I think I am romance scammed

Hi I think I am being romance scammed. I met this guy named Kelly Samuel from Badoo.com (a dating site). He is widower, with an 8 year old daughter, saying that he is a civil engineer, and that he is going to Lagos Nigeria in November 2010 and had to leave his daughter in UK, with his friend's wife. The only time he asked for money was when his daughter had his molar teeth removed, he asked me for 950 Euros, wow that's a big sum, in which obviously i didn't pay, since I am unemployed, and I told him.

this is the detail of the e-mail

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when I saw from where it comes, it comes from Lagos Nigeria. after this he has been stolen, and my parents and his sister divided the hotel and trip back to USA, he didn't ask me for the money, it's my parents that where willing to help him. After going to the airport, and cut the ticket to USA I received from one of his workers in Nigeria, that he had a traffic accident (motor accident) he didn't ask for the money, he said that it's his problem, but my parents asked me how much, and he said 2250 Euros, and my parents said that they can't hel-, his sister sent 500Euros, but has lost her job, and if he doesn't pay he ends in jail. anyway although I am not sending money, he still wants to chat with me. what is not convincing me is that he is stating that he is Michael K from Focushawaii.com. what really shocked me is that I found one of his pics on a scam site (that one of Michael K). Do you think I am being scammed?

Personal information removed - Michelle

There is absolutely no doubt. I wish there could be, but this is very clear.

You are being scammed, and so are your parents.

The man writing to you is not American, and he is not an engineer. He is a black Nigerian young man who makes his living stealing from others. Michael K is an actor/model whose pictures have been stolen by scammers on more than one occasion--which is why you have seen them posted. Michael's pictures are posted to help him to find work. It is not his fault, and he can't control the fact that scammers copy his pictures and use them in their scams.

You need to drop all contact with this scammer immediately. It would be good if you were to post his emails here as it will help others to realize they are being scammed.

He hasn't asked for money often because so far he has been able to hint that he needs money, and your family has then stepped in and offered it. In the end, he will ask for money when you don't offer to give it to him. But it doesn't matter if he asked or they offered, because he is not going to spend the money on a plane ticket, as he has no intention of coming to see you-- as I already said, he is not even the person in the photos.

here is the only e-mail he sent to me, because mostly we chat online

Baby,

How are you doing?? Sorry about this, but I didn't want to tell you ABOUT it at first, Nora is in trouble, she's in so much pain right now. She had one of her molar teeth (tooth decay) removed, the operation had taken up all the money I left for them. Right now she needs treatment to stop the pains she feels.She told the my friend wife not to mention it to me cos she knew I won't concentrate and focus with my work but when I called her this morning I could sense she's in pain and was trying to hide it from me.

The worse part is, I have tried to make an international transfer to them but the officials couldn't get it done for some reason(s) and protocol, my cards aren't working and the country does not send out money through western union money transfer but CAN only receive. Even went to the Embassy too, no way I could get money to them. Am sincerely pissed off right now, according to Nora she needs the treatment,medicasions and feeding allowance in 2days time.

Hate to say this but I don't know if you could help me out here with a loan, say 950 EUROS. I will pay you back double even with interest immediately I arrive at Malta. Pls love let me know if you can help out with this, it's really IMPORTANT to me. Don't know why she had to get it done now told her to wait till I returned. you can see what so much chocolates, caddies, etc has cost.

Pls call me immediately you read this mail so I can direct you on how to send the money over to them through western union money transfer.
I awaits your response baby..
kelly

shame of it because Michael K is so beautiful.

It's only an act though. Look at the post from dc001 at viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6608&hilit=bitches&start=15 to see a scammer's real personality.

these are the pics he has
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yesterday he sent me another e-mail.

hi love, how are you doing i missed you so much. see you soon in malta kiss

when I saw the details of it, this e-mail comes from a different computer, and I asked him from where he wrote, he said that he is writing from the doctor's computer.

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Hey, this is the above IP address which I was also being romance scammed!

I lost a total of about USD9,000.

Don't know if we can track this person down?

Welcome BB30,

I'm sorry to hear you were also scammed. Unfortunately, that IP is located in Nigeria, and it is most likely connected to a public internet cafe used by hundreds of people, scammer and non-scammer. So it's not quite as easy to identify the person who scammed you as it might seem.

Law enforcement in our country has no jurisdiction in Nigeria. That means that any investigation in Nigeria requires the assistance of Nigerian law enforcement. Your local police can't get that--it has to be handled through international channels. In the US, that would be handled by IC3. Because this type of investigation requires extensive resources and money, typically only losses involving much larger sums of money (hundreds of thousand of dollars) are investigated. We do recommend reporting these scams to IC3, however, for two reasons (1) it is important that the depth of this problem be understood, so more resources are devoted to it, and (2) it's always possible that your scam could be connected to an investigation that they do pursue, and the more evidence collected, the better the odds of the scammers getting justice.

In the meantime, please make sure that your scammer's information is posted--posting the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and scripts he used can reduce the odds of him successfully scamming others.

Here is David Moore, supposedly a engineer in Nigeria. Wrote the same email to me as he did to Horsegirl44



Pathetic



Admin edit to add image coding tags to allow image to show -Jillian

Someone had listed something about a Sgt Robert Jenkins. He goes by Bob and claims to be deployed in Afghanistan. Do you have photos? I do and need some assistance with this scammer so that others don't get scammed as well. Luckily, I became quite suspicious when he was discussing the process for leave to come to visit and bring his daughters also. He has bright blue eyes and sent me photos of his room, on a motorcycle and with his beautiful daughters. His wife supposedly died 5 years ago of lung cancer and his girls are living with their grandmother. He even gave me their e-mail address to converse with--because I was skeptical. He also has sent me numerous cards on the online site: 123cards. He is very convincing indeed!!

Welcome to ScamWarners diane. It is good that you realized this is a scam.

Will you post the email address this scammer is using to contact you please. Also it helps to post the headers that come with the email.

When you realize you are dealing with a scammer, it is always best to immediately stop communicating with them.

The e-mail addresses that he uses are: [email protected] and [email protected] (his "daughter's" address). He said that he has a house with a pool and a garden at home in Indiana along with a 2010 truck, a Harley motorcycle and an Infinity SUV. He said that his mother in Malaysia is taking care of his daughters there while he is deployed. He uses the names, "Hun" and "Sunshine" throughout his conversations. He has also sent photos in his army uniform and also one with Afghan children. He had official looking documents sent to me from the army Headquarters regarding his leave of absence. He requested that I provide him with $2000-3000 which he said would be returned to me once he arrived in the US to visit. He also said that he has a bank account at BOA-Bank of America.

Thank you Diane. What email address was used by the "Army Headquarters"? This is all part of the scam and the more we can reveal, the more we can help victims.

Thank you again!

This sounds like "George Massingale" who scammed me out of $8000AUD
He also sent me heaps pf email with "darling", "love" etc and "I will repay you the money the moment I arrive on Australian Soil!

I am on an Invalid pension due to having Chronic Heart Failure, Chronic Renal Failure and other major health issues and this money was out of the sale of mine and my late Dad's house and was to be used to do renovations to my unit, pay bills etc.

He "got" at me at a time when I was very vulnerable- the eve of the anniversary of my late Dad's passing( I cared 24/7 for my Mum then my Dad).

These pigs are so damn good at it.

I don't know where in Australia to go to have this investigated??

He stated he was a Captain in the US Army on deployment in Afghanistan and even sent me pictures of a male in Uniform with G. Massingale on it and a "Department of Army" Request for Vocational leave form( which I have found out was fake).

He used the email address as

[email protected]