Staff Sergeant Brian Smith Romance Scam

[Katharina]

Hi historygeek!
I am so glad you found out in time.
Please drop contact with the scammer, and do not tell him how you found out. This mix-up between Georgia and Iowa might help future victims to discover the truth, but if anyone tells him about it he will improve his story.

[Wbcc]

In facebook he has also another profile named Michael Douglas, Sgt of Airborne...

[futurewife1958]

I know this guy as Sergeant Major Johan Caswell, says he is in Afghanistan, Bagram Airbase, Kabul on a peace mission, been there for 8 month, waiting for leaving - divorced 5 years ago, and the same year, he lost his 15 year old son in a carcrash....

[Bubbles]

That is the formula, tug at your heart strings and tell you what you are longing to hear.

Thank you for posting this and exposing these scams.

[vanessa235]

I have had to delete the posting

[vanessa235]

How do i insert the photos that i have been sent???
please help

[Arnold]

Welcome to Scamwarners Vanessa.

Hi. Same thing is still happening to me,but luckily i know its a scam,and will play along with him,to see what info i get.

Please don't. We don't recommend it. Everything he tells you is lies, so you won't learn anything useful. And they can turn nasty.
See http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/search ... 5&sr=posts
Please post his email address though.
There are instructions about posting pictures here
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/search ... 5&sr=posts. We recommend scamwarners.com

[vanessa235]

Had to delete the posting

[vanessa235]

had to delete the posting

[vanessa235]

so who are these people ?? and what happens now then,ive posted his email address. The pictures i have of this so called man,with his kids,we will never know who he is.

[David Jansen]

Thank you for posting this scammers email address. Now other potential victims who do a search on that email address will find it here and get warned. The photos he has send you are stolen from the internet, scammers usually steel them from social networking sites such as facebook or myspace. These scammers often come from West Africa, or Malaysia, and operate in internet café's.

[vanessa235]

had to delete

[jan0501]

I feel quite glad in a way that i am not alone!! not that that helps you who have been scanned. I do not recognise this man, but have had my own scammer. This only came to light yesterday when the lovely (NOT) Stephen Hancock serving in Afghanistan decided he wanted to come and visit me in the uk. And yes I was asked for money! I feel like some horrible creature has been able to get under my skin. Reading your emails they are so familiar! The incorrect grammar, and I am sure some of those lines have appeared in my own personal emails. My main worry is that the Facebook friend that I had, will not know that his details have been used, and even worse he may no longer be alive. They are scum!!!! How many of us are out there??

[jonid07]

He is going under the name of Jimmy Abelardo on Plenty of Fish just to let you all know. When it sounds too good to be true, it usually is He sent me a "poem", I googled it & it led me to this site & every email I received were almost IDENTICAL to the Brian Smith emails so I am guessing it's the same person. I sent him a copy of the Brian Smith email & now he isn't talking to me anymore.

[jonid07]

<[email protected]> btw. This is the email address, this person is using & the emails are almost word for word of the Brian Smith scam only he doesn't pretend to be in the military & his wife died in a car accident rather from cancer. He says he's visiting Malaysia but lives in Cali. I got suspicious because for someone who is supposed to have grown up in the US, he writes like he has an accent with terrible grammar & spelling. Also, the "city" he gave in Cali is not a real city at all. Just beware ladies, esp, those internet dating. There are some crazies out there!