Equal Opportunity scammers
Mary sends us a scam that targets guys who fall in love with women in uniform. This woman, Bethke Shelton (not her real name, of course, we don’t usually put our first names on our name tapes) lures guys in to her web with the standard love talk and then tries to get them to pay a “processing fee” that will enable her to go on leave so the love birds can entwine. So here’s the “official email” that one guy got from Ms. Shelton;
Dear Mr ,
YOUR REQUEST WAS RECEIVED AND HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO ALL THE NECESSARY DEPARTMENT OF THE US ARMY FOR IMMEDIATE PROCESSING AND AUTHORIZATION.THE 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION HAS REVIEW THE PROFILES OF THE SERVICE MEMBER (SFC Bethke Shelton ) ON BEHALF OF WHICH LEAVE REQUEST IS FILE AND CONFIRMED ELIGIBLE. SFC Bethke Shelton s leave allowance and entitlement will be a total sum of $35,550.00 USD (Thirty five thousand five hundred and fifty Dollars) And a check will be sent to your address after we have confirm the processing charges from you.
THE TRANSIT DEPARTMENT OF UNITED STATES ARMY WOULD LIKE TO CONFIRM TO YOU THAT THE REQUEST CONCERNING THE PROCESSING OF SFC Bethke Shelton LEAVE WILL BE AUTHORIZED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT ACCORDING TO THE D.O.D POLICY ON LEAVE,PASS AND LIBERTY.
A REFUNDABLE PROCESSING CHARGES OF $950.00 USD HAS TO BE PAID FOR IT TO BE APPROVED AND HER NAME WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE NEXT BATCH OF UNITED STATES ARMY TO BE DEPLOYED FROM AFGHANISTAN. ALL UPDATE ON YOUR REQUEST WILL BE ADVICE DIRECTLY TO YOU. ALL PROCESSES MUST BE DIRECTED AND APPROVED TO THE COMMANDER.BELOW IS THE ADDRESS WHERE YOU ARE TO SEND THE PROCESSING CHARGES FOR APPROVAL VIA WESTERNUNION OR MONEYGRAM:
NAME:ROSE GADSON
CITY: EUTAWVILLE
STATE:SOUTH CAROLINA
ZIP CODE:29048
COUNTRY:USA
AMOUNT: $950We will wait for the MTCN or Reference # once the payment is made.
UPON THE CONFIRMATION DETAILS/RECEIPT OF THE PAYMENT THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER OR MONEYGRAM AS YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN THIS TWO TRANSFER MEDIUM . WE WILL SEND A MESSAGE TO THE SAID OFFICER AND FLIGHT SCHEDULE WILL BE SEND TO THE COMMANDANT IN-CHARGE OF THE SAID OFFICER FOR AWARENESS OF LEAVING THE CAMP IN WHICH A COPY WILL BE FORWARDED TO YOU AND THE DEPLOYED OFFICER (SFC Bethke Shelton).
WE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR MESSAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO FINALIZE THIS REQUEST …
Yours’ Sincerely,
Lt.Col G . Robert
Processing Officer,
Transit Department.
4th Infantry Division United States Army.Copyright © 2013 Us Army Finance Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright/Us Army Policy | Terms of Service | Guide.
223 Avenue,Albert Eisten way,New York city,NY,USA.1004.
Sounds like a deal, doesn’t it? Pay only $950 and you get a check for $30k and get to smooch on a babe like SFC Shelton. Well, here’s the Rose Gadson to whom you’re sending SFC Shelton’s leave processing fee, according to the potential victim’s brother;
By the way, those are pictures of a real soldier (at the Facebook link) and it looks like she’s currently deployed and I’ve messaged her about the misuse of her photos.
Category: Shitbags
Apparently, our good friends the spammer family, can’t even keep their names straight. Take a look at this one I found during a quick search for “Capt Micheal Brinkley”. I know 15 year old kids that are smarter than these clowns. ——————————————— Hello, Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent and writing through this channel. my propose of entering into secured property site doing my searching for a foreign reliable partner is to be assured of your capability and reliability champion in business opportunity and others. I am Captain James Olson of the US ARMY, 090209-M-3450C-014 II Marine Expeditionary of Multinational Division Center base in Jordan, ARMY Base of the NATO Marine Force on Monitoring in Israel. I was in Iraq all prior my deployment here, there in Baghdad on Feb 11,2012 we were alerted on the sudden presence of some Terrorists camping in Marzar Sharif, Our troops raided them and after so much exchange of gun fire, we captured some of them that were not shot. In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for Abu Baqir a Taliban sub-commander and al-Qaeda group leader. Our intelligence found out the hide out of Abu Baqir but he had fled before we got there. Here we recovered lot of boxes of weapons, drugs and money. it was a lot of money and just the top officials of my team so we all could relate like true friends. We submitted all that we retrieved to the base but of course not all the money. We saw that as a big chance for all we have been risking our life for fighting this terrorist and so we shared the rest of the money. I am in keen need of a Reliable and Trust worthy person like you who would receive the Money, secure and protect the box which contains the US Dollars for me because any time from now anything can happen here and if not i don’t know yet the date, year or month… Read more »