Scamming with photos of the troops
“MCPO Ret. In TN” sends us a link to an article in the Tampa Tribune about an engineer officer whose picture was used in a scam to separate a widow from her cash;
In August, [Norma Jean] Culpeper’s husband died. Seeking companionship, she went on an internet dating site geared for widows and widowers.
That’s where she met the man claiming to be Capt. Nathan Anthes. The two struck up a friendship that turned romantic, before becoming something else entirely.
“He said his wife Kelly died, leaving him to take care of his daughter, but that he had no way of accessing his money because he was in Afghanistan,” said Culpeper.
Seeking a loan, the man emailed the verification note [from the government of Benin] about the gold dust as proof of collateral, said Culpeper.
Culpeper said that she eventually sent him money, about $1,200. And the two even talked about marriage. Until her daughter, Samantha Bryant, found out.
Yeah, well, it’s tough to scam an honest man or woman. Ladies, don’t loan money to people you’ve never met. Most folks in the military don’t need a loan, and many more don’t have $2.8 million in gold dust that they’re willing to share with you even though they’ve never met you.
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Same scam different photo. This has been going on for quite a while now.
These clowns have it all wrong. I didnt even need to use a photo for my scam
http://thetruthaboutsocnetlies.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/john-giduck-may-have-used-colorado-tax-payer-money-to-fund-rebels-in-the-sudan/
I just started a “community corrections non-profit” which is also known a halfway house. The non-profit’s sole source of revenue appears to have been grants from the county and state. I funneled those public grants to 1) rebels in the Sudan against international law but made me look high speed and 2) my own startup doing business as “Archangel Group”.
Yes. My for profit company was originally formed by misusing funds intended for halfway house prisoners. Law enforcement didn’t care, state government didn’t care, and the two US Senators from Colorado didn’t care.
No risk. no fuss. No muss.
see why I won the TAH SV contest? This year’s field are pussies in comparison.
sincerely
John “Faker 6” Giduck
OK I’m old so sue me….
For those of us a bit younger:
Oh yeah, …HOLE……
She sure is.
I don’t know what a good vibrator costs but I’m guessing it’s less than $1200–and it never, ever leaves the seat up. On the downside, it never takes out the garbage.
On the flip side, if I could lick my balls like my dog does, I’d never have to leave the house.
sincerely
John “Faker 6” Giduck
And you didn’t even credit the late George Carlin when you stole his line above. For shame!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVw3JGy7DIA
(Note: The above link is George Carlin, fer Christsakes. OF COURSE it’s NSFW/small children/prudes/around clergy!)
If I didn’t steal stuff to begin with, I wouldn’t be in the pickle that I am with those damn website links, now would I?
sincerely
John “Faker 6” Giduck
According to a lot of women, men don’t take out the garbage either so it depends on their experience.
And it never expects you to make a sandwich for it.
“…an internet dating site geared for widows and widowers.”
Who started it? Somebody in Nigeria? Because I can’t think of anything on the internet that would be more likely to be used as a scam than this.
Ladies,
<Pro tip: if your new millionaire beau needs $1200 to get around and visit you he's either a scam artist, a fucking loser, or both…
There are severa scammer awareness sites out now. The scope of it is incredible. Practically every dating site or social network is riddled with fake profiles ( both men and women) looking to scam victims out of money.
The ones who scam using military pictures are the worst. The scammers steal photos from facebook albums or internet articles and weave a persona around it, They target women over 40 and come up with different scams,,,
Peruse this site for a while. I used to be pretty active on this forum, and I learned way more than I ever wanted to know about this topic.
http://www.419eater.com/
Seriously – there is some very good insight into how these guys work, and why people continue to fall for their shtick time after time.
As VOV stated, if someone asks you for money, or says he wants to send you money, it’s a scam. How anyone can be fooled by that twaddle now, with all the warnings on TV news/talk shows, is beyond me.
I can’t believe anyone is desperate enough to fall for that crap. And your response should always be ‘Sorry, I’m broke. You send me some cash, sport’ or ‘Oh, an airplane ticket? Gee, I don’t fly and that would look suspicious to the bank/card company’ or even better, dead silence, no response.
Those red flags ALWAYS are there. I don’t understand how anyone can miss them.