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The scammer, Daniel, matched with me on Tinder. We moved the conversation to WhatsApp by his request. We talked for a few days and he mentioned trading cryptocurrency was one of his hobbies. He asked if I was interested in trading at all and I said not really and I wasn’t familiar with it. He said he can show me how to get started and then I would be trading on my own. On February 3rd he told me to download the Crypto.com Application and guided me in how to set up my account and add $200USD to it. He also sent me a link to a trading website at antexchange.top and instructed me on how to set up an account with them as well, stating that this website was where we would be doing the trading m. On February 4th he informed me that the market was good and that we should trade. He instructed me on how to purchase Tether coins (USDT) and then how to transfer them to the trading website. Once we completed that, he guided me through the trading process, telling me to buy in at 5 trading hands. About 15 minutes later he instructed me to close the transaction resulting in me making an additional $40USDT. He then instructed me on how to withdraw the money from the website wallet and transfer it back to the Crypto app. All was successful. On February 5th Daniel messaged me and said that he had been watching the market and that it was a good time to trade and that the projection for Monday and Tuesday would be even better. He coerced me into putting another $260USD into the Crypto.com App after I had told him I didn’t want to. He lead me through the process again on how to purchase Tether coins and how to transfer all that to the website wallet. He then instructed me to buy 15 trading hands. The transaction was closed maybe 20 or 30 minutes later and he stated I had made $2032USDT. I requested he help me transfer it back to my account but he didn’t respond. On February 6th I initiated the transfer from the website wallet to the crypto app wallet. When it didn’t process in the amount of time it did for the first transaction, I messaged him. He suggested I message customer support. They told me that my transaction volume was insufficient so the transfer could not be completed. I asked how to make it sufficient and they stated that I needed to trade two more times. I confront Daniel about it but his messaging is sparse and flighty. On February 7th he tells me we need to trade again to get my transaction volume up. I trade, again following his instructions, using the current balance in the website wallet. After trading is complete, he tells me I made $17,700 in profit and that it should be sufficient enough to transfer. He then instructed me to ask customer service to tell me about tax points and tax amounts. Customer service said that my taxes would be $2044USDT and that I must remit the tax to the currency wallet supervised by the IMF International Monetary Fund Administration before February 10th at 23:00 “New York Time”. Daniel then tells me we have to purchase $2044USD in Tether coin to pay the taxes to the website. I question the validity of the website based on this information and he becomes angry.

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Using a dating app to commit identity fraud

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Psychic scam telling me I need candles for energy to fix a broken relationship. Kept needing more and more and more and more candles. Asked to take out loans, deplete credit cards etc.

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Approached on Instagram about someone wanting to be my sugar momma and said they would pay me $500 twice a week and attempted to get to know me. I played along and they asked if $500 was ok and said they paid through check and asked if I could deposit the check by myself. This appears to be the beginning of a check scam.

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I recently met a girl on a dating app called Tantan. We exchanged Instagram and Line information, but then she attempted to extort me. I did not send the money to the scammers and changed all my information to prevent further contact. However, the scammers still have screenshots of my followers and are threatening to share my pictures and videos online and with my friends.

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He told her he did military and was the head person and he was undercover . This is elderly woman and he used her loneliness to trick her into taking out money to give to her. He tricked her with flattery. He told her he would be able to take care of her and that they were in a serious relationship. He also said he was in the military and sent her a fake drivers license.

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Charles Carter if that is his real name... scammed me out of my social Security disability and took me out of my medicine, possible connection of Facebook and Twitter culprit. As well hungry frog in Oklahoma County. Salvation army too on Pennsylvania Ave. Okc.

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My aunt was scammed by Michael Abbos (thats the name they used). They preyed on her and she was even asking family for money out of desperation. She got tricked and lost all her money. They next told her she needed to go to Georgia to meet in person with an additional 85,000 since her 113,000 was not enough. They even asked her for her bank account and routing number and she ended up giving it to them. I am trying to find a way to help her get her money back. According to opencorporate, the address belongs to primavera pictures llc. Which was closed in Aug of 22. Then a new company was opened up called avana holding llc, under a different address.

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This person going by the name “James Peterson” and using photos from the real Facebook profile of the known motivational speaker “David Avrin,” reached out to our 90 year old grandmother in Fall of 2021. Over the next year, she proceeded to have a romantic online relationship with this person who scammed an estimated $10,000 from her using pre-paid gift cards. In December 2022, we discovered that she had been scammed and that they had been messaging on Facebook, via email, text messages, and also on WhatsApp. A police report was filed, and all (there are at least a dozen) James Peterson Facebook profiles with the same photos have been blocked and reported to Facebook. Facebook is refusing to take down the profiles despite repeated reporting. Our grandmother still believes that this romantic relationship was real and continues to seek this person out. The story he used was that he was from Santa Ana, CA and is stuck overseas on an oil rig off the coast of Ireland.

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He sent me a dm through my Instagram account. Instantly started lovebombing me. Then an emergency struck and he needed help in getting home. He

claimed he was a successful businessman and he was a millionaire so he would pay me back when he got back in the states from Barbados. It never happened everytime he was supposed to come to see me another emergency happened and he needed more money from me. Promised me he was coming here and we would spend our lives together forever he was going to marry me and l would move to New York to live with him.

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Scammer asked about my address and stated she wanted to pay for my companionship and mentor me. She stated outright that she wanted to be my "sugar mama "

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We “met” on a dating site. He charmed and romanced me, then, when I was hooked and “in love,” he kept asking me to send him money. I did end up sending it, naively, before discovering that he was scamming me. I realize that, because of my ignorance, I may never get it back, but I want others informed. I believe that his business is totally made up.

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It started on Facebook as I always played WordsWithFriends and he just popped up on my page and asked if I would like to play the game with him. I didn't think anything about it and we started playing a lot and we would chat online through this game. After about 3-4 months of us chatting, he started asking me a lot of personal questions, like if I was involved with anyone, where I lived and if I lived alone, etc... This all started around the time COVID-19 started. I have to admit that I was intrigued by this man who called himself

Dr. Frank Williams who was stationed overseas for our government. He was really wanting to return home to be with his 9 year old daughter and be with me but the United States Government told him if he paid for his airfare and exiting his contract early fee, they would arrange for this to happen. Well he would send me pictures of himself and I was just like OMG he is so handsome, I just want to kiss him forever. I didn't even think - this is a fake picture of him?? So we got closer and closer and I was falling for him. With all the attention he was giving me and his romantic thoughts about Us being in LOVE. Things started getting weird cause he wanted me to download the WhatsApp, so we could chat online in I guess real time?? Then he asked what me email address was because when he was feeling lonely, he could send me long romantic emails. He then asked me if I would pay these fee's to get him back the to the United States, he said he had the money in his US Federal Government Bank Account but they wouldn't release his money without getting all the government Red Tape taken care of. He told me they said it could be up to 6 months before he would get his money. I was very leary of all this and I guess he sensed this, so he forwarded me 2 different emails with the letters he received. The first was the fee's needed to release him early from his contract. The second one was from the US Federal Government Bank, letting him know what his balance was and that it would take time to get him any money. So I didn't even hesitate to get him the money for the fees to return home. I asked him how was I get the money to him if he didn't have any bank account where he was living overseas, he told me to deposit the money into a machine that would turn it into Bitcoin which is linked to him or this other guy named Felix who is his government liason. I never even spoke to this Dr. Frank Williams but I did have a lot of contact with this man "Felix". I could tell by his accent he was from Nigeria. Since I had know idea what bitcoin was or where to exchange my cash into a bitcoin account, Felix instructed me to have my bank wire transfer the money to an account he had opened for Dr Williams. When I went to my bank to request them to handle this wire transfer with all the paperwork I was given by Felix, the banker informed me that this was a fraudulant scam and he refused to complete the wire transfer. I then went outside and called Felix who didn't understand what my bank was saying. Felix then asked me to put this banker on the phone with him and I could hear Felix losing it and he then hung up on the banker. Even after all of this, I was still trying to figure out what and how I could get the money too Frank. I took my cash $5000 and called Felix back which he then told me where the closest Bitcoin machine was located (it was in Manassas, Va). I was instructed to purchase bitcoins using this weird account number. Being that I never even knew what Bitcoin was, I just couldn't get the machine to take my money. Felix was even on the phone with me telling me what to due but I couldn't get it to work. Finally after trying for 30 minutes, Felix told me to just purchase $5000 in gift cards and send him pictures front and back of these cards along with the receipt for each cards activation code. Frank kept on telling me that Felix would send me all his flight info and that he just couldn't wait to feel me and kiss my beautiful lips (I just melted into his words). I did receive his flight info and I was only thinking about spending the rest of my life married to Frank. Well one thing after another was going wrong and Frank and I were getting impatient. Then Frank sent me a picture of him at the airport, he was finally coming home. I tried to figure out based on this picture where the hell he was but I couldn't. I didn't hear from him for several days when he sent me a message in WhatsApp stating that there was legal issues causing him not to be able to continue his trip home. He just was confused as I was, he said he spoke to Felix and he was going to get this matter fixed. Frank then asked me to send him money cause he was in a foreign country with no way to get food or a place to sleep. He then said to stop using WhatsApp and to now use SnapChatApp because it was free?? I didn't understand this cause I didn't have to pay for either of these app's. Time just kept on moving month by month with no end in site for Franks return home. Frank kept asking me for money, giving me woe is me [censored] and well I fell for it to a total tune of about $12,000 in gift cards I sent photos of to either Frank or Felix. Felix then said that the government where Frank was needed to have someone in the United States withdraw all of Franks money from the US Federal Credit Union. In order for this be legally done, Frank and I had to get married. At first I was like "hell yeah" but my gut wasn't feeling right. So I started doing some investigating. Since the emails I received from Frank or Felix really didn't have stuff like phone numbers of the bank or the government contractors that were requesting all the fees so Frank could come home. I googled the US Federal Credit Union and called them about Franks account with them, I was told they can't give me any info because I was not a relative of Franks. I explained what was going on and that I wasn't asking for money or any personal info on Frank, that I just needed to know if all this was fact's. This man I spoke with asked me to forward a copy of the email I got from Frank or Felix, I did but just to try something out. I included both Frank and Felix in on this my sending this email to a real person at Frank's supposed bank. Frank pretty much tried to act cool about it but Felix got very upset and asked me what I think I was doing. I told Felix I was just trying to help Frank out so we could be together. Things just seemed like at every turn I was being asked for more and more money to get things legally documented (A marriage license) Then all of a sudden Felix sent me a document that was notarized and it said Frank and I were married. All of a sudden I was getting all these collections call saying I'm 90 days past due on 4 credit cards and Also a personal loan I never asked for. To top it off my bank of 20 years froze all my assets and closed my account, they told me it was because I had 3 wire transfers to my account from fraudulent companies. I had to open a new account and within 3-5 days I was again told my assets were frozen and the account was closed. So for 90 days I had no way to pay any of my bills. This was the last straw, I did a facial recognition on Franks pictures and guess what --- it was the same exact pictures but a different name and location. I was so ashamed I deleted everything I had on my computer and iPhone that had anything to remind me of WHAT A TOTAL FOOL I WAS.

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Not much person was in Tennessee then took an engineer job in Mexico

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The scammer used a fake account to be perceived as a girl, and offered sexual type conversations and pictures. But, each time they asked for something back. After doing so, they took my pictures, and lists of my followers from Instagram, and threatened to spread the pictures if i didn't pay them 300, plus 100, plus another 300. So 700 overall. The scammer seemed to be of another country, as he spoke in broken English and had a vendor that he would talk to about the money and if the money went through. So the account talking to the person wasn't the owner of the Venmo accounts (payment account).

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I met a gentleman on a Facebook dating site. Carl Bailey Weinbrandt. He had a Facebook profile. We texted for weeks, then exchanged phone numbers. We shared some personal thoughts and information. I did not give him my address. He said he was an architect and worked many hours a week at his company. He sent me his company website, told me to put in his employee # 167723. This number pulled up a profile picture that matched his Facebook Profile. The company appeared legit. I was very cautious, not having dated in years. This man has a very heavy German accent. He talked about taking me on a vacation (out of the country). I thought that was weird, as we hadn't met in person. He said it was already approved by his company. I told him it was time to meet. We agreed on this coming weekend, October 15th, 16th, 2022. Our texts and conversations were never inappropriate and that was nice. Last weekend he sent me a message telling me I had to be the one to request "time off" through his company...red flags went up. He provided me with their email:

urbanshelfcivil.com. He told me to make the request, a small chat box would open on the bottom right and to keep him in the loop for his help. I made his request for time off. The whole experience was odd! I screen printed the whole dialog/interaction. They asked me my name. I gave first name only. I told them they didn't need my last name, as Carl knows who I am. They said they had to create a ticket, approval would be made in 24 hours and I would be notified by email. I gave them an old email address. After 24 hours I received an email stating his ticket for time off was approved. Per company policy, I was to pay for someone to cover his hours...$500.

I told him and them they were scammers!

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Tried to send my nudes if i didnt pay him

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So I was added through snap chat the scammer, said her name is Emily and that she wants to be my sugar mama and pay for finances. Sent 4 checks to deposit, that’s when I felt something was off,I did deposit the checks, after that she asked me how much money was in my account and asked me to send pictures of my account. I told her the number in my account, what a big mistake, then she told me to zelle money to another email this one to be exact [email protected], after that I just haven’t haven’t responded, she seemed very upset.

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This guy started a romantic relationship with me and then weeks later he told me his brother is serious and he’s taking him to Malaysia for treatment . when he reached Malaysia, he called from the doctors phone. he said that all his belongings are lost and he needs to buy a phone and he ask for thousand dollars After sending him $1000.

he started asking me money little by little for his brothers treatment because he lost all his belongings and cannot get money from his country. he told me he was a very big businessman he was an engineer of his business and he will return my money. He send me a lot of pictures of things he bought I don’t know how true that was and he kept in touch with me until he took $27,000 off of me and he one day block to me so I couldn’t contact him.

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I signed up for an online dating site (OurTime.com) and was contacted by a person seeking to get to know me. He told me, via gmail account, that he was of European descent living in Virginia, but staying in the UK for business (oil and petroleum). This person's "name" was Michael Butler, phone 571-336-7352. He told me he was having difficulty getting his refinery project financed, and asked me to pay a US-based logistics company $4623.00 so he could reserve money in the UK for his project costs over there. He provided the company name and bank account for routing the funds. I checked the company and it is registered as an LLC, however, I could not find a telephone number, website, contact name, etc. for this business. It is registered as an LLC in Indiana and the name of the business is Megasource Logistics, LLC. When I looked up the address, it is an apartment in Columbus, IN. I have copied the information from the email correspondence and attached it below. I asked for a copy of the work invoice, contact name, phone number and email address, but no reply was received. I have contacted OurTime

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