Five inmates charged with stealing $560K from military personnel in online dating extortion scheme | Daily Mail Online
Antwine Lamar Matthews, Rakeem Spivey, Jimmy Dunbar Jr, Wendell Wilkins and David Paul Dempsey have been indicted on federal charges including extortion and wire fraud.
Five inmates in South Carolina extorted some $560,000 from hundreds of service members by using contraband cellphones to pose as underage women on dating sites, authorities say.
Standing in front of a state prison on Wednesday in Columbia, US Attorney Sherri Lydon told reporters that Antwine Lamar Matthews, Rakeem Spivey, Jimmy Dunbar Jr, Wendell Wilkins and David Paul Dempsey had been indicted on federal charges including extortion and wire fraud.
Ten others throughout the Carolinas have been charged with helping the inmates collect extortion payments via services including Western Union or PayPal.
According to court documents, inmates used contraband phones to join dating websites, pretending to be women as they contacted and exchanged nude images with military personnel throughout the country.
For $560,000 you can call me and I will pretend to be anything you want … just sayin.
Once the targets had been reeled in, inmates then posed as an authority figure, such as a father or police officer, claiming the girl with whom the victim had been communicating was underage and demanding money to keep the exchanges private, according to Drew Goodridge of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Fearful they’d be accused of disseminating child pornography, possibly losing their military careers, more than 442 service members handed over more than $560,000 total between September 2015 and January 2018, authorities said.
The inmates involved were identified in five federal indictments released Wednesday, according to WIS10. The indictments are outlined below:
- Between September 2015 and December 2017, victims wired more than $29,000 to Malcom Cooper, Andreika Mouzon and Flossie Brockington, who transferred the money to Antwine Lamar Matthews and other inmates, sometimes taking a cut
- Roselyn Pratt helped inmate Rakeem Spivey fraudulently collect more than $5,000 in 2016
- Mitchlene Padgett helped inmate Jimmy Dunbar Jr extort nearly $30,000 between May 2016 and December 2017
- Jalisa Thompson, of Spartanburg, and Tiffany Reed, of Charlotte, helped inmate Wendell Wilkins obtain at least $80,000 from military personnel between February 2016 and January 2018. Thompson and Reed, as well as Brandon Thompson and Laben McCoy, then laundered the money
- Edgar Jermaine Hosey, of Aiken, helped inmate David Paul Dempsey extort money from military personnel between May 2016 and December 2017
You can read all about these poor military victims at the link below. Not sure if they have a GoFundMe set up yet. Poor guys, they are all guys right?
Category: Dumbass Bullshit, Military issues
I am surprised we have 442 service members who would try to date young women, with all the SHARP, EO, and sensitivity training going on.
“Antwine”
Now that’s a new one.
I saw an “Antwoine” once but this guy wins the prize.
We used to have regular dealings with a Cocainia. Thought that was the dumbest name ever, until I read this article:
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/airline-agent-mocked-5-year-old-epileptic-girls-name-mother-claims
Kid’s name is “Abcde”. No joke. Some idiot thought it a good idea to name the kid literal alphabet soup, and then has the audacity to get offended when people laugh. Your kid better get used to it, cause you set them up for a life of being mocked, moron.
Just like the parents that named their kid espn, because they’re big sports fans…
In one of my trivia columns, I noted the name “Abcde” and how something like 360 or so kids in the country have it.
That doesn’t make it any less ridiculous, though.
Gotta be a few xyz’s out there.
Maybe transgenders.
lol, how do you even pronounce that?
“Ab-city” they say in the article. So in addition to being a moron, the parents have no concept of how letters are arranged to form comprehensible words.
Abcde: æbsədi (AEB’si-dee)
….. You’re welcome.
(^____^)
I would guess its pronounced “ab sa de”?
That photo.
Which one of these objects is not like the others?
I read this and then scrolled up, laughed and then came back to say…
!LARF!!!
🎵🎶 One of these things is not like the other 🎶🎵
Welcome Home Dave! We’ve missed you; well we’ve missed the Soviet, but since it is a matched pair…well you know. Hope She is doing well.
I don’t have 560 large USD laying around, and since we’ve already seen the pink robe and the Lance Armstrong outfit, not a whole lot left you can pretend to be.
These troops should know by now that on line, if “it” claims to be a well built man, “it” is a fat slob. If “it” claims to be a woman, “it’s” a fat tranny. If “it” claims to be a young female or child, “it’s” a cop or a scam. I know this from deceased BnL (173rd Abn VN) was a detective/undercover investigator for crimes against children and idiots.
I was victimized in Oki, she promised to love me long time … but it only took a few minutes.
I even tried other women who promised the same thing. Over and over again … they were done in no time.
For a few dollars, I will send you personalized pictures of me in the Lance Armstrong outfit but the pink robe will be extra.
I think I dated that same group. My watch was always running too fast. Now I can’t even wind my watch.
Will check in my butter & egg money jar. I may can use the pink robe shot. My Scare Crow got blowed away in the tornado. Spring planting time be coming up soon and I’ll need a replacement.
Don’t worry, people. I can blackmail him with the pink bathrobe photo any time, any place, any day.
Glad to see these assholes were caught.
They tried to do this to me last February.Same exact MO. Using south and north Carolina numbers.
Except I told them to go fuck themselves when they tried to extort me. They didn’t get a cent.
In my defense, I was convinced by my friends to try online dating. The ‘girl’ who’s profile said she was 24, contacted me on the website. Yada yada, two weeks go by and her ‘dad’ calls me demanding money because she is supposedly underage. I told him where he could put the money. A week goes by and I get another phone call from a different number and a different man also claiming to be her father and demanding money. This went on for a month or two, with me playing wack a mole blocking numbers until I got fed up and just changed mine.
Moral of the story, don’t online date. If you do, keep it in your pants until you see them in person.
Assholes.
That’s a lot of commissary money. Ramen noodles for everyone!
Don’t all of them look like good “church-going young men” who were just “fundraising” for the local community?
Hope they enjoy the extra time in the federal poundthemintheass prison for their stupidity…
This story proves you can’t crush the entrepreneurial spirit of the Millennial generation. These cats would not allow bars to cage their capitalistic endeavors. The business of America is business…no matter where the almighty dollar is being pursued!
Charming fellow, they are. I would definitely trust them if I were alone in a room with them.
Didn’t say ‘with what’, did I?
Make them earn the restitution money either mopping floors and cleaning booths in pr0n arcades or cleaning shit, piss, puke and syringes off of San Foo-foo sidewalks for minimum wage!
Holy shit! Those prisons seem to be crawling with criminals! 😉
The lack of overcrowding is a problem and needs to be addressed.