by johnsonccr
It's been an interesting couple of months in online world. I have run into so many scammers it's hard to count them all. Some I've confirmed and some I just suspect. I only realized it after I actually fell victim to one early one. The problem was that this one didn't follow the usual pattern, which makes him very dangerous. His name is Aaron James. I will put a separate post for him.
Known scammers I've run into and what they did and the site:
Patrick Cook - [email protected] - match.com - he wanted me to "cash" a check for him from a friend and send it to him in the Ukraine since he was unprepared with money for the job he was doing there. Says he's Irish - but believe me doesn't sound it.
Marcus Fields - (LaughtoLaugh handle from Spark) - [email protected] - in the army in Afghanistan - wanted me hand over my ID to someone to get a satellite phone connection so we could talk
Mike Williams - [email protected] - Spark - wanted me to send him a thousand dollars to invest in estate he wanted to buy over in England - he supposedly lives in Arlington as an estate appraiser and went there to work.
Captain Hunt Kileen - [email protected] - chemistry - in Iraq and wanted to send me some secret gold stash that a dying shiek gave to him - he was a doctor or something.
Terry Wilson - [email protected] - match.com - had to go to Africa for a job and needed money to get home.
Thomas Titos - match.com - He had to go to Africa too and needed money to get home - he was "Greek"
There were others that seemed suspicious but I won't put their names here in case I am wrong. For a while I got to the point where I was trying to ferret out fakes from non-fakes but decided that was probably not safe. So now I don't do that and just let them know I suspect them before it goes very far and the real ones will have the goods for me and that has worked.
Known scammers I've run into and what they did and the site:
Patrick Cook - [email protected] - match.com - he wanted me to "cash" a check for him from a friend and send it to him in the Ukraine since he was unprepared with money for the job he was doing there. Says he's Irish - but believe me doesn't sound it.
Marcus Fields - (LaughtoLaugh handle from Spark) - [email protected] - in the army in Afghanistan - wanted me hand over my ID to someone to get a satellite phone connection so we could talk
Mike Williams - [email protected] - Spark - wanted me to send him a thousand dollars to invest in estate he wanted to buy over in England - he supposedly lives in Arlington as an estate appraiser and went there to work.
Captain Hunt Kileen - [email protected] - chemistry - in Iraq and wanted to send me some secret gold stash that a dying shiek gave to him - he was a doctor or something.
Terry Wilson - [email protected] - match.com - had to go to Africa for a job and needed money to get home.
Thomas Titos - match.com - He had to go to Africa too and needed money to get home - he was "Greek"
There were others that seemed suspicious but I won't put their names here in case I am wrong. For a while I got to the point where I was trying to ferret out fakes from non-fakes but decided that was probably not safe. So now I don't do that and just let them know I suspect them before it goes very far and the real ones will have the goods for me and that has worked.
