Mike - Nigerian Scammer -Does This Sound Familiar?

A reader sent us this email to warn others. If any of this sounds familiar to any of you, you are dealing with a Nigerian scammer. Here is the email:
I don't know if any of you have heard from a so-called import/exporter of German auto parts. He calls himself Mike or Michael. He first sends you a questionaire asking for you to answer about all of your likes and dislikes. Then he starts sending email - passionate love letters that he finds on a love letters website. Tonight he messaged me that he is very sad and feeling down. It seems that he spent all of his extra funds paying duty on car parts he exported to Kuala Lumpur. Now he is stuck there, poor dear, and can not pay his hotel or return airfare. And he sooo wants to come and be with me for "the Xmas". He needs only $1539. He would ask his dear mother in Manchester, but she is not well. His Yahoo messenger name is "skyman02911" He will send you a link to his company's website and claims to have an office in Washington DC. He says he lives in Seattle though. At least that's what he says to women who live in Washington State. his email is devotedniceman@gmail.com. I had a little fun with him tonight as he was leading up to asking me for money. I kept changing the subject. Finally when he gave me the dollar figure I said Let me get this straight. You have been sending me love letters that you found on a website (I found them too) and now you are asking me for money. How would you react to that in my situation?" He was so hurt that I would say such things to him! He never did that!! I sent him the the link to the website and told him that all of these other people must be stealing his letters then and passing them off as their own. He told me that he is sad and upset and doesn't need to be having unpleasant exchanges. I told him that I am so very sorry that he is sad and upset and to go to hell. His reply was "K" I hope he isn'y crying too hard into his pillow!

Scam Victims Story - Gerald Allen

A reader recently sent us their story dealing with a Nigerian scammer going by the name of Gerald Allen:
I live in Spain and was contacted August 2009 by a man who said that he was an American/Canadian following my dating advert in germansingles He told me that he was about 51 years old, divorced with an 11 year old daughter, that he was an freelance geologist after having worked as such for many years for Halleburton. At the time of the initial contact he said that he was in London tendering for a contract in Scotland and Norway. As he didn´t get these contracts he then, so he told me, obtained a contract in Nigeria solving an oil spillage. After about 6 weeks of chatting online via Messenger he became very affectionate and declared his love for me and that he wanted to meet me. After about 2 months of having regular online contact he told me that he had left his briefcase with his passport, all his money, credit cards etc. in a taxi travelling from the site and he then asked me to help him out financially which I did. This was followed by a variety of other sob stories which ended in my sending him more money. He sounded always very convincing and although I did have doubts unfortunately I always gave him the benefit of the doubt. I sent him money to leave Nigeria and he said that he was then in London. I tried to meet him in the U.K. 3 times whilst over there but each time something happened as to why he could not meet me. He continued chatting to me for over one year more via messenger. During that time I did not send him more money although from time to time I received more sob stories. Just recently I asked him to come to Spain and e-mailed a Ryanair boarding pass to him. (I had a copy of his "American passport" which was a fake). Needless to say he did not turn up. He told me that at the Ryanair Visa check desk he had been asked for a malaria vaccination certificate (He said that he contracted malaria whilst in Nigeria) which he said cost Pound Sterling 360.--. I checked this out with Ryanair and received confirmation from them in writing that this was not required. I challenged him on this and he eventually admitted that he was actually a Nigerian/South African with a mixed colour Nigerian father and a white South African mother. He asked my forgiveness and told me that he was ashamed of what he had done to me. All in all he conned me out of Euros 20,000.- which he said that he would repay bit by bit. He said that he had not spent all this money but invested it in shares. He also begged me not to report him to the police. He wanted to turn over a new leaf and make something of himself. I don´t believe that this is true and that he will continue conning women out of money. His e-mail address is geraldall@hotmail.com and geraldald@yahoo.com
geraldallen@yahoo.com

his mobile phone no. is 00447035906915 (previously 004470457029 and whilst in Nigeria 2347030884045)

his "Canadian mother´s" phone no. 17802375213 and her e-mail address maryavilla@hotmail.com and his "daughter´s Kimberley" kimberlygrd@hotmail.com

I checked his "mother´s and daughter´s" e-mail out by sending a greeting card via 123greetings which were returned.

Since then he has admitted that he does not have any children and is single.

He told me that his present address in London is 23 Bethel Drive, Newham, London E138BN.

He admitted that the initial 2 photos he sent me were somebody else but the subsequent ones were him (the last 2 were not that different from the initial ones but his "American passport" photo was quite different. (I had asked him for a copy of his passport before sending him more money about 1 year ago getting him out of Nigeria by making up a bit of a story).

Another Mate1.com Scammer - this one from Russia

Now for the Russian femme fatale who is also registered on Mate1.com under the name "simma" and (like the nigerian one) has her email neatly hidden in her profile. I knew she wanted someone to get her out of russia, but she gave up on me when I told her I was broke. This is her email: lismaminison@yahoo.com


Hello!

My name is Vera
I’m 29 years old. My height is 175 cm and weight is 56 kg.
I think my picture will tell you more detailed about my appearance.
I live in Russia and I love my country, but I have got an interest
to talk to people who live abroad. Of course borders between Russia
and other countries are not closed right know and Russian people got
a chance to travel practically everywhere. But unfortunately I haven’t
got a chance to travel anywhere abroad and to see how people live over there.
I believe that one person who live in the country can tell more about it than
any guide during the trip. And what interests me the most is the question how
close or far are the mentalities of our peoples. I should say that there is a
more serious reason  of my talking to foreigner through the internet, it is not
just a simple curiosity or desire for learning . well, here in Russian I haven’t
met a person who I would like to make a family with, there were several reasons for
that not to happen, and I hope that with the help of internet I will be able to
meet a person who will understand me and who will be close to spiritually,
and eventually who I will be able to make a good family and who will be the
father of my  children.  And what kind of relation are you looking for?
Do you need serious relationships at all? Just a flirtation or only friendship
is not my goal at all. If I’m interested in talking to person I would like to
learn as much as possible. So could you please send me your photo and tell me
about yourself? For example, what do you like to do when you have free time from work?
How much do you work? What is your job and do you like it or
you have it just for making money and do not like at all.
How have you decided what you wanted to do for living.
I have finished Mari State University, Law faculty, but right now
I don’t work in the field of law. Thought it is a long story and
I will tell it to you if you are interested.
I have one appeal to  you. Well, I do not know English very well
and you might not understand everything I write, please, feel free
to ask me if you find something illogical or inadequate.
And I will ask you if I don’t understand everything you write. Ok?
I am finishing my first letter to you and I will be waiting for you to answer.

Gift L Williams, Female Scammer on Mate1.com

We just received this from a reader this morning!

I almost got scammed by a girl registered under "truluvneeded" who happens to have her email imbedded in her profile. Her supposed real name is Gift L.Williams who claims to be the daughter of an oil contractor (williams oil I suppose) who works as her dad's auditor, but has since had a fight with him, and has fled from Auckland, New Zealand (where she claims to live) to Nigeria where she is hiding money which she acquired from an "over-invoiced contract". She wanted to send this 2.7 million GBP pounds over in customs checked security boxes, and for me to pay the shipping fee. I refused. She didn't mind, but then she said all that was stopping her coming to see me was that she'd been accused by the hotel she's at of overstaying, and they've seized her passport. Until she pays only $750 US she can't get it back. She only asks for a small contribution, and she will sell her laptop to pay the rest. This is where I said goodbye. She's an attractive girl with black hair and olive skin - in her profile pic she's wearing glasses and claims to be caucasian - in the photo she sent me there were 2 girls who looked almost identical sipping a cocktail. Her grammar is consistentently terrible, apart from once when I pointed this out, and the next email was perfect grammar, but in a different font, and seemed prepared for use on anyone. She's still registered and keeps altering her profile in order to be at the start of the search list. the consumate scammer playing it to the last. This was her email: w_gift@live.com

BELOW IS THEIR ENTIRE EXCHANGE:

Header: “What I came to do in Africa”
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 Utah and Africa include some parts of the Asian and US. I work with my father as his personal auditor and we move around for his contracts wherever he is awarded.

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 Salt Lake , US . When my boy friend got absconded with the undisclosed sum of US dollars, this brought the first broke up between me and my dad, because he thought we have the deal together, but not knowing that I'm an innocent about this. So my dad has been harsh and tough against me about this. But i just decided to keep my head above the water just for the main time.
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..................Jone street ota, Ogunstate, Nigeria

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

Yahoo Scammer Danny Wills Victim Story

Danny Wills
I met this Danish man on yahoo, he viewed my profile and contacted me as I was not a member. His email address is willsd77@yahoo.com. We met and of course hit it off immediately. He told me he was a goldsmith he was self employed out of his home and worked at night making jewelry in his home why would I doubt him. He said he was 56 years old and he was a god fearing god loving man, of course I believed everything he said. I was very sick and was at home off work for three months and a lot of medication he was so concerned and said he wanted to take care of me. We were on the phone all day long he would leave me lovely e-mails poems with a lot of art. He claimed to live in Yucca Valley. Two months into our relationship he said he had to go to you got it Accra Ghana for a shipment of gold he had ordered he was going to be gone for maybe three days. A couple of days after he had arrived, he got robbed and beaten his passport and all of his investments were stolen. I told him immediately that I was not going to send him air fare back home. He was insulted and said he did not need my help, he just need my love and understanding. Two weeks later I broke down and sent him $1,000.00 on my VISA via Western Union. It was not enough. I did not hear from him for about a week. The next call I received was from a Dr. from a hospital in Africa that my husband was dying and that they found my name and number on his cell phone. I stopped answering the calls. A week later he called outraged the I did not love him he had been on his death bed that he needed blood and that they had to shock him back to life. A week after that, which is about a month of drama I finally sent him $600.00 via Western Union these were sent to Michael Nykrao the manage of the hotel where he owed money but the message on the wire was that the money was for Danny Wills. He c alled me the day he received the last of the money he needed to get home and told me he was going to come home and make amends so that we could start our life together. He arrived back in the US on a Saturday and called me to tell me that he was going to come down the next day to pay me and to finally meet his wife. I have not heart from him again. I tried calling his cell phone and it is off. I am a small town girl, very trusting and honest and it shocks me that people could do things like this. I also forget the Satan can also quote the bible. It scared me that I could not tell the difference between god and satan. I can never tell my family as they would never understand, but I really did fall in love with this man, he always was too perfect. I can blame some of my stupidity on the heavy doses of medication I was on along with chemotherapy. I am glad to say that I am back at work and my days of getting so caught up in computer land I hope are over. I learned a very hard lesson and I hope this story will help someone else. This man is Danish and has a beautiful accent. He is very articulate and can be anything you need and want so please be careful!!! I don't know if I will every trust again. Thank you

Nigerian Scam Victims Submitted Story

We agree with our reader who sent in her story of being scammed by Nigerians. Why is the US allowed to send money via Western Union into Nigeria, but Nigeria forbids money to be sent out? WTF Western Union?


ROMANCE DATING SCAMS
In August 2008 I was approached by a young man claiming to be a soccer scout who was traveling in Nigeria to recruit players for his team here in the US. His name was Mark Donovan from VA. He swept me off my feet with his letters and accent. We began what is considered "internet dating" and I thought this guy was "It". Having been out of the dating realm for 15+ years,

I was taken by his compassion and gentle spirit with me. After a while he began to ask me for money, saying that he had used up his resources buying players and their contracts and that he had a check for $450,000 that he was bring back to the US. But he could not cash it overseas. He even sent me a copy of it.

Long story short, I have sent him over $8800 through Western Union, lost everything I had in my storage unit, my credits, bank accounts, clothing credit line, and numerous other things, from letting my responsibilities fall behind while trying to help him. It has now been 8 months and I still have not seen his face on a cam (but he has seen me), and he is still not here. How he says he is in Amsterdam and needs $2,000 to get home. This, after I had sent him $3,000 for planes tickets for his son and him, in November.
Beware!!! EVERYONE!!

If they sound tooo good to be true, they probably are!!! I have gone on CBS in Atlanta and have a web page warning women (and men) that these people are on these sites and they are looking for kindhearted, gentle people like me, to prey upon. The "Pig Buster" got a hold of my guy on here and he has recently deleted his profile from here. But he is OUT THERE!! Somewhere!! He probably has numerous unsuspecting women sending him money on one of those other singles sites.

He goes by "Barclayplayer, M.Donovan, or Barclaycard. If the picture of him is real, he is very good looking, age 42. I plan on going national with this and need as many women who have been taken as I have to come forward. I know it's embarrassing -- BELIEVE ME! I did things I am very ashamed of on my cam, in the name of "love". But if we don't get this out in the open, they will continue to use us and we will continue to go under financially from these bottom feeders.

I have written to Oprah, and Ellen D, and my next letter goes to "The View", and 20-20. My cover letter is being used on various "Cyber Dating Scams" sites now. My mission is to change the laws for sending Western Unions to Nigeria... Their law forbids them to send money to us!!! Well, that just doesn't seem very fair, now does it???!! Why should we be able to send our hard-earned money to them, but they can't send any BACK to us????!! I have had many women come forward who thank me for being strong enough to do this.

This story was used with permission

Nigerian scammer on Singles.net

Another victim story sent to us from Singles.net


I am a 52 year old woman who lives in Nebraska. After many many years of not dating and wondering if I would ever find "the man of my dreams", I was contacted by someone off of the dating site "Singles.net" He claimed his name was Carl J Koestner and he was working over in Nigeria in an orphanage, because that is what he does in his hometown of Louisville, KY and he saw that they needed volunteers and deceided to go and help.

We started talking in Jan of 09. After one month the dears, and babes started coming. And after 2 months the I love yous were all over the place. I was promised the love of a lifetime, even had pictures of him and his "son" that showed me a very handsome man, who professed to love me and only me and promised me a lifetime of happiness. All the words that he sent were supposedly straight from his heart.

And this guy was good. Never once did I suspect anything. He even gave me his address in Louisville, and I looked his name up on People Find. Which I did find a Carl K. In Louisville. Then after 2 months the requestes starting coming. "Honey, I gave my money to the flight agent and saw that the prices of tickets had gone up and I am short 900 dollars." Can you help me out? And then the story about the flight agent who stole all of his money and the 400 I has sent and ran off. And even though I kept telling him to go to the consult because that is what they are there for, all I would get in return is "They will not help me. They say they will come and see me at the hotel, but no one has shown up" So still believing that this man, is my true love, I opened and acct. so that he could have the orphange in KY wire his money to it and I could then W. Union the money to him, so he could buy his ticket and "come home to me"

1 hour after pulling the money from the acct, my bank put a freeze on the account. After calling them, they told me that the money that was sent was "unauthorized' Came from another bank, but it was not given permission to do so. So now I have to pay back 1850.00 to someone who probably also got scammed. I consider myself a pretty astute person, and never would have thought that "I" could have gotten myself into this situation, but I did. And I want everyone to know that any Internet Dating Service is a very cautious place to be.

I am sure that there are honest guys out there,but never again will I go on any sight, just to find a date. I would rather be single the rest of my life than go through this again...But I am more aware now and have no on to blame but myself. Want to know how good these guys are? If you ask for information pertaining to their jobs, hometown, and such and you go and find all of that, by internet, why should you disbelieve? Of course there is a Carl Koestner that lives at this address in L. KY. And of course therr is an orphanage by this name in L. KY. And of course the address and Orphanage name he gave me in Nigeria is where it is.....And the photos he sent me are of a handsome man with his son, but not something that you normally read. They were not pictures of models. Just an everyday guy.

Nigerian Dating scam on Blackplanet.com

Another story from another scam vicitm, this time from blackplanet.com
Hello,

I don't mind sharing my story about my encounter of a Internet crime. I met my scam artists on BlackPlanet.com a dating service online. Actually he found me, last year March 2008. He sent me a lovely message, the I replied. Afterwards he asked me to meet him on yahoo IM. Where we chat, we even exchanged cell phone numbers. He posed as a handsome well built man, which he stole the photo from Modelmayhem a modeling web site. The gentleman photo he's using is Michael Owen; but the scam artist goes by the name; David Benson d.benson39@yahoo.com .

He told me how we where going to be together and make me his wife. E-mailing me poems; he was so sweet, I felt for his manipulation. Then he told me his mother was sick and he needed money to save her life in addition to medicine. Afterwards he needed money to renew his plane ticket the list goes on. He manage to scam $3000. He also tried to transfer money into my account which didn't work. This man did it all. I have so much more to mention if you need to learn more you can contact me via e-mail caroldavis305@aol.com. I hope this scam can be stopped out of Nigeria, Lagos State in Africa. If not stopped put under controlled, because I have a feeling he would make someone else his victim.

Nigerian Dating Scam on Match.com

And it appears these assholios are on match.com too as yet another scammed victim details for us below!

I too was about to be scammed out of $300 (as a start) by someone who called himself Mike Smith. He finally told me he was in Nigeria and needed $300 to pay for a plane fare to come home to Kennesaw, Ga. and that he would repay me when he got here. He would not give me an address of where in Kennesaw he lived and told me that when I picked him up at the airport, he would lead me to his house. He did all the same things these scammers apparently do by writing these truly mushy e-mails and calling you all these sweet names, then wanting you to text them on their cell phones, set up Yahoo IM and so on.

I was very lucky to realize he was a scam because he would never answer my questions about himself and kept postponing the date when he was supposed to be arriving back to the states. I think the biggest giveaway was that he was in Africa and wouldn't say exactly where and then asked me to send him some money when he was supposed to be in the construction business. When I asked him why he needed to be there doing that kind of work, he said he traveled all over the world. My children were here at my house when all of this was taking place (when he asked me to send him money via Western Union and gave me someone else's name to send it to).

He told me to send the money to
ADEYEMI ADEOLU,
17 TOKUNBO ALI STR,
IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 23401.

Then he changd his mind and wanted me to use a Western Union Outlet and didn't want my son to know about this. I have our entire conversation from the Yahoo Instant Messenger printed out for my records. The picture he sent to me of what was supposed to be a picture of him was someone who looked too good to be true - much younger than the 55 years old he said he was, he appeared to be about 35 - 40 - and probably a male model. Of course, he said he would "fund" it to me when he came back home. Unfortunately, I did give him my home address because he wanted to send me flowers, which he did and his note was so sweet.

Like I said , just too good to be true. So now I have to delete all these things from my cell phone and computer but at least I didn't send him any money. I almost called the FBI but was told they are aware of this scam and so is the Nigerian government. So if anyone else has been writing to a guy call smith_mike50@yahoo.com just know he's a real fake. He actually called my cell phone and his accent was anything but English - more like a Nigerian or other African accent and I could barely understand him. I have copies of all of his e-mails to me just in case I needed them. My son has helped me by going online and finding out more about these scams and I will make sure "Mike Smith" never contacts me again. It's just a shame they prey on hardworking, honest women looking for some nice man to spend time with and somewhere down the road, maybe marry!!

Scammer on Match.com

another nigerian scammer story

I am a mid forties woman living in Melbourne and have been on Match.com searching for a partner. I am a single Mum with a small child and a 21 y.o. Autistic boy.
In early February 2009 a man by the name of Tyon Gates (tyon_gates2000@yahoo.com sent me an email telling me how beautiful I was and that he wanted to get to know me . ..that he could not believe he had met such an angel as me. ..
I was hooked into his charm. He soon removed his profile from the dating site and we were chatting frequently on yahoo messenger (which he helped me set up!) I soon gave him my number and he began ringing me frequently calling me “Sweetie,Honey” etc. He told me that he soon was telling me that he wanted me off the MATCH web site.
When we spoke he was very difficult to understand but I fobbed it off as he told me his Dad was American Indian and his Mum Italian. Tyon claimed to come from Texas but was currently in London on business. He was an importer of antiques allegedly!
HE then told me that he had to go to Nigeria to buy antiques and would call me when he got there.
He gave me his direct number to his room in Lagos and we spoke regularly, but mostly chatted on Yahoo messenger.
He told me he had been out shopping for antiques and sent me the invoice with my name on the top with him “Mr and Mrs Tyon and Sandra Gates”. Telling me that I will be a part of his life and that he wants to spoil me – take care of me and that he will be very wealthy once he sells his wares back in the US. Tyons spelling was poor and I tested him with some basic Italian phrases which he failed. (His mother apparently is Italian living in Italy)
Tyon kept telling me how great our life would be together and how much he would love and take care of me. Tyon’s accent I could not distinguish – it did not sound Nigerian at all!)
Then one evening while we were chatting he told me that he had just got the=2 0tax certificate from the Nigerian government and the tax on his goods was much more than he anticipated. He asked me to help him by sending him money. I told him I did not have it to send but he insisted and kept at me and got quite agitated at times that I would not help him when he needed me most! He kept assuring me that he would pay me back and that he was going to make me very happy! He asked me my ring size and said that he had bought me a ring.
I relented and sent him AUD$1400.00. .. HE was so grateful and kept telling me how much he loved me. He sent me flowers and chocolates..
He assured me that he would not ask me for anymore money but then his friend was talking to me and asked me to help him with more money so Tyon could leave and come to me. I was very angry and wrote Tyon an angry email..
Somehow he seemed to bring me round with his charm and also was very manipulative in his convincing me that he just needs a bit more money. I sent a subsequent AUD$700.00 dollars to him. And he again was so loving and grateful. He sent me his itinerary of his intent to travel to Australia to meet me. Then later asked me to help him with a little more money.. I kept telling him I did not have it and could not meet my rent payments or buy food. HE told me I was lying about that!
Through his pleading and demands I sent another AUD$650.00. HE assured me that this would the last and that he could not wait to see me!
He told me that he was checking out of the hotel on the Tuesday morning and scheduled to fly out of Lagos that evening. The last time he called me he said he was at the bank picking up the last money I sent and that he loved me very much! He asked me what I was going to cook for him. He would always ask me how “our” boys were.
On the Wednesday evening I received a phone call from someone with an accent telling me that Tyon had been in an accident on the way to the airport. They asked me if I was his wife. They spoke a little about the accident and said he was in a coma. I asked them for information about what hospital he was in. They then rang me back about half an hour later and told me they needed $50,000 in Nigerian currency before they could operate. This alleged doctor said he would give me his office number but I insisted on knowing what hospital Tyon was in. They hung up (bad line!) then called back again. I asked again what hospital but they were being very evasive. I told them to ring his family for help. I hung up the phone. They kept trying to ring me so I pulled the phone out of the wall. I was feeling bad as I could not understand what was going on and that if in fact he was in hospital, then I ought to be helping!
I tried ringing hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria but could not get through. I wrote emails to the email address that apparently organised his flights. I looked up the air France website and typed in his booking details and came up with nothing.
I feel very concerned as this man has my address and my phone numbers.

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