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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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Romance crypto scammer had me send $19,000 of my crypto funds,my only saving grace was an investigating firm that helped me trace and get back my money.
A complaint report can be written to them by scanning the Q.r below.
I hope this awareness gets to whoever has been scammed before to help recover their lost funds.
Romance crypto scammer

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Man named George scammed my mother. He met her on the dating app, Silver Singles, then moved the conversation to WhatsApp. He told her they were going to get married and buy a house together. He slowly got her to invest in cryptocurrency, purchasing it through Crypto.com and then transferring it to the fake crypto company; Direct Edge. She has already lost $350,000 and the scammer is trying to get her to take out loans for over $200,000.

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- West Nyack, NY, USA
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the money was transfered via Brenda Ray** ********** she was using this Law Firm for her scam and checkeswere sent to me to deposite and cleared and the funds were sent to them via wire transfer and Ncargo shipping Co

I was Told by the Law firm I'd have my money back a year ago and been communicating via email since to gert this bac but keep gettint the runaround

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- Bethlehem, PA, USA
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Individual made contact via Bumble dating website. Stated he’s the CEO of his own business.

Then went on to state he was heading to Turkey for work. While there then proceeded with a story about someone owing him money and he wanted to the person to direct to me. I did not know him well and I basically told him 3x about him scamming and that it’s visible. I do have the the screen shots to that conversation.

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- Van Meter, IA, USA
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Scammer reached out to ask for coffee saying we met at a charity event. Sent me photo. Started down the path of a romance scammed and then I blocked number after asking multiple questions.

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- Glenpool, OK, USA
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This is extremely embarrassing! I’m older, recently divorced, recent loss, recent everything and whoever this person is has taken advantage of the whole situation.

March of 2022 I started chatting with officer Steven Armstrong of what I thought was the USAF but apparently is a person in Nigeria.

This person has been kind, sweet, but never listens always has an excuse.

He started off being in Ukrainian “undercover” then from there to Netherlands to Israel and supposedly home for the holidays, meaning Christmas.

Little by little he or I one have slowly stopped talking where as in the beginning we couldn’t stop.

Now that I really think about it on e the money stopped going so did the talking.

I’m overdrawn in the my bank. I gave this stranger access to everything I wouldn’t even give my EX access too!!!

Those are the basic detailsI’m praying those are enough.

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Said he was on a job in France but was from Los Angeles California communicated through text and phone calls said he was originally from Lithuania…sent flowers from Seattle Florist ask about my banking

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It’s a car, money cards romantic. Need money to get car sent. And now threatening my son. If u don’t. He is disable. Brain injury. Carline . Michael

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This happened in 2015

I was so embarrassed and humiliated to even tell anyone and I don’t have much information now I only remember he used the name Terry he friend me online we talked for a few months and then he said he would pay down my Credit cards he would pay off all the Bounces and Al I would have to do is take out the cash advance amount on them and send it to him Western Union I do remember most of my card I could take 1300 or a little more.it’s not like just Sent it to him. My cards were all paid off 100% I was so happy.so I took all the cash Advance cell and sent him all off them . So say I had 15.000 in debt and it cost me 5,000 to get 10,000 off of it .it was a really good deal .But weeks later everything was reversed back on plus all the cash Advance that I took out on them so now I was maxed out and over on all cards now up to $20.000 .

We always need to remember if it sounds to good to be true.” It’s a scam “ at this time I am still trying to fix my Credit .

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I was messaging someone I had just met on an app for queer women called Lex named *******. She mentioned that she had a “sugar mamma” and asked me if I had one. I said no, and she asked if I would like to be in contact with her’s. I said sure, as I was curious and had heard about sugar mammas before and felt it would be more legitimate if it was being referred to me by someone else as opposed to an app or direct message. I messaged her first. The alleged sugar mamma said her name is ********** she’s 56 years old, is from Florida, and has 2 companies of her own: one in construction and another unknown. She said she has no family, as her parents died in a car accident when she was 16 and she lived with an uncle who abused her until she finally left because of a boyfriend she was with at the time who got her into cryptocurrency and how to make money online. The phone number she uses is ###-###-####. She asked me questions about myself and answered any questions I asked her, which made it seem legitimate at first. She asked me what I wanted and about my personal values.

This is all occurring rapidly within hours of first contacting her. She asked me my name (first name only), where I was from, and other general questions. Then she asks me if I want to be her sugar baby. I said I was open to it, but wanted to know if she had any social media first and what she expected from her sugar babies. She said she did not have social media because she had been scammed by sugar babies in the past, and that she only expects pictures of me (primarily non-sexual selfies, but she also stated some sexual photos would be expected). She then asked me how much I wanted from her as a first deposit, and I said I wasn’t sure. Because she had seemed real at this point, I confessed that I was hesitant of course to use any banking information and would prefer to use a third party like venmo or Zelle. She claimed that she would be taxed heavily if she used those, and preferred to do a direct deposit into my account of $1000. She requested that out of the $1000 she sends me, I send $800 to a church she goes to that supports the homeless, and tells me she’s a christian. She asked me for my login information for one of my banking sites. I told her I wasn’t comfortable with that, but wanted to use another checking account I had that was completely empty. She was okay with that because she said she understood where I was coming from.

There was another issue with my account being closed, so I couldn’t use it. I told her I would likely have to wait until Monday for the issue to be resolved if she could wait. She said I could just use the other account with my savings in it and linked to my parents financial information because I can trust her, but I told her no I wasn’t comfortable with that. The next few days, she constantly asked me throughout the day if the account was ready yet, in which I case I kept telling her no. She has continued to ask me if the banking issue has been resolved, and I kept telling her the updates in regards to the situation without divulging valuable information.

She had sent me two selfies of herself, so I entered one of them into google and found that it was from an Instagram influencer’s page, someone who had a different name, age, and everything. The influencer was verified and had many followers, and even had a story on her page warning people about fake sugar mammas who were using her pictures. I told **********” that I found this and asked what was going on. She claimed that influencer was a scammer and that “this is ridiculous, I can’t believe she stole my identity” and claimed to have reported it. Both selfies were from this page.

I told “*********” that I did not want to continue this anymore because I am “busy with school” and she said she understood and was nice about it. However, she continues to text me asking how my day is and if I fixed the account issue yet. And today, she asked me what my mobile carrier is out of the blue. I will be blocking this number.

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