us army leave

for a few months i have been chatting on line to a so called soldier based in afghanistan, was going well and he asked me to request leave for him, this i did and received as i thought documents pertaining to this , THEN i was asked to send £1300 via western union , warning bells rang and after investigating it would appear that i have been scammed well and truely , luckily and thanks to an astute lady in western union i have only lost some of my pride . PLEASE heed this warning here are the details of what and who to be aware of,
mstsgtedward/[email protected], email address [email protected], so called papers from dept of defense , 2ndfalcon brigade, combat team, 82nd sf base, division Kabul. with the name of DO MORGAN, , I met this so called person on plenty of fish dating site, has anyone else had the same experience .

Hello bubblybetty and welcome to ScamWarners.

I'm so glad that you investigated this before you sent any money, and that the lady at Western Union was able to help with this too.

Quite a lot of scammers are trying to trick women this way into sending money to them, so thank you for posting this information about the scammer who tried to steal from you - it will help to warn other women about him.

If you haven't already done so, do read this introduction to Scammers Impersonating Military Personnel, here:

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Thanks again for posting this information.

Hi There
Yes the same has happened to me just last month but unfortunately i paid the first lot of leave money, my own fault i convinced the lady in Wetern Money transfer that i knew what i was doing. It was only when i was asked for another payment for a replacement officer that i too had doubts. Yes i lost some money but not as much as i could have done if i hadnt come on this site and checked it out for myself, i had been trying to find out info before i paid the frst lot of money but unfortunately i didnt find this site until last week. Glad you didnt pay the money and be sure to take the advise from this site it is very helpful
Regards
cheryl138

Congratulations to the lady at Western Union bubblybetty.

Though your pride may be hurt you can get some satisfaction from knowing how sick the lying scumbag will feel that you found him out.

Hi Betty and Cheryl

Bubblebetty, if you haven't deleted the emails from this person already I would love to be able to get them posted here to help prevent others from going through what you and Cheryl have been through. I can send you an email address and post it for you if you prefer.

A couple of warning signs to take note, consultant.com is a free email address provided by an email provider called mail.com, they also have free emails for accountant.com, lawyer.com and financier.com which are all commonly used by scammers, i would go as far as to say that a person who really worked in those professions would never use such an email address.

Another warning sign that is easy to pick up is that the US army is asking for payment in UK pounds, then presumable asking for it to be sent by Western Union.

Not that the US army would need a private citizen to send them money for any reason whatsoever, but if they did they would not;
Ask for payment in any other currency besides US dollars
Use Western Union to receive payment
Contact you with any other email besides an official US military email address
Contact you at all in the first place

Leave from the army is much the same as with any other employer, if the worker has a leave entitlement, the employee themselves will apply for it and it will either be granted or rejected, no money would ever need to be paid and no third party would ever be required to make an application.

Hi All
Please find below an email that i got from Col. riise, Sgt Masons superior who still thinks i am going to pay for his leave...

Sorry for the late response,
-Immediately the leave process is complete Sgt. Corley Mason will be relieved of his duties here and will be able to go on leave requested upon.
-This leave bonus will be calculated and send to you via a bank wire transfer when the leave process is complete, you will be contacted by the finance department immediately the leave process is complete,
-All the recepit to your payment will be attached to the leave papers of Sgt. Corley Mason, and will be given to him on completion of the leave process,
-Yes a friend can help with the payment but any such payment made should be sent directly with the details including the exact amount sent to me [email protected].
Thanks for your cooperation.
Col. Riise

His email address below... I pressume he is from Nigeria too...



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hope this helps
cheryl138

The relevant IP is 41.155.45.86 which leads straight to Nigeria.

I'm glad you found out quite soon and didn't lose much more than money.

Dan