Please report romance scams and dating scams here. We accept reports on Russian scammers and Nigerian scammers.
Disclaimer regarding pictures posted on the board: please understand that you are NOT looking at the pictures of people who are actually scamming you. The people portrayed on these photos are innocent men and women, NOT involved in scamming in any way and have nothing to do with scammers. The scammers are using their images without their knowledge or permission to deceive their victims and steal their money.
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andrelwalt_27180 Andrel Walton, 45 y.o.
London, United Kingdom [Current City & Hometown]
Nice to have your response...pls tell me more about yourself and put me through email please in your next response. andrelwalton4@gmail.com based on the nature of my job
Alaye … A code phrase that African scammers use to find out if you are also a scammer.
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grayson_99405 Grayson, 34 y.o.
Budapest, Hungary [Current City]
North Las Vegas, United States [Hometown]
I'm Grayson, always believed in yourself and also Don't give up in race of life
This is my number,+16812184016
Alaye … A code phrase that African scammers use to find out if you are also a scammer.
FACEBOOK DATING- Told me his name was Antoni, from Poland, living in Miami. Has 3 children: Ages 9, 5, 3 and his wife is dead.
Says he is a Polish Translator/Interpreter.
I was able to find a profile using "Antoni Koval" that matched the pictures used.
Email: AntoniKoval122@gmail.com
WhatsApp business account: (409) 202-0729
This person whomever they truly are, attempted to catfish me. I was aware that they weren't whom they said they were due to their poorly photoshopped photo sent to me, within the first couple days, when I questioned them. I believe this is multiple people chatting with others on the same chatting service. I was contacted by a profile listed as Thomas Friedrich on Instagram, it's a poorly put together Instagram as all the photos were posted on the same day and there weren't any actual friends/followers it was all companies or marketing forums. I went along with the catfish for little over a month, telling them everything they wanted to hear in an attempt to figure out who they were. This person kept wanting to send me flowers so I let him (i figured no harm as googling my name brings up my address as i am the only person with this name in the U.S), when the flowers arrived, they goofed and still had a phone number attached to the card on it, which is based out of Alabama it's a T-Mobile wireless number (334) 413-9121. Which I am sure is also a spoofed number. The scammer told me they were from Cleveland, OH, divorced, father of three. We chatted on Instagram briefly and moved to google chat, to which the only time we talked on Instagram was when he would come up with a bogus story of being attacked as he is currently in Yemen. It was fun for a bit to play along with this person, I was curious to see what they really wanted, then it came down to having to apply and pay $500 dollars in order to video chat, which when I played along and sent the email, the return one was so incredibly fake I couldn't stop laughing or play along any longer, which made him mad. I called him out on his bullshit, however I doubt it made a difference to who ever these scammers are.
I hope the next person he moves onto doesn't fall for it, pay attention to the fact that he says his children are young ages, yet because I am from California and talked about Disneyland, he sent me a photo of him and the kids at the park, however the scammer isn't very smart, as the picture had to be taken at least 7 years ago, as the background has banners from the 60th anniversary celebration. There are many RedFlags with this individual, repeats phrases, doesn't always remember what has been said or has to backtrack when caught in simple dumb lies.
I hope that the actual individual in these photos has upgraded their social media security so maybe this scammer will finally stop stealing his photos and trying to steal from others. I reported the profile to Instagram and now it shows that is has no followers or following anyone and doesn't have any post. So, I am not sure if it made a difference, I'm sure they will just move on to someone else with a different profile. I attempted to add the photos sent to me, however it wont upload for some reason, as they are saved to my desktop.
Google Chat Email: (he used a total of four with me, always having some excuse of security and having to change it).
ettcllc70502@gmail.com
ettcllc70503@gmail.com
ettcllc70500@gmail.com
ettcllc70501@gmail.com
Every time the name listed to the google chat was GeneraLLCFriedThom.
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david_71724 David, 47 y.o.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria [Current City & Hometown]
Online now
I'm David Cordoson, and I'm here to meet a good and reasonable woman that I can have a positive relationship with, please don't write me if you're not serious thanks.
Alaye … A code phrase that African scammers use to find out if you are also a scammer.
