mail, chat, sms and phone. By the mid of June the guy proposed my mom. He said that he has a business in Malaysia and need help for opening a non resident account in local bank there. He borrowed US$1,500 for that. To prove it, he send her a letter of intentions stated that he will marry her and pay back her money.
Few weeks later he told my mom that he wanted to move from UK to Indonesia to live here together with her. He also told her that he wanted to build a strong business in Indonesia. In order to do that, he told her that he would transfer his funds (GBP640,000) from UK to her account in Indonesia. He make a letter of authorization to his bank (crfinancesecurities) to give her an authorization to release his funds into her account regarding with his intention to build a family with her. To prove that his letter of authorization is legit, he send her his passport even his username and password for his account. Then, based on his letter of authorization my mom makes an application to the bank (crfinancesecurities) to transfer the funds. In the process, she got a replied email from Mr. Loh Mee Sim as crfinancesecurities director of foreign operations malaysian branch which stated that the money is already moved to the paying bank (HSBC Kuala Lumpur), and she has to pay some charge sum of US$45,000 for administration and anti money laundry certificate and transfer to his account in HSBC Selangor Malaysia.
Charles asked my mom to pay a part of the charge, sum of US$20,000 (as his debt to my mom) and the rest of US$25,000 is his responsibility. There fore he issued a letter of undertaking which stated that he will come to Indonesia and marry my mom and pay his US$20,000 debt to her. Then, my mom transfer the US$20,000 via bank transfer to Mr. Loh Mee Sim account in HSBC Selangor, Malaysia.
Several days later Charles talked to my mom, asking her to pay the rest of the charge sum of US$25,000 with the reason that it is already the deadline (unless the funds will be moved to the diplomatic hands) while he doesn't have the money at that moment. He said that he is having an accident and needed surgery. My mom advise him to make a letter to crfinancesecurities requested to extend the deadline till end of July, my mom told him that she won't pay anything more until he came to Indonesia. He has sent the letter of extending deadline. He's remain asking my mom to pay the US$25,000 first by the end of this month, then he will payback all of his debt sum of US$46,500 plus all the transfer fees. My mom said no pay anything more.
Thanks to this forum, now we realized that this case is just like one of the case in here. So we would like to know your opinion in our case. Is this a scam ? If yes, what should we do now and is there any ways to get our money back? We already lost US$21,700 now. Thanks.
So far this is what we know about Charles Anderson :
http://www.tagged.com/profile.html?uid=5419494175
divorced with 1 daughter
address (from sms) :
No 4 Abbot Street, E8. London Borough of Hackney
phone :
+447031830355 (UK)
+60129446553 (malaysia)
his passport :
