To: XXXXXXXXX
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Hi back!
XXXX (this idiot actually wrote the name of the guy "she" was writing to as "her" name)
I'm Melinda by name and am an Antiques dealer..I'm currently in Nigeria On a business trip and i will be back in 2weeks time And am willing to relocate for that special me..I I realize that I am 34years old and that you are somewhat Older than me, if you would still like to correspond, that's fine...we'll see how things go after we get to know each other. Well, I hope that this lets you know a little about me, and I hope I don't come across as being too cynical, harsh, or resounding. I will give anybody the benefit of the doubt (we're all human, we all make mistakes), but I also don't like being taken advantage of. I'm just asking you to keep it real and be honest from the beginning; that way, nobody is wasting their time or getting their feelings hurt. I also realize that at times two people are just too different to be in a relationship together, it doesn't mean that it's anybody's fault, it's just that they're too different to be compatible. Hope this finds you in good health and that things are well with you. (and I hope I didn't scare you off) Everybody makes mistakes and I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, but if the same pattern keeps emerging, it's over. I do not want to meet someone who may think that they will take advantage of me, or lie to me and cheat on me under false pretenses.. Sorry if that sounds harsh, and I'm not accusing anybody of any wrongdoing, but I'm being upfront and honest about that, so you know where I stand from the beginning. With all due respect as well, I hope that you are upfront and honest with me, as well. I have been described as someone who love's to experiment in the kitchen, and hopefully it will turn out to be something great! I am not a gourmet cook though, but I sure do try to come up with something new, and exiting for that special evening. I do appreciate, and love, home-cooked meals, as well as a fine dinning experience. Friends have told me that I am extremely loyal, approachable, honest, and down-to-earth person. I don't take myself too seriously since life is to short. “Let’s go to a wine tasting or a jazz concert” is typically of weekends or maybe just a casual walk on the beach. Well reading is my favorite type of activity as well as listening to the music Tell me more about you.. Melinda |
Thank you for your site! I almost made the biggest mistake of my life. I met this guy on Yahoo messenger - Thomas Mario Metwally - 52 (said he was 49) who know for real - had a son - a CIVIL ENGINEER. He is in Lagos, Nigeria working on a construction contract. He is from Milan Italy, got a visa to the US for 5 years about to expire. Anyway, he was like the answer to my dreams, loving words, wanted to take care of me, had money, wanted to come to Canada, wanted me to help him invest his money, told me how he envisioned our wedding, that he wanted to take me to Paris, France for a honeymoon. I was hooked - totally blown away. He told me about his son and how his wife had died of breast cancer - he had been married 18 years etc.. He told me that on August 16th it was his son's Ben birthday and I shared how I always made birthdays special and ask what he was getting Ben for his birthday. He made it out that he had nothing planned and didn't know what Ben wanted. Why didn't I ask Ben? So we arranged to have Ben on line the next day so I could talk to him. Who knows who I was talking to. Anyway, Ben wanted a notebook computer. I thought it strange that if his father was wealthy why didn't he have one already, but I let it go, so I mentioned it to Thomas. He suggested we go have on it and that he could pay for the whole thing since he had invested all his money in the project and had very little spending money. So I sent him $500. And this is where it started. I had revealed all the bad relationships I had had, that I was independant and a business person, which I am. Which is why when he started telling me about the problem he was having financing the project, I started asking lots of questions. He didn't like this. I even raised the question of him being a scammer since I've heard of them happening and I had started to look things up on the net. I couldn't understand with a construction contract with the government that they would only give you 60% of the money up front and expect the contractor to finance the rest until the job was completed. I know here it is paid in progress payments as to completion, with 10% to 20% held back which is usually the markup. So I started asking questions again. Then he hit me up for $10,000. Well, my suspicions came up, I told him I didn't have the money which I don't, but he pleaded. When I finally said no and told him not to contact me again he said that it was okay, he found the money - he sold some properties and had found someone - a "mr. francis" to finance the rest. So I thought okay, maybe everything was okay. So I started talking to him again. Then 2 nights ago, he tells me "mr. francis" didn't come through, that now he need $15000.00. And to think I actually went to a friend - who trusts me- lied and got the money. It is beside me now, waiting to be wired.But someone, maybe God, was looking out for me because he made a mistake. To try and show how much he loved me he was going to send me a package, what was my address. I gave it to him. Anyway, the package never arrived. Then I found a note on my mail box (I live in an apartment) that a parcel had tried to be delivered but I wasn't home. Please call this number etc. I called and was told that the flowers had gone back to the florist and the delivery company would contact them to redeliver. All yesterday I didn't hear from them. So I called them this morning, and was told that apparently it was a fraud order. Well that got me thinking and nervous again. So I went on line and found this site. The stories are so similar and the guideline you give - where if you answer yes to any of these questions - well I answered yes to almost every one. These guys are good. They really know how to play you - I was only on the dating site for 3 days and he picked me up. I'm giving up dating sites.What I can't understand is how they get the documents to look so real. He sent me a picture of his passport, his american visa document and a copy of a Contract Award Certificate. How would the average person ever be able to tell that they're fake. So the name he used is Thomas Mario Metwally, cell # 234-812-7995227Now of course, if he isn't a scammer, I've lost the man of my dreams.
and for saying this guy tries to come off sounding so proper and correct, he can't spell for shit.
Mr.Song Lile
Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
Sai Wan Ho Branch,
83, Des Voeux Road,
Hong Kong.
Good Day,
Please kindly accept my apology for sending you this email without your
consent. I believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the
fact that I sourced your profile from the peoples search database on the
web during my descret search for a foreign partner whom can assist me in
taking this business to it success. Though, I do not know to what extent
you are familiar with events. I have a proposal for you.This however is
not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honor against your
will, but I hope you will read on and consider the value I offer.
My name is Mr. Song Lile, I am the credit officer in Hang Seng Bank, Hong
Kong. I have a business proposal in the tune of 19.5m US to be transferred
to an offshore account with your assistace if willing.
After the successful transfer, we shall share in ratio of 30% for you and
70% for me. Should you be interested, please respond to my letter
immediately, so we can commence all arrangements and I will give you more
information on the project and how we would handle it.
You can contact me on my private email:( song.lile87@yahoo.com.hk )
and send me the following information for documentation purpose:
1. Full names
2. Private phone number
3. Current residential address
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Mr. Song Lile.
Here is the latest note I have received from the scammer john Phillips, using one of his many e mail address's, he also uses phillipsjohn101@yahoo.com, or phillips101john@yahoo.com now he is threatening force? He is blocked from all my e mail, face book and my space stuff. So I do not know why he thinks I will be contacting him. How stupid he thought all this time I was sending him money? He never stops but I think now with him being blocked, he will stop unless he changes his e mail again. His last request was to send money to an address in Nigeria just last week. He was still asking me for money as of yesterday and still telling me he loved me. Now I see he has changed his current home town to Duluth Georgia where I am sure he has some one else to try and scam.I wish we could catch this guy.I now have been contacted by several others on my space: Fred Stephen, Jack Curtis Murphy, I have bl coked all them right away. They are all part of the Nigerian scam group. Is there anything that can be done about them? I don't know how they gt my name? This guy cannot even speak English? I must look like a sap on my profile picture? Do you know anything about these guys? Should I be worried about his threat? And then when she does not send him the money he sends her this email and puts "BITCH" in the subject line...(niiiice) YOU MUST BE A BIG FOOL FOR TELLING ME ALL THIS OKAY..JUST GO ON YOUR OWN WAY I DONT LOVE YOU AGAIN I'M DONE OKAY LEAVE ME ALONE OR IS IT BY FORCE......FUCK OFF BITCH Get your personalized matches at one of the fastest growing dating sites! Find Singles in your area at Chemistry.com® |
We would like to thank a reader for sharing her personal story with us... This one goes by David John and is trying to get me to send $70 so he can "wire me money from his account in Egypt".. Here's the info he gave me: OHH PLLEAAAAZE!!! Goes by the name "david john" - found me on TAGGED but it looks like he has deleted his profile.. 54, in crude oil and is over in South Africa - but insists he lives in Lakeland, Florida... email is - irewolemi1954@yahoo.com staying at a hotel called "Harmony Hotel",, who knows... but I smell a rat here.. |
BELOW IS THEIR ENTIRE EXCHANGE:
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Dear Honey,
My darling, sweet prince... where do I begin? I've written you a million of these letters that you have hidden in a drawer somewhere. I'm sure this will make a great addition....You have become a beacon to me. Whenever I feel as though I've drifted too far into the disparity that clouds my life, I can look up to find you guiding me to safety. I stay here not because this place is home... but because YOU are home. and i want you to know that i have been going through difficult time and i just don't know how to tell you this because it's killing me slowly. I have made up my mind to be with you and to spend most of my times with you and to meet you in person. But I will like to explain myself clearly to you before we can move on because i want you to know that i want the best for us and i will never hide any of my feelings from my man......
Honey I want you to know that I've been having a problem with my Dad who I live with before i came to Nigeria, but right now due to our differences, I have left the country after the death of my Mom in Australia which has brough sadness to my heart because she happens to be a good mother to me. Like i told you in my previous mail that my Dad works with Oil Contractors in
Honey am so sad and crying while writting you this e-mail babe because i had to do so,so that you can know what i have been going through since this days. My first boy friend, Herick Donald, absconded with my dad's money which was kept with me after a completion of a contract in
Then when I perceived all his behaviors towards me and the bad acts of his newly gotten wife, i decided to leave the country to meet a friend in Lagos in west Africa Nigeria whom have meet during our stay there for a contract with N.N.P.C. I left the country because my dad have been treating me bad and stopped me from working with him even having any access to his assets and he cares no more about me, and I felt no where to go than to leave my dad.
Now Honey, I'm in need of your help, because have gotten enough money to run myself when I get to you there and I really want to come over to your end and stay with you for main time because I don't want to live here anymore, you know I'm a foreigner here and it is absolutely danger for me here so that is why I need your gesture assistance.
How I want you to help me? I have some money, which I've gotten from an over invoiced Contract remuneration executed by my dad with some contractors, so I have taken up the money from the contractors, but I'm hiding up from the girl I stayed with here in Lagos, because I might got setup if she knows that I have such huge amount of money ( 2.7million GBP pounds). My dear for me to be more safe and secure, I decided to put this money in a box and got it locked up with a security code known to me only, and I deposited the box with some of my traveling luggage’s with a Security and Insurance Company who render private diplomatic delivery service and I told them that the two boxes are my traveling luggage, which I want to send forth to you there because I’m returning home, then I paid them up their custody and security fee. Honey i want you to know that i have tried to do this through a Bank transfer but i want you to know that cost of doing this is just too much for me and taxes that the bank is going to put on the money plus i don't want anyone to know that i have that kind of money as well.
So Honey, I want the box sent to you while I catch up with you as soon as it is been delivered to you while I pay you up your Rent charge and a reasonable amount for compensation and i only want to do this for you, so that you can know that i really appreciate you and how much you mean to me if you can get this done for me and i want you to know that 20% of the money in the box is for you my dear. Honey i also want you to know that Every arrangement for the delivery is kind of perfect, I have obtained customs papers for private freight and there are seals on the box showing that it is a private delivery and check performed, it is free from customs checks, it will be delivered at your door step by the diplomats of the security company, you do not need to burn out to receive it. And the boxes have security codes lock known to me only,no one can open the boxes except if I tell anyone the Code, so the Boxes cannot be opened on the Way of delivery to you.
Therefore, I want you to contact me as soon as possible so that i can get to know if you can be my man and if you are ready to be there for me, so that you can make the Clearance from the Security Company as the Recipient of my Boxes. And once the box gets to you I will be there with you, then we can open the box together or I will tell you the code to open it, so that you can arrange everything properly before my arrival. Like I said, I'm ready to pay for your rent and fulfill my 20% promise of the money to you. My dear I will appreciate your trust towards this and hoping to hear from you and to meet you in person so that we can make things real together.... And honey i want you to know that this is a personal issue and all the secret of my life and i want you to know that i love you so much that is why am telling all this and i want you to keep it as a top secret to yourself only.
Honey I just hope you can be my dream and my man. I will let you know what is next to do in getting this done for me, just let me know if you can help me with this so that i can get back to you as soon as possible. I can't wait to give my life to your mind, body and soul and to be in your lovely arms soon. Because i will like you to hold me for the rest of my life and be in your lovely arms soon.
Bearing in mind that you are going to be the one that will pay for the shipping clearance fee of the boxes to you as that is the major reason i need your help and i will pay you back as soon as you get the boxes with you over there or i tell you the code to open the boxes as soon as it get to you so that you can take out the money you pay for the shipment, the amount it will cost for the shipping clearance from here to you i do not no yet but when you e-mail the security company to order for its shipment am sure they will tell you the amount it will cost us and some other things they may need from you, and i will be back to meet you in person as soon as you get the boxes there.
Bye for now and I will be looking forward to read back from you soon.
Love Always.
Gift
Header: “Hope you will help my dream come true”
My Dearest love
How are you doing today? Thanks for your lovely E-mail letter,Yes everything is no beautiful in life, that is all about my family background and what I had fact in my life way back,
I will appreciate your trust and help towards this.The boxes will only take 2-4days to be deliver to you.Below are my deposit details and the contact email address of the security company. You can write to the security company and instruct them that you want your fiancee's deposited boxes sent to you. While contacting the company, please do not let them know that the boxes contain money, just tell them that you want your fiancee's deposited traveling luggage's sent to you because I only tell them that the boxes are my traveling luggage, which I am sending to you. Then you ask them how much the clearance and the shipment fee would be and i will also want you to contact them with your full name and your address where my boxes will be send to.
Deposit Details
Deposit Number: CERSL-POL-0669-PRVT3450
Sort/Clearance Code: CERSL/II/0372
Deposit Certificate #: FECSL 33 94 07
Consignment Description: 2 Traveling Boxes
Depositor:Miss Gift L Williams
Contact of Security Company
Company: GUARANTY SECURITY SECURITY
Contact Person: Mr Jimi James (Custodian Manager)
Contact Email: gscsaved@gmail.com
As soon as you contact the security company, kindly get in touch with me. I will as well send an acknowledgment email to the company to attestate to your request to have the boxes shipped to you. You can give them the delivery information while writing to them. Keep in touch.
love you always
Thanks,
Gift
Header: “I can’t wait to be in your lovely arms”
Alright my love i also feel the way you feel as i will also like to meet you soon becauser i beleive seeing is beleiving,i dont mind i can leave my boxes here and be on my way back to nz to meet you my love and when i get back we arrange on how to get my boxes over because i have my return flight ticket to nz to be back home, i need you to help me with my hotel because the hotel man just siezed my international traveling passport today claiming that i have over stay my days in thier hotel that untill i pay over stay with them i wont have my passport back and you know there is no how i can fly without my passport so i will appreciate it if you help me with the money to pay my hotel bill and be on my way to you before my return flight ticket get expire and the money is just 700usd that i need to settle the hotel man and have my passport back to fly.
let me know if you are ready to help me my love so that i can send you my info that you will use for sending me the money through western union money transfer, please reply with your full name and address and the name of your nearest airport to you so that i can know where i am to fly to meet you and for you to pick me up at your nearest airport
love you always
Gift
Header: “Re: I can’t wait to be in your lovely arms”
Honey if i could get help from those you mention i woul not be asking you for this.how much do you have with you right now that you can send for me maybe i can sell my laptop to get the balance and pay the bill for me to be on my back to you with next available flight
love always
Gift
Header: “Love you”
Alright my love i hope to read from you soon to know the total amount you will be able to send me soon,do you need my information that you will use for sending the money through western union money transfer by now ?
love always
Header: “How are you doing?”
Thank you darling and i hope yuou have a wonderful night and beleive you al;so dream of me as your as become constant in my sleep, here is my detail that you need to use for sending me the money through western union money transfer:
Name.....................Gift Williams
Address..................
Text Question..........who is my lover
Answer....................Victim
As soon as you send the money for me please get back to me with the money transfer control number known as MTCN and also attach the western union receipt in an email and send for me, i dont know how much i will make from selling my laptop because just make sure you actually do your best for me my love and i hope everything workout soon so that i can be on my way to you soon your love is like an alcohol in my system just driving me crazy and i want to be with you soon
Love always
Header: “Done it before asking you to help”
Honey like i told you i was born and brought up in Australia before i relocate to NZ so i was holding Australia passport not NZ passport and i have been to the Embassy they told me they dont help solfout such a matter that they only help to retrieve lost passport and ask me to go and settle with them with the money,so you really have to do your best for me and get the best you can sent for me to sell my laptop and add to it for me to pay them and have my passport back so that i can be on my way to meet you at nz with the next available flight, as i am even tired of lonliness and i need you to know i miss you so much each day that passes by.honey the money that you want to use to make a necklace while not add it to the one you are sending for me and when i get to you , then you can then get me any necklace you like but at lease for me to be with you first
love always
Gift
Header: “Re: Done it before asking you to help”
you hurt my feeling with this email you sent for me despite the fact that i love you so much and you know i am not a Nigerian i only come here for a mission but i can see you never trusted me, when you dont trust how can you love .
thank you good luck in your search
Gift
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So there it is - the consumate scammer playing it to the last. This was her email:
w_gift@live.com
Honey,
I also missed you so much and i love you so much....But am sure you know that before i come back to the state i have to settle the issue of the refinary as you know that is important because i have spent the whole of the cash i have here with me on the Refinary.
I am about to finish with the official assignment atleast i will finish that in 7 to 8days,but am not yet sure of when i will be through with the refinary issue as i am being delayed by the balance of the payment to pay to the banking Firm because i have to make sure i finish the payment before i come back to the state so that the whole issue can be resolved.
Honey am really not Happy here because am Very broked .... If you can remember i told you about the Loan request i sent to my Boss,it was turned down ,he said the whole of the money that i am entitled to in West africa as my travelling Trip has been giving to me and also been given some extras too,so he have turned down my Offer,so i am broked here as i have to pay some Bills Like my Hotel Bills and others like that.Honey Please can you help me with 700Usd ,i think i can meet up with my needs with this Token.I am having some little hard time here as i have make use of the whole of the money i brought here on the payment of the refinary.
Honey i will settle you on that when i got back....Sweetheart i know you can do that for me.And hope you dont stop praying for me??
I wait to hear back from you soon.
I love you.
Martins.
Kisses
Hello, How are you doing? I’m thrilled by your profile and I most say i really liked it.....they say it takes a minute to find a special person and hour to appreciate them a day to love them.... Anyway, am here looking for my soul mate, cos this is my first time doing this and I believe that I will find that special one, cos i do believe she is out there waiting for me......
I'm not in for any games cos i have a fragile heart ...I can't take any hurt cos all I need is to be loved by that one and only ......I am looking for a sincere and loving woman who is straight forward and looking for a serious relationship
My name is smart and i would love to know you better....Am an argon welder.. i have a lovely daughter her name is jane she is old and means the world to me ..i really love my job and cos i get to meet people..
cant wait to meet you
smartjones142 at yahoo.com and his Nigerian phone number+447035998236
And of course he is another with problems with the bank cashing his check!