Has someone offered you a huge sum of money or a valuable consignment? It's a 419 or advance fee fraud - find out how they work, and what to do to be safe.
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This is to inform you that I Richard Harrison , personal attorney to late DR. GE,who die with his family leaving the sum of U.S. $ 10,950,000.00 in the bank here in Togo, my country,and I would like to introduce you to the bank to claim the fund,here is the information required from you,please get back to me for more details for the claim.

Your e-mail

your age

phone

Sincerely Richard Harrison
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by jennyn Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:36 am
I don't know if this is the same guy, but unfortunately I got involved in a very elaborate dating hoax with a guy from Match.com who used the name Richard Harrison. He claimed to be Italian-American, and the day after we "met" online, he went on a business trip to the UK -- he claimed to work in shipping. While he was there, we were texting and chatting on Yahoo messenger constantly, he was in love with me, blah blah blah -- of course I fell for it hook, line and sinker. Feeling pretty foolish. Eventually, he said that he had gotten a huge unexpected fee in his shipping contract job, and that he needed financial help so that he wouldn't lose all the personal money he had used to front the job. He asked me for $6,000, and to my embarrassment I almost gave it to him. But luckily fate intervened, and I started to track down the red flags. Eventually, I did a Google upload of the photos he'd sent me of himself, and discovered that the man in the photo was an entirely different person.

I'm sure he's changed his info by now, but for what it's worth, this was the identifying info he used:

98.138.90.56
[email protected]
786-284-5819
786-581-6233

His story was that he was a widower whose wife had died in childbirth 5 years before, and the baby died too. (I am also a widow, so in my mind this was a connection we had.) His Italian mama had helped him through the trauama, he had almost killed himself, etc. This guy was VERY VERY good, I thought we had a special connection. Watch out everyone!
by Bubbles Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:07 am
Welcome to ScamWarners jennyn. It is great that you listened to your intuition and didn't send the money. Scammers do work hard to make some kind of emotional connection with their intended victim. Sadly it works all too often and people who are hurting from their own loss, get hurt again in two ways. Emotionally and financially.

If we can help you get through the healing, please let us know.

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

Rest in Peace 24 June 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.

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