Scammer Sergeant John Preston

[gypsieanne]

Hi Everyone,
I am lucky I didn't get scammed for money. Unbeknown to John Preston I had been communicating with another lady that lived in the same area I had (small world). His scam is using [email protected].
I will post his first letter which seems pretty common to these sites and if anyone wants me to post others let me know and I will do it.


Hi My Name
How are you?I am very happy to have your e-mail on AYI I will like to tell you more about myself .Some of my hobbies are listening to country music, Singing, Playing tennis, Cooking, Dancing and i also love watching movies when ever i am free.The main thing i look for in a woman is trust ,love, care and i want to trust her even if she's 1 million miles away and vice verse Here are some questions for you ( smiles ) , i need to know when your birthday is ? how many friends do you call your best ? , are you a fast food type or eat at home ? , whats your favorite spot on Holidays ? , how often do you travel ? Due to your work circumstances , how many hours does it keep you away from your lover in a day ? Are you single or have been married before? Do you live alone ? in a house or an apartment ? For how long have you been into the online dating system ? I'll wrap it up here

My Birthday is August 20 i am 45 year of age my favorite color is Green my best friend are Jesus and God because they never fail me i am a widowed i am still in US ARMY and i am deployed to Kabul Afghanistan war zone for a peace keeping operation. my daughter name is Diana she is 7 years .

I am a military man, US Army is my regiment. I have been in the military for long. Am a man of good gesture very loving and caring... am new online it was my friend that introduce me to come over and meet responsible lady online, He met his new wife here and they are living happily together in the United State. I lost my wife in auto accident that really make me sad and depressed that i almost lost my life.Friendship is only lost once you have the courage to let it go

i hope to hear from you soon

Sgt John
One of his email adds is [email protected]
Here's a link to his fb http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php? ... 1542205480

[jorda]

Small World with a big scammer I sent you a PM this morning re: JOHN PRESTON aka THOMAS ADAMS.... Fortunate for me I only communicated with him for a few days.... Thank you for having this post here I found you through Google and a few of his key words, it appears he uses the exact same letter to correspond which makes him a bigger uneducated fool.... Thank you from Canada
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P.S
My apologies, the only difference is these fools use a different picture for their identical profile
was hoping the picture I uploaded would appear hear, however it hasn't It has been uploaded to your
site I'm hoping you will know Sgt. Thomas Adams is his name...... Thanks Jorda
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[Dotti]

Welcome jorda and gypsyanne,

I am glad both of you saw through the scams.

It is very common for scammers to repeat emails like that. These scammers usually have a sequence of pre-written emails (we call them scripts) intended to draw the victim in and set up the storyline. They do this for a combination of reasons:
-they are lazy
-their English is often poor
-they are nothing like their characters, so it's easier to stay "in character" if they have a script to follow
-using scripts enables them to scam dozens of victims at once.


Many of us here are also scambaiters over at 419eater.com (we pretend to be victims, taking precautions to protect our true identities--this wastes their time, and gives us more information about them and how they work). You can see many examples over there of scammer scripts, and how baiters work to get scammers "off-script" so they are forced to write their own emails/chats (many parts of chat are prepared in advance too). If they go "off script" you will often see a deterioration in English (not that the scripts are always perfect, but off-script is typically worse), and you may see more inconsistencies in their stories if they are too careless to go back and review what they sent before.