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- Richmond Hill, GA, USA • May 22, 2023
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*** ****** ************* *** who also goes by the name of ****** ********* used stolen pictures from someone else Instagram and Facebook account to find men on dating apps and Instagram to enter relationships with and use them as money mule's. She made me think that she's in love with me gets you to do her financial bidding through Cash app, PayPal, Venmo and your personal bank account, but never through hers.

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- Oklahoma City, OK, USA • May 19, 2023
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I first met "Sebastian Roger" through an online dating app called Seeking Arrangements in February 2021. I put my profile on the app, and he contacted me first. We started chatting, and I thought things were going well. It seemed we were falling in love very fast, which should have been the first red flag, but I thought nothing of it at the time. After about a month of talking on the phone, he told me he was looking for a business partner to invest in cryptocurrency with him, and gave me the name of the website, coinboomonline.net . I told him I knew nothing about investing and didn't feel comfortable investing when I had no emergency fund, and that I preferred to use cash for my spending. He told me there would be weekly returns on my "investment". So I let myself be blinded by greed and agreed to try it, even though my gut instinct was screaming at me to say no. After a few months I was having serious reservations about what I was doing so I told him I wanted to get my money out. That was when he told me I would have to pay a withdrawal fee of $1000, plus account closing fees and yet another fee to convert the crypto into cash. Classic pig butchering scam, although I didn't know what that was at the time. I tried to pay these so called fees myself but it got to the point where I couldn't afford to do it, so I told "Sebastian" that I wasn't going to put any more money into this. I wound up losing about $15,000 to this, which included my Social Security disability back pay, plus both COVID-19 stimulus checks. I let it go for a few years. I tried contacting "Sebastian" again through Instagram (the page is sbcglobal) in December 2022, trying to get my money back, and he once again scammed me out of every last dollar I had, about $900. Finally, I had enough, and asked him to take my name off of the account, as I had found out he had set it up as a joint account with him. The last time I tried to check the account I found out my name was still on it. 

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- Chicago, IL, USA • May 18, 2023
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Edward Campbell stole my ID out of my home, along with a bus card, Edward gave my ID to a scammer in the neighborhood by the name of Tishi Roberts & Diva Sykes, I texted edward a cease and desist note to stop using my identity along with the scammers to commit fraud, Edward sent me a threatening message a police report was obtained, I googled his name it appears he on some sort of government watch list..

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- Pittsburg, TX, USA
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I met him online a year ago and I ended up going to Nigeria and staying for a month and nothing was what it seemed I'll get back here and he's still trying to scam me so I'm reporting I have both their names their home address all their pictures and they're too accomplices here in the United States

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- Holland, MI, USA
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They wanted all my information to pay off my credit card debt and did all the payments only for it to decline after two day. Used my cards to do random transactions. They tried to sent themselves money thru multiple accounts. They threaten me and my family showing me they used truth finder to find my records and relatives. Also threaten to sue me, because they want $8,000.

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Family member met someone online, then was blackmailed with personal photos and fake exchanges, was told they would email all their family and work contacts. Family member has been sending money weekly, mostly via Bitcoin Depot, and a one time money gram payment to a person in Connecticut for $700. Total loss over $6000. This has now stopped, we are waiting to see what the fallout will be.

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Scammer got her romantically involved and asks for money to send to different state and quits talking to her after and impersonating military personnel

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My mother was contacted using Silver Singles dating website. Arthur Sabatay contacted her stating that he was in Lexington, VA and owned a company in Glendale, CA. My wife and myself are concerned because we are unable to find any valid information about this man or company. My mother has been scammed before. We located the website that his is using and is very similar to one in Texas, using the same names and pictures.

https://www.arthurseng.com/about.php

https://pavelandconstructions.com/

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This scammer sent a picture of a young Asian woman to my 12 year old son with a text saying "hi remember meeting me, my name is Diana, we met early march, are you still in (name if city)?

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- Lake Stevens, WA, USA
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Unprompted Sexually explicit images and texts sent to my iPhone as if the person had “accidentally” sent to wrong number. This came from 425 200 2594. Not a number in my contacts. More explicit images and texts came in again hours later. Did not respond.

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- Jersey City, NJ, USA
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"Luna" befriended me on an app called Lex and recommended me to her sugar momma "Makayla". I talked to Makayla using the TextfFree app with a fake phone number since I didn't completely trust her. Makayla offered a photo of herself to seem transparent. She was suspicious, but personable enough to carry a conversation. She promised financial support, but at the request that I send her $50 via Paypal first. At that point I knew she was a scammer. Luna and Makayla had different texting styles, but both used the word "to" as a proposition when it should've been used as an adverb (e.g. "I like you to" or "I'm tired to"). Luna claims to work at a Hooters and Makayla claims to live in North Carolina. Luna's profile picture is that of a young naturally red haired woman, and Makayla's photo was also that of a naturally red haired woman.

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- Shelbyville, KY, USA
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Dated someone and recently discovered that my identity, theft and financial issues stemmed from this particular person, hacking all of my accounts during our relationship. This person was paid by another person I previously was married to, and suffered through a relationship of domestic violence, and have currently been stocked and harassed for the past seven years

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---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:56 AM

Subject: INSURANCE & ANTI-TERROR TAX !!!

To: Z..<[email protected]>

Hello Mr. S..,

Greetings from Yemex Courier Service. Your package was suspended by the

Terminal department Officials at JFK International Airport New York due

to Insurance & Anti-terror tax on your package. The custom officials are

demanding for these documents because the package is coming from a

terrorist country (Yemen). We advise you to pay for the tax ASAP so we

can get the documentation/certificate to continue the shipping to your

address.

Below is the data needed for tracking:

........................................................................

Website: ......................... https://yemexcourier.com

Tracking No....................... ZS10006....

........................................................................

This tax is STRICTLY imposed on your package/consignment due to the

nature of the consignment and the country where it's being sent from.

Meanwhile you are to come up with the Insurance and Anti-terror TAX as

stated below.

INSURANCE CHARGES which will cost $6,420.00

US dollars

ANTI-TERROR CHARGES which will cost $4,480.00

US dollars

TOTAL $10,900.00

US dollars

You remember that as soon as the deposit balance is made and confirmed,

your parcel will be at your home address in less than 72 hours. Please

be advised that the fee is applicable to the requirements of the

country, as well as The cost of resistance to deliver your shipment.

This was defined by the International Anti Terrorism Unit (IATU) after

9/11 event, and December 25, 2009, which states that each package or

shipment will not be scanned or search by airport authorities may have

immunity of documents that meet the effects are safe for delivery.

We hope you understand our delivery protocol. You are advised to reply

to us back for the payment information and how to pay for the tax.

The attached photo on this email is your package at our office when it

was registered and now at JFK International airport New York.

Yours faithfully,

Management.</[email protected]>

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Pretend to be I love with me want google play cards. Send video and picture

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- Fritch, TX, USA
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at first, she was going to come to me and she asked for money for plane ticket. She also asked for money for items like a dress. Then she said she was in perriton Perryton so I drove there to pick her up. She was nowhere to be found. Then she kept saying she was at the big Texan, and I was to send her money to pay to get her, I did she never arrived. I finally stopped after I was much in the hole.

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Playing Wheel Of Fortune Game Show App, she was messaged by A Male Contestant , Greacova, he was a nice looking man with a picture of little girl in his profile photo, a widower, after A few chats he was wanting her to move to talk on What's App Chatting App, so she started chatting with him there, within a week or so he Professess to tell her How Beautiful she is and how much in Love he has fallen into with her, he says hes working under contract with a insurance and apartment housing rental agency in Madrid Spain while taking care of his little 5yr old daughter whose mother left them,,abandoned them and how hes looking for a mother for her and wife for him and thinks she would be a good mother and wife but he needs to put in for a vacation to come visit her and she must write to his company to help him pay off his contract, he will pay half if she can come up with the other half, but first she must send a email to the company asking for his permission to be released to her to come to her country, the USA, she writes the email, they return a email saying permission may be granted for $2,500.00, he tells her he has $1,000.00 if she has $1,500.00 they will soon be together,,that's when she sees its a con, its not love, its money, she puts his picture on a cross reference picture App which shows the photo was stolen from that of a Russian Fighter, that this man has to be an imposter as the russian fighter is a married man, she confronted him and he told her he was from Nigeria and that he really is in love with her and he doesnt have any children, but she didn't believe that and blocked him

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Victim: is a 70 year old mentally ill man involved in a romance scam with someone pretending to be Carrie Underwood, the country western star, for the past three years. The victim has lost every detail of his identity to this person. Romantic messages are sent around the clock and the victim is fully engulfed in this delusion. He sends gift cards to the scammer when the scammer asks. He dreams of the day they can be together forever. The victim lives in Texas. He liked a photo on Instagram. The scammer moved him off of Instagram and started texts and gmail messages instead.

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So I got an Instagram direct message from a woman named “ Gabbie Harris” the conversation was ok and friendly until she asked me if I’m Interested in being her “text buddy” for $600 weekly allowance, I thought it was strange and proceeded to ask why, then she explained she’s going through a divorce after her “bestie” and husband were having relations , I thought that’s sad but continued to talk to her, she asked me about myself , asked her about herself , then she continued to ask if I needed a sugar mom, I replied I wouldn’t mind it, then put down step by step how it works, then mentioned I needed to do some favor for her, I asked what kind of favor and she proceeded to talk about how she donates to orphanages and would need help gifting them, after that I was like that’s nice , she then asked for my Wells Fargo email and full name to send the money to and said she’d send $700 , then I remember she said $600 before ? So why is it changed all the sudden, after that I didn’t text back because I don’t give up my information like that and it was just sketchy , I’ve now been ignoring her .

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He offered to send me a gift since he would travel to Dubai for work and that package was detected for which I had to pay customs in Malaysia because he sent cash and that caused problems, I use photos of a person who lives in another city and that his phone number is not where he said he lived but is located in British Columbia.

I checked the phone on the internet and it told me that it had that location South Kamloops, Bc, Canada, as well as its supposed photos and they are of a person who lives in another country whom I contacted and tells me that he is unaware of that situation.

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Ateej <[email protected]>, fazza hamdan <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Sheikh Mohammed <[email protected]>

Phone numbers: +1-713-581-4988 Fazza, +852-6645-8002 Hal Hariram Ganwani , +971-55-912-7582, +44-7418-329351

Romance scam - pretending to be Prince Hamdan of Dubai and his staff/family - I paid $4300 to get important documents (my UAE residency card) via various transactions. I did not receive anything in return.</[email protected]></[email protected]></f...⇄

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