AI General Love Scam

| November 19, 2024


The latest ‘thing’ is to AI-generate a military general (or colonel… ah, what’s the diff?) and troll the internet for ladies (or guys) looking for love in all the wrong places.

Single bars and good time lovers were never true.
Playing a fool’s game, hoping to win.
And telling those sweet lies and losing again…

… sorry, I got carried away. I’m back now.

Here is the good colonel…

I fell for a charming ‘army colonel’ on Tinder — I found out the terrifying truth and it cost me $25K
By Ben Cost | Nov. 18, 2024

He was a soldier of misfortune.

As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, so do the scams utilizing it. A UK woman who fell for a “US army colonel” she met on Tinder discovered later that he was a romance scammer after he swindled her out of over $20,000 by deploying hyperrealistic AI videos.

“I’ve never been conned like this in my life,” the 60-something victim, who goes by Mary, told National Fraud Helpline while recalling this romantic false flag operation.

Hoping to find a friend and a lover
I’ll bless the day I discover
Another heart lookin’ for love

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5JC

The current CENTCOM commander has more than 3000 profiles on Fakebook, all which meet their high standards. He has GOT TO BE laying some serious pipe. In fact most GOs have that many.

Daisy Cutter

I bet he NEVER has to pay for a visit back to the US out of his own pocket.

5JC

Another little known fact is that he writes the most beautiful Koranic poetry.

Hack Stone

Hate the game, not the player.

26Limabeans

I know you should never reply to a suspicous email but a
recent phishing scam demanding thousands of dollars via
Bitcoin or they would release my little secret was too much
to ignore so I replied “which one”?
Still waiting.

5JC

The passive/ aggressive blackmail phishing scam relies on someone with a guilty conscience from cheating on a spouse or stealing money from work type activities. The victim gets so riled they don’t think about it and just pay. The best part is that the victim won’t ever even report it.

Animal

So the moral to the story is of you’re going to cheat and steal don’t have a guilty conscience?

I like the way you think. I’ll be watching you.

tavernknight

ROFLMAO

SFC D

Kinda like the guy that tells his friend “I got an email from some guy telling me to quit banging his wife” The friend says “So did you quit?” Dude replies “I can’t. He didn’t sign his name”.

Hack Stone

Dat’s a good one.

Hack Stone

Elaine Ricci met a guy going by the name of Phil Monkress on line. She ended up sending him all of the money from the company that she was president of. Lost everything, to include the mailbox door out front.

Tallywhagger

Was their a broken down Jaguar near by?

Hack Stone

Hack Stone laughs his ass off thinking about Psul’s current financial and housing situations. In ten years he managed to lose his job, his home, his life savings, he declared bankruptcy again, he was sued by a company for stiffing them $8K on a website development, he is being sued by Bank of America, and he owes over $18,000 in back rent to a leasing company for a home just off of River Road in Bethesda. Maybe his sperm wasn’t so lucky. And the funniest part is Phil Monkress is down in Merritt Island telling his buddies how he threw some asshole under the Jaguar.

Slick Goodlin

$20,000 ??

“If God did not want them sheared….he would not have made them sheep!”

Bandit Leader Calvera in, “The Magnificent Seven”

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KoB

Caveat emptor…

fm2176

I keep sending the $1950 in Bitcoin they request, but I’ll be damned if multiple people haven’t hacked my phone and recorded compromising photos of me on certain illicit sites in various stages of undress and pleasure. I mean, it’s horrible, a don’t-give-a-damn retired Infantry Vet is over here giving away all of my income to someone who has a photo of my neighbor’s house, my address, and my wife’s number and purported pictures of my birthday suit. Sarcasm, of course, but the emails are real. For those interested, they started after my wife logged into the Taco Bell app a few months back. I guess the app got hacked and they got those tidbits of information. So, now I’ve gotten at least ten emails. The funny thing is that the letter starts with this blurb: “I know that calling +1804******* or visiting [redacted address] would be a effective way to have a word with you if you don’t take action. Don’t try to hide from this. You’ve no idea what I’m capable of in [area of residence].” From my posts here, everyone knows I have a couple of firearms as well as minimal training in their use and operation. Plus, in Louisiana, we have both Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrine laws, and I live on a dead-end street with watchful and heavily armed neighbors to boot (I put the kid across the street in the Army years ago, and when my oldest daughter got into trouble, he was the first to call me to let me know I had deputies knocking on the door). The scammers can call my wife and get an earful, or try showing up physically and get a little bit more. Eleven-plus years ago, a dolled-up Soldier from our BSTB (named barbie, of course) had her images stolen and fake accounts made. I let her know and she managed to get the page removed. Much more recently, a former coworker has the same routinely happen to her as a “Facebook Entrepreneur”. Such is the toll of having an online presence or being someone people… Read more »

E. Conboy

Often with age comes wisdom.

fm2176

Up to a point, it’s usually the elderly that fall for these scams. A friend’s uncle, a phony Navy SEAL who’d served in the Navy in the Vietnam era but started making false claims as he slipped into dementia, got scammed by a supposed Filipina. He also had another woman move in who racked up over $50k in credit card debt.

While the emails are real, the claims made by the scammers certainly aren’t. They match word for word with emails released by law enforcement and media warning of the scam. I can only imagine that some lonely guys out there who have certain addictions have paid up in hopes of not having videos of them sitting on the toilet watching Dylan Mulvaney released.

Daisy Cutter

What happens at Taco Bell should stay at Taco Bell.

E. Conboy

What did he/she expect? Play stupid games…

Roh-Dog

My divorce cost me way less and I was a Private 5th Class.

Lucky asshole.

Harry

If these women weren’t so thirsty they’d get to keep their money. Same goes for pathetic dudes who can’t get an actual woman.

Graybeard

People like “Mary” don’t use their brains, going off of emotions or something.

I feel kinda sorry for them – but in a “well, what did you expect knucklehead” kind of way. A good friend of mine fell for the “I know what you did now pay up” scam – but confessed to his wife and family as well so he straightened up as well.

On the other hand, those that scam the very elderly (like my late WWII CIB father) because their mental processes are age-impaired truly rile me up. I certainly would not have any problems whipping their bare backs with thorns and briars, then binding up their stripes with poison ivy.

5JC

Or just go full Bee Keeper on them.

True story. If you are ever on the phone with an annoying spam marketer or fraudster simply ask them if they have ever seen the beekeeper? They will hang right up on you without saying goodbye. I don’t often answer my phone to unknown numbers but I have found this works every time.

Army-Air Force Guy

I have to keep this post brief. Just got a phone call saying I owe the IRS $2,000. BTW, I wonder if some of those 80,000 new agents were recruited from India, the one who called me had a real strong accent.