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Type of a scam Romance
We started flirting with one another and I kept pressuring him to meet in person as he said to live in L.A. and I live in Santa Ana (about 1h away), but he kept telling me that he couldn't because he was too busy dealing with potential projects and clients and was bidding to take on a multi-million dollar project overseas. He had told me in advance that by January 14th he would know if he won the bidding or not and when we could meet. January 14th arrived and he told me that he did win the bidding and sent me an image of what looked to be a contract with a company called "BlitzSteel"(https://blitzsteel.com/) in the amount of 1,750,000.00 to work at a rig in China called "Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff" for the duration of 1 month and 3 weeks.
He told me he was travelling to the site at the rig above on January 17th and we never got to meet in person before his trip, but we kept in touch via WhatsApp daily via text messages and phone calls.
Our friendship quickly developed into romance and he sounded like the man of my dreams, always saying what any woman would want to hear, but we also did seem to have good chemistry and got along easily. I had absolutely no reason to doubt him.
He sent me the address to the new website he was creating for his company (https://fiducialcompanyltd.com), asking my opinion on it and I noticed a lot of grammar issues and pointed it out to him because I'm an analyst and am trained to look for problems and he seemed very impressed with my skills and told me he wanted me to work with him in the future as an administrator or secretary of sorts, helping him creating the contracts, meet with potential clients while he would be dealing with the biddings and the money. It all seemed very legit to me and I trusted that he was who he said he was.
On January 28th, 2019 he contacted me (always via WhatsApp) acting extremely worried and told me his project had hit a wall because he couldn't purchase the needed supplies and the reason for that was that his bank had frozen his account on suspicion of fraud. He sent me 2 screenshots of a laptop screen showing his account with Santander Bank (acc.# 3057678727) and it had over a million dollars in it. He then told me that he was afraid he was going to be sued for not honoring the project's deadline and it could ruin his company. He acted genuinely worried and then asked me in an embarrassed manner if I had any money to send to his supplier to buy supplies until his bank could unfreeze his account, which he was told could take up to 15 business days. I didn't have much money in my bank account, but I did have a line of credit with my bank in the amount of $5,400, so I used that plus $600 from my checking account to send to Elena P Alcantara's account as he asked me via a wire transfer.
Initially I asked him to send me some proof of identification from him and he got annoyed and told me his documents were locked somewhere in the oil rig in China for safety purposes. He pressed me with urgency to make the bank transfer and against my better judgement, I did it.
Time passed and I kept pressuring him to talk to Santander in China and he told me they couldn't do anything and had to wait the 15 business days. The time had passed and the bank account was still frozen. He apparently contacted the bank again and they told him he had better chances of solving the issue if he returned to the USA and brought in the appropriate paperwork to his personal branch. Then on February 18th he called me and told me he wanted me to go to https://blitzsteel.com/ and fill out a form requesting a sick leave for him so that he could leave the rig and return to the USA to handle the bank issues.
He told me to lie and say in the form that I was his wife and to request 1-month sick leave for him to take care of a sick family member. The company replied to me a few days later informing me that his request was approved and that I would have to deposit the amount of $1,500 for the sick leave into Evelyn Manuel's account. Since he was stuck in China with no way of paying for it, I ended up taking a personal loan with my bank in the amount of $10,000 (plus almost $3,00 in interests) to cover the first loan I had taken from my line of credit and to cover this new sick leave fee. I found this fee to be very strange and specially because it was to be deposited to a personal account for what looked to be a very big company in London, but I ignored the red flags as the situation was urgent. I sent him the copy of the receipt from the bank and told him to pack his bags.
I noticed that he was not excited to hear the news and we had a fight because of that since I had to go through a lot to get him out of there and he showed no sign of relief or happiness. I even ended our call that night (Feb. 21st) upset and texted him the next day ending our "relationship" because he wasn't making any effort to come back and finally meet me in person. I have been too patient and was at my wits ends by then. I told him I only wanted him to pay me back all the money I had lent to him. He begged me profusely to take him back and after much pressure for the next 2 days, I gave in. He sounded genuinely upset over the phone and I believe that he had developed feelings for me.
On February 28th he supposedly took a flight from China around 9pm and arrived in California on the same day around 8pm. I had asked him to call me from the regular way, not from the WhatsApp app because I wanted to believe that he was in the USA, but when he called me from his phone number +1 213 205 7760 without using WhatsApp, my iPhone showed his number and the location underneath it as being from Algeria. That freaked me out and I confronted him right away. The call dropped and he tried calling me again 3 times, I would confront him again and the call would drop again. I checked online and confirmed the country code for Algeria as being 213 (same as L.A.) and I called him back, but the call kept not getting through. I contacted him via WhatsApp and we were finally able to talk again. He gave me many excuses and got angry at me for accusing him of being a scammer. I demanded a proof of ID from him and he told me that he would send me some the next day, which I refused and warned him that I would report him to the authorities if I didn't receive a copy of his ID. He told me he would call me back and that was the last time we ever spoke because he blocked my number and changed his number too. Later on I used a google app to create a google phone number to call his number and it directed me to another number in Michigan. I have tried the next days and the call went nowhere, confirming that he was in fact a scammer and I was just another one of his victims. The two women to whose accounts I had sent the money are very likely his victims or acumplicies.
I discovered on March 01st, 2019 upon researching for his website IP address, that his website was registered to someone in Romania. He did look Romanian to me, although he told me his father was Indian and his mother Australian. He also told me he was born in Melbourne, Victoria - Australia on January 2nd, 1972.
Here are some key details that I haven't mentioned yet, but were clear red flags that I chose to ignore because I was so smitten by this guy:
- He first had contacted me using another number and then started using the number I provided here after He got the bidding for the project in China. When asked why, he told me that was his old phone number that he was using with WhatsApp and now he was just updating it to the current number.
- When I called his old number after he blocked me from the most recent number, it took me to the voicemail of a company that connects people to a home improvement professional. There is no way for me to find out the name of this company as I already tried using one of those investigative apps online and it returned nothing to me on this guy.
- The business address in Los Angeles that he had listed on his website and which is also listed here if you search for the company’s name, but his company is not listed as one of the offices in that building, which you can confirm by googling the building’s website and then checking the businesses listed there.
- We never met in person, but he did send me 3 pictures of him and we had a partial video chat via Skype. I was able to see that he looked like his pictures and that made me trust him more.
- I only have one picture of him because when I first started talking to him, I was using an older phone and when I got the new one I lost all my messages from WhatsApp because I had not set it up to back up.
- I do have the proof and the messages for all the conversations and actual bank transactions and I will be delighted to provide it to the authorities.
When I used Google Voice to call his phone number 1(213)205-7760, it showed me another number 1 (313)718-1577, but it doesn't take me anywhere. Also, when I called his old number 1(213) 3026-2592, it took me to this phone number 1(617)528-0897 (the home improvement one).
Anyway, as much as I hate to expose my naivety and stupidity for falling for this guy's trap, I'm more than happy to expose him and put an end to his scams.
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