Thomas Mario Metwally Nigerian Scammer

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 # 234-812-7995227

Now of course, if he isn't a scammer, I've lost the man of my dreams.

So now, I will have to go about securing my life, changing phone numbers and emails. But at least I didn't send him the $15000.00. Thanks Again!

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Another Day, Another Scam this time from Ghana

Watch out for a lady named Lawer Linda Mauwginuwua from Accra, Ghana. She promised me the world, broke my heart and took my money. Her photo is a 31 year old white woman who has blond hair and a voluptuous figure and smile. My guess is that the pirates in Ghana took her photo off the Internet and scammed me. I got several documents from her which appear to be fraudulent. She is extremely attractive and her messages were as sweet as they could be. She refuses to return emails now that she has my money. Please advise if there are any organizations that can help me recover my money and prosecute these pirates.


BELOW ARE SOME OF LINDA'S EMAILS TO OUR READER:
This was sent on 6/8/11.

Hello Dearest,
Why cant you understand that i cant fly without paying the hospital this is all i want you to know,I love you and want you to know that i have always wished and want to be with you sweetie,Just understand this for us to be together i am not the one who is holding you for money..I don't need your money and i will not use your money for anything all i want and need is you..Just understand this for us to be together i am tired and don't know what to say to you again for you to believe that i will be with you,i Cant fly without the hospital bill pay..Anyway take care for now and stay blessed..


Love always,
Linda

Note - I never sent the $300 and she has stopped emailing me. her email easygoinglinda1@yahoo.com
THE FOLLOWING TWO PHOTOS OF HER ARE BADLY PHOTOSHOPPED WITH HER HEAD ONTO ANOTHER'S BODY - ONE WHERE SHE GOT ARRESTED AND NEEDED HELP AND THE OTHER WHEN SHE WAS SUPPOSEDLY IN THE 'HOSPITEL" AS SHE CALLED IT

This was sent a week before.

Hello sweetheart,
I am crying now and don't want to stay here any longer sweetheart,I love you and do want to get out of here to be with you and make you the happiest man alive forever baby,No one will help me with the rest and i cant do anything to get the rest sweetheart..I want you badly beside me darling..Please do something sooner for me to be out of here because i am dying over here i hate being here lonely sweetheart,I love you and you are all i need and want beside me baby..I was feeling pain all over my back when the accident happened so i was rush to the hospital and be take good care baby..I will be out of here as soon as i get the $300 and pay them my love,I love you soo much and cant wait to hold you and make you happy each and every day darling,I want to get out of here to be with you and make you happy forever baby..take very good care of yourself for me now and stay blessed..

Love always,
Linda

This was sent on 5/20/11. She attached the picture with her in shackles with it. That cost me $500 to allegedly get her out of jail. The transfer of gold ownership was what she said she needed. I was a sucker and it makes me sick to be conned like this.

Hello My Dear,
Sorry if i did say anything to hurt you it was because i am very afraid to go to jail baby,I beg them and they gave me one more day for that to be done which is tomorrow 4pm otherwise i will be going to jail baby and this is the last favor they are giving me which is is one more day,baby please do understand that i will be with you and nothing will happened again take this step as your last step for me and i will be in your arms for us to live a happy life together my love,Tony Many things have happened in the past for us and many things have changed. It doesn't matter how much time has gone by. Time could never make my feelings for you weak or fade away. Now all i need from you is one more chance to be together ,Love, trust, understanding, affection, honesty, tolerance and loyalty are key factors for a successful relationship. Every time I think of you my heart misses a beat sweetheart,I love you and i don't want to go to jail baby please do understand this because of our love sweetheart,I promise you that i will be in your arms as soon as the second document is done and i am out of here darling...take care for me and stay blessed..

Love always,
Linda



footnote - She never did anything to try to come be with me. She told me she had bought a ticket from KLM airlines. When I called them, thy had no record of her buying a ticket. It appears that the lady in the pictures is not real. My bet is that these pirates picked the picture off the Internet and she is not aware of her picture being used in a scam. I doubt that she got a dime of my money and that makes it all the worse.

A Reader's Dating Site Nightmare (not with a scammer)

Hello,

I’ve just cancelled my membership to the dating sites I was using, and will never use them again after my free dating site experience lost me my job, and nearly my home. I wanted to tell my story, to try and warn others to be very careful and look for the dangers of people on these sites who have simply no intention of committing themself to a relationship.

I was on a free dating site back in April and met a man named Gareth, who had set up a very nice profile and stated himself as divorced. We got chatting and although he lived 125 miles away, we decided that we got on so well that we would meet up. Gareth said he would travel down to my home, and we had a wonderful weekend together. It was love at first sight, and when he went home Gareth said he was sure that I was the lady for him and that he wanted to live with me. I felt over the moon, and having spent years hearing about other people meeting their soul mates, couldn’t believe this was actually happening at last to me.

The following week though, I noticed that although Gareth had said that he wasn’t on Facebook, when I searched, his profile came up – with a photo of him with a blonde lady. In his list of friends, I also found a profile of the same blonde lady with a picture of him. When he called, I questioned him about it, and he said that this was just an old photo that he’d forgotten to change, and he hadn’t logged on to Facebook for ages. I was still puzzled that he wouldn’t accept my friend request, but because I had fallen so much for him chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. When I asked him if he was still in a relationship, he said that he had split up from this lady before Christmas, and although he was still in occasional touch, they were not an item an more and he lived at his mothers.

Gareth came down for two more long weekends, and we started to plan our new life together. The one thing that did bother me was that every time I got up to go out of the room, Gareth would quickly take his phone out of his pocket and start texting, and I also felt uneasy because he refused to tell any of his family or friends about me with the excuse that he wanted me ‘properly on the scene’ first. Every time I had any worries, Gareth would send me wonderful long emails telling me he was totally committed to me, to trust him and that he wanted to be with me more than anything else. He gave me a holiday for my birthday cruising round the Greek Islands which was scheduled for July, and I just couldn’t believe that I’d been given such a wonderful birthday present as this was the first time for me that I had ever been spoilt so much. Gareth then suggested that I put get my house valued and put it on the market, which I did – with the idea that I’d be moving into his house in Wales that his tenants had just vacated. Gareth had said to me that I would need to invest all of the £70k from the sale of my house into his property and go on a joint mortgage with him, and he arranged a mortgage in principle with the bank. I was very surprised when I got a cash buyer immediately, and called Gareth straight away to ask him if he was still sure about me selling. He said that he had never been more sure of anything and told me to accept the offer, which I did. At the end of May, after agreeing this with Gareth, I gave in my notice at work with the idea that I would then be able to go on the holiday in July, and move to Wales after that.

Then suddenly cracks began to appear, and this is where my trusting nature let me down. I went up to Wales for the weekend to see the house, and noticed that Gareth had become considerably anxious and on edge. I tried to put it down to pressure of his work, but he just wouldn’t relax, and for the first time I realised that me going up to Wales had suddenly made all that was happening very real for him. By the Sunday I was tearful, because something inside was telling me that there was something wrong, but Gareth wouldn’t discuss it.

The following morning I got up to eagerly read an email I’d got from Gareth, expecting his usual loving words, but instead it was just a one line email saying to cancel the house sale and that he was not going to pursue the relationship any further. I just froze to the spot, feeling absolutely sick. My hands were shaking so much with the shock I could hardly type a reply. It turned out that he had never really finished with his previous relationship and he had decided to stick with her as it was what he knew. He had basically just got cold feet and backed out. He even told me later that the holiday he was taking me on, he would now be taking his previous girlfriend instead. His cruelty was just unbelievable. It didn’t take much to work out that he must have gone straight round to her house after dropping me off at the station to see if she would take him back before he ditched me.

I paid a very high price for my trusting nature, and falling in love with a man with commitment phobia. I managed to get my house back as I cancelled the sale, but I couldn’t get my job back as they paid me in lieu of notice. I have now been left on benefits, desperately searching for work to try and pay my mortgage. My mother was forced to give me her life savings to help get my mortgage down to a reasonable level. Gareth not only destroyed me, but caused my family real hardship as well.

My word of warning to anyone using these dating sites is please, don’t rush into any big decisions until the other person shows some concrete commitment by their actions, and not by their words. I have lost almost everything due to trusting this man’s word, while he walked away unscathed and even made sure he had his old girlfriend’s bed to jump straight back into. Look for the warning signs, and if they don’t want you to meet their family or friends question it, and if they start declaring undying love at the first meeting, it’s probably not sincere. Above all, always question any sign that a previous relationship is still hanging around as ‘friends’.

Thank you for reading this, and if writing my story can stop one other person going through the Hell that I’ve been through using dating sites then it will be worthwhile.

Jeanie Going to 'suicide herself with DOZE pills' according to friend

ok, after sending jeanie 850 bucks for a ticket to come see him, he got this from her "friend"


Subject: Fw: this is wendy the jeanie friend


This is what I got from Jeanies friend last night after sending Jeanie 850 usd to come home to me for gate money wendy02wendy02@yahoo.com>
From: Wendy Wendy
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:03:15 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: this is wendy the jeanie friend


hello sir , i hope this is right email to you sir , i am wendy the jeanie friend who is keeping jeanie in my home since last sunday , jeanie is my friend and i know her very much she is being my friend since long time when she got here in costa rica from ecuador , sorry i do not wrote good ingles but i think you will understand this little that i wrote here because my first language is espanol , the keep point of my wrote letter to you is that she has being crying and she want to commit sucide with a lot of doze tablet that kills , she was robbed with Mr bernard at the western union street in porto limon this evening , i went to work and i just saw with policia car , the policia is being drive around since this evening after she was robbed at porto limon , the policia just dropped her in my house now and she rushed to my kitchen to sucide herself because she was robbed by some cocaine dealer gangster who hangs around the western union street , i told jeanie yesterday when she said you was going to send her travel money through western union , i told her that moneygram is better because it is safer country side than western union , though she gave excuse that moneygram is far for mr bernard to help her in collect but i told her she should stop using western union because it is close to gangsters hang outs. now i am just helping her to send this message to you because she said she can not contact you any more and she want to sucide herself because she lost the money to gangsters and she said you will not believe her anymore , she did not tell me yet how much you send to her sir but she keep crying and trying to take over doze tablet , i can not take this any more , i do not want someone to die in my house sir , i think i will let her go back to her home , i tried to stop her but she fight me and keep crying , please sir this is over my power sir and i do not want to go to jail if she kill her self, i told her to stop that the policia still doing investigations on the gangster and they can still find them and get the money back to her but you do not listen to any of my words sir , please tell me back if this is right email for mr flyod ., thank you sir ., WENDY

Scammers in Costa Rica too

This one in costa rica Limon' is wicked and a total professional. She actually worked money out of me because she's very good at what she does. Lie.

Jeanie Curl Harris : plays as a waitress in costa rica who wants to leave. And

needs air fare and gate money. $1800 LOST     
Then gets mugged at western union. Costa rica      

From: Jeanie Curl jeanie.curl@yahoo.com>

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:06:30 -0800 (PST)

Hello , how are u doing this evening ? i am happy to see ur message here with your lovely picture, you look cool and great in ur truck , u have good truck too , here are my pictures for you and i hope you like them too . i will chat with you in a while . hugs and kisses

  The real person in these photos is obviously not the photos of the real SCAMMER - the scammer stole them from a social networking site

Email from Scammer Tina Diane

My Dear , I am more than happy in your urgent reply to my mail. How was your day?. mine was a little bit fine over here in Dakar Senegal, hoping that you too must be fine over there now. So like i told you before my name is Tina Diane i am 23 yrs old from ivory coast in west Africa and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal as a result of the civil war going on in my country. My late father Dr Banabas Diane was a prominent successful business man and a politician under the government of Late Gen. Robert Gue the former head of state before the rebels attacked my house one early morning killing my mother and my father, It was only me that is alive now and i managed to make my way to near by country Senegal where i am leaving now. Remember i told you that I am from Ivory-Coast, but due to the war in my country, that cost the dead of my parents which made me to stay hear as a refuge... And please also remember that in a any good relationship ''Distance or Age '' dose not matters, what matters is how you care about ache other , so please bear with me for the distance and age. Meanwhile, I would like to know many more about you, your residents, your likes and dislikes, your hobbies, and please everything about you. As for me, i have a lot and VERY IMPORTANT thing to tell you in my next mail, maybe before then i will try to get our Rev phone number to give you so you can call for us to talk and hear each others voice. Bellow here is all my pictures, Hope you will like it. Hoping to hear from you soonest. Thanks Tina.