Samuel Luke Smith - [email protected]

I met this man Samuel Smith online in April and we have been chatting on text and email since then until just recently. He is a structural engineer and recently told me that he is going to Cambodia to work on a project over there. Yesterday, I get news that he has been in a taxi crash where the driver die and he was in coma for some weeks but is now awake and the nurse tell him that he is needing operation for kidney rupture and broken bones and that his money doesn't cover the cost of operateing. he is asking me to send over $4000 by western union to his nurse to pay for operation.is this real?

His email is [email protected] and he texts me from telephone 714-479-2552.

[AlanJones]

Hello, this is a definite scam. The man you are in touch with is a scammer and I am sorry, but his only interest in you is in how much of your money he can steal.

The best thing to do is block him and do not respond any further. Do not confront him or accuse him of being a scammer as he will just deny it and try to carry on scamming you.

[AlanJones]

More information on this scammer, forwarded to me by a member of another anti-scam forum.

He had lived in long beach California and about 4 yrs ago had moved to Austin texas at 2704 oak park drive 78704 and was just renting with the option to buy. I have been at this house and even drove him to the airport when he left to Cambodia to start a project for the Cambodian government doing a huge office building. As you know I told you Samuel is a structual engineer and saw this opportunity and went to Washington D.C. to meet with these guys and 2 weeks later called him to accept his design. Being in a 3rd world country, they do things differently and things did not go well. After giving him a check to start the project and his interpreter helped him with bank account…then bank would not release the funds. They did once for 20,000. For him to pay payroll and trouble from then on.

Samuel is 62yrs old and was born June 4th 1954. His full name is Samuel Luke Smith. I was communicating with him on his cell phone with California # 714-479-2552, which now says that this number is no longer in service or has been disconnected. When Samuel was in this accident it was so bad the cab driver died on the spot and Sam was in a coma for over 3 weeks and had about 3700.00 on him for his plan ticket and other expenses. Hospital used that money to help fix him up but really needed an operation. Had GI blunt trauma to kidney, ruptured spleen, broken ankle and broken wrist and a lot of enternal bleeding. They were treating him with medicine but the want money to do an operation. Docter helped him write an e-mail to me from Sam’s laptop to tell me all this but did not tell me what hospital he was in. Samuel’s e-mail address is [email protected]. Then nurse had his phone fixed as it was not working from accident and then he started texting me again. He sent me a picture of him in the hospital and he was pretty banged up and he did not even recognize himself..

The scammer uses these photographs



The one in the hospital bed dates back to 2012 from a news article about a man hospitalised in the USA after being attacked by a dog and not from a taxi accident in Cambodia.

[AlanJones]

More information on this scammer.

He also used to use telephone number 512-537-0793. Both this number and the one in the original post are Bandwidth VoIP numbers.

More photos used by the scammer. He claimed that the outdoor ones were taken in Cambodia, but they are not.

[AlanJones]

More Information on this scammer:

His beginning story to me was that he was married for 20yrs and had lost his wife to ovarian cancer 4yrs prior. He said he was born in a small town in Ohio (forgot the name) and his father was an agrochemist-soil and dirt- and had met his mother over in Turkey as she was the daughter of the man and wife that his father was working for they owned a tobacco farm over in Turkey. He said when he was 13yr old his father died and his mother took him back to Turkey and went to school there, he played 3 instruments and sang and his mother never remarried just gave him a good education and then went to college got degree in structual engineering. When his mother died he moved to Long Beach, California and after his wife died he no longer could live there, too many memories and moved to Austin Texas.

The name of the last person receiving my money was Mouern Rotha. Suppose to be his nurse. Others are: Mao Navy, Chinedo Charles Oparaocha, Soporn Korn, Ing Nary, Ron ?

More of the stolen pictures that the scammer uses: