Lost $12000 in Love Scam
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She had gone on the Web to search for a life partner but his web of lies left her nearly $12,000 poorer.
Last Friday night, the 37-year-old accounts executive, who declined to
be named, made a police report after she was cheated by a man she ‘met’
on international dating website match.com
She had gone on the Web to search for a life partner but his web of lies left her nearly $12,000 poorer.
Last Friday night, the 37-year-old accounts executive, who declined to
be named, made a police report after she was cheated by a man she ‘met’
on international dating website match.com
The divorcee with three children had put up her profile on match.com after hearing success stories from
friends and colleagues.
She, too, thought she had found love when two months ago, the man,
who went by the username tony7407 and who claimed to be Taiwanese, sent
her an e-mail message. They chatted online daily, occasionally calling each other over the phone too.
The man, claiming to be working in an investment company in Hong Kong, was ‘caring and knowledgeable’.
‘He said we had a future together and I believed him. He even said
he was going to visit me in Singapore within the next two weeks,’ she
said. Just as she began to let her guard down, he told her he had lost heavily in the recent stock market crash.
Now eager to help him, she invested $5,500 through a ‘VIP account’
of his client. He promised her it would ‘definitely make money’.
Last Monday, he told her the stock market had rebounded, she had
made a huge profit, and that his company would reinvest the profits.
Twenty-four hours later, more good news came: She had made a million dollars. But to get her money, she had to remit $10,000 in administrative
fees. Smooth as ever, when she said she did not have that sum, he said
he would borrow it from friends.
Later that day, he claimed to have borrowed about half the money. He
also said he would get into trouble if his company knew he had
illegally used his client’s account.
Not wanting to see her ‘boyfriend’ in trouble, the woman called her sister, who works in China, to remit $6,100 to him.
But the man failed to log in that afternoon, as he usually did. Now
suspecting a scam, the woman called him on the phone. He denied
receiving the money.
She then tried to get her sister to stop the fund transfer but it was too late. Last Friday, she made a police report in Singapore and in Hong Kong
but was told that her chances of getting the money back was slim.
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I am too late to find this site. I am the newest victim of internet love scam. I lost around 16000 euros. I met this guy his name is Frank, I even didn’t ask his family name, it could be Joseph, he sent me a photo which his name is on his Uniform. He says he is work for U.S. army in Afghanistan and he will soon get retire to finish his work there and he found me as his true love, he plans to come to me to spend the rest of his life with me together.he says he got award about $ 2.4 million from Afghanistan government few years ago, and the money he asked a diplomat moved out from afghanistan for safety reason. He ask me as his money receiver to contact with that diplomat, because the diplomat told him many Boxes are getting missing, he was so worry about if he lose his money, that money for him not only money, its his life!! I was really like how he look and his lovely son oh yes he said he lost his wife 5 years ago and his son has to be in a boarding school and he feels so sad about it.I was fall in love to him, shame on me, when I write this now, I feel pain for because I still think of him and have feelings of him. I contacted with that diplomat in UK, he replied me said he was waiting for my message, and now I need first to send him 1400 euros so that his agent can bring Mr. Frank’s Box come to me. I paid this money. I had doubt about this,but I trusted Frank too much, I thought I will know it soon if the Box not come to me in the next days. and then the second day the diplomat wrote to me an email says the Box they found out is not missing, is in Ghana, in a Security company, i need to pay around 3600 euros to release the box. Frank begging me to do it, because he is in Afghanistan is not allowed to use his account to make any money transfer. I paid. And then after 2 days I got a call from the diplomat’s agent, he says he was stopped by the airport customs, the Box needs some documents, only with the documents the Box can be release from the customs. The diplomat let me contact with a lawyer in ghana, and then I paid 6000 euros to buy the documents from the lawyer, and then when I thought everything will be alright, the diplomat send an email to tell me that because of wait too long ( four days) for the documents, the airport customs opened the Box by force. They found out full of money in this Box, they send his agent Immediately back to ghana. I knew something wrong, I knew I should stop, but when Frank begging me again, I did one more time try to help him. The diplomat says the only way to have the money out is from bank transfer, he let me contact with a bank manger in Ghana. the bank manger promised if I send 5000 euros he will transfer the total amount to me and then I send him back the transfer cost which is 48000 us dollars. Ｉ did. And then, of course a new problem comes. the bank manger says sorry he thought it will be work out, but now it looks I have to pay the transfer cost at least 50% so that the transfer can be work to transfer to my account. I feel like I’m falling into hell, invisible force pull me.
Frank begging me again to give him the last support. He looks really like an Angel, but i have to admit, so hard to believe that, he is a DEVIL !!