Am I being scammed by someone PRETENDING to be from US ARMY?

So this guy started talking to me, he claims to be a 51yrs old sniper army sargeant. He claims to be in Afghanistan, the area that show in his facebook (https://www.facebook.com/peter.hopkins.374) shows only one military base, which is Camp EGGERS. How can I make sure this person is real? I wonder if there is an army list or someone who can just say yay or nay!!!!

any thoughts would be appreciated!

thank you!

[AlanJones]

The fact that he started talking to you and claims to be in the US military is enough to tell me it is a scam. Real soldiers do not randomly contact people on Facebook - they are busy working.

I can't check the facebook profile at the moment, but I'm sure it will be the standard scammer profile - recent with a few pictures of him in uniform.

The facebook page is 'unavailable' which is a good sign that he's been reported as a scammer by someone else, because they normally don't just contact one person at a time.

It goes without saying Melperereka that you're dealing with a fraudster. The next thing is that he'll usually want you to pay for him to get leave because he's fallen madly in love with you. He wants money, and that's why he does it and thinks telling you that he's in the army will impress you.

it is what I thought, this is the second time someone who claims to be in the armed forces tries this with me, I am a scam magnet, I should get a degree in internet fraud!!!

thank you!

Ha! he is still messaging me! I can still access his facebook! I am pretty sure he is a scammer things are escalating too quickly lol!

[AlanJones]

You have to be signed into Facebook to see the profile. It is a definite scammer profile - a couple of pictures and that is it.

Here are his stolen pictures that he uses.

so I have these two pictures as well that I would love to post but don't know how to. I told him I had reported him and he deleted the profile

yes that is him! at least was

You have to be signed into Facebook to see the profile. It is a definite scammer profile - a couple of pictures and that is it.

Here are his stolen pictures that he uses.

I have had the same thing done to me on uniform dating .com I have informed them that pretty well every guy in a american uniform on the site is a scammer, as have a genuine long term family friend thats only just retired from the us army that actually checked these people out for me. They have little things they get wrong especially the fact that africas write the way they speak and there grammatical english is so easy to see when they get it wrong. If they give you full names check out on facebook put US after there name, google there name, see how old there pages are if brand new then fake. X

The guy in the first pictures is a Captain. They are not generally snipers. Where ever the picture was taken, it is no in Afghanistan. That is somewhere in the US.