Romance scams will cost you

I think I’m getting scammed by a guy in the army. Says he is in Africa and needs $2500 by the end of the month. Told me he is going to die there if I don’t get him out. I’ve googled his number and it’s pops up in the United States. I’m at the end of my rope and don’t know what to do.

I met a guy online, he said his name was Bernard Rosario originally from Puerto Rico but now resides in Birmingham in the UK. We chatted for about two on WhatsApp (texts and audio) and he was using a US number, claiming that he’d been in the US recently. When we spoke he sounded African. Last week he said he bought me a gift and wanted to send it to me. He then said I must pay for £450 for clearance for the package to be delivered and said I should expect a call from the courier agent. When I refused he got mad.

I was scammed by a Frank Donaldson. Does anyone here know him? This went on for 3 months . Asked me for money in two days. Was asking for $220,000 and really thought I was so in love I’d do it. I gave him money but drew the line and he knew he couldn’t get more so disappeared. When will we have law enforcement on the internet?

My 32 year old son recently met a very attractive 24 year old gal from the Phillipines who claims to be making great money as a maid in Malasia. She video chats with him regularly and says she wants to come to the US soon. She hasn't asked for money yet but her story seems a bit too sob. She claims to have 2 kids and was married at age 13. I'm just wondering if there's a way to check this out.

I just discovered a romance scammer using the "doctor working for the WHO in Yemen" identity. The profile was rather well-made, I couldn't find anything searching for his pictures or his accounts. I only found proof when I searched for doctors working in Yemen. Because of that I want to include his accounts here, so I might can help others to avoid trouble in the future: The scammer's instagram: 333_ riccardomonte The scammer's e-mail: riccardo monte210 @

Has anyone had any communication with a “Thomas Herzberg”! Saying he’s a German trauma surgeon currently in Syria? Has a daughter that has had leukaemia?

the experiences i have read so far seems to be what i have gone through. I have lost a lot of money to someone claiming to be a US military guy with a daughter around 14 and a ex with whom he had a messy divorce.Currently in Florida where he moved to last year from san Diego. Now as a reserve he has been diagnosed with cancer but says he is making me his successor so his ex does not get her hands on his assets. Still he needs money as after the surgery the doctor found a tumor and as he is in a private hospital, he me to access his account. even when i have not signed anything or ever gave him my passport details. But his account officer and lawyer still want to hear from me. This has gotten scary. His goes by the name of Chase but i have never seen him just have his snaps. If anyone knows about this please let me know.

I just avoided being scammed $10,500 to try and get a replacement orthopedic surgeon for a widowed "Dr. James Lee" wanting to break UN contract from India pakistan kashmir border to get to his 9 year old daughter "Mary" and move close to me. He said parents were deceased and no siblings, also didnt get along with relatives making him seem lonely. We met on FB and asked to switch to Google hangouts. He was well spoken, charming and sent pictures of a very handsome doctor. (Identity theft) He needed me to email the General with a request for replacement, thinking this was all that he would need, I complied. He said that it would be near impossible, but 3 days later I received a letter back stating they found a doctor willing to comply. To have the transaction take place the UN fee was $10,500. I was so happy for him and then he states he doesn't have access to his funds from there, for me to lend it. RED FLAG!! Went to UN website and looked at the doctors list... no James Lee. Also googled 2 of the many pictures he sent me... 100% scam!! Sent him packing. Sad that people are willing to play on others emotions. I really felt I was helping him and his daughter. Oh well lesson learned and I hope I can help others in spotting this type of crime!

I was just talking to Dr. Paul Morgan..he is widow..has son in boarding school..i would never give money...

I befriended a fellow on Facebook because he said he was an oil contractor. I am a Canadian and I thought he might be working in Northern Alberta. Turns out he is working onan oil rig off of Norway. He said he was a widower with a 9 year old son. (Now 10). We passed the time of day for a couple of months. He told me he loved me and wanted us to live together somewhere giving me a choice of where that might be. He is from Brooklyn. His son was being boarded in a private school. After 3 months of talking he told me that his son was going on a field trip and needed money but his bank account was compromised . Could I help him out? He would pay me back with interest. He needed $1000.00. Seems like a lot for a field trip. I said no and he kept asking. After I said I wouldn't send money to anyone I didn't know he deleted me. He goes by the nme of Nelson Richard

Anyone talking to a Stephen (Esteban) Sanderval? I wonder if he is still around.

I have a friend who met this guy on a dating site called zoosk. He was very sincere and went by the name of Michael. He claims to be from the Bay Area but recently is in Turkey. My friend was talking to him on the phone when all of a sudden he was arrested by the Turkey Government for tax issues. He needed my friend to send him 8000 dollars to bail him out but before this he sent my friend a check for 2.7 million claiming he has lots of money but the government has but a hold on his account. So my friend did send him the money even though I warned her it was a scam. She insist that he is the real deal and told her he will marry her when he gets back to the United States. She wanted to borrow some money from me but I advised her if it was for anything else I would but not for this scam. She refinanced her house and got the money to him. Now he told her he needs another 8000 to fly him and his agent back to the United States so he could settle his case. Again I warned her not to give him any more money and she assured me he will pay her back and not to worry about it. She is deeply in love with this scammer and at this point I don’t know want to do. She has made me promise to keep it a secret and to not tell anyone especially her family. She claims he will meet her this coming Friday when he lands in the U.S. I am tempted to go to her family who might talk some sense into her even though she feels I have betrayed her trust, I know I’m doing the right thing since she does not see what is happening to her but I do.

Yes our stories sound familiar the guy I’m talking to supposed to be in the military right now “trying to send his money to me” but I have to pay Turkish shipping 1,940 dollarz to retrieve the package.. & yes we talk on hangouts that’s all I had to hear to be a red flag along w/him calling me baby & wants marriage when he comes back to the states.. nah I’m good took pics of the package w/the money in it & all.

Has anyone heard of a Mike Hummel. Says engineer but now special forces. Based in Hamilton but lives in Scotland. Has an 8 year old daughter. Very handsome weight trains with tattoos. Asks for care package with air pod and money as not able to access his.

I’m talking to a guy who has an Instagram account with pictures in a hospital etc Claims to be a doctor in Yemen from Maryland blah blah blah Sent photos google He’s a doll He said send I tunes cards to his son Doesn’t add up said son is in college at school Yea right with covid and he’s only going to be 15 he goes by James His son is John

Anybody hear of a guy Magnus Erickson? Works on a rig as marine engineer.

Does anyone know a Nelson Richard? He says he is an oil rig contractor working off of Norway. He says his wife died and he has a 10 year old son who is in a boarding school. He is from Brooklyn.

Has anyone been scammed by a US Army Captain Surgeon on a Peace Corp stationed in Yemen, from Houston, Texas’s. Claims to have no one in the world to call his family, according to him he has been in Yemen 5 years he goes by Zick R. Magrado... please let me know ASAP thanks

I created a TikTok account for fun, this person Kelvin Oscar added me and started to send me messages, saying he is an Orthopedic working in Syria and that he is a widow and his parents died, we messaged a lot, he called me on video chat a couple of times, every time I looked pre-recorded as he moved and talked too fast, then said that he is working in Syria at the military hospital and that his accounts are frozen and that because of the pandemic that he needs to pay the company to move his valuables out of there, he asked if they can send it here, I always refused, finally I said okay at the post office and I'll pick up there, now theres a a fee of $1,200 for delivery, which he claims he can't pay, so I looked him up on TiTok and he also had another account under Kelvinoscar 20 and oscar_red52, so he was so persistant with the money and so I did the reverse image search and found the real person who is not from Canada but from Brazil! and all the pictures and videos this scammer sent are all from that page under a different name, also briefly looked on google and came across this site where apparently he has done this before!

Hi I meet a guy in Facebook and he ask me to talk by hangouts, it been more that 3 weeks and I had been texting with his daughter, he says is a civil ingineer in Houston texas his says his name is Harrison George, and now asked for money for a projects, had any of you heart about this before, please let me know

On match.com, I met someone who says that he is a pharmaceutical scientist for USAID. Says he went to Stanford and then UNC chapel Hill. He is from Jamaica. He lost his wife 6 years ago to cancer. I cannot find any digital footprint on him and the driver's license that he even screen grabbed and sent to me I suspect is a fake I found the same numbers on other license. He's going under the name Paul Davidson and says he's from Blacksburg Virginia that he came over to the United States at 16. Here's the tricky part We are in the same profession, I'm sure that I'm really am what I say I am, but he has not asked me for any money or set up any scenario where he would need money as a matter of fact he's told me that he would take care of me. He's already said that he loves me and it's been about two and a half months and I started pointing out some differences like the address on the license does not have his name on it and there's just so many little discrepancies that make me wonder. He did ask me what I knew about Bitcoin but that was the end of that. It's so strange because something seems so believable and now I'm kind of questioning my own sanity that is a scam artist or is he not some of the things he said and done I just can't believe someone would be so cruel. His mom has gotten sick on ce and I help support him emotionally through that. The thing that is very suspicious to me is that he uses Google voice for his phone and so the connection is always janky also he claims that he cannot download Google Duo or WhatsApp so that we can video chat. We'd have chatted over Skype and it's him but there's I was an issue with Skype freezing and so it's more trouble than it's worth. He's a handsome guy he even showed me a picture of his deceased wife who he referred to as his ex-wife for a long time even when the dating profile he checked the never been married box when there is indeed a widower box. I asked for proof thinking he would screen grab an obituary and he sent me a link to forever missed which had a write-up with a lot of grammatical errors in it about this woman who was his wife Jennifer and one part of it had her name spelled with one N, But later in the paragraph it was two Ns. something tell me to revisit it and I went to the beginning of the site and I saw that the site was actually set up a few days ago which was right after I asked him for proof so he's gotten angry and said maybe he's just not for me because he's tired of me doubting him and that whole thing and it really got to me because I found myself falling for this guy. So now don't know if he's gaslighting me or if I'm just crazy. does anyone know anything about this situation or has anyone had this encounter? Please help

Words with Friends - played it for years with my girlfriends then one day I was inundated with requests from men who I didn't know. I was lonely and overwhelmed and love- starved and had no idea that there were people out there who could destroy me financially while I was playing scrabble. I bought the lies hook line and sinker. Ladies look out for Scott John and Michael Roland - the names they use but not their real names. I still believe sometimes they are real. They are not real! They are thieves. They don't love anyone. They are pirates! I almost lost my home. The turning point for me was receiving a threat on my life and my son's life. Today I found emails from both of them. I have changed my phone number many times. I block them and they come back. They don't love - they try to kill our spirits and take our money. I am a disabled veteran with a disabled husband and disabled son. They don't care. And if you read something that sounds like love copy and paste it into Google and you'll see that it came from somewhere else. They didn't write it. They don't work on oil rigs or they don't live where they tell us. They don't have children who need surgery or big machines that broke down. That's all I can offer. Except I am going to spend the next 4 years of my life paying back all the money I borrowed to send to them. Listen to the people at the FTC. I wish I had.

My mother in-law is being scammed by a Bryan Williams. Says he is a contractor for Exxon working on an oil rig in Aruba where it’s always cold and windy, one of many red flags. There was a Bryan williams wo was a big wig at Exxon in 2003 and went to prison for embezzlement and tax evasion. He always asks for amazon gift cards. She has sent him 30 at 100 bucks each. He tells her he needs 10k to get a “box” out of Mexican customs that contains close to a million dollars and retirement papers. Once he retires he plans they will live together and see the world. She has wrapped large amount of cash in bubble wrap and sent it to this “company, Provisions Security Company” a mexican customs Company”. She has sent 2 payments of 3000.00 cash, wrapped in bubble wrap, one by fed ex, once by regular mail, each to a different address here in the states, Florida and Texas. I have told my mother in law about these scams and she’s in love so she thinks I’m lying. Now she wants to sell her house and put all her money with his. I texted this person myself pretending to be a widowed 62 year old woman. Within 20 minutes I had him wanting to send him money. He wanted an amazon card to start. I said sure, send me 100.00 and I’ll send a card. He got very irritated. Said he didn’t want to talk to me, I wasn’t open minded enough for him. I show her my evidence and she still won’t believe us. Says we aren’t letting her live her life. When she looses everything to this moron I won’t feel responsible and sure won’t be moving her into my home.

Does anyone recognize this guy? He is an ‘engineer’ working in Turkey and he put all his money into this big job and one of his expensive machines broke down and his job is stalled until he can get it repaired and he needs $13 ,000 or so. He has already gotten $1,500 In gift cards from my sister and she thinks he’s going to send twice that back to her. Oh, and he loves her and can’t wait til he can fly here and marry her. She still believes he’s real and I need to convince her it’s a scam

Dr Greg Martins... scrabble! American Orthopaedic surgeon in the Yemen, widowed and two daughters being looked after by nuns in Germany!! Spelt the state he was from in the US wrong which aroused my suspicion immediately. Insisting I use hangout which I don’t and suddenly loves me and not even seen a picture... almost fun to provoke. Beware ladies I have heard horror stories about people parting with money... why would you really?

It started june 2 ND. Plenty of Fish. Usual army stories. Pictures were great. Said his wife and child died in an accident. OH he charmed me. What he texted about seemed so real. Spoke numerous times daily. Once texted for 6 hrs. I fell deep into this really deep everyone said be careful. Received one selfie no calls. Security. reasons. Yesterday was the question. I hate asking but I'm running out of data. Please can you send $100. I refused. He was OK said he was sorry. Said he couldn't wait till the 5th he'd be home from Jordan. But I started with what I saw online. Yes he got angry. Said he'd call in 2 hours. The first phone call. He did. I listened nothing bad. But he had the accent. I asked he said he was in the Army 30 yrs. In France for 8. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. Well, it went south. Said he was going to block me because I went too far. We were on Whatsapp. That was yesterday the 19. I'm devastated. I knew but never wanted to believe. We would talk about when he got off the plane how would we react.. He was so sincere. Have I eaten, how's Charlie today, did you sleep well, and conversation was amazing. 3-4 times a day. So here I am and I don't know what to do. I'm waiting but I know he's not real. Today Siri chimed in said he had a new number. Stupid lonely me.

I have been talking and have video chat with a guy that claims he is Rubi Puckett from Washington DC working on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Since he has left the ship he is not wanting to fly on a commercial plane. Has had money wired to my bank account and I Zelle the funds to a TAM. He has a son named Dennis who is in a boarding school in Atlanta GA. My bank has frozen my account now. I paid to look up his pictures on catfish and found several this morning. I had looked up his picture before and nothing came back. Yes I was scammed and now I am in a financial bind. I am posting this so if anyone else see this post that they know that they are being scammed by this man. There was over 18,000 wired into my account from other ladies.

I met guy on pofish, says he's civil servant, age 56,7, lost his wife in car car crash, then he wanted to go on Skype, l asked him to go whatapp, its better. Ut no we, started chatting on, Skype. We chatted, about normal things, he's says in Lebanon miltuary army, an that he's major, be home end of June. Got boy of 11 John in boarding school. Not bad looking, serval pic, so l started to chat, he asked me alot about myself, what colours l liked, food, what car did l have, etc. This was only two wks, at the most, sent me lovely texts, because all we done, wanted gift cards from Amaxon, l got those, he want to send photos of them, which l did. Gave me E, mail address, later in time he asked for money, his son needed for boarding school care taker, that where my money will go to him. For John. So l went on war remissions, got all details from this guy, sent it. No one would furge a E, Mail, can they. I went on Skype to see if his retured a message, but found he's blocked me on it. I don't no what do next. Its says on Skype that lm blocked through organisation, would that be the Army, an that he's coming home. Got photos if need to see them. Thanks for your time. I don't want my bane meanaged. Plse.

I have been speaking with a Dr in Iraq,he is apperantly from Quebec. Has a son Alex I'm boording school. Asked for Google card,then money for the fee for his flight. Handsome man,sent pics of him. His name is Brandon.

I've been talking to a guy in the military. He's NEVER asked me for anything. But he promises to take leave and come see me. He says he's a pilot. He has sent me several pictures supposedly of himself. Very nice looking man. Says his name is John Dave. Has anyone else come across him?

A man started chatting to me after starting a game on words It started as "hi" then he was telling me he was widowed with a 10 year old grandson to take care of and that he worked as a driller for an oil company. Then he added me on Facebook. He said he was going on an 8 week contract to the Persian gulf and while there a machine leaked causing an explosion and he need thousands of dollars to repair it. He said he'd managed to get most if it but was $3,000 short and could I send him some money and he'd pay me back once his loan came through. He was very persistent and alarm bells started ringing so I approached him with my fears and he said he was insulted that I doubted him but then I googled people who work on oil rigs and this site came up. I had no intention of sending him money but there are people that will get sucked in and it's really scary to think there are scammers out there on a simple thing like a word game. Please be careful and stay safe!

l found out who was scamming me by doing a reverse photo lookup. Ladies this guy is good he lives in states works for navy and using many names and pics some are current he says he 36 mother divorced 1 boy 12 from TX stuck in Ukraine liar. He will sweet talk u sweetie, honey,baby, heartbeat, be there for u. Once he gets u he will make excuses why he needs money he isn't poor.uses all kinds names on lindkien. States he dr navy un. He is 29 lives in California he not going to get away with this there may be other people involved. Don't us any personal information, bitcoin,money gram, gift cards nothing he will try every thing to hook u. He very cute but a idiot who going to be in trouble soon. Please don't fall for anyone who Contacts u Instagram, whats app,no chats. He trying to keep private then deletes Instagram starts another. Main one uses Mike Donalds in army he is in navy and just bought a house with money he has scammed. BE AWARE Nobody died,he far from starving.

As I was pretty suspicious about 2 guys who insisted on following me on instagram, who couldn't reply properly to the questions I asked them, I looked them up: Williams Leonardo and Mason Logan: and here I found them, among your amazing comments: thank you so much, and beware women all over!

Met a guy on the dating site. Very handsome and we liked the same things. After a week of texting online, we started texting on the phone. He told me he had a Gulfstream Jet and he was a pilot. He was wealthy and wanted to travel the world. That was more then I saw in his profile and we continued to talk. He was trying to sell his business and had to go to Japan to complete everything. After a week there. he contacted me daily, he said funds from the states were being transferred to him to an offshore account and needed a contact in the states to work with the bank. He gave my name. I received a text from the District Courts and Bank in the states that a large sum of money was being send to his account and they needed to put my name on it to transfer the money. They even sent me an acc't # and password to get into the bank to follow the transfer. Then I get a message that before the funds would be released for use, there were court cost to be paid. So at the urgent need for the money, I was convinced to send a check to the Clerk of Courts in Indiana. Stupid..I did. This was $5000. Then I get another message that the insurance had to be paid on the $1.5 million that was $48000. Well that's where it stopped. I blocked all accounts and have reported them to the FBI, local police, my bank. You never know. I watched youtube on romance scams and it is bad. Check it out.

He's on Instagram under the name of andrewsteve08. He's 46 with a 13 year old son named Jeffrey. He's a doctor working in Yemen Nato Military. From Los Angeles California. Wants you to continue the conversations on hangout. Wont answer any calls. Basically emotionally blackmails you so you feel sorry for him. Calls you dear, babe, honey and queen. Pretends you are married to him and wants you to tell him all your personal details. Wants to be a family with your kids even though you already have a husband. Wants to travel the world with you. Says he's a very jealous person. Wants you to fly to America to live with him and his son because he is lonely. And his first wife and 2 daughters died in a explosion. Talks about how stressed out he is seeing all these patients and he's so tired. Says he misses you and can't stop thinking about you.

His son is in boarding school back in the states with a maid looking after him.