Has an online love interest asked you for money?

Has anyone ward of a Mark Richardson ref Plenty of Fish? Claims to be from Norfolk working on an oil and gas rig in Norway? Ased me to chat on Hangouts, proceeded to tell me he is a widower etc live bombed me then asked if he could transfer inheritance money to me, asking for my address.....

I go and try to find scammers when im super bored and its kinda funny but i like to tease the scammers i say im gonna pay if they show me proof than i talk in cricles just like they do until they give up and i point out everything that they r doing wrong say what they can do to not sound sketchy than just mess around again because they dont read what u say anyway they just want money and will keep asking for it but wont send proof its kinda funny theres soo many things u can tell that they do that will be easy to tell if they r a scammer like they will start out saying hi and say their name when u can clearly see it when u added them or anytime u text them or go on their profile and ask for ur name and where u live never say a state i usually say the us and if they ask where i say they say first and then i say i live in a state like i say in a state not actually naming one and they usually move on to asking for what they want or asking more about u or telling u a whole story u never cared to ask for to sound like a real person and their grammar and the way the spell is always messed up like allot of times they start a sentence trying to say i will give u proof but instead say i we give proof idk y but the i we at the start of a sentence is something they all do idk i thinks its funny it actually works sometimes though i mean its horrible but its soo sketchy how do u not realize ive been messing with scammers for years and i never once had an issue because all u gotta do is use ur head and think if what they say makes sense if it adds up and if its the right decision like if they say pay first than u get proof it dont make sense because i aint paying for something i dont know if im actually gonna get and if its on Snapchat they upload a photo usually Photoshop models from Instagram that they found on google so if they send one save the image and u can use google to find it

I am corresponding with someone on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. All went well for 6 months and now he wants me to loan him money. Said I don't have and he got nasty. I said I am not going to talk about money, but he keeps on bugging me. He says he has a 18 month contract. Lives in Texas. Is there a way I can find out if it is true. Also says he can't do internet banking from the rig. Bothers me a lot. I did sent him an article about scammers and he denied it, saying he is not one. Have a photo of him.

I just found out the guy I had been "dating" for the past year and a half is a fraud. Goes by the name Mikael Abel Jonah, was born in Israel and grew up in Rhode Island. Dark hair with blue eyes. Was married to a woman named Michelle for four years, but has been divorced several years. Mom supposedly died in August 2018. Dad abandoned him and his mom when he was in middle school and married a German woman and lives in Germany. Met him on a dating site, talked a lot on the phone and through WhatsApp. Said he's a project manager for construction projects around the world - has worked on various ones in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Israel, and Texas. Asked for money because he needed funds up front for the projects, and also to pay medical bills because his health is not great. At first it was sending him gift cards, and then he asked for bitcoin. He also tried to send me checks that turned out to be fraudulent, and tried to transfer money into my bank account (which was flagged for fraud by my bank). I'm out about $10,000 because of him. Anyone else have a similar experience? I don't think I'm the only one he's scammed.

I'm in contact with a man from Turkey. Says he's half German and half American. Uses photos from a Turkish professor. I've been stupid to send him a cell phone. It was going to Nigeria, I refused. Then I could send it to Germany. But he never got it. I had to send a watch and some shoes. It's now stranded in customs in turkey. And he wants me to send the money so he can get it. If he has such a position as a doctor, he can pay for it himself. :-) He wants mine to borrow money, but I have to have it in my account. I do not want to. I met him on "Twoo". Says he has a daughter .. but the name does not fit, with the name on the professor's profile. Says he's a gynecologist .. but is something with bones. I had to transfer some money from his account, to other accounts in China and Poland. 2 and 3 million at a time. Now he wants money to get the package out of customs before it is sent back to me. He asked what I would do when it came back. Because it was not nice to keep it. :-) That's my thing !! And he can look far for it. Beware !! ... Have considered contacting that poor professor. He uses his photos on Twitter. Have written to the police ... but they will not return ... think it has been money laundering. He account is closed ... he says ... the card is blocked. The phone broke. ..It's not the first time. Would like to keep in touch until the police can do something.

Im a victim of the love interest of this man name David William From UK , He is a Military Doctor in Syria and working in warzone. He told me he is widow and have one son . He looking for a good woman to accept his son and then proposed his undying love that he will marry me and help me to support my Family. After chatting for 2 weeks he asked help from me, he needs a money $500 USD to pay his tickert to get out from that warzone because he is afraid to die. He promised that he will pay if he have an access to withdraw his money.And he told He has master card but he don't have an access to withdraw his money. He said I'm the only one can help him to get out that dangerous place. He gave to me the Receivers Name and I asked my friend to send the money through Moneygram. But she send it through Western Union but the Receiver's name cannot pick up they money. But he give me another new Receiver's name asked me to send it the money again through area money transfer in other country. Il try to search his name in Google and in Facebook and I found out that he is using a multiple accounts, and I asked him he explained that somebody is using his account. But I Thank God that I've Realized I'm a victim of one a Scammer. I asked my friend to take my money and send it to my Family...that's an experienced I will never forget.

Anson Brown talked with me for over a month said he had to go to Italy to finish a job. He texted me, on the phone. He wanted to talk off the site immediately, and tonight said he needed money due to his amex card did not work. He needed 500 dollars on an Amazon card. I said NO. And told him I was not being scammed. I thought he was honest, and a nice man. But it shocked me. Be aware of people out there.. Also know who your talking too.. scary.

Its someone that I been talking to goes by the name Majid wish I never kept talking to him. He was very nice at first but he wanted money in iTunes. I got his number. 2348138720868 its a Africa number. I am pretty sure its other as he became very abusive. I also got a call from someone saying the was from a computer company and would not stop calling so I told would report him. This is a different person from This guy that say he is Majid

Same story, prince charming turned into a frog today when he asked me to go to Walmart and buy a gift card for internet since they are having issues at the rig. Goes by David Ali Alfred, widow with a 14-year-old daughter who lives in Jacksonville.

I found a scammer going by the name Drew Allen. He claims to be a civil engineer workin in Turkey. He asked for an iTunes card. Then got mad that I wouldn’t send one. Be on the lookout for him

Ugh. It just happened to me by a military overseas. I didn't lose much money, I think it's more about being lied to over and over. I had some fulfillment after discovering true name of the man in photos. I dug all day long. These scammers should teach dating lessons since they are so effective. I guess we all want someone aggressive. My heart is broken. ,(((((

Hi, some of the stories seems same as mine... met guy thru IG, then asked me to communicates with WhatsApp. He said the he is an civil engineer and into offshore jobs which has to do with Construction and installation of offshore pipe lines. Widower with 5 year old son. Everyday we chat and talked, he even asked me to talked to his son, nanny & his friends, they asked me to give him a chance. Everyday he send so romantic love messages, youtube love songs, etc...he wants to go to our country to merry me and end up fell on him. Last week he called that he have problem with his contact that he need to pay and asked me for help by sending him money. This really alarming. ai don’t know if he tell the truth or not.

I’m looking for information regarding Robert Kokholm. Says he is from Denmark but lives I. Scottsdale, Az area Of course he wants money.

Has anyone had someone by the name Alex Miller deployed in Niger Air Force Base and he is single with a daughter, parents died, brother died and asks money to be sent to his colonel at some account in Nigeria?

Hi, please can someone reply as I've read the thread on this guy and I think it's the same one I'm talking to. He's a gorgeous Italian working off shore oil rigs in England, a widow, wife died in car accident 4 years ago. Daughter aged 6 lives with his mum in Italy. Needed money to pay got materials to finish off his contract this week. He gave me his bank details as he doesn't have internet so that I could transfer £10k as two payments to this materials company. The first payment went through but the second payment got blocked as it was classed as a suspicious activity. Now he is desperate to find the rest of the £10k to pay this company. He claims he just needs another £3k which is he asking me for, I said I don't have the funds then he said please apply for a loan. I said I can't. Am I being cat fished but why would he trust me with all his bank account details in the first place...?

I met a man in the CFish relationship app. his name on the Martin Sundal app from Little Falls New York. We talked for almost 2 months. He said he was a maintenance engineer and was working in Mexico. Last week he said he needed to send a document from his company that could not stay on the ship he was working on. As he said he would come to California to meet me, he would take the documents with me. I sent my address, and received the order number, 2 days later I received an email saying I had to make a deposit of $ 2,300 in an account in Turkey for them to release the documents, so I thought, if Mexico is on the side of the United States because are these documents in Turkey? As I had heard many stories on this subject, I immediately block it on my phone. I don't know if the photos he sent me are really of him, but he is beautiful, uses romantic words and is seductive. I have a picture.

What happens once they realize you’re onto them that they are scamming you?

I think I am being scammed although not sure, guy says from America currently working on oil rig professes he loves me already and now asking for money on iTunes card for downloading professional articles. Says his name is James Scott. Any knowledge.

I was contacted by a man through Scrabble- seemed interesting. He wants to talk to me on Hangouts, so I do. I did not give address or phone number, but he wanted it. He started calling me Honey and Sweetie - after only 3-4 conversations. Did not ask for money, but wanted a photo. I did not comply. At any time when he asked for personal info- I did not give it to him. He did not ask for money YET, but he did ask if I was in financial crisis-I have just lost my husband. His answers mirrored mine- I said I was a widow- he said he was a widower, I said my age, oddly enough he was one year older. I said that God was very important to me- he sent scripture. He sent me a rose emoji- I told him that I LOVED roses and he sends pictures of bouquets of roses - daily. Everything is just too " fishy", so I tell him that I need to step-away. ( However, I confronted him regarding. " "Honey" and tell him that he couldn't possibly "love " me, b/c he does not know me! He of course apologize s and says that I am wrong about him. ( I think NOT!) Supposedly works on an oil rig as an engineer. Goes by Andres Dines. When I asked him how he pronounces his name, he does not answer that question. Surprise, surprise! A scammer at large.

Contacted by LinkedIn scammer by the name Usman Magomedov. Handsome guy. Did a reverse photo lookup and found that he used a Puerto Rico actor picture. Claimed to be from Moscow, Idaho but traced his phone number at Troy, Michigan. Initial conversation started off with cryptocurrency investment. Tracked the trading platform and company licence turnout to be mismatch of data. Might be fraud company too. After i told him that im not interested in crytocurrency, he change his tactic. Texting daily just to show how much he care. Told him im not looking for relationship. He reduced his texting. Still in contact. I wanted to tell all his contact that he is a scammer to avoid other being scam but dont know how. I do hope higher authority will take action against all this scammer. Hasn't stop the chat with him because i dont want him to be suspicious and delete his account and make a new one before i can alert his contact. If anyone ever approach by this guy please reply here. Thanks.

Does anyone know or heard of these three guys Albert Lionel Fletcher says he’s working on an oil rig in South Korea allegedly has two sons with the same name David married twice first son David product of a one night stand second son David was to his second wife who passed away with cancer. Allegedly lives in Florida when home ? Needs money for a repair on the oil rig no access to money from anywhere. Wants you to take loans out from anywhere you can get also family friends it makes no difference to him Frank Goodman never been married but has a daughter in university in CA he’s allegedly on an oil rig in Russia that was raided by sea pirates have taken his wallet phone credit cards needs money to return to New York has a sick sister with cancer Cole Graham has an adopted daughter lives in New York currently He is in the Shetland isles bank account frozen needs to use your account to have money transferred into then you transfer it to an account in South Africa for a broken pipe on the rig ? Never been married Brazilian by birth brought up in the US.

Does anyone know a guy by the name Borislav Williams from Ohio.He sends me a message on scrabble go and then he sends me a request on IG .he telling me his father die when he was 7 in the war and his mother died when he was 13 he has no Siblings and his wife died 5 years ago from cancer and he has an 8-year-old daughter name, Anna and that he's a Rig Drilling Contractor of ExxonMobile Oil.and he studied at stony brook university.right now he's in Russia in offshore drilling for 3 months .its going to be 1 month we been texting on the 2-week of texting he's telling me he loves me he wants to take care of me and then he telling me he sending gifts.But I got a tracking number I track the package it's telling me That the parcel has been held by tax agents they are holding the package due to absence of tax clearance certificates and to obtain your (TCC), you are required to make the following payments $845.00

Briefly describe the scam Good evening I reported the other day that I had been scammed. My submission reference number: accc-scamwatch:788809 There is a guy luring women like myself off online dating websites on to Hangouts to chat. These are the ones he used to contact me on: BYRON JOHN SMITH byronjsmith007 ADAMS JOHN SMITH adamssmith0102 After getting to know you, he phones up & says he needs you to buy a Google play or steam wallet card for him as he as he needs an AUS Google card to install a program he working on for the company he is working for, as the UK Google play cards don't work on the Australian software & hardware. He also claims he has a son with hole in his heart & is currently living with his mum. He also asked which bank I use & what my Account No. was, so he could transfer the funds back to me & that he needed photo of my drivers license. I Didnt provide any of this information as he is a scammer & identify theif. When I refused to provide him with this information & not buy him any Google Play cards he became aggressive, abusive & threatening.

I had one, went by the name of Richard Dario. Same story, son in boarding school, wife died 10 years ago, works on oil rig in gulf of mexico, lives in Missouri , he’s from Italy originally, but couldn’t speak any italian ! Lol .... needs cash to be able to end his contract on the rigs, he’s been there 6 months .... would always avoid answering any questions , I’ve now deleted him , obviously a scammer!!

I had one, went by the name of Richard Dario. Same story, son in boarding school, wife died 10 years ago, works on oil rig in gulf of mexico, lives in Missouri , he’s from Italy originally, but couldn’t speak any italian ! Lol .... needs cash to be able to end his contract on the rigs, he’s been there 6 months .... would always avoid answering any questions , I’ve now deleted him , obviously a scammer!!

Hi. My good friend is being scammed by a man named Andrew moats. Military. Help! Anyone heard of him?

Happened to me recently a man saying his name was Frank Gilbert worked on an oil platform in Maine of all places and was Italian no children asked me about my job as a nurse and phoned me daily sent me pictures of him the ocean etc after a few weeks said he had fallen for me and i believed him use to sing down the phone to me i did a Google image search he wasnt on there so believed he was real he would answer any questions i had and was always open to talk to me until he said an emergency had happened onnthe paltform as he had to pay for the damages 7000 dollars and asked me to lend him money i said i couldnt he told me to mortgage my house said he would lose his contract so i started looking up oil platforms there isnt one in maine thats when he started getting nasty getting his so called boss to message me demanding money i blocked him then he started messaging me off a different name john williams and the threats and all started i blocked him too but the scary bit if all about these people they set up accounts on social medias using my pictures but differnt women names so be careful people they dont care about you they get nasty and abusive when you tell them no and im lucky my brother is a whizz on the computer so he as managed to shut down 19 social media account using my pictures up to now so please dont fall for them charm i did but as soon as they asked for money i said no hope this helps x

I have been talking to someone called Henry Matthew since April 2020. He contacted me on WWF and then we moved to Hangouts. Said he lives in Washington DC and was widowed roughly 4 years ago and has a 12 year old daughter called Amelia. Originally from Lower Saxony, Germany, but his Fathers work took him to the USA. He lost both his parents and has only one friend. He went off to an oil rig in China a few days after we started chatting and twice asked me for money but I refused but he continued to talk to me. Apparently he is back in DC now. He told me he loved me within two weeks of chatting and said he had plans for us. Luckily I am no fool and have humoured him and certainly NEVER sent him any money. I blocked him from Hangouts today but would be interested to know if anyone has spoken to him or at least I can warn people off him. He was VERY VERY convincing.

My online military man has a girl name Alicia in a boarding school in Florida. I really need to know if anyone has come across warren porter and Alicia porter?

Friend a man who claims he works on a oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, he sent me a video of a explosion that happened today 10-6-2020. Also a picture of crewman hand. States he needs $2500 to fly Doctor to the rig! Company will pay for treatment but not flight. Please respond because if this injured man needs help. I will help him. Thank you.

I’ve had multiple people same thing... some that friended me on Fitbit (I’m minding my own business trying to be healthy and get a random friend request - many suddenly in the last six months) anyway they starting chatting there, Mingle 2 or even Instagram and move to hangouts or WhatsApp. Different names that have been used with me just so you guys know is Miguel Addison, Gary Scott, George Schmid, Jason Paul, Alex Scott and others I didn’t get last names for. The lengths some of these people go through is insane...answer for everything but I’m not naive to the the scams. They do a terrible job keeping their stories straight. I have found contradictions in many things. They will try to put a guilt trip on you if you won’t do anything financially. This last one I’ve been speaking to I have told from the get go I’ve had people trying to scam me and I will not do anything financially for anybody so don’t waste our time and he insisted he was for real. I remained skeptical but eventually the day came where there was some reason he needed my financial help. I sent him a snapshot of my email from my bank from that morning warning me I only had $14 in my account and yet he still acted like he’s interested. Then next thing I know he was wanting my Verizon account login since (he could tell I had Verizon from the screenshot) and he wanted to order us new phones. WHATEVER any of you do do NOT send money, do not get gift cards, and do not give any login, bank account, or personal information to anyone that you have not met in person and know they are who they say they are!! Do not trust people who are sending you pictures of their passports and military ID. You can very easily look online to find common fake IDs and what a real one should look like. Pay attention to details!! One thing I want to suggest to any of you is to use Google image and do a reverse image search on the pictures they sent you. It is even worth paying a few dollars or so on socialcatfish (does a good job finding matching facial recognition), even for a trial. Social catfish helped point out multiple dating sites with the same picture different names being used. Now, Google image will find similar pictures (even if it’s just the same shirt color) but has helped me locate a couple of scammers and know who the real person is that they stole pictures from their Instagram page or something. I even had someone willing to do a video chat so I could see who they were but it was obvious to me they were using another device to show me a video that has been pre-recorded as their voice sounded foreign and words did not line up with the video and no eye contact like they were actually chatting with me... You have to pay attention to all these details and when in doubt trust your instincts!!!

Has anyone herd of Alex Olson has a 14 year old son Lives on a ship send money to Tennessee in a care package he lives over seas his agent gets the money

Has anyone met a man goes by the Warren porter a us military on a peace keeping mission in Dubai , wife died of lung cancer, daughter in a boarding school in Florida? I really need to know because he is the man I have been chatting with online

Scammer by name of Mase Benjamin, wife died 5 years ago, independent drilling contractor in Havana, Cuba. Met on WWF, switched to Hangouts. Asked for money to fix his machine so he can finish contract and retire. Progressed to sending box with check to repay my loan. Shipping service was very costly. Cuban Shipping Service.....$600 to ship.

From Spain but lives in Manhattan, independent contractor on oil platform, off to Norway until Christmas doing a job, 23 year old son that lives with his deceased moms family. Sound familiar?

I met someone on a language app called HelloTalk. He basically managed to get my Instagram details and then proceeded to groom me. After various money transfers and then eventually meeting taking control of my bank card as well as stealing my new iPhone . He discarded me in the most disrespectful way. He uses this app to meet women pretending to learn English. I have noticed that he has moved on to a new victim. I tried to report this to the app but the HelloTalk app has glitches and one of these glitches deleted my chats, so I do not have any evidence and they are unwilling to do anything about it. This person should not be allowed to do this to women. I do take responsibility for my naiveness but how can I get him reported?

Havr anybody been scammed by a guy named Philip Denis who says he is from San Jose, California?

Hi! Does this sound familiar to anyone? Dual -citicen (U.S-Cypriot) name Adrian Frank Adelphie (?), born 1968, divorced about 6 years ago. Wife were drug user. One son (27 y.o.), who studies medicine in U.K. (Newcastle). Lives in NY, mom lives in LA, dad past away in 2015. His profession property manager and civil engineer. Have property in U.S., U.K. and Cyprus. Makes contact at least in Interpals site. Uses very sweet words and is very talented to manipulate and after chatting one month starts to beg money. Have at least two "russian friends" named Alexander Savchenko and Andrei Roman, whoms bankcards into he wants you to transfer money by Paysend or to himself via Bitcoin for his "whatsoever" needs, when it is his own illness, mom's surgery, or for his own businesses, cos the company he also works for has have fund misuses which are under investigations right now and his own and some other engineers accounts are not available for the use until investigations are over and court let them use the accounts again. For example he needs to complete his own clients projects and he needs money for that. If any familiar signs, please leave a comment.

I met a guy named Freddie Steiner on LinkedIn and then ended up on instagram this man said he lost his wife 3 years ago and has a 12 year old daughter. He then said he was going to Germany as he had a contract and asked me to send steam card for daughter which I did but now is asking for 20,000 because a machine broke down and he has to pay of course this created red flags to me. He starts fast ly with all his live words. I did not send anything but 1 50 dollar steam card. I felt it was a scam and uses a lot of religion in conversations. My gut says stay away!!!!

Does anyone know a Daniel L Hodges? Loves to write Love stories, Love Letters, is definitely good at what he does with pictures too!! First asked for $6,500.00 to come home.(Military)was in Syria. Then while in Pakistan on the way home got Arrested for smuggling Gold! But it was for us!(so he said)then he wanted $45,000.00 for his lawyer ! That’s when I said, No Way in Hell!!

Has anyone met someone from San Diego, claiming to work for KPMG as an accountant and is in Nova Scotia for 8 weeks. Has a 12 year old daughter name Keisha. He is Haitian.

met roderick thompson on POF. born 1966, sent me his address, social security and passport. however, my when I used a service to check him out there was nothing on him? he is 6'1, gorgeous. says he lives in sacremento California. he is petroleum engineer in Cyrus turkey. needed 1400 to pay lawyer so he could get contract on job. can only text. phone is associated with Montana area code and not California

Anyone meet up with Walterdelgado fromBarcelona, Spain, but lives in Manhattan? Currently in Norway, private contractor on oil rigs? Has 23 year old son that lives with his deceased wife’s family?

I had blocked my scammer from my cell phone, email, and facebook. But he is still able to message me on facebook. After over 2 months of no communication, I get a facebook message saying "how are you? I've missed you so much". I was going to respond saying "you're fake and should be ashamed of what you put women through" but decided that he wouldn't care and would continue lying to me. So I didn't reply and just blocked him from messaging me on facebook. I decided not to allow him to waste another minute of my time! Even though I realized he was a scammer before I ever sent him any money, he did steal my affection, my feelings, and my time for about 4 months. I will continue to trust people because most people are good and kind but I will likely not answer ant friends requests from people I don't know. I do know what to look for now. Good luck ladies and do NOT send anybody money or give your account information!

Please advise me quickly on how to report a scammer. He is threading my life and my families. I need help now.

Taking to a guy in military Asking all personal questions Parents died in car crash 19 years ago On a short trip to Saudi Arabia Asked me to stop messaging on Instagram and go on Hangouts English isn’t great but swears English is only language Asked if I was financially stable Hasn’t asked for money yet

I was talking to a guy claiming he was given a contract for work on a rig platform off the coast of Texas. He asked for money to help feed his crew and money for internet access, I refused to give him any. Since then he has approached other women that I have spoken with and asking for the same from them. He makes contact with us in Facebook, I have reported him but they say he isn't going against community standards, so he continues.. I have pics of who he claims he is, a phone number and also a copy of his so called contract and ID card from ExxonMobil