Internet Dating Scam
July 19, 2010
Dating Scammers are parasites residing in EVERY dating site. They prey on the emotional vulnerable for your money.
I originally started elamb.org for computer & Internet security issues. I found a few useful techniques on preventing and recovering from malware. After getting scammed I got interested in the helping people avoid fraud. I have found that people all over the world have the same experience I have had with these scams.
One of the biggest scams on the Internet right now are dateing scams. Scammers seem to be having great success on the dating sites and judging from what readers have submitted to this site, I believe it has to do with two primary factors:
1) Dating sites limited ability to stop scammers
2) Members of dating sites giving lots of money to scammers
Essentially, these two factors enables Internet date scams to exist and do fairly well.
The good news is that many of the major dating sites are doing better about informing their members of the date scam pandemic. Dating sites are beginning to for put up messages before they allow members to send any message to other members. Internet dating sites are also much better about discovering false profiles and shutting them down. They have begun to allow the users the ability to spot scammers and report them immediately.
The challenge is that anyone can create a false profile. Even legitimate members can create a fictitious profile and there is nothing that can stop them, however scammers can be easily identified by their practice of mass messaging hundreds of members over and over from a false profile. The success of Internet Dating scams are dependent on their ability to cast a wide net for profile phishing for the most emotionally vulnerable members of multiple dating sites.
Even with all the scammers and fraud, dating sites are still quickly becoming the best way to find a life partners. The caution that I would offer to members of dating sites is to take things slow and be VERY suspicious of anyone asking for money online also remember that most of the scammers are from Ghana, Nigeria and Russia but that is not to say they can not come from anywhere in the world.
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Yahoo/Facebook Scam
July 8, 2010
Kloe Sanders on face book. email is kloecutie3@yahoo.com which is also frank ememekwe email on hi5.com and his profile on facebook is frank makeway ememekwe.
Kloe sanders profile
Person said they mother is sick in nigeria and that is about to die, then she died and they have no way of geting back to the united states. They need help. then they want marriage papers and they need 900 to get the marriage licence and papers so they can get hold of the property that was left to them by they dead mother. They got left on the street when mother died have no surviving relatives father is so called white and mother nigerian, mother was hit by a car brother was also killed by a car.
She said she was living with a friend and now the friend is in hospital after a really bad car accident and she got evicted from the place and now lives in a room in an internet cafe.
I have sent money to help her out via western union and today i called the number from my work phone and a man answered I said frank and he said yes wassup. I hanged up and now will report this to everyone out there.
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Scammer Alert!
July 8, 2010
Do NOT engage in any contact with someone going by the name of Harry Ray Anderson.. e-mail address harryraym49@yahoo.com. I met him on my yearbook.com. Typical profile.. posted fake pictures, very nice-looking ones I might add, and of course, he was on a business trip in Nigeria. Didn’t wait long to ask for money.. told me everything I wanted to hear. Turned out he was scamming another woman he was speaking to for about 6 months.. took $2,000 from her. Report this S.O.B. as soon as possible if you come across his path. Bastard.. >:o(
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Person Online looking for relationship
April 20, 2010
www.myspace.com/528210988 Her name is Grace John and is apparently from St. George, Utah but when asked she said she was in Nigeria and would be back in the states in a couple of weeks.
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dating scam
March 23, 2010
Have been on dating website, and been speaking to ‘american’ who supposedly is going all over the world sorting out starting his computer company ‘John jacob computer resource centre’ which needs satelite access. This man was good, i checked the flight details he gave, spoke on the phone, and everything seemed ligit. He told me his credit card would not work in Nigeria (his last port of call) and he needed to get back to England. I sent £100 just to see him through for a couple of days, then by chance saw a nigerian scam site, went on and there he was. The thing is I followed all the rules, he didnt ask for money i offered, his photos were personal not posed, his writing was fluent, had an american accent, and all the nos he gave, including a british one worked. How are they getting all these photos? Can we trace the people of the photos they use. I’m now worried as i send him photos, does that mean that my picture will be used to scam people and how do i prevent this? For information his name is john jacob, johnniejake1@yahoo.com, more publicity needs to be done to stop these people, its not only the financial burden but also the emotional burden.
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dating scam
March 23, 2010
i met a girl on love and seek dating site she claimed she was from chicago il but she was really from africa we chatted for a while and we decided for her to come to the usa she said she needed 700 dollars for air fare the n it went on from there totat money in all is 3500 dollars she claimed she was detained at the airport for having gold bars on her and she wanted me to send her 500 dollars to get her passport back i didnt send her any more money and now she is mad at me and she dont want any thing to do with me i asked her to send my 3500 back to me and she said she wont what can i do .her e mail is laura_logah@yahoo.com the name i sent the money under is bashiru abbas ghana accra africa 00233 can you help me
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yahoo personal
November 29, 2009
Profile ID: personals-1256502032-215930
TOMAS-Ft.worth texas on yahoo personals
he is a scam artist-stay away he is not real.
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Manny Gerald or Mr Gold Manny Oni
November 26, 2009
Ladies, be aware of this Nigerian scam artist. He lied and tried with me & I’m sure many others.
He claims he’s spanish, has a son, a dog, a horse in NY. Living in UK, working as an architech.
There’s a picture on his lieing blog
http://goldmanny.blogspot.com/2009/07/rainshine-house-decatur.html
IP address search shows Nigerian. Oh yes, and he loves me & wants to get married.
Protect yourselves!
All the best!
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timo nigeriano por medio de pagina de citas
November 1, 2009
Me inscribi a una pagian de citas que se llama Match.com. Alli me contacto un hombre llamado DANIEL LUIGE ,su correo es danielhones@hotmail.com ; Ingles de Origen italino, Hombre de negocios en obras de arte y consultor. viudo con una hija de 8 años. su mujer habia muerto hace dos 2 de cancer en los pulmones. Fue una persona dulce, que poco a poco fue sacando informacion de mis bienes, mi trabajo etc. Al igual que los otros casos el tuvo que viajar a Nigeria – Benin city,edo state.
alli despues de 2 semanas de trabajo sus tarjetas de creddito son bloqueadas y me pide le envie U$ 1000 por western Union para terminar de hacer su trabajo y que al llegar a casa devolveria el dinero. Le envie el dinero, luego volvio a pedir otros U$1000, tambien se lo envie, ya me empeso a parecer extraño y emese a investigar por internet y encontre que los telefonos +44703 no eran de inglaterra sino usado or estafadores, luego investigue el telefono 234802…. y tambien decian lo mismo. Posteriormente volvio a escribir para que le enviara otros U$1000 y le dije que me temia que era un ” timo nigeriano 419 ” y me reuse a enviar el dinero,le dije que vendiera los diamentes que habia comprado para mi y se ayudara con eso en su necesidad.Finalmente cerre su cuenta de Messager , lo reporte a la pagina de Match.com, informe a windows live del abuso y lo denuncie a las autoridades de mi pais.
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WINNING NOTIFICATION (SCAM)
October 23, 2009
WINNING NOTIFICATION
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Mon, October 19, 2009 7:43:41 AM
From:
MICROSOFT CORPORATIONS SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS.
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Add to Contacts
To:
MICROSOFT CORPORATIONS SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS.
CUSTOMER SERVICES
Your Batch No: 2009/281/MCS
Your Reference No: EDD/L193/2810
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the release of the long awaited results of
Sweepstakes promotion organized by Microsoft Corporations, in conjunction
with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held
this August 2009, in the Netherlands. Where in your email address emerged
as one of the online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore
attracted a cash award of 250,000.00 euro (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Euros Only) and a Toshiba laptop. To begin your claim, do file for the
release of your winning by contacting our Foreign Transfer Manager:
Mr. Flip Hubert
Tel: 0031-684-088-467
Fax: 0031 847-300-758
Email:kokonaso@gmail.com
The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by former
CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies.
The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International
Companies. The Microword internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is
organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer
literacy worldwide.
Congratulations!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Serena Henrik
Promotions Manager.
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