Flipping for love

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Welcome to Scamwarners target.

I am sorry that your relation has suffered at the hands of scammers.

My very best advice would firstly be to cease ALL contact with these scammers.

Secondly contact the police and seek legal advice.

Please post any questions or concerns - we will help you all we can.

This guide may help http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5

Welcome Target,

I am sorry to hear that this friend is currently a victim. If the woman's daughter would like a warner to call her mother, we would be happy to arrange it with some more information regarding the situation, so please feel free to point her here. You can also try to point the victim herself here and ask her to read the romance stickies. With some more information (e.g. profiles, email addresses, etc.) we may be able to get and provide further information regarding this scammer.

Unfortunately, as you already suspect, the funds and any packages she received are undoubtedly the proceeds of fraud. Clearly, it is important that she be stopped from sending a vehicle (or anything else for that matter) to Nigeria, as doing so will lead her into even more trouble.

We can't however, recommend to any victim that they keep the money and any goods, as both are actually stolen. At some point, one or more of the victims who sent money to her will realize it is a scam, and those victims (as well as any companies that shipped merchandise purchased with a stolen credit card) will likely contact law enforcement--if she is keeping money, she can easily face criminal charges for fraud, receiving stolen property, etc. herself. Obviously at this point, if she is still convinced this person is real, she is also not going to understand the criminal implications of her actions. However, for her sake, as Enchantress said, the best thing to do is to contact the police and/or an attorney to help her avoid getting into even bigger trouble.

Further to the advice above,

Many victims who have gotten to this point may be very difficult to convince.

If we are able to see more details we may be able gather proof that could be shown to her in the hope of convincing her of what has occured.

Failing that, involving the police may be the next best option, eventually, they will find out, the sooner the better and preferably it would be by the victim herself.

It is also advisable to make sure she does not delete any of the emails she has received, it may be the only evidence she has that she herself is a scam victim and there is a chance that it may keep her from spending time in jail if it does come to that.

Thank you for your valuable advice. Family and friends are planning an intervention with the victim.
We are all gonna sit down and bring out the lap top and try to get the victim to read your romance scam stickies. The financial and legal ramifications of the victim's actions are serious and real; but the lasting effects of the emotional trauma caused by the perceived loss of this life changing romance, well, that is hard to measure, or ameliorate. Makes me want to go out and bait some scammers....so, just call me grateful for your advice .......and Target....for some Nigerian lads

Target.

Please let us know if we can provide any further help.

Hugs and best wishes.

One other thing you want to keep in mind when you do this.

In scams such as this one, friends and family of the victim are the scammer's worst enemy. The scammer knows this, of course. He wants his victim to feel alone and dependent on him, and it is very possible that he has been slowly trying to innoculate her against your influence. He is very likely telling her that you don't understand, or that you don't want what's best for her, or that you are jealous of their relationship and you want to sabotage it. He may even be suggesting that you have ulterior motives for breaking them up.

He wants to create an "us against the world" scenario in her mind. You as a group need to tread very carefully to avoid helping him to do that.