Erica Belletini

Once she hooks up with you, she'll send her pictures as a model and chat with you for days. If you like her - and you would like to be with her to get to know her better - she'll propose to travel to a location of your choice to be with you, at her expenses. Then she'll travel to an African country for either charity or business.

Then inevitably she'd get into a trouble: being robbed of everything and stabbed and transported to a hospital, necessitating immediate surgery. The surgeon ASSOUMAN ([email protected]) (a fake, her accomplice) will then contact you as her confident to ask you to send the fees for the surgery else she'd die of bleeding to death.

If you sent the hospital money for the surgery, you're scammed because the receiver is NOT a hospital staff, the surgeon doesn't work there and is a fake.

Erica Belletini will get into more trouble if you ever send money to save her.

[email protected] is her email address.

Please post some of the emails from this person, with headers.

First email that started the DAMSEL IN DISTRESS SCAM:

2012/11/6 Dr Assouman C.H.U <[email protected]>

Hi Mr XXXXXXX

I am contacting you because Miss Belletini erica and Miss Linda Moretti were admitted to our emergency department following a hand armed assault in the city of Abidjan. Miss designated you as contact person. They have lost everything (passport, money, means of payment) and need assistance. Their condition is stable but requires extensive care as soon as possible to not put their lives in danger.

Thank you contact me as soon as possible by email or phone so that I give you more details.

Dr ASSOUMAN SERGE
Medecin Chef au C.H.U de treichville
+225 05145605

The chief surgeon kept calling and emailing, pressing for immediate operation during his night shift. The tactic here - with 20/20 hindsight - is to generate a sense of urgency and ALSO to make verification of his employment impossible. Observe the use of GMAIL by the Chief Surgeon of an Ivorian hospital!!!!!!! Only belated verification showed that he doesn't work there, but was just an accomplice of the Damsel in Distress. There was NO operation. Everything was lies.

Dr Assouman C.H.U <[email protected]>

11/6/12

to me
Bonjour Mr XXXXX;

j'ai essayé de vous joindre par téléphone mais vous ne répondez pas. L'état vitale des deux jeunes femmes s'est considérablement dégradé dans la nuit. Vous devez procéder au paiement le plus vite pour que j'ai l'autorisation de les opérer.
Si on ne les opère pas aujourd'hui leurs chances de survivre sont très réduites.

Non l’hôpital ne prend pas les paiement par carte.

j'attends votre réponse au plus vite, donnez moi des nouvelles et dites moi ce que je dois faire.

traduction:
Hello Mr XXXX;

I tried to reach you by phone but you do not answer. The vital status of the two young women has deteriorated considerably in the night. You must make the payment as soon as I have for permission to operate.
If we do not operate today their chances of surviving are very low.

Not the hospital does not take card payments.

I await your response as soon as possible, give me the news and tell me what I should do.



Le 7 novembre 2012 06:04, XXXX a écrit :

est ce que je peux payer avec une carte bancaire?

Could I pay by a US credit card?


2012/11/6 Dr Assouman C.H.U <[email protected]>


Mr XXXX
ces dames sont italiennes et le règlement est strict pour les étrangers on ne peut pas opérer sans garantie de paiement.
je vous envoi la facture de soins de Mlle BELLETINI , le prix est le meme pour Mlle Moretti
donc pour les 2 operations : 1.370.000 FCFA * 2= 2.740.000 FCFA ( 5352 USD )

faites le paiement au plus vite sinon leur état risque de s'aggraver.

envoyez un mandat western union au comptable de l'hopital
NOM: Bambaso
Prenom: Eric
adresse: CHU treichville
ville: Abidjan
pays: Cote d'ivoire
Motif: paiement opérations de Mlle Belletini et Mlle Moretti

fais le dès aujourd'hui ou demain au plus tard afin qu'on puisse les opérer

Merci

--
Dr ASSOUMAN SERGE
Medecin Chef au C.H.U de treichville
+225 05145605

The model in that photo is actual;y Letitia Castro, who is a model based in Las Vegas.

She is not Italian at all, but is Mexican American. She is of course not the person sending out those emails.

Wow, how did you figure out the photo is Leticia Castro?

So Erica's FB page is full of Castro's pictures as well?

Header of her email. From where did she send it?

Delivered-To: XXXX
Received: by 10.224.31.203 with SMTP id z11csp19651qac;
Thu, 30 May 2013 13:36:54 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 10.180.208.49 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.208.49
Authentication-Results: mr.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 10.180.208.49 as permitted sender) [email protected];
dkim=pass [email protected]
X-Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.208.49])
by 10.180.208.49 with SMTP id mb17mr384849wic.46.1369946213483 (num_hops = 1);
Thu, 30 May 2013 13:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to
:content-type;
bh=Bs6VfhIcwYUPcB2FS/Om1oFrcFXA1FP67FjQyq7uOoc=;
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DXjQ==
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Received: by 10.180.208.49 with SMTP id mb17mr384849wic.46.1369946213479;
Thu, 30 May 2013 13:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.180.144.200 with HTTP; Thu, 30 May 2013 13:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <CAH-ugKY6T+4Y3edexj=MpRx3L9on6wg_OGq2zowNfpBdt2wp8Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAH-ugKY6T+4Y3edexj=MpRx3L9on6wg_OGq2zowNfpBdt2wp8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:36:53 +0200
Message-ID: <CAGPbDeP_Q4w+qJgeSYjn8WLsvSuddLic68pPA1nh6B2-E8c-kA@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Docs
From: Erica Belletini <[email protected]>
To: XXXX
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c37e306a7a2104ddf575e7

--001a11c37e306a7a2104ddf575e7
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

ok tell at which time you will be available to chat, im ready to scan
transfer slip and fee statement.
im tired of stay here, please after receive document , pay receiver fee and
i will be able to go to SFO

Unfortunately, since the scammer is using gmail, the headers will point only to gmail's servers, and not the sender's location.

I found the real person in the photos using google image search.

Then a few searches after that confirm beyond a doubt that Leticia is the real person and "Erica" is the fake.

"Erica" has a very small internet presence, with newer pages that can easily be faked and are not corroborated by any independent site or info.

Leticia, on the other hand, has a very significant presence (Just google Leticia Castro Las Vegas) and her identity is corroborated by a large number of unrelated sites.

These are just a few:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/363133
http://leticiacastro.webs.com/bio.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Latina
http://www.onenewspage.us/video/20130510/1248603/El-Tiempo-con-Leticia-Castro-13.htm