Nigerian Dating Scam - I've been there (2023)

Ladies and gentlemen. Please do not be fooled by these manipulative scammers. Their goal is to lie, cheat, steal, leave you penniless and heart broken. They are only out to secure themselves all of your hard earned money, 401k, investments, inheritance , properties and homes.

Doctors, CEO’s , Generals , Fashion Models are not on these sites looking for you. They will glamour and romance every penny from you. But scammers are trolling for prey.

Please don’t fall for their tricks and fraud.

Be safe and be well.

This is the name of the fake doctor on a mission to Ukraine! We talked for about three weeks - a little less! unfortunately I also sent him an apple card! He sent me some photos and I tried to search on the internet but nothing!

Then yesterday he sends me an email address! I look for it on the internet and zaaaac!

Remember that dating sites are an intro tool to meet someone not become pen pals. You can’t develop true feelings until you meet someone. And never ever go for a "distance relationship". You’re looking for a partner not hassle. Be wise!

I was like a stupid person sharing my feelings and details about my life for less than a week until I woke up from the dream and asked him for a picture of his passport. My son knows this program that you take any picture and find out if it has been taken from the Internet. Bingo!

We found exactly the same picture but, same background, same finger holding the passport, same numbers. The only difference was the picture and few small details. I wish I could put the pictures here for you guys to see how pathetic the fraud was. Very poorly done. I was starting to fall for this guy.

I am a 51 separated woman with a teenage boy and looking for a stable relationship. I put myself in one of those paid sites to find someone but he didn’t find me there. He sent a message asking me to add him to my contacts on INTERNATIONS app.

Do not deposit that check. He will then have your account information. He is most likely some guy from Abuja Nigeria.

Generals and military in general aren’t online looking for women. Nor are doctors.

Rowland mcconville60@gmail.com is a scammer. Saying he is a general in iraq. False spelling of a real James McConville so he is definitely a scammer.

Stay away from him. Wife died in car accident 2 years ago. Says he has a son Nathan in LA with a nanny who used a cc for $80,000 plus for herself.

That was the story he told me. The son is bogus. Sent me a check for $73333. I did not want it. Now he is calling me a scammer.

I want the to send it to him but he never sent me the address.

Beware of military scammers.

Lieutenant in Syria, daughter lives at home in his house. He’s retiring soon and wants to get married and enjoy his retirement with someone like me.

Yeah yeah yeah. Yea Im attracted to his pics, whoever they are of, not him I don’t think. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were true. He’s on match

This guy messaged me through messenger and then very quickly moved to WhatsApp.

He is an structural engineer who lives in California, aged 44 and his mother has died, but his aunt is still alive, (But Sick)

The texts are broken English but what struck me odd is he sent me a number of photos and a video of himself in a car but this video had no sound.

He wont do a video call, but when i called him out for being a scammer he said he would prove it by video calling me which he did for 10 secs, it looked like the man in the pictures so i believed him.

I can't work out if he is real or a scammer. I feel like he is a scammer but with live video calls, photos and a video I just can't tell.

He hasn't asked for money but it has only been 3 weeks..... Anyone else talking with this guy?

The other odd thing is his Facebook has got taken down twice now but it does get reinstated.

Both of the would be scammers contacted me on Messenger. I blocked the first one and don't remember his name. Claimed to be a student, needed money for books until his loan/scholarship came thru.

Yeah, NO! The other one is Rian S. He claims to have a teen daughter whose mother passed away. He never asked for money, but I figured it was coming. Cut off and I'm not sorry, I just don't have time.

Hi Katherine. My Name is Carolyn. I too have been in an online relationship with Steve for over 5 months. His Son is 14. It's been 3 years since your contact so was his son 14 at your meeting? He said he was in Iraq at the end of his contract and would not fly him home. They gave him a 90 day extension. He said he couldn't access his bank account.

He didn't notify the bank he was leaving the country. He asked for $2,800 for a plane ticket. I didn't have so he didn't get. I did however start sending him internet money and $500 for a school excursion. He planned on coming to GA to meet me.

He never showed.

He said he would come in October. I don't believe it. He gave me an internet phone number instead of cellphone number. Refuses to tell which town he lives in in the UK. All red flags.

Yet, I am the love of his life and he is sending romantic songs. Telling me how he misses the arms of a woman. However, he sent a love letter chat with someone else's Name..Lynda..in 1st and 3rd paragraphs and blamed it on a malfunction on his keyboard.

I asked him what did he take me for? He's GREAT AT WHAT HE DOES! Complete and perfect gentleman.

I can’t remember his name but he told me he had a son and his wife had died and he was working in Dubai doing construction work!

I put his name into google with "scam?" and his picture and his name instantly came up as a scammer, and this was two years ago and I can’t remember the name.

I wish I had read this before it cost me

Simply playing Words With Friends, free online word game. Most games are with bots. One week ago a new player asks me to join a game, I did. Then I get a message, "Hi, how are you?" Me, "Fine." Him, "Where are you from?" Me, "USA. And you?" Him, "I was born in Germany, but moved to Florida, and now I am in South Sudan, with the UN military." Me, "Why are you there?" Him, "I am an orthopedic surgery. What is your job?" Me, "I work for the UN and the FBI as a data security analyst. I help them look for scammers."

Him, "oh ok so what is you marital status"? Me, "I have just divorced my 4th husband. What about you?" Him, "I lost my wife 6 years ago I have one daughter do you have kids?" Me, "Where is your daughter now?" Him, "in Florida living with a nanny." .... LOL!

Meanwhile, every word he adds to the game is the simplest one possible, just wants to keep the conversation going until he finally asks for my email address, which he won't get.

Just thought I'd share that these characters pop-up on non-dating sites. And... his story matches those here on this site, even if the location and names differ.

Good luck everyone... don't send email addresses, block them, don't send money.

We all sound like we have similar stories. Perhaps, we should post their "pics" to see if it's the same guy. Yesterday, there was a man named Christian Moore who just wanted to be friends with me. He said he was a military Dr in Yemen on contract.

I stupidly friended him on Facebook and he text me non stop and tagged me in a post on my page saying he is now friends with me. My friends all told me it was a scam. I immediately blocked him. I went back to my Facebook messenger page and all his comments disappeared. Just my responses were left. Here we go again the Tindler Swindler.

Ladies, Beware!!

Has anyone been scammed by a Nigerian going by Denye and his brother Lorenzo? They have a long tragic life story they give and just need some help starting their company. Something along the lines of their parents dying tragically and the older one, Denye, is having to take care of his siblings.

I believe it was a scooter company? They have a long list of other stories they give:
-house struck by lightening ruining all appliances
-health concerns with medical bills
-attempts to immigrate to America but gets scammed by a person supposedly helping
-younger sister needing sewing machine to start sewing company

And the list goes on.

He states he is in Dubai and his passport got taken. He has a wife who died and two small kids. He is working on a construction job

Was just sucked in by this guy. Sounds like the same story but now going by Eric Jason Leonard. Can't find him anywhere on the internet. Engineers have an international association so if their name isn't listed BEWARE.

He is REALLY REALLY GOOD AT WHAT HE DOES. He plays the long game and even asked me out for a date prior to being called away on a "contract" in Turkey as a civil engineer on an oil rig. Sent me a ton of pics and said his mom and dad both had passed. Half Greek half British.

After 3 weeks of chatting he said a "pipe" had a hole in it and he needed a special tool to fix it or he would lose the contract. He had "lost" his phone and needed me to pay for a tool and have it shipped and he would pay back with interest.

The name he asked to send money to was veronica lickert and then there was another name Christopher Thompson. Absolutely an intricate scam and I am so worried for all of the vulnerable females out there. Because when you're on a dating site you're looking for true love and this guy knows it. Cut your losses and if they really love you they'll find you when they are back "home"

I have a man who says he is a dentist in London but has to go on a peace mission to Somalia. He had asked me to be a mother to his daughter. He sent me photos of his daughter, mum and dad and even sent me a video.

He keeps asking for an English WhatsApp to activate in Somalia while he is away.

Met him on a dating site and he stated he is a Doctor living in Damascus and working for the British Army and suddenly he asked for me to receive a package with all his belongings at my home.

he will send it with a diplomat person and then I would have to pay a fee...a great scam!!! Found him on Facebook because he did the same to other women...it's really a shame!

What was his name and what did he look like? Any kids?

Anyone here chatted with a guy named Rian Morrison? He is an American surgeon UN employed in Syria. Wife died of birth complications. Has an 8 yr old daughter.

His grammar is perfect. When I asked him to send a good night selfie, he did post one. Hasn't asked for any money yet. But he is not rally into texting. I asked to videocall and still waiting for that to see if he is a fake dude.

He is very good looking. Typical photos of scammer - wearing his lab gown, photo of his car, dog, etc.

Hasn't been asking for email, etc

Be careful of Pricha Scott (He said half-Thai, half-American) Claiming to be a marine engineer on a 4 years contract, 2 more years left. He said he's a director of operations here in his department. 39 years old, lost his parents (his dad died during a car accident and his mom has cancer).

Messaged me via Instagram and straight away moved to another platform, after talking for only one week he said he loved me, and wanted to be with me but I knew He was scammer.

He wanted me to apply for his leave "so we could be together" email address provided (there was a fee for me to apply).

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What companies do this? Is there any company that we have to go to apply for a vacation instead?
I called him a scammer and he was furious.

It's so funny

This guy just posted on my Facebook. He said he had been trying to contact me which he hadn't. I did not respond. I am glad you wrote about this guy here. Thank you

Hello All,

I am currently in communication with Victor Rowland Jarvinen - Dark hair, blue eyes, doctor who says he lives in Tampa and used to work for MSF. From Finland with Spanish background.

I was suspicious from the beginning because he "fell in love" very fast after a few days of chatting. Once he reached out to me on Zoosk he wanted to switch to Whatsapp and hangouts for chatting. He called me once on the phone and could barely speak English.

He has since shared with me bitcoin dealings and that he is in YEMEN now awaiting medical supplies. I am just waiting for the request for money. I am keeping him on a long leash in hopes that these scumbags may be caught. Take this as a warning.

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Adama Keita Surgeon with NATO. Catfish scam on Facebook. Appeared on a random comment trying to gain friendship.

Fake person.

I was just scammed by a man on an online dating site. I had no idea, not even thinking it could be a scam - I'm really angry. As I was doing research, I can't believe how many women are being scammed like this.

Everyone has names and details they want to compare so I made a Facebook group so everyone could come together and we can keep these jerks from doing this to others. Here's the link. I hope you all consider joining. https://www.facebook.com/groups/tinderswindler

Also, the man I was talking with is from Netherlands, a widow, an architect and an interior designer AND he has an actual website! His name is Lucas Schneider - beware!

Beware of a man who says his name is Paul Anderson and that he is an orthopedic surgeon in the US Army and was widowed because his wife died in childbirth having his third child. He has two daughters Epperly and Mary and says he is in Yemen Israel and he says really nice things to you and tells you he loves you and then he wants you to give him money or a Google card because he can’t get into his account in the US so he wants you to give these cards so he can continue talking to you on his computer.

He is on Facebook and then he wants you to go to hangouts because of security reasons and Yemen so please don’t get involved with this bad man because he is a scammer I fell hook line and sinker and I got myself hurt. He saw on Facebook that I just had lost my husband so he wanted to chat with me and make me feel better but this is all a lie. He sent me his picture of a very handsome person but he is not from the United States but he is from overseas somewhere so don’t even accept his friend request as it’s all a scam to get your money.

He says he loves you to make you fall in love with him and then he hurts you all the time

A friend was scammed of over 100000 pounds by a Nigerian scammer under the name of Brandon. Supposed to be a general in American forces.

Says he has a son who needs help for schooling.

I received a Hello on my Instagram from Usama Ahmad who claims to be a surgeon working in Yemen for seven years. He is a widower who lost his wife 60 years in a gas explosion and has a son called Nelson who is studying in Dubai.

He has a picture with Jamie Fox. When I wrote back that the U.N doesn't hire nor send doctors to Yemen he went ghost, so beware. I already knew about this scamming for money online con artist.

Very similar story!!!!!

We met on ConversationExchange! He told me he is a Orthopedic Surgeon working for the UK government on a contractual basis. Now he is contracted out to Turkey and stuck there due to Covid, waiting for the UN to grant his paper to go back to the UK! (by the way, scammer, the story seems a bit illogical! I may be too naïve, but don't understand why UK government contractor needs UN to grant a paper to go back to the UK!)

At the beginning, he sent me two pictures of him, one with him sitting in front of a house and one of him with his BLACK dog! Maybe good looking by normal standard! (another lesson to you, scammer, culture difference! The eyes in the one with the black dog appear too intimate to be sent to a Asian women/girl on FIRST contact!)

Similar stories lines: he has a 17-year-old daughter in the UK, widowed and can't access his bank account! He also said he is the only survivor of his family and grew up in the UK with his grandma who is now very sick!

Other similar signs: bad English for someone who grew up in the UK and a doctor; very strong accent for someone who grew up in the UK; only communicating by text, rarely by voice chat and never by video (excuse: dysfunctional camera).

Stolen identity. Scammer. Someone’s profile but not picture. Very kind and sweet. Photos are good looking. 66/years old. Looking for info. Lives in Granada CA.

Children in Australia. Liar liar pants on fire. Beware. He is fishing for info

He sent me a message on telegram. A few days later he sent a picture and told me, he's Michael Slier from Portland and he is a doctor working for the UN in Yemen, a 58 year old widower with a 14 year old son, his wife died while giving birth to the second child.

His English is bad being American and a doctor! My English is not so good cause I'm from Germany. At this moment I searched for doctors in Yemen and found lots of information about scamming.

He wanted me to write on Hangouts, Gmail or WhatsApp. I told him, I only use telegram :-) Yesterday he sent me another pic with him and his black dog.

There's also an account in Facebook with another pic.

The scammer has stolen the pictures. I think the real man doesn't know that. How could I find out who's the guy on the pics to inform him ?? Maybe somebody knows this man ??

I didn't get sucked in because I smelled a rat from the beginning. Be careful on Twitter if somebody has a profile that says he's a doctor but he somehow has time to send you personal messages.

Such as, Tony Frederico, he says he's a surgeon and single dad from Austin, Texas, posts a picture of his dog Jack. I tried looking him up and there's no doctor with that name.

And then there's Dr John. Roalnd (that's exactly how he spells it, looks fishy from the beginning, and I couldn't find him either), "A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system including congenital anomalies," complete with a photo of him and his doctor buddies in surgical masks.

After chatting with him a few times, I noticed his poor English and I questioned where he was located, and he said he was on contract with the United Nations and is a citizen of Germany. Yeah, he's probably in Nigeria.

On Twitter, if you look to see who they follow, you'll find it's almost all women. These are all the ones they'll try to prey upon.

Be careful out there!!

Orthopedic Surgeon from L.A. widowed with 2 kids and working to help women and children injured in Syrian war.

I am still befuzzled as to how this girl ‘found’ me out of her 700+ followers!! "Message me." Innocently enough. Lucky my wife got a text from me that was intended for ‘Maria’ (sent in my excitement with my first ‘EBay Card purchase’ and I came around to my senses.

My wife found the profile picture for ‘Maria Hutson’ actually was that of Lelu Love, ‘ the Internet’s most interactive porn star (lucky me) but I do not know WHO was the writer who wooed me with words of love and devotion!

And who didn’t want to give me up to my wife without a fight!! I almost lost my wife, my mind, and my money.

BEWARE!!

Yes I had a guy calling himself Maxwell Wilson, American Maltese and after a few weeks of building me up and having many talks about the future the story continued onto him getting a contract for his vip logistics company.

It was all very exciting and I did have the feeling this wasn't right as I'd heard it before but I went along with him flying with his team to Zurich and then the destination to Istanbul in a ship organised by him and the team taking petroleum products to Turkey for the client.

Along the way the ship got damaged and the sea guard came then required them to evacuate, so they could weld the ships damage and work on the oil spillage.

In the rush and him transporting his team out to safety he left his bag with 75k in it and cards that was apparently stolen by the sea guard.

It for me was all plausible as I've dealt with people in these lives before and they were real in their jobs.

After 2 days of arguing and dealing with his situation I gave him the benefit of the doubt and yes transferred 5k euro to the apparent sea guard accountant Ludmilla Stenkenko at PRIVATBANK UKRAINE she's obviously real.

I questioned everything I was just wanting to believe the best in him.

Anyway after that they could leave on the ship and then the navy stopped them at the border and he asked for another 17k and I then knew, so a lesson learnt.

The worst thing is I'm grieving from the guy in the photos I fell for early on, it's heartbreaking so protect your selves ladies as it takes time to then heal, and if it's too good to be true it probably is. No man will be so perfect in this day n age sadly. That's just a fact.

I know who this is and its a guy who is Nigerian and before the scam began his photos were all over the net but now there's nothing to be found of him.

Watch out for this guy JamesAllen on wwf’s - a cardiologist in Antarctica e-mail walterdoran84@gmail.com

Family killed in a car wreck except for a 14 yr old named Evans.

Also names of other scammers Warren t. north Germany. Paleo d. Rome engineer. Williamsure Williamsure414@gmail.com. Fredrick j. Engineer. Andy b. Works in Mexico bio chemist Cassie daughter.

This sounds like a scam in every way possible. The scammer will give false information about why they need the money, and almost always will make fake promises to pay back with even more money than they originally asked for. Accounts are frozen, or they are deployed or stuck somewhere the account cannot be accessed.

Please, tell your friend not to refinance her house or give this person any kind of money. She will never hear from him again nor get back that money if she gives it. This is what scammers like this do, the same old story amongst the majority of them.

Using fake names with someone else's photo, will not video call. Use hangouts or other unsecured platforms to message and voice call. Report this guy and tell your friend walk away.

After my 7 year relationship ended, I was very vulnerable and for the first time came across catfishing online. I immediately blocked the individual and never allowed anyone to speak with me again as they were asking for money and gift cards and whatever else they could think of.

I lost my dad and these scammers are so heartless, they still are asking for money always going after someone that is going through or has gone through a hard time.

I really hope your friend sees sense and just walk away.

Block him. Never look back and be safe.

I never heard of this man but just like all the rest of them he is only after one thing which is her money had a man told me the same thing working alongside the Army as a doctor but I come to find out it was a lie that the man your friend is chatting with is nothing but a scammer.

Tell her to please do not send him anything as she will not get that money back or see him ever. Report him to what ever site she met him on and do some searching to see if he’s on other sites selling the same stories.

Check the UN list of Doctors to see if his name is on there and reverse his image and also never ever send anything to these men period and as always stay safe and report these men.

Has anyone here heard of a guy named Riegert Stroud? He is asking my friend for $13,000 which he will repay within 2 weeks with $40,000.

Supposedly a orthopedic surgeon attached to the US Army, originally from Russia, widowed, 1 daughter living in Florida. Was attached to the US Army in Afghanistan, shipped out to England and is in need of money to get back to the US and see his daughter.

Gave my friend attorney info and banking information. She said he has 2 mil in the account but is locked out because he was overseas working.
TO me it sounds like a catfish situation but my friend is trying to get her house refinanced to raise the money and is asking friends for money to send to him.

Pls. let me know if anyone here has any information that I can give to her.

BS, similar story as you read in the comments. Surgeon with UN from San Francisco, now living in Somalia, 1 son in boarding school in US, widower. The story does not check, his English is not US. Lies you can easily spot.

Anyone else been chatting to Paul, same story, orthopedic surgeon, widowed, wife died during childbirth of 3rd daughter, other two live in USA.

Undying love, don't break my heart etc etc. He's back on Facebook, beware!!!

I chatted to him for a week, that was enough. Gorgeous photo of a man but is it him!?

Laughable on his part. The Government doesn’t care for your children in your absence unless they have been removed from your care due to abandonment, abuse or neglect!

I have been chatting to Paul Adams Zachary, widow, wife died in childbirth to 3rd daughter. 2 daughters in care with the gov until he can leave Israel. His job is Orthopedic surgeon??!!

Same story as all these others

I was contacted by Derek Chandler who says he is an orthopaedic doctor working in Yemen with the WHO. I am very computer savvy so it didn’t take long for me to uncover his fake Facebook page.

What is scary is that he had a corresponding Instagram page and LinkedIn profile that all corroborated his lies. He was using the photos of an Argentinian actor. He said his wife had died and he has a daughter in Los Angeles while he is working with American troops in Yemen. Things didn’t add up and I challenged him, alerted Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

All of those profiles are down now. It makes me happy because he had been posting there for a few years. This was a long rooted scam of his. I wonder how many people were caught up. He operated those sites for a few years but I figured him out very quickly and those profiles are gone now.

I am sure this won’t stop him. So sad, he will come back with another name but at least he has to start over and the most suspicious thing on Facebook is when you see someone’s profile is recent and they haven’t posted in years past.

At least his investment from past posting to make him sound legitimate has been broken by me.

Be careful out there… Scammers

Victor Jarvinen, surgeon with MSF’s in Yemen- same story, attractive pics of doctor with dark hair blue eyes. Report and Block ladies.

I forgot to add he has a profile on 'Uniform Dating' which is 'SweetSisco'.

Not sure if he's on any other dating sites.

This is a reply to the message left by 'anonymous', about Fransisco Mateo. I was talking to the same person, with the exact same job and areas that he lived. We were talking from around July 21 until lately I cut it off.

He is not who he tells you he is. He plays a really good game, getting to know someone, making plans then cancelling, avoiding phone calls and hours on end will go by until he replies to messages.

Has he told you he's in or has been to Wuhan? That he took a contract and has a DUI against him for a mistake back in Maryland, USA?

If he hasn't, he will eventually ask for money. Don't fall for it or give him any compromising pictures he can use against you.

I cannot say who it is behind the messages because he is very well spoken. Is this his phone number by the way 07418320658?

Its a burner phone. Cannot connect calls, only through encrypted app-signal.

Your story is exactly the same as mine...everything you said is exactly word for word the same thing as I am going through even your description of this man.

The man is beautiful, deep blue eyes, dimples, killer smile, muscles, but I had to get away from him. I loved him so much, it almost killed me. I was 70 when I met him on Facebook, and still with my looks he was 44. I am so broken.

Even my age and his age. It has been 2 yrs now that I've been with this liar and I am about to cut him off at the knees. I too am so heart broken. I fell for this beautiful face of his and I was also thrown out of 2 banks for fraud that I did not commit.

Every single damn word you wrote is my story too.

I just copied your story and emailed it to him. I think he knows what's coming next. He uses the name Christopher Montpetit. I'm sure he isn't the real Christopher Montpetit.

Yep this guy has as at Oct 2021 created a profile as an orthopaedic surgeon on Plenty of Fish. Wife died of leukemia and he was forced to put his son in boarding school to be cared for and works for US nations!

I was immediately suspicious when his WhatsApp came up as a Number abroad and he said he feared I would finish with him if we spoke as his accent is so bad. For goodness sake don't go there because if it sounds too good to be true it IS too good to be true!!

Any guy who messages you straight away morning and night with endearments and multiple hearts is not mature even if not a faker. You have a name so make them use it. Endearments are earnt not bandied about

C

Fransisco Mateo is a scammer! Run while you still can unscathed. Unfortunately, he scammed my friend of a lot of money constantly asking for iTunes cards and money.

He is a Nigerian who has stolen someone else’s identity. Block him immediately and report him to scamhaters.united on IG. They will report him to IG and have him taken down.

Good luck!

I have been talking to this guy, calls himself 'Fransisco Mateo'. We talk via text messaging using the signal app.

Has anyone else heard of him? He says that he lives in London, UK. Originally from Brazil and lived in California

If anyone has any info let me know please

Maybe someone heard about Rico Foster UN in Syria and Gabe Ronny UN in Norway(Oslo)? Both of them sent me a request on Fb. Same story, video call very short (few seconds), the voice was interesting.

Both of them wanted iTunes cards. One needed me to request for an emergency vacation, and he said I needed to pay for it.

I think both of them are a scam.

Can you help me please? I didn't send any money of course. Thanks

I got scammed (well he tried). He claimed to be a soldier in West Africa. We talked for a while and everything seemed normal. Then one day he gave me a sob story about not eating and how his friends get packages and he doesn't.

That's when he started asking for money.

Block and delete. Don't fall for it

Has anyone had any contact from the above. It sounds too good to be true ?

So romantic but can’t video so I’m suspicious.

Please tell me my gut is wrong.

Unfortunately, if the family has indeed done all of that and she still doesn’t believe he is the scammer that he is, it may be time for an intervention with a psychiatrist. He is 100% a fraud and will strip her of all she has and not stop until he has her banking and personal data if he doesn’t already.

If she participates in his requests with receiving and depositing checks and then forwarding the money, she will be caught and charged with money laundering like so many others.

Lastly, check out and most importantly have her review scamhatersunited on Instagram. They are quite good and will assist taking him down. What is his current IG account and how is your sister communicating with him?

Thank you Anonymous 13/08/2021. The family know this guy is a fake and have tried everything to persuade my sister but he has turned her against us. We have done the photo reverse imaging, given her stuff to read around romance scam, tried to get her to watch tv programs on the subject and even had the local police talk to her to try and make her understand but have got nowhere.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks all.

For the past 2 weeks I've been taking with a very handsome man by the name of Mark Hector. He told me he was from a town near me but has been working with the WHO for the past 2 years in Sana'a Yemen as an Orthopedic Surgeon.

I immediately Googled his name but found nothing, and I then did a Facebook search and again found nothing. When I asked him about it, he said I wouldn't find him. I thought that's odd, but continued talking with him.

I asked for pictures of him and where he was, and he sent me pictures of a very handsome man. Again, my gut kept telling me something was wrong. Why was a man this handsome interested in simple ole me? And the pics didn't add up. He wasn't in any of them, they all looked like Stock photos from an Army camp. I asked if we could talk and he said the Taliban watches/ listens for any type of radio signal so it would be very risky.

He finally did make a video call, and the person on the call was the person in the pics, so at that point I thought it was real. But less than 1 min into the call it dropped. I didn't hear from him again for 2 days, until I sent an email to the email address he'd given me for Hangouts. We started another Hangouts conversation.

A week goes by and we kept taking. Again, my gut kept telling me something wasn't right, so I confronted him with it. He said he was hurt that I wouldn't trust him. Being the fool I was, I apologized and we continued for another week.

Then today, I tried looking him up again on the internet under Dr. Mark Hector, Orthopedic Surgeon. I figured I'd find SOMETHING. Instead I found this article.

When I confronted him with this, he again got very defensive and started attacking my mentality, saying he knew this would happen and if this is how I loved someone. I explained that I was simply looking out for my best interest. His last comment was "You can think what ever you want, do what you want but don't forget this day" to which I replied believe me, I won't.

I was able to get a copy of a passport, which I'm sure is a fake, along with all of the pics he sent. I'm going to try to find out who the gentleman in the pic is by contacting the authorities.

My heart is broken, but I feel more stupid for not listening to my gut sooner.

I hope my story along the the original story helps someone else before they give these people any money and waste anymore time and heartache

Larson Grey is a scammer and your sister should run while she can! Larson is not a Dr. stationed in Afghanistan. It’s all a made up story to scam your sister. She should not send him money or gift cards. She also shouldn’t provide any personal information.

If she is communicating through Google hangout she should get off of that platform immediately and block him.

These scammers seek their prey very carefully and specialize in vulnerable women.

Lastly, under no circumstances should she deposit any check he might send her as she will face money laundering charges.

Good luck!

Has anyone come across a Larson Grey? Usual story says he is a doctor in Afghanistan etc etc. My sister currently being scammed by this low life but she believes he is real.

Stop sending these liars money as that’s all they want. I’ve heard these same stories over and over so check these low life’s out and if their names are not on the UN list of Doctors that will tell you these scum are nothing but scammers.

I ran into a lot of them with the same stories and what ever you do don’t go on hangouts as that’s their main platform.

I believe I was about to be scammed by a guy on fb. Same sob story, widowed, two sons. A UN orthopedic surgeon working in Yemen. Lol this is so ridiculous that they use the same story over and over. I literally spoke with him for a day before my intuition told me somethings off.

So I did some digging, and his fb is super bare. Cannot find him doing a reverse search. Somethings off. I checked out the likes on his fb pics and they’re all guys from Nigeria hahaha how lame are these guys.

They can’t even make the profiles they use seem somewhat believable.

Richard Harrison picked my name from face book and we started chatting on messenger and then he asked to change to hangout. He told me he was a widower and has a son in boarding school in Los Angles. He was an orthopedic surgeon in Yemen so I played his game and he asked me to get him a google playing gift card and he said go to Walmart.

It was all so real so I did purchase the card and a week later he wanted a steam card for a better connection. I said no then he told me his son turns 15 and he likes a computer game but had to ship it to Arkansas to his teacher so he gave me the name and address in Arkansas then he said the teacher had called and said Peter needs a new computer for 900$.

That’s when I had enough.

I reported him to the government and there was no teacher and that it was a scam so I told him to go to hell. I haven’t heard from him again so be aware. The Government said no American DR goes on a dating online site so run the other way.

Stay safe

So this Guy started talking to me on Instagram. He sent me pics of him on the army in Afghanistan. He told me he loved me within two days and on the fifth day he wanted me to help him Transfer money to his daughter.

When I told him I'm not an idiot he CAME clean and told me his name IS Frank and he Scam's people out of money and he is sorry!!!

After he asked me for money and I declined he stopped talking to me for a few days then came back in full force threatening to blackmail me as he told me he wanted out of Syria and I had to help him.

I told him no and have blocked and deleted everywhere that I can think he can pop up…vicious SOB

Pretends to be in the US military and works as an orthopaedic surgeon, widower, young daughter Sara. Talks about God and looking for romance. I have been to the US myself and he knew nothing about where he said he was from, Arizona.

English is broken and sounds like a Nigerian. He comes on strong with the charm but basically the guy is a dumb ignorant ass and you would have to be a fool not to recognise this as a scam by the utter nonsense he speaks.

This guy is active on Quora NOW 25th July 21.

I did a simple search and found the scam, can't actually believe he is still using the same lame story.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE YOU MET ON THE INTERNET!

No matter how lonely or in need of a partner, DON'T be taken in by these losers and their criminal low lives. Warn other people that you know who might fall victim to them.

WE CAN STOP THEM IF WE SPREAD THE WORD.

This guy keeps popping up with different names. I was messaging him for a while and he was telling me all this stuff about raising his 12 year old daughter and a grandson and being in Germany and all this other rubbish. He wanted me to marry him and take care of his kids and wanted me to send his daughter a $200 game card mmm.

No thanks…blocked and deleted and he has appeared with about 5 different names since then but always uses the same pictures. He supposedly works overseas in different countries as an oil rig engineer…

Anyone been approached by this guy? Says he’s American and self-employed as a business consultant and says he’s 48 but looks older. He says he was born and raised in Minnesota but his profile lists he’s been in Nigeria????

Alert !!!!! No such name listed on Google

You can find anybody on Google if they really exist!!!

Same story, Dr. Frank Gregory orthopedic surgeon working in Yemen for UN, widow for 3 years, wife died from leukemia, has a 12 year old daughter in a boarding school in LA. Contact was made initially through Instagram and soon after he asked my email so that we could chat using hangouts.

He said that other technologies were limited on base. I saw your comments here and did a reverse image check and discovered that the photo belongs to Dr Michael Miroshnik, who also has an Instagram account. I alerted him to the situation and them proceeded to make a complaint in the scammers fake Instagram profile and blocked him there and in hangouts.

This is his Instagram fake profile:
https://instagram.com/frank_gregory.01?utm_medium=copy_link

My situation is the same as yours. I sent my love of 2 yrs money to get him to me, he wanted to marry, was a widower with 2 daughters. I am now financially ruined, accused of fraud by 2 banks. He always had a story, a new crisis would pop up. He said he was in a ship in the Black Sea, Turkey.

Christmas holiday most bosses and some crew went home, leaving the rest of crew of 6 men without pay money, and one man died. My man said he tried to help the man by giving him some of his own meds, and he man died. Said he would be arrested by Turkish Police.

It was always something where he needed more money. He broke my heart, ruined me and I left him. He also used guilt on me and said he was going to die there on the ship, and no one but me could help him. His family disowned him cause of me.

The man is beautiful, deep blue eyes, dimples, killer smile, muscles, but I had to get away from him. I loved him so much, it almost killed me. I was 70 when I met him on Facebook, and still with my looks he was 44. I am so broken.

I’ve been texting to a love for over 2 years now. He says he was held ransom for a death of a friend and needs 5,000 $ and only gets 5% of money sent to him.

I’ve been sending him money left & right & he always has an excuse for not coming home from London. I’ve just about given up on him as he is a liar and just wants more & more. I’m blocking him now and putting him out of my life for good!

He has broken my heart and took my money. I’m out of work and just had surgery and he doesn’t text me on weekends so I’m done as he’s the biggest Scammer around

I’ve started playing Words with Friends again. I mostly play with people I know, but do start a couple of random games here and there. The last three have been the same type of scammer.

Born overseas. Orthopedic surgeon working for the UN, asks to chat on Hangouts or WhatsApp and asks for text and email. The most recent one I said small world, you’re the 3rd ortho surgeon who’s started chatting with me in the past 2 days 😂

It appears he has blocked me on Words with Friends after I said I don’t use WhatsApp and wouldn’t give my email 😂😂😂

God, I am sick of these lying, scamming, thirsty MOFOs!’

Well.....I guess I have met this troglodyte as well. He even said I had missed him by a day as he just flew out of Portland, OR and was headed to a contract job on an oil rig. I had told him I lived in the same area. He seemed thrilled.

We talked for weeks everyday and then he said he had "mechanical issues with his machine" - sound familiar. He went by Boune, 59, wife died and he had a 9 yr old daughter. Went to school in England(Lancaster University), lived in Chatsworth, GA, and was currently living in Stafford, OR.

He will ask for Google Play cards. I met him through Facebook when he will get pushy and likes to use guilt.

I reported him to FB.

https://hr.un.org/sites/hr.un.org/files/UNEP%20Directory%20July%202019_0.pdf

He is a scammer. A Physician in Paris, France. Sweet talker, nice looking pictures of someone else. Don't fall for him. All he wants is money from you. HE HAS NO MONEY HAHA SAYS HE SENDS IT ALL TO HIS DAUGHTER WITH HIS SISTER AND SOMETIMES HIS DEAD WIFES SISTER.

FORGOT WHAT HE TOLD ME!!! NO SURGEON IN PARIS AND HE DOES NOT MATCH THE PICTURE OF THE REAL DR. DEVAL.

I was texting this Orthopedic working in Somalia Martin Alex and he told me he was 50 yrs old, lived in San Francisco, had a son, and he’s widowed. He sends me his sons Gmail who sent me a picture of him and a short video from work which was nice but the 3rd day he said that the Dr called him that his son was very ill and was bleeding a lot and he had to send 1000 in order to get operated.

I told him drs don’t call its the office that calls, and second drs are not going to let you know someone will die and he asked to lend him the money and that he will pay me back. I told him I don’t have any money but he wanted me to take a loan.

He called me and I knew it was from Nigeria because it’s not the same time. He told me I was heartless and I told him to get someone else.

I’m not done and they should stop these scammers and they have all the information of these people so it’s crazy

John Anderson, a Nigerian scammer. Does anyone have his True ID? And true pictures, as he uses pictures of Grant Cardone on his romance scam.

The same story happened to me yesterday. I was sent a friend request from Facebook by the name of Fernando Wilton then hangouts ext. His name in hangouts is anthony richards. 1-2 hours after our conversation, I got suspicious and googled both names as orthopedic doctors working for UN.

Then I noticed that he used photographs of Fernando Gomez Pinto, a well-known doctor. I understood from the LinkedIn and Facebook that there are hundreds of fake accounts with the same photo but different names as orthopedic surgeons! and I took a screenshot of the fake accounts and sent it to him.

Yes lots of scammers even Santana asking for gift cards. Lots of widowers with kids looking for Moms

Never ever go onto WhatsApp or Google Hangouts with these scammers. That is how they get access to your contacts. Never accept an invite from someone you don’t know. If you know they are a scammer (block and report them).

I received a message from Facebook dating from a good looking Orthopedic surgeon with The WHO living in the suburbs of Houston. Immediately I did a reverse image search of photos which are of Tom Ernsting a gay male model and former Olympian swimmer.

So I knew before communicating that this person was a scammer, I just wanted to find out what his technique would be to have me empty out my wallet to him. He said that he was in Houston not overseas and was widowed with a foster daughter. We started corresponding on WhatsApp and moved to google Hangout. He refused to talk over the phone, a video chat snippet was of Tom, so we texted back and forth.

Within a couple days he was telling me that he loved me, and asked what I would get him for his birthday coming up, I asked what he wanted and he said Amazon cards. I asked how I should deliver the Amazon cards to him and he said just photo graph the numbers and send to him.

I blocked him, shortly after he calls me from another phone number, and hearing his voice for the first time it was an African accent and he asked why I blocked him. I told him why and he became angry, then I blocked the number he called from.

I implore always do a reverse image search and never give money to someone you've never met.

He is a scammer and you are wasting your time while improving his scamming skills by being his "friend". Why befriend someone that you’re aware is scamming other women. Scamhaters United on IG always advise against friending these guys as you are enabling them to scam someone else. Unfollow and block before it’s to late.

Neurosurgeon in UN in Syria, widowed with son in college. Nice looking man but the way he speaks with his words makes me a little suspicious as he is from San Francisco CA also spending a few years in Texas, Italian American.

He should be able to write better rather than choppy sentences like English is not his first language. I said I would be his friend but have stipulations that he will never ask me for money or be a clingy friend...first sign of that and he will be blocked

Donald Herrington, United Nations orthopedic doctor, is another scammer. He could not even answer simple questions about being an ortho doctor. Do not friend him as his profile is fake.

I received a friend request today from Vincent Hilton, an "Orthopedic Surgeon at UN Security," went to school at San Francisco State University, widowed and we even have a 'mutual friend' whom I quickly contacted.

So I'm immediately suspicious and start googling him which brought me to this Nigerian Dating Scam site. I haven't seen Vincent's name here but the whole "Orthopedic Surgeon at UN Security" shows up a lot.

Good looking 50's something guy and definitely too good to be true. His Facebook page even has cute kittens on it (jeez!), some news videos and seems to go back a few years but I imagine that can be staged.

Thank you for starting this site.
xo Annie

ED: you are welcome

Nigerian scammers are prolific at present. Photos are being hijacked from innocent peoples accounts. I was naïve up until recently. The following names are what I have found.

Micheal Lugard
Micheal Lugard Aart
Michael Lugard
Michael Lugard Aart
Gilbert Thompson
Gilbert G Thompson
Thompson Gilbert

Each of these use photos that are stolen. As to who the real photos are of I don't know but wish I did. I do know that the person behind the Micheal in my case is a Nigerian. He exposed himself to me.

Dr Sam Aiman aka Samual Aiman aka Dr Samuuel Aiman Bodashka, Nephrologist Surgeon DR in Baytown Texas USA, coffee lover, Love Wisdom. Conversation quickly went to WhatsApp. After months of communicating I found out he was a scam after doing a google image search, finding out the images used are an innocent man from Brazil, Dr Gabriel Prado.

He claims his mother is dying, then hunger & homelessness after winning you over. Loss of visa and facing deportation & jail time without help. He fakes suicide. Guilt is a big part of everything.

Im sorry for anyone who has been scammed by this human without a soul.

Any info on him?

Same guy - friended me on FB as Devaraj Deva. He said he's an Orthopedic Surgeon with the UN in Iraq. Widow and has a 15 year old son in the UK living with his teacher. We went from FB messenger to Google Hangouts and then said his name was Mark Anthony. Chatting with me all day.

It was fun but at the end of the day when he said something like it was destiny to bring us together or something cheesy like that, I had a feeling he is a catfish. And once I started googling him and saw all this other fake orthopedic surgeons with the UN - bingo.

I'm grateful I only wasted one day with this loser and not more.

This just happened this afternoon, and I already blocked him on FB and Whatsapp and reported him. Orthopedic Surgeon, widow, working for the UN in Somalia. It sounded like BS from the beginning, but I played along but knew I would block him SOON, and this makes me livid, these idiots.

Oh and he also had a son, and I was feeling sorry for him but then as the conversation went on, I kept thinking, this is all fake, fake, fake.

I am so sorry for the people who have been hurt by these idiots!!

You block him and report him regardless of whether or not you have money. He’s a scammer and a liar. Good luck!

Sorry that happened to you but please don’t ever send these scammers money as you will never get that money back and always check them out on the United Nations list of doctors working for the UN as these men’s names are not on that list and they just want your money so always stay safe and stop communicating with these scum.

I have been scammed by this doctor named Freddie Johnson. He works for the UN and wants to keep that a secret. Widower too and has children. I sent him more than 10,000$ so he could come visit me. I just sent him another 3000$ because he cannot pay himself. The FBI is on the case and the RCMP is ready too. I’m sad but he will pay.
S.

Yep, I got this scammer about 4 days ago. Claimed to be named Samaila Abbas, an LA doctor working for the UN in Yemen for a couple of months. Is in love with me after 2 conversations, kept asking, "where are you and what are you doing", "do you have a boyfriend", "I feel so connected and moved by you", etc.

You get the point, anyway, knowing that physicians licenses are public information, I looked him up, no one exists with this name. I looked up his number, 914 area code, which I know to be NY. Since this all didn't make sense to me, I asked a few questions after a few conversations, reported and blocked.

I thank goodness I am smart enough to see the red flags and not fall for the newest scam on the market. When I researched the name he gave, it mostly came up as a Nigerian used name.

Get a job, a real job, and stop scamming people who don't trust what you say since it doesn't make sense, lol!

I also have been speaking with a Orthopaedic doctor from Sansii Yemen. I have just talked with him but he was texting on WhatsApp with me for about a month.

Something felt wrong from the beginning. His name supposedly was Henry Wilson. A widow with a young son.

I broke off all contact after doing some research. I feel very stupid for letting it go on that long. Never asked me for money but repeatedly claimed he was in love with me.

Word of caution, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is a scam. I believe it’s called CAT FISHING😡

Anyone ever heard of Richard Marsh/Joel Heck? Widower with two daughters?

Ive been talking to this guy for awhile now. He’s stuck on a rig as it’s broken and needs parts - no one to help him - wants money from me to help and then will come over to me and we can sail away etc

Ive sent him a gift card for 50.00 so he can sell on for food but wants more. I Have no money to send so he gets nasty and blocks me then Unblocks me and says he loves me but I’ve abandoned him like the rest of his small group of friends

He has no family at all, he’s very handsome, a silver fox who says he’s lives in California but has an Italian family origin. 6 months wasted on this man if he’s not real.

What do I do as I don’t have money

RUN, RUN, RUN!
This guy is a master Nigerian scammer. Report and block him! And PLEASE remove yourself from Google Hangout (if you’re on it), do not provide personal information and DO NOT SEND MONEY OR GIFTCARDS! Good luck.

Has anyone heard of Dr. Robert Shewn Orthopedic surgeon? He claims to be from Maryland Baltimore but parents from Brazil. After being in Turkey he is now in a UK camp but he is a US citizen and being retired and has no money to leave the camp. He cant have video call because they has closed that option he says.

I can feel it´s something very wrong but l dont know how to find the truth.

Has anyone heard about him?

Thank you all for posting. My latest is a Surgeon with the UN named Randy - currently in Yemen. Born in Brooklyn. We haven't gotten too far, just seemed too good to be true, though he did provide clear and meaningful texting. He hasn't asked for anything yet but I'm done.

I also want to warn you about men who work in the Oil and Gas industry - had 2 of those ask to go to What's App, then one continued to try to get to me through other phones after I cut him off. I deleted WA.

Just can't trust anything, which is really sad.

I was on Facebook dating and I received a message from "Thomas". He claims that he is an orthopedic surgeon and he's in Yemen but he won't answer my questions and he will be back in the states in a couple of weeks. His parents are dead and he has no other relatives.

He immediately asked to go to a different app. He always call me "dear". He won't video chat or talk on the phone. Some of them will begin a sentence without "I" instead; they begin with "am" broken English grammar is lacking.

DO NOT INTERACT WITH THESE EVIL CLOWNS. Look up the telltail signs of a scammer.

There is a device called a Magic Jack that will conceal a scammers location, and the network is YMAX. My scammer had a phone number for my state and told me that he lived in my state when not on assignment in Yemen. After he vanished from my life I did a reverse image search of this phone number and noticed YMAX the network for Magic Jack, which I then googled and learned about Magic Jack which a caller can make free calls anywhere in the world as long as the phone number if it is a USA or a Canadian phone number this physical location of the phone can be located anywhere.

I plugged my scammers phone number into Beenverified which showed a map of both Africa my scammers physical location and of my state in the USA of the phone number, my scammer told me that he was in Yemen and that his phone was a satellite phone which I learned cannot be used indoors.

Folks, I read the posts on this site because I had suspicions about a fella who contacted me via FB. As so many have posted, he claims to be American (said he was from Chicago in my case), has a 13 year old son in boarding school in the UK, works as a surgeon with the UN in Yemen, and a widowerike me.

After one Messenger exchange, he then tried to initiate a video call via Messenger. I did not respond. We've been communicating through Messenger for several days. He always asks about me, but won't answer my questions. A couple days ago he asked me to download the app "WhatsApp." I looked it up, it made me feel uneasy due to the things the app can access (like all your contacts) so I didn't do it.

He has been rather insistent that I just do what he asked. I said no. Today I finally had the chance to search him on the internet & came across this post. He's the same guy. I blocked him immediately.

DON'T BE SCAMMED!!

What a story! Contacted me on social media and said he's an orthopedic surgeon working for the UN healthcare in Istanbul, Turkey. He educates the students on surgeries. The work consists of bone fusion, things like lungs, heart, and other treatments. Not sure what an orthopedic surgeon has to do with lungs and heart??!!

He had said he was born in Brooklyn, and when he was 3, taken to Paris because his dad moved there for work. He's fluent in English but has an accent.

In 2004 he came back to the states and settled in Washington DC. He met his wife in Brooklyn, and it was a crazy love. They had a son, and then his wife and her dad convinced him to move to Turkey because her dad worked for the organization and they needed help. Then they divorced, but he's on 6 years contract.. rigorous contact. He works and lives in the base, and the government provides food, clothes, and all necessary things.

He said he wants a video call. Video calls were weird, it was dark, and I couldn't even see his face clearly, but his accent was not French. He also sent a bunch of selfies. I can't tell if it was the same person from the video.

I got very suspicious. Oh, did I tell you that he loved me from the 3rd day from the day we started chatting? He sent me love stories (copied from the internet), hearts and kisses, was extremely polite, making future plans with me, said he wants to open his hospital (hmmm), and everything sounded terrific but too good to be true.

He hated my questions, and his reaction to my questions was like, I don't trust him even after our video calls, and if I don't trust him, we need to stop our conversations and our relationship. We even 'broke up' twice when, in his opinion,' I was persistent with my questions.

Remember, I'm already highly suspicious at this point? I made him come back to me both times because I was so curious to know the conclusion to this beautiful love story

As you all know, these guys know what to say to make you the happiest woman on planet earth. 😉
One day, he said that he would ask his supervisor for a vacation to come to see me in the states (hooray). But unfortunately, his supervisor denied it and wanted me to write him the details about me, like my official name, where I'm from, and where Dr. Sebastian will meet me.

I was shocked and said I'm not sure if I want to do it. He'd said he's cool with me if I don't do it. He understands. But one day, he got so upset with me for not doing it. His tone changed, he became angry. I was shocked!

Later that day, I worked long hours and shared some level of details about my work issue. My work is related to financial fraud. I honestly did it on purpose, and guess what he was so curious as never before and started asking me questions (he never was interested in any level of details of my life).

So I became so impatient since I already got a clear picture of where this romance was going, I decided to confront him. He let me finish saying what I was going to say (I had a lot); he told me that I was wrong, I don't know anything about him, and his story is true. He thanked me for everything, wished me a happy life, and blocked me!

It's my ten days 'love story' in a short version. I wish I could share the pictures and his fake doctor's ID for you ladies to be aware of this fake doctor.

ED: you can post pictures when you start a new submission [but not when you are adding a comment to an existing submission] - use the page below and you can see photos there and you can also post your own story and photos there:

https://www.watchforscams.com/nigerian-dating-scams.html

"Neurosurgeon" Robert Mangal Robinson who claims to be in Syria on a peacekeeping mission and claims to be from Los Angeles, widowed with a son in boarding school. This wasn’t even a dating site or social Media forum.

He played against me in Yahtzee for like a month before sending me a message. I didn’t fall for any of it and questioned him on every statement.
I googled some of his messages and he follows every scam trick in the book.

A tip I can give if you are curious if someone is a scammer is just google their messages. Pushing for info I asked what the hardest thing about being a "neurosurgeon" is and he sent a very long nicely worded statement. It was copied from the first search result of "hardest thing about being a neurosurgeon"

Quite an unoriginal scammer but sly none the less

It appears that an orthopedic surgeon is trying to scam me. He claims he works for the United Nations and is now in Yemen

Similar story.

Added on Facebook.

Name of Thomas Larry.

Apparently a Orthopaedic surgeon working in France military.

Grew up in Manchester but from Paris etc

Blocked.

I'd like to share that he's resurfaced on Facebook Match, but I couldn't get this page over enough to check the boxes below. I rotated my screen to do so now. He's going by Kelvin Goodman, M.D., said he's with the UN. He talked me into getting the Google Hangouts app, since I wouldn't share my phone number & didn't really want to take our communication private. I used a very old email address. His was

"kelvingoodman469@gmail.com".

Thanks for sharing your story. I just told him that he was BUSTED and will delete that app.

Definitely a scammer. Beware. Very polite and nice looking. But he got a bit testy. Works on an oil rig in fact he is the head honcho and part broke and he was being held responsible. Ordered a part and it was finally being shipped? BUT he had to use his own account to pay and then the oil company would reimburse him.

VERY FISHY SO I JUST BLOCKED AND DELETED HIM FROM MESSENGER.

I had received an email a couple days previous on email about his stories about having to pay etc from his own account so I was totally aware and have read too much about scammers.

In fact, I totally led him on about being in love etc. SO. I PLAYED HIS GAME FROM BEGINNING AND WASTED HIS TIME.

SOOOO BEWARE OF ANYONE WORKING ON OIL RIGS. HE COULD NOT CALL ME AND I COULD NOT CALL HIM so another big RED FLAG so BEWARE.

IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE IT IS!!!!!!!

I've been a victim of a scam and lost money. I was on Quora and read about a woman who lost $100,000 to a scammer, and the money was borrowed from her parents. She writes that she found out about Financialreovery.tech and they were able to recover all her money, and the company keeps %10 of whatever's recovered.

I was intrigued and found the website and wrote a message about my story. Shortly thereafter I received a call from one of the companies agents, he had a very strong African accent, I thought I won't be biased and just listen to him, and he promised that he would recover all my money and they would keep %10 except they asked for a retainer fee which needed to be paid to them in bitcoins which I've never used, so I asked if I could pay with my credit card and was told that bitcoin was the preferred payment. I was told that Elon Musk was happy to have discovered bitcoin.

I agreed to their services but would not pay until my money was recovered which the agent reluctantly agreed with but I told him that I don't make snap decisions that I had to think about it.

Day #2 this agent requested to be allowed my number for WhatsApp which I gave to him, and within a few hours he was calling and messaging me incessantly on WhatsApp which I ignored because I had not made a decision.

Day #3 He called me continuously when I was at work, so I excused myself and went to a place where I could have a private conversation with him, and he became very aggressive and abusive, so I thought about it and decided after reading a website about this particular business that the website as glossy as it is presents numerous red flags.

After my conversation with him I decided that I was dealing with fraud and blocked this agent from contacting me further. I then went back on Quora and read many, many testimonials about this business that recovers monies lost by individuals to scammers, but it seems that many of the testimonials may have been fraudulently written.

I didn't want to throw bad money after bad money and lose more money if they had taken my money and disappeared as I would have had no recourse because the agent told me he was in London.

Be careful out there.

Hi, I had a very similar experience a few years back. Unfortunately that experience cost me a lot of money, ruined my credit score, identity theft and fraud. The man that I talked to for over a year used a business man life coach/ influencer identify and personal pictures.

We were supposed to meet on several occasions. He said he was in Finland, he did have a European accent. I am not so sure about Finnish. I tried to stop his pictures on numerous dating sites and they refused to take it down. Who was the life coaches pictures that was used? I am wondering if it is the same scammer??

Your post reads so familiar. It’s a shame you can not trust people. Be well. Be safe.

This man contacted me randomly on Facebook wanting to chat with the story that he was a UN Doctor specialising in Cardiology working in Syria. He is a widow with a 14-year-old son. Same story as many others, bad grammar and spelling so I strung him along for a bit and checked him out.

He was using the pictures of a real Dr. David Samadi, a Urologist from new York.

He is FAKE and a SCAMMER. Please be aware.

Another one to watch out for. Stole his profile pics from a life coach with a public profile. We were supposed to meet but he got "called out of town for business".

Said that he was from Norway, yet the accent wasn't Norwegian. Another oil rig scammer. Stay away from them and the POF dating site.

Hi! I just managed to dodge the bullet. Chatted for less than a week with a "dr mike Franklin".
Today he said he needed to transfer his "vacation funds" as he couldn’t get access to them once he leaves Yemen.

I checked the UN’s list of current doctors and yeah of course he isn’t there. I tried to reverse google the pics he sent me. Nothing comes up. He must’ve stolen them from some profile.

Anyways. It’s the same story as everyone else here:Lost his wife x amount of years ago. Has a 15-year old son in boarding school. Claims he’s from Colorado. Works as a surgeon in Yemen for the UN. Lovey dovey VERY fast.

Thank the gods I didn’t send him anything.

Hi, how long have you been talking to this guy? Did he say he’s American working for the U.N? What site did you meet him on? Sounds like a possible scammer. I would never give anyone money if I had never met them in person and especially someone who claims to be doctor but be careful if you choose to continue talking to him. These people seem to know exactly what to say judging by some of the people that have fallen victims.

Hi All, I have been talking to this guy who says he is an ortho surgeon and working in Somalia. He only has 6 months to be there and he wants to come to the States and open his own hospital. I don't mind talking to him but it stops when they ask for money. He wants to spend the rest of his life with me. Him and his son

How do I add a new submission to add photos ?

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May I please know the name of this orthopedic surgeon.

Scammer who is a sweet talker, nice looking, took a while to get to the scam. He works in Texas on oil rigs. I played along because if they work on oil rigs they are usually scammers. Good looking white hair and always wears sun glasses in pictures.

Brown eyes, tall at least in the pictures he uses in his profile! Said 6' 3. I figured he was a scammer so I played along with about how much he loved me. I said I loved him etc.

Beware!!!!

He sounds like a Keith Mesch - he said he was original from Italy and lives in California now - his profile also removed after a day or so. Keith did exactly the same With me other than he was on a rig. After two-three weeks said his machine broke and needed money to repair as bank frozen so read posts below.

Tell her to beware as they start like you say they are in love and get intimate and then something will turn up that they will need money. I promise this is what will happen so block these men.

I did and he tried to call me and text me in another phone.

Keep us posted

I just wish we could upload pics and numbers in here

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My good friend has met a fellow off of Facebook. His name was Benedict. Says he’s a gemologist. Says he’s from Italy but lives in San Jose. No mutual friends. Just requested her to accept him as a friend. She started to talk to him right away and he requested they talk on What’s app.

A day later his Facebook profile was off of Facebook. He sent a picture "of himself" lying on a beach in a bright green neon speedo. Good looking Italian looking man. I warned her it sounded like a scam and to be careful.

He keeps telling her how much he is falling for her and they are starting to get more intimate. I am worried for her. He hasn’t asked for any money yet as far as I know but it has only been about 2 weeks.

Anyone else heard of this guy out there?

Yes I agree would love to

I got scammed. Isn't there a way we can help each other and bust these guys? I would really like to know how to catch them. Im chatting with one. Someone please tell me how!

Met a guy on an online dating site on TruMingle who says his name is Ryan Allen Samson and he is stationed in Kuwait with a 12yr old daughter. After chatting on hangouts for about a week, he says he is starting to be emotionally attached to me already !!

I said Wow..okay. Do you usually get so emotionally attached with someone you barely know?! Then I blocked him! Glad I am no longer on that dating site!!

These scammers are at an all time high!

Beware

Ladies please stop communicating with these men they are nothing but scammers. I know I been there so check their background out and do reverse images and report and block them and for gods sake please don’t send them any money. That’s all they want from you so notify the FBI about these men as they are not Doctors or working on a oil rig or have kids in a boarding school if they can afford that then they don’t need anything from you so please be safe and Report them.

I had another one of these people add me on Instagram today. His profile contained 6 or 7 different pictures of him with friends, a dog named "Target " and other people. Said he’s from Alabama and is in the Navy stationed in Syria.

Divorced, 11 year old daughter living with a nanny in the U.S. Says he’s returning home in April. Asked if he could email me or talk on Google hangouts.

Be careful ladies.

Ive been a close friend of Dr Frank Bradley stating that he works from Damascus Hospital , Syria as Orthodox Surgeon. For 2 years we have been intimate with all my trust for him and I was swayed with his promises for me to be his beneficiary of his hard earn money for 5 years that he has not received yet from the UN volunteer mission as a doctor.

Moreover, I was dismayed when he asked for money to pay all the requirements for the VAT and other expenses especially for a Diplomat to deliver the briefcase of money door to door at my house.

Moreover, he tried to ask me to send 1.5M PHP for the sake of delivery by the Diplomat courier. But then he is not happy when I sent that money and he asked me to sell all my property, my house my ATM salary, and my pension monthly to be sent all to him.

He entertained me when I mentioned about money but he ignored me when no money was involved in conversation. My problem now is that all the money I sent to him we all borrowed and I am now facing a case of swindling by a scammer. I was taken for a ride. with such huge amount of money I sent.

Help me with whom I will report this to? Im so scared and frightened of what will I do next for all of this?

Please Help Me. Thanks God bless you all.

So I just blocked Dr Stephen lol and he or she realized it very quickly and started calling and texting me from another number. Pretty creepy. Thinking I should delete WhatsApp.

The area code and phone numbers are all fake. I speak because I've been financially ruined by one of these people. His number was a local area code, we did video chat and he was extremely educated. I fell for it and just trying to move on with my life.

None of these scammers are real, all the same sob story! Please, save your money and walk away, I wish I had.

So this really attractive guy named Stephen Thiago added me on Instagram a few days ago, claims he is an orthopedic surgeon working in Yemen with the UN. Said he’s originally from Michigan. Claims to be a widower, parents passed away when he was a teenager and the only family he has is a 16 year old daughter who doesn’t live on the base with him.

Asked if he could call me today but I declined. Hasn’t asked for money and is really speaking somewhat normally although some sounds like a foreigner could be texting.

Has anyone had this guy contact them? He said he was deleting Instagram and now he’s been talking to me from WhatsApp. The area code to his WhatsApp account is a Minnesota area code. I have pictures if anyone can help identify.

Has anybody heard of him? Sounds too good to be true. Oil rigs in Texas. Has not yet asked for a thing or wanted to change to hangouts or anything

Received a friend request from Dr. Larry Spencer Orthopedic Surgeon from Dallas TX, however doing contract work in Kabul. I NEVER fall for this, but I continued to fish. Long story short, I realized when he/she began saying that facebook wasn't safe in Kabul due to the Taliban & asked for e-mail (NO), google hangout.

This person would NEVER answer questions directly, but with Okay, Nope, miss spelled words, incorrect diction, punctuation & complete sentences I told whomever that this site was enccrypted & would not allow further conversation.

Yup....you guessed it...."Crickets"! My heart goes out to the person that is oblivious to the fact that they are using him, his information & portraying a fraudulent scam involving him. This is HORRIFIC, DISGUSTING & PAINFUL for all involved.

What can be done if anything to curb this????

I met this guy on fitbit app. He said he was a medical doctor in Connecticut at the Salvation Health hospital working under a contract that was just ending to help with covid patients. He said he got a new contract with the United Nations & had to leave right away for Somalia. He told me they froze his bank accounts for security purposes & was worried about that.

He professed his love early on and always wanted pictures of me, saying what a beautiful smile & beautiful eyes I had. He called me from over there & the phone kept cutting out. He said they told him he needed to register the phone. He asked me to contact "Somalia Outreach by email & register under his name saying he could only have one person registered to him. As soon as I said I wanted to be registered to him, Outreach told me that would cost me $1,000.00 for the phone to be connected for the entire time he was there, which would be until the health of the people was raised to 60%.

He said the food was so terrible he could barely swallow it & It would cost me $1,500.00 for a food subscription so he could get better food. Then he said he developed an ulcer & the next thing I knew, he was in the hospital, needing surgery!

Outreach told me it would be $7,000.00 for the surgery which had to be paid before they could do it because they had to bring in a specialist. He had also asked for $1,617.00 to pick up his equipment he had sent over there that he needed to treat his patients.

He also asked for Google play cards ($500.00 & $200.00) to pay to keep the phone working until I paid for it. He sent pictures of a very handsome man in scrubs with a name badge.

I can't believe how gullible I was, but they play on your emotions when you are down & lonely.

I contacted the U.N. (After I was out $2,700.00) that Outreach assured me would be paid back when his job there was done. They told me this was a scam & to discontinue contact immediately! I also reported it to the Federal Trade Commission & the State Police who told me the same thing.

I have since changed my bank account numbers, gotten new debit & credit cards, & changed my phone number & changed my email!

Please be careful ladies. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!!

After I didn't pay for the surgery, Outreach told me he had a cardiac arrest & was in a coma! He called me the next day & begged me to pay for the surgery so he wouldn't die.

That was when I cut him off!!

Typical as everyone else. Sweet nice. Even picture and video were the same. In Baghdad and needed money. Could not get to his banking for a stupid reason. Call would not go through. Steam card, Stay away from him!

Fortunately I heard about this site!!!!!

Beware, be safe from these blood suckers and money suckers.

Somebody in here please must have pictures of this guy - he’s is a fraud for sure and I have blocked him but I’m so concerned that he nearly had 5k from me that I took out on a loan - says he lives me from California but in a rig in Texas !!!!!!

Machine broke! Workers hate him. Sent me bank details of navy federal bank with a women’s name as the account and then I thought hang on who is this woman! Nearly did it. So despairing for pictures to see if it’s the same guys as I’ve been sexting ? How sad am I x

Anyone dealt with this man? I've been with him for 16 months now, and have been in love with him but reading all these stories, I realize he has done all the same to me, hit me up for money.

Stories of suffering. Two daughters, with a wife who passed from cancer 9 months before we started chatting on Facebook. Moved to hangouts wanting me to help with iTunes, Steam and Apple cards.

Working as a marine mechanical engineer in Turkey or London on a rig ship. I trusted him completely, he put money into my bank account and it turned out to be fraud. Two bank accounts closed on me for fraud. He claims it wasn't him. He has all personal information on me. I Am so scared now I am going to block him now.

I reversed imaged him, and nothing came of it. I am now terrified he will do more damage to me. $8000 from bank fraud, on top of my own $20,000 debt. I am just an old woman on SSI and am now in deep financial trouble.

I am so scared.

Scammer with same symptoms. The nice sweet words and then waits a bit then cannot call because needs a $650 calling card. Cannot get into his banking account blah blah blah!!!

Gets upset because I would not get a STEAM CARD. THEY WANTED ALL SORTS OF INFO LIKE BANK ROUTING NUMBER ETC. ALL OF A SUDDEN I AM A MEAN PERSON THEY GET REALLY BAD WORDS SO BEWARE!!!! OUT TO GET YOU!!!!

He is a big time scammer! Report him and block immediately.

Be thankful you got out unscathed.

Anyone heard of this guy. Been talking for a few weeks and he now needs money as his machine broke and he’s on an oil rig. He’s so cute and charming and good looking says he’s 52 and divorced. Had a video call but connection was poor

Why do these men want to scam and play on emotions.

ED: You can read many posts about Keith Mesch here from Jan 13 to Jan 16:

https://www.watchforscams.com/oil-rig-engineer-for-dating-scam.html

He is a scammer and wanted a $650 calling card. He gets very sarcastic and upset if you question him at all. Do not fall for him. It is not about you, just the calling card.

LADIES DO NOT FALL FOR IT. NEVER BEEN MARRIED. I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY!!!! HE DID VIDEO CALL BUT NO SOUND BUT STILL WANTED MONEY. BEWARE!!!!! BE SAFE!!!!

I received a friend request from Robert Hans. We talked for a couple minutes on Messenger. Before too long, I got the story of him being a widower, has a 12 year old daughter and is In Somalia on a private assignment with the UN Ambassador as an Orthopedic Surgeon.

Sounded too good to be true and obviously I was right.

Hi everyone,

Please beware of a new scamming profile under the name of "Fernando Dawson". As I previously read in another comment, he pretends to be an orthopedic surgeon from Irving, Texas and working in Yemen with the UN.

His account is brand new (created January 2021) and he has no followers, yet follows SO MANY WOMEN. I did a reverse image search with his profile picture and I came across a tangled web of fake LinkedIn profiles and twitter accounts. I knew right off the bat that he was fake and I'm just toying with him and having my fun at this stage.

Be careful and stay safe everyone!

Anyone heard of him ?

I am embarrassed how gullible I was. I know better my mom was scammed a few years ago. She was about ready to send "Frank" 20,000 and luckily I caught it. She was asking for help sending an attachment with her banking info.
I received a message on Facebook dating from Dr. Michael Clegg and we started chatting. He asked for my email because he is not on Facebook often. Then it was WhatsApp.

Text book move. In hindsight as I reread the messages so many red flags that I missed. He stated he was a Human respiratory specialist. He sent me a link to Vigorh Clinic where he "consultants" and at first it looked legit. I did google search the latter and its not Legit and none of the drs listed were real and no other info online but the link he sent me.

He said he just moved to Eugene and is from Ventura, which ironically I lived in Ventura for awhile and he never answered any question's about favorites spots. He also said he is involved in groundbreaking treatment of life threatening diseases with Doctors without borders.

He was a widow and lost his mom a few weeks after. Luckily we only commutated for a few weeks. What was my wakeup call was his last message "I hardly slept because I got a urgent summon to go to Bahrain so I can get my license, that is all that's remaining for us to go public. I will be leaving for Bahrain soon as I find the next available flight my dearest I am upset I wish we met sooner you are my good luck charm Yada Yada Yada.

My response: Good morning to you! What exciting news. How long will you be there? Maybe we can have a Virtual date before you leave. I have exciting news myself. My brother and his wife are coming to visit. I have not seen them since Christmas 2019. They live on the east coast and I don't get to see them often. We are celebrating, his wife officially became a FBI agent who will work in cyber security. Cant wait to tell her all about you.

I Immediately blocked him from all social media. Took screen shots of all of the photos and commutations. I am beating myself up that I did not realize sooner. If they sound too good to be true, then they are.

This person has a profile on LinkedIn, she states she is 35 and is a caregiver (previously worked on the grocery mart) and she states she is looking after her sick mom. Contacts guys requesting connections. Soon after she contacts you via WhatsApp she asks if she can exchange pictures (just profile photos) and then states she has lost her job and her landlord is about to evict her and her mom, and she asks for help and gets angry because she is showing feelings towards you and you will not help.

She contacts you early on the morning ; Atlanta is -5 hours from the uk so she is sending messages at 2-3 in the morning. I video called "her" without letting her know I was going to and found this phone being operated by 2 coloured males wearing t- shorts and sandals.

They dropped the phone when I said busted and they hung off. Be careful out there. I was lucky.

Hi, just want to warn any woman who was like me not to fall for this, because I kinda did, I'm 50 years old, not bad looking, but definitely not a youngster, he was a bit younger, very good looking, knew what to say, romantic. I'll call "grooming process " I was over the moon texting like a 20 year old, I own my own house, have nice cars, yes, cars, great job. Obvious I have money. Then it came and he wanted money, and my heart sank, because deep down I knew it was too good to be true, and no I did not send money, I got hurt and started making fun of him, and he blocked me !

Sad part about this is there is a commander in the Coast Guard who is legit. Someone took his identity and was using it to scam me. He lied like a rug. Wife cheated on him and he divorced her. Has a daughter Lauren who is the love of his life.

Fell in live with me. Can't get his money $7000 to go to London to take his daughter to Hartford CT for Christmas and he was retired. Needed $3000 from me and would pay me back as soon as I went to visit after Christmas.

SAD PART IS HE STOLE THE IDENTITY OF A REAL GREAT MAN WHO IS KARL SCHULTZ A COMMANDER IN THE COAST GUARD. He disappeared when I fronted him.

Be really aware ladies

Donald Paul is a Nigerian scammer. There is no son and he isn’t a Dr. The gift you sent went right into his pocket! These men aren’t Christians or god fearing. They worship 2 things, their gang leader and $$$$.

Ladies, PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THESE DEPLORABLES, do not communicate on hangouts and above all, never send them any personal information or $$$$,

On IG report them to @scamhaters.united. They will have them shut down.

Good luck and stay safe!

He told me he was a doctor and called michael morrison and sent me pictures of himself and said he worked in a busy hospital in Amsterdam and being a nurse myself i asked him a few medical questions he could answer if he really was a doctor.

Anyway he always had an excuse why he couldn't face time me then after 2 months i told him if he really loved me he would show himself to me or i was blocking him as he uses Instagram hangout watsapp and dating sites so he told me he would tell me the truth if i still spoke to him.

I agreed to so i could see his real identity and he video called me and he was 29 not 39 like he told me and when he was the doctor Nigerian and his name was Tejiri TJ for short he had a twin brother Tega and lived in delta region of Nigeria which is one of the poorest.

I asked him how many women he had done this to and he said over 100 but as Michael Morrison 20 and the rest were under different names. He showed me where he lived and said why they do it and they ask for dollars as their money is naria and they got more naria on the black market for selling gift cards. I spoke to him for 3 hours on video call. I told him what he was doing was wrong and he said there is no jobs and every boy and girl between the age of 16 to 32 do this.

I asked him why he said no money here no food they have to buy gas for their generator or they dont get light in their homes. He said sometimes white woman as he referred to them are always over 40 as they are easier and he said they think they are talking to a man but it could be a woman.

The room he was in there was 6 men and 3 women online while he was speaking to me as doctors, oil workers etc and he told me everything I said to him doesn't make him feel guilty because you would do anything to feed your family.

I told him i couldn't speak to him anymore and that i was adding it to the site so women were warned and he said they would just find new pictures and new names but he asked me as he told me the truth could he stay in touch and maybe make a real relationship as he could come to the uk then and be happy and rich.

I ended the call and blocked him then so ladies please please be careful as none of these men are real and they are all fake so stop sending the money xx

I befriend a man on Facebook who called himself Dr Donald Paul. He told me he was a orthopedic surgeon. He lives in California. He goes on to tell me he has been working in Afghanistan for the past five years. His wife died around then. He has a son 11yrs old who lives in Nigeria with his teacher.

Red flags do go up. I bought his son £100.00 steam digital gift card for him as he couldn't access his bank from Afghanistan. More Red flags. He Asked me to chat to him on hangout. I said messenger is fine but he insisted. Ive got pics of him in his surgical scrubs and pics of his son. He asked me to marry him but he needed help with a leave permit certificate.

As for his son if it is but I doubt it I don't mind the Xmas gift. I've confronted him and told him he isn't who he says he is. He hasn't asked me for any money for this but I knew it was coming. He hasn't read his mail yet. So that will be a nice Xmas present for him. He said he's a very godley man and a good Christian.

I also asked him to what God he prayed to because its surely isn't mine. So angry that people like this feel no remorse for taking people's money.

Please be careful everyone. He probably has many names but for me he was Dr Donald Paul.

They always say they were born somewhere else in case you speak to them. Their accent will not be American. Also their poor grasp of written English will be excused.

Dear friends,

There are no orthopedic surgeons trying to get in touch with you, especially ones supposedly based in a foreign country like Syria! You don't need to ask if anyone has heard of these guys because they are liars!

Big red flag: 2 first names, like Kevin Mark.

Other red flags: Orthopedic surgeon, engineer, oil rig worker, widower, child in boarding school, born in another country, moved to some place in U.S., but lives in another town (weird how so many of them say that!), wife killed in an accident (usually) or died some other way, says he loves you right away, starts calling you honey or sweetie or other endearments right away, etc., etc.

Don't kid yourself that this guy is for real. Obvious scammers! Please report and block them asap.

Hate to see anyone falling for this stuff!

Has anyone heard of Dr. David Anderson, Ortho surgeon, with the UN stationed in Syria. Has 2 daughters in boarding school.

Anyone ever hear of Kevin Mark, orthopedic doctor surgeon with United Nations? He wants to be friends on Facebook. Can’t find any bio on him. He’s a widower so he sounds a lot like some of your other scammers on here. Beware, I’m ignoring his request.

It's amazing how many stories are similar. Most of these scoundrels are in War-Torn areas working as Medical Professionals, widowed or divorced with one child. They send a few pictures that appear staged and are very evasive about their past and life.

Another similarity is "internet interruption" because the internet is poor, no phone service or the computer has a bad keyboard. They refuse a video chat or a phone call at no cost to them.
From LinkedIn to Hangouts just as fast as he starts saying "I love you!"

If it's too good to be true, then it is.
Lastly, watch out for grammar, spelling, and fake college credentials.

A sweet-talking scammer going by the name of Dr. Jay Fred convinced me to chat with him on Hangouts because he was supposedly in Afghanistan until February. Later, he changed his name to Fergal Fred because he said that was his real name. He claimed he was born in Ireland, graduated from Trinity College, and moved to Ohio.

He claimed to be Catholic, divorced, 53 years old, 5'11" with blue eyes and had a home in Atlanta, Georgia.

Often, we would get disconnected, and he claimed that the internet crashed. Three days before Thanksgiving, he alluded that he needed money to pay for the internet. I was already suspicious since he was very evasive, and I could not locate him in the directory of physicians.

An image search revealed that he was on other dating sites with different names. Specifically, he was on an LDS site claiming that he was from NY, a Mormon, and was 56 with brown.

I blocked him immediately.

Beware of men claiming to be doctors in the Middle East.

Beware, over 15 months ago on Zoosk I met a very charming and charismatic guy who told me that he was an orthopedic surgeon in Sanaa Yemen with the United Nations Developmental Programme. Roman completely swept me off my feet with his beautiful emails daily, love songs daily from YouTube, phone conversations, etc,

I came across around September 30 2019 on this site from CatVas which described identically exactly with his proposal from the fake attorney website, Alexander his mentor and starting a Mash Unit in Syria, the difference was he told me that his daughters name was Emma aged 12, I could’ve written that September post though Roman told me that he moved to Albuquerque New Mexico after his divorce 6 years ago. CatVas states that Roman told him that he lived in Brooklyn, and I exploded at Roman and felt very hurt when I read her post, and he explained away that someone had hacked into his computer and that he was going to get the IT person to fix things ASAP.

He did change his email address. I found a post from 2017 on this site when he was in Syria and he went by Julien Fedele, his daughter was 12 also at that time, LOL.

Moving forward, I fell in love with him, all photos that he ever sent me of himself were of a Real Estate person by the name of Richard Waystack in the United States. Roman described his looks as having grey/white hair and blue eyes, and I did have 2 video chats within a couple months of one another on Google hangouts, and this guy was very good looking, black hair and intense dark eyes, and then a third video chat months later that I photographed during the video chat which I did a reverse image search and it turned out to be an Eastern European physician where the audio was stripped and romans voice coming out of his mouth.

Roman was rushing me to end the video chat as the actual video was fairly short. I confronted Roman about it and I believe he was very embarrassed. Still I gave him the benefit of the doubt thinking that he was insecure about his looks, when I demanded a photograph he said to me "Let me remain invisible" and even the photos of his daughter Emma which I did a reverse image of her turned out to be not her but a young girl in Georgia by the name of Cami.

Photos of Roman were also photoshopped and even his Italian passport was real but a photo of Richard Waystack as the passport photo, Roman did send a photo of a good looking man with grey white hair in Venice which he said was really him but a reverse image search yielded nothing. Roman had a bit of an accent, but he did not have an Italian accent, and he had a very soft spoken voice.

This past October 2, 2020 he was finally leaving Sanaa Yemen to New Mexico to finally be with me, and we had a very sweet conversation, and he said he was flying out of Yemen from the Base to Dubai and then to New Mexico where we would finally be together and buy our own house immediately.

I never heard from Roman again thinking the worst that he succumbed to Covid etc, until recently I found on Pinterest with a post from about a week ago from him which makes me think whoever he is he’s actually in Brazil, and he will resurface on a dating website.

I believe that so women be careful. Roman is a pathological liar, he is very good at seducing the heart. I also do believe that Roman is a physician, his knowledge of medicine is very strong, as I too work in the medical profession, so be careful he will steal your heart and not commit, and you’ll never meet him in person.

I’m relieved that he showed his true self to me as I could never live with a liar, all trust would be gone.

Saw this person in the list of people who'd sent me friend requests. He looked so obviously sleazy and oleaginous that I almost laughed. And I accidentally touched the "accept" button! Although it could be fun to make this guy pay. Send him on a rendezvous to Maui... By himself, of course.

Please tell your mother he is a scammer and to block him immediately. Hopefully, she hasn’t sent him anything. If she provided any banking info she should change those accounts ASAP.

Lastly, share his profile with scamhaters.united on IG. Read some of the scammer horror stories on their page. Good luck to your Mom.

This guy began messaging my 70 yr old mother on Facebook Messenger. Presumes to be a very handsome 50ish widowed doctor from San Francisco. He requested her phone number in order to continue to contact her outside social media. In a matter of weeks he was talking about being in love and missing her.

She was ready to pack her baggage and go to San Francisco. We notified Facebook about our suspicion of this account to be a scammer or a fraud but they found nothing. These people are professionals and are out there prowling on the elderly to scam them of what ever they can get there hands on.

Widowed, 15 year old daughter at boarding school in Britian, won 2 large homes (1 in San Francisco, 1 in NY), uses pics of a distinguished silver fox. Very wealthy, drives Mercedes, sent pics of his home which was a historic mansion. Is fulfilling a contract with the UN, working on the border of Lebanon and Israel. Had pretty good English and typing skills.

I became suspicious very quickly and asked for ID which he sent but could see it wasnt authentic. I suspect he is the same man many of the others on her have reported about.

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE

Special forces adopted by priest. Talking to me secretly. What a lie. Sometimes would text when he wanted something like a calling card for $650 a month. I said I could get one from AT&T for 1/10th that amount. But he cannot use that haha

Do not fall 4 it anyone. SCAM. He is going to be back in the States for Christmas and oh the grammar was off too and he had a strange way of saying things.

BEWARE. AS SOON AS YOU NEED TO TRANSFER ELECTRONICALLY FOR PHONE CALLING CARD BEWARE IT IS FAKE

Hello everybody! I've been talk with a man and he told me he's a surgeon doctor in Pakistan. He seems to be a very nice guy with love and care about me. He's planning for when he comes back from Pakistan. He wants to be with me lol so I asked him if we can make a video call so I can see and know who he is and then he never responded to me at all.

God bless you all

So pretty sure I’m talking to this scammer right now and laughed so hard that I found this site!!! They sound just like my narcissist ex-husband 😂. Very polite, never pushes, understanding.

Tell you just enough that you feel like you know what’s up with them, but it’s only to throw you off so you let your guard down because you feel like they’re letting you in.

Dating is sooo messed up 😂

I’m gonna take this guy on a ride for a bit to save someone else the trouble

In Baghdad in Special Forces. Cannot text as much as he would like. Took down FB. Has house in Columbus oh. Left empty. Was adopted by priest and mother died in child birth.

Hi Everyone. I wanted to give you all a heads up. I just received a friend request on Facebook for Michael Austin Neurosurgeon at United Nations.

I conducted a Google Images search (https://images.google.com/) and this guy's picture came up on website fake-scam.com as Dr. Gabriel Johnson on Instagram
(instagram.com_Gabriel Johnson_drgabrieljohnson9_pic-01.jpg).

Also Frank Wooden, Kelvin Wood, Frederick Maxwell, and the list goes on (https://www.fake-scam.info/index.php?action=gallery;cat=19)

Anyone else receive this?

Well I've read the messages on here regarding Frank Gilbert and he contacted me first on Facebook as amit karmar raj with frank gilbert in brackets - anyway he told me he was an oil contractor and could I talk to him on hangouts were he rang me more than once and after 2 days was in love with me even though I was wary.

He sent me 20 pictures of himself but I did a google image search and found the pictures on there as a romance scammer named frank hamlin amongst other names. When I questioned him about it he said he was fed up of lies and crap about him and he had been hacked. I believed him to be honest and he told me all this on the phone then he asked me to send him money until his cheque clears to pay for helicopter to get off the oil platform he is on, but what he didnt know at the time was my brother works on an oil platform so I knew you don't pay for transport or food or repairs on an oil platform also you have a good insurance policy to work on one so when I told him this he got very abusive and nasty and set up dating accounts and other things in my name where the fraud department are involved now so please ladies dont believe a word he says.

He is not an oil worker and his picture is not him at all. I hope this helps and I wish I had seen this site before I started talking to him

After 3 flowery emails, I wrote that I noticed he used many odd phrases, often used by scammers - end of story. He blocked messaging, but not profile, so I have written a complete note to POF on him and they send a "warning", which I like, as they know they are caught.

Not just blocking which does not tell them anything. These stories on here are so sad - please, know physicians have many options and NEVER need $$$.

I had a friend who was a high official in DC, so when I had a serious possible fake, I called him - they were concerned as this man was wanting to send me a suitcase of his personal things & so many valuable artifacts are stolen from these smaller governments, after war.

The FBI and CIA became involved - they sent an agent to my home & using my computer information were able to trace it to the Gold Coast of Africa to an apartment with a long table & multiple computers, which were manned by different people 24/7. They kept notes with account names & sites, and enough on each "target" to let the next person working the scan continue.

PLEASE, never send $$ or give your personal information. God will help you find someone, but value yourself, always be vigilant and careful.

A real gent will never do the NUTZ things I have read on here.

Hello what have I have noticed is there is a lot of people mentioning a Frank Gilbert and I am one of his victims too. I wish I had checked this site out before I had contact with him as I believed all his charm and thought he wanted more with me, and then I read this page. I am blocking him now too and he uses watsapp and hangout by the way

I mentioned Mack Williams before and he contacted me again and this time I called him out. Told him no orthopedic Doctors in Yemen. Called him a scammer and liar. He contacted me through Instagram. Posted pictures of a rather nice looking fellow not drop dead handsome but average. In 40’s or 50’s.

English ok although caught him in a couple words that were off. Did not try to con me for money or anything like that.

He said he is an orthopedic surgeon doctor, now in a US Army camp in Syria, come from San Diego, California. Wants to return to the US but he needs help to send his money box of US$3,000,000. The money is from the goverment of Syria as appreciation of his good work in 2017-2018

The money box is in Aleppo and ready to send by the courier names Diplomat with email address williamsmorgan427@gmail.com based in Turkey.

Asks for US$2,000 for the cost and on its way to send the box, they will stop in Dubai and ask for additional US$5,000 to change the name of receiver

He is using the photos of Dr. Fernando Gomes Pinto from Brazil.

Be careful, he has many Instagram accounts.

Please be careful with this man as he is good. He also knows about these websites as he mentioned them to me and told me he had been hacked and people were using his information so he is very smart and he knows what he is doing.

He never video calls and always says the internet connection is bad and he will ring you maybe twice then says he cant get a signal anymore. He never sends pictures of him right now in the moment touching his nose or anything and when I did a google image search on him there was pages of different names regrading this man and pictures.

He sent me a lot so please listen to me as I fell for his charm and I believed everything he said and found out he is just a scammer and he will tell you you are the only love of his life and he will tell you god sent you to him and talk a lot about gods gift etc but he a scammer and he only wants your money and when he gets it he moves onto the next victim.

He will tell you he only talks to you and even show you evidence of your name only on his list but he will never accept you calling him on video links and he will decline and he will ignore you unless you give him money.

Up to now I know of 84 victims including myself of Frank Gilbert charm and he has scammed between 84 of us of over $40 thousand so please if you get a message off him block him straight away.

He also uses the name john williams and amit kamar too and he will tell you he is from Arizona but works on an oil platform in Maine. There are no oil platforms in Maine ladies and no oil platform in the world will allow you onboard without insurance so dont believe a word he says and dont be another victim like the 84 of us he as already conned !!!!

To the person who just wrote about Frank Gilbert did he send you pictures of himself, songs and told you he loved you and called you, as he did that to me and also asked me for money too.

How long were you talking to him before he asked you for help and was it for pipes too?

Same person, Frank Gillbert like the comment written on Sep 27, 2020, thank you for sharing so I can block him now.

Met Joel Peterson on Hinge. Petroleum engineer for Chevron. Said he was from Washington DC, and every time we try to Skype or use Google hangouts the connection was bad. Said he was moving across the country to the West Coast. After a month of being love bombarded by him, he told me he had one last job that he was going to do in Turkey. He promised me that we were going to get married and go looking for a house together.

I fell for it hook line and sinker. Beware of these scammers. He said he lived for the first few years of his life in Jamaica, and we talked on the phone a lot, and he quickly moved the conversation to WhatsApp, sent me pictures of flowers and poetry every day, then just before coming to the West Coast went to Turkey for this secret mission.

Messaged me first for money for equipment, then there was an explosion, and the third trick was that his helicopter crashed while taking them out to the oil rig platform. I got suckered and I lost $40,000. I contacted the hospital in turkey and sent them a picture of the bill. I was told that there was no one by that name in their Hospital, the account number was fake, the entire bill was fake, but their logo was correct.

Reported it to hinge and have yet to hear back. He miraculously Called me while being on deaths bed, because his accomplice by the name of Andrew realized that I knew that something was wrong and I told Andrew I did not want to be scammed. This Joel Peterson then immediately wrote me back a very long message on trust and how could I betray our love and trust. When I asked for a picture of him in the hospital room several times none came through.

Beware of anyone that you have not met face to face and even so if they ask you for money don’t fall for it like I did. This guy love bombed the heck out of me and hit all my vulnerable spots. I went online to Facebook and while he was supposedly dying in a Turkish hospital he created a Facebook page.

Beware and be safe And don’t get taken by these scammers.

Once again Dr from San Francisco says widow has son in school. - wants love - calls me sunshine and his queen. Says he’s French and has the profile of Fernando Gomes who I have to say is handsome- I knew i wouldn’t be that lucky lol

Is off to Libya and wants me to look after his son and could I send money for a PlayStation as he won’t be back and also can I get an Apple Watch as he could look at me in the screen whilst working

He is very good for calls on WhatsApp asked if I do Bitcoin.

I wish I was this lucky to have such a gorgeous guy but hey at least I’ve not been taken for lots of money

My Dr. Paul Lewis is 48 and has a 7 year old daughter and him lost his wife and daughter two years ago and he is in Venezuela and his daughter is in boarding school.

He is looking for a wife and mother and because my birthday falls on his daughter’s birthday, it’s a match from heaven. This BS is hilarious.

Some guy by the name Dwayne Carther
(Felix Morrison) messaged me on Facebook talking about some stupid stuff then he says "I am working with the UN government as a Medical Doctor Assign for Treatment on Nato Army on Peace Keeping Mission In Syria".

Then I started asking him for money lol and he offers me 5000$ but tells me I need to get a American express card lol

Ladies I had a man contact me who said his name was Frank Gilbert and he worked on an oil rig. He sent me pictures of himself and even rang me a few times on hangout but never video called and always rang with an Italian accent which he did say he was Italian when we first started chatting anyway.

Next min after weeks of talking and getting to know each other he told me one night that an emergency alarm had gone off on the oil rig and he had to go. A few hours later this man messaged me saying he was Franks boss and I was named next of kin and Frank was fighting for his life after a massive explosion on the rig.

As you can imagine I was so upset and asked what I could to be told Frank who apparently told me had this big house in Arizona and all this money working on the rig needed money towards his medical bills or the hospital couldn't treat Frank.

When I asked how much was told 2000 dollars and I then asked what his injuries were and what hospital as I am a nurse and the man got abusive towards me said asking stupid questions and if I cared for Frank I would send the money to save his life.

When I refused I had disgusting messages and a few hours later I had a phone call on hangout and apparently it was Frank telling me he loved me and to help him so he could come home to me. I told him no and blocked him.

Be careful ladies as I had come out of a violent abusive relationship where my ex partner is in prison for years for what he did to me so this man was making me feel like someone loved me again and wanted to be with me.

Never send money no matter what they say. I learnt once again that I cant attract a decent man.

Be careful everyone

To the message below about NPI numbers, its only if the physician is working in the United States.

Ladies, if you ever question anything, do a google search for your doctors NPI number. They are given a number that stays with their whole career. All you have to do is put in their name and request for their NPI number. If it comes up they are legit, if not, then you probably need to look further.

I got hurt years and years ago and hope this helps someone! Stay strong sweet ladies!

In response to the woman who asked if anyone heard from a surgeon in Somalia who just left stereo plus a UN as an orthopedic surgeon. Yes I heard from him today. He found me on Facebook and we actually had a friend in common so that’s why I accepted it.

I did notice on his Facebook page it said he was God FEARING! Lol

Anyhow he is as Msi said that he had a son And that he was born in Spain but lives in San Francisco. He said his name was John Wexler. I just blocked him.

His English wasn’t so great so it didn’t make sense to me and then I found this site telling me almost exactly what it just happened.

Thank you all for posting here

I answered a ‘following" picture off of Instagram. Very handsome man who said he was an orthopedic doctor in Yemen. Widower with an 11 yr old son, which he changed to a daughter. I thanked him for his service, as I am trying to do to frontline workers.

Our friendship started and I was swooning in no time. We chatted everyday for almost 3 weeks. He was so sweet and kind and was meeting needs I didn’t realized I had. He showed me his pictures and a picture of him and his daughter. No son. I kept praying for God’s guidance and then is when it hit. The doctor was trying to get out of Yemen because he was scared.

His lawyer said he needed $7800 for paperwork through the UN. He was demanding and wanted me to get a loan and not to tell anyone what I was doing. I told him no and he got aggravated. Didn’t talk after that.

Beware ladies. These scammers are real. I am glad I listened to God and not this person.

Look at past posts on this site. Lots of woman and men have been scammed out of their money. Do not become one of them. They are not doctors, but scammers. Doctors don’t need your money nor play stations for their children. BUT scammers need these items to resell or use for themselves.

Don’t send anything no money, no gift cards, no but coin, no western union. SEND NOTHING. They are scamming you and will break your heart and bank account.

Lose him. You will find the right person. Be well. Be safe

Please has anyone had a connection with a dr from San Francisco with a son in boarding school who says he is lonely and going to Syria soon - Works for the UN and can’t send pics of himself due to the UN and is a Surgeon orthopaedic-

Lovely voice that says French originally, a widow, mother in Paris. Wants you to look after his son and can only email son if he gets injured in the war zone. Has asked to send a PlayStation to son as he will be away

He claims to be a orthopedic surgeon in Yemen with the UN. Based in Sana a military hospital.

I matched on Tinder with a man named "James" and after some pressure to confirm his identity, he said his last name was "Miller". His profile says that he is a consultant with UNHCR-United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and he later claimed to be an orthopedic doctor.

The profile also says that he lives in Lithonia, GA and went to Emory University. He stated that he was mixed (he appeared to look more Greek), his father was from South African and his mother was American, from Washington, DC.

The first day we matched, he asked for my number and if we could chat on WhatsApp. I agreed. Later that night, I noticed that he unmatched with me.

I pressed him for more information to confirm his identity and he could not provide any, just the run around. He gave me the number of 470-799-0540 but no information comes back to that number.

Beware of this fake profile.

Please listen to me, I have just been scammed out of seventy thousand dollars by one of these people. They are ruthless and so very convincing.

I am now filing bankruptcy, after having an 850 credit score and dealing with an attorney!!!!
Please just delete them and don’t respond....it will not turn out the way you are expecting as far as having a relationship.

It will be nothing but troubles for you!

I have been there and done that and was scammed out of thousands! FB doesn't give a dam and they don't check profiles at all!

DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY AND DELETE THE PIECE OF GARBAGE!!!

I have been contacted by various scammers, Yandex is by far hands down the best reverse image site I've come across so far, also with emails from these individuals I check IP addresses, and I've come across quite a few that tell me they are Orthopedic Surgeons currently in war torn countries.

IP lookups with their emails tells me that they are in fact in Nigerian, the IP lookup site I like is Melissa's IP look up.

Has anyone been asked by these men to contat an email address called globaltrustlimited please as the guy I am talking to is asking me to send $2800 to this company to protect his package or he loses everything. When I said no he asked me how much I could send and I said nothing.

I reported him to Facebook but they said his account is genuine so they havent removed him. He talks mostly on hangout what ever that is. He told me he is a doctor, a widow working for the UN but when I ask for a phone call or video chat he tells me he is using a military desktop.

I wouldnt like him to do this to some other woman and she gets hurt badly. Its only that my friend stopped me or I would of sent money. Has anyone heard of him and he is claiming his name is Dr John Williams 57 years of age, military doctor working for UN and born in Germany and lives in USA with a 15 year old son in boarding school while he is in Afghanistan.

Any help would be great please

I have been talking to a so called Dr John Williams who is apparently a doctor originally from Germany but moved to America and now he is based at a military hospital in Kabul Afghanistan.

He sent me pictures of himself and said he cant send me one of him right now as he doesnt have a phone and is only using a military computer and told me he is a widow with a son who goes to boarding school in the states. I fell for all his charms if I am honest as I was in an abusive relationship which nearly cost me my life so I have been alone for a long time.

Anyway I have asked to speak to him on the phone or video chat but he cant as he isn't allowed to on the UN computers and up to this morning he hasnt asked me for money. He has asked me to help him contact this company called Globaltrustlimited and help him get his money belonging to him back and to tell them I am his wife.

I need some advice as he is a scam isn't he?

I’ve been taking to a guy called Howard O’Connor Orthopedic surgeon for UN - he has a 14 the old son and window - very lonely and the pictures sent are of a Fernando Gomes who is gorgeous so no wonder I got sucked in !

Researched when he started asking for money for his son as he was going to go to a War zone and may not be able to send his son the money -
Nice. Flattering while it lasted but so glad I found out

Introduction was on Twitter. Then he moves over to Hangouts. Same script as the others. Surgeon working in Yemen, with a daughter in boarding school.

I think the dude made a mistake. I'm a straight 78 year old guy with very little money. 15 year old son in military school in the UK.

On FB - Says he is a orthopedic surgeon working in Iraq, widower with young girl at home in London. Born in Russia. Suspect a hijacked profile. Friend requested me out of the dead blue, I like meeting new people and learning about different cultures and places - so, I accepted.

Very poor English, suspect Indian call center scam of some sort. Towards the end when I said I must verify his identity, he said he was insulted - and I ended the conversation.

Clearly, I should have known better - and I had a pretty good suspicion. The scammer was making up a fairly good story - saving US Troops in Iraq war zone.

Scammer using the name of Leon William De Bruyne (or questionable as a nick name - lol). Supposed to be a Orthopic doctor, from Austin Texas.

Working in Damascus, Syria with the UN. He even had the cheek to say he had an English mother from Glasgow & American father. A lot of the profiles are always only a few days old on Facebook.

Pretty sure this is a Nigerian trying his luck to get money.

I have written somewhere bellow my comment regarding scammer Mark Fisher, I have met on LinkedIN, claiming to be an orthopaedic surgeon from USA, working in Afghanistan. Well, I have reported him to LinkedIN and his profile has been removed instantly.

So, report them, make them hard to operate.

Anyone know a James Roland orthopedic surgeon in Yemen, widow with 2 children? He has a Facebook profile with a few photos and private friends and posts. He says his resources are limited so can't chat. Met him on Scrabble app.

Also a Wesley Murray. Name sound familiar to anyone?

I received a message from a Steve Marcus saying he is an Orthopedic Surgeon on my fb page. Claims he works for the UN and stationed in Somalia since last year (an Ambassador). He says he is a widower and has a 14 year old son, Harry, studying in Austria.

Strange being he "lives" in San Francisco. He asks questions more than really answers. His conversation skills are not that of someone who claims to be a surgeon. Always asking "what time is it over there". On top of that, I don't know any MD's on fb, especially chatting with strangers like this, asking questions like on a dating site. I only answered to welcome as a friend. I'm in a long term relationship and happy.

Anyhow, he kept asking my age. When I told him, he disappeared sort of. He has written "hello" & "what time is it over there", but I refuse to acknowledge. I had a funny feeling this was a scam, especially now that he updated his profile, less information and different pictures (photos of same guy different scenes though still medical/doctor), still from San Francisco, BUT now attended UCSF (before it was Duke University, and a degree Biology).

He will ask if you can use a different platform to communicate, like WhatsApp. He told me his parents died in a car accident when he was young, and was placed in a Catholic school or organization (don't recall exactly) & his wife was a military journalist that was shot & killed on her way home in Afghanistan 4 years ago.

He says he is stationed in Somalia and works with the military & I think civilians. Oh, another unusual thing, orthopedic surgeons generally specialize in a specific area. He says he works on ankle, elbow & knees. Too many strange things! I have his latest fb profile picture, but unable to post here. Sorry!

PLEASE BE CAREFUL & PASS THE WORD AROUND, ESPECIALLY TO THE YOUNG & MORE VULNERABLE!

After a very quick google research to confirm my suspicions, I’m convinced my fiancé’s mom is talking to one of these scammers! An orthopedic surgeon based in Yemen. I got access to read some of their messages and they have both committed to spending their lives together
although they have never met in person!

It looks like they are planning to meet soon (Which I’m sure will never happen) and I have confronted her to show her it’s a scam but of course she believes he is real and she has met the love of her life! He has mentioned they should go into business together someday but nothing has happened yet, nor has money been sent or anything.

But we all know it’s coming!

I want to take control of this myself before it gets too far and send this scum a message to tell him to back off.

Any tips on what to say that actually works?

Said he is an orthopedic surgeon working in an afghan camp. Single dad with 14 years old son. Sent a picture of a tv actor with the name nicolas bechtel and thought i was a fool. When I confronted him he says it was by mistake. I asked him to call me on video and he does for 5 secs that looks suspicious.

Playing along with him to catch him. He gave the email id of his son, where that guy tells me his phone is damaged and could i buy him one which cost around $500 to $1500. I am just playing along to see what they are up to. I need to report them to cyber crime once I get all the info about them. I am collecting the proof and once I get them I will hand over to cyber. Thats the least I can teach them a lesson.

Maxwell Richard supposedly an orthopedic surgeon working for the UN in Yemen. Friend requested me on Instagram Which I accepted. After chatting he asked for email which I sent and then wanted me to google chat or something like that.

I followed my gut and blocked him.

Anyone else familiar with him?

Same stories we have all wrote about these men ladies so do yourself and your heart a favor and leave these men alone. They only want your money and for you to send them gift cards, itune cards etc.

The cards they use them to put a higher amount on them when you send them so please do not send them anything, ever, as they will just want more. I still read the comments that are posted on here and the same thing is still going on so I wish you all to stay safe and watch out for who you are communicating with because these men are really scammers they do not want a relationship just your money and you will not hear from them again they will move onto the next victim so don't waste your time just block them and report them to the FBI at www.ic.3.gov take care of yourself.

No question about it that she is being scammed! What that guy has written her are a bunch of lies. Just read any of the posts on this page and you will see that his story is so similar to the fake stories that are being told so often to try to get money from susceptible women (and men, too).

Your mum needs to stop any contact with this person right away and block him! I had my photo on Scrabble Go myself and was constantly being bombarded with scammers giving me fake stories about working on oil rigs, being surgeons in Syria, wives dying in car accidents, children in boarding schools---all a bunch of lies!

They all had photos posted which were stolen from other people. You can tell right away--too nice looking, dressed in suits or military garb or doctors' scrubs. It is so obvious.....please tell your mum that she is dealing with a scammer and not to believe any of what he says and definitely not to send any money or gift cards to that liar!

Stay safe and God bless you both.

At the moment my mum is talking to a guy by the name of Mark Leonard who claims to be a neuro surgeon from US who with a couple of other Dr’s were sent from the States to work in Yemen on a years contract to help out as they need help in the hospital because they don’t have hardly any supplies (which are being sent over to help these people from the US).

He has sent loads of photo’s of him and 1 of his 13 year old son who is in a boarding school in North Carolina! He’s been talking to mum from scrabble go for a good few months now saying all the right things, she has fallen for him but now his son has had an accident saying he had a cardiac arrest & fell down the stairs and broke his arm (he’s sent pics of him in the hospital bed) now he has asked her for 3000 pounds as he urgently needs an operation in the US and they won’t operate till he pays that.

1st he claims he can’t access his bank account in the US from Yemen, and he can’t leave till his contract is up in October. He’s not allowed to use a phone and they speak on WhatsApp every day. She’s not sent any money but he keeps insisting his son is going to die without it (she doesn’t have any money) but he still says if she could find a way it would help.

Now he’s saying even if it’s a 1000 pounds it would help, and he claims he has no friends that can help!!!

They ask for gift cards because it’s harder to trace them. There are a few Facebook pages that show stolen photos. These jerks use the photos to make up a new profile. I had one try to lure me in, but I stop everything pretty quick before he got a chance to ask for money.

Please be careful and check out the stolen photos page. You may find one you have seen before!

My mom started chatting to a guy named Christopher Moore. Not sure where she found him. He then told her to chat on hangouts which she started doing. He calls her my cutie pie, queen and always ends the conversation with "cares"😍.

Anyways says his wife died of cancer and he has a 10 year old son. He says he is from the States and works on different contracts in Nigeria. He started asking my mom to purchase Steam gift cards and she got him 2 $50 cards. He is now asking her to get him $500 worth of Steam cards.

I am not sure why these scammers ask for gift cards or what they use them for. Can someone please explain this to me. My sister and I are trying to stop her but she won’t listen.

Does any one know the name Dr.Jame Adrian from Liverpool,UK. I searched in Google and got a different and decent profile. He connected me through Facebook and then being friend came to wahtsapp. I lost my 35k in the name of Customs of India and to receive his gifts. He talked so sweet and decent.

I lost my money and was emotionally hurt within thirty days only. Though I considered him as a very good friend and not more than that and just got bit acquainted with him. He used to deny video calls which raised doubt in me, after losing my money. Then I found some Indian people's likes, especially women on his posts while he said he did not know any Indian except me. As I said I am married and have a kid and he promised to respect my marriage and family. He said he lost his wife 2 years back in a car accident and has a 11 years old daughter.

Sent me family pics and also professional pictures too. Actually we should be aware of people who are too sweet and won't show up themselves. I lost money and emotionally got hurt.

Playing against someone on Yahtzee who goes by Tinyunicorn. Claims to be James Owen an orthopaedic surgeon from Florida but working in Kabul for the United Nations. Chatting today and tells me that he has a 14 year old son in boarding school in the UK.

Then wants to chat via google hangouts or whatsapp as it's 'easier'. I refused and will now block him on the game. Googled James Owen orthopaedic surgeon and he works in the UK, not Kabul. Very suss and same story but different name as others listed here.

I friended someone on FB who wanted to friend me, a photo of a good looking East Indian looking man wearing scrubs, he didn't try to reach out to me, first thing I did was a reverse image search and a different name came up than the name that he called himself.

I deleted him quickly, because I felt that it would have been a matter of times before he started making his moves on me.

Yes, a blocked address can still send you emails. The only difference is that emails from block addresses will not appear in your inbox. Rather, they are housed in the Spam folder of your Gmail automatically.

Is his name Dr. Jason Wlater or Dr. Jason Walter?
Is he on Instagram? If so under what name?

Ladies if you share these scammers profiles with @scamhaters.united (on Instagram) they will have their profiles taken down. You cannot imagine how many of these scammers I’ve taken down.

Good luck, block them and above all do not share personal information or send them anything!

Says he lives in Portland, Oregon. Stuck in Turkey, and says he is from Belgium. Scammer!!!!

I have just been scammed, and it ruined my life.

Walk away!

Connected on POF, we chatted on there a few weeks and he asked to go on Hangouts and then wanted to exchange phone numbers as I wanted to connect with a voice or facetime. He agreed and I reluctantly agreed. We continued the chat with him professing I was perfect and he could love me forever. He left for his job overseas with the UN before we could connect.

He said he is on a top service mission, yet continues to message me on Hangouts. After a few days of not responding he emailed me, because he misses his darling queen. I have a name and it isn't darling, queen, honey bear, sweetness.

I haven't responded to his email but he has the classic catfish signs.

widowed
teenage son
and dreams of me.

Weird thing, I blocked his email, but he somehow got through. So there is that...

Help me please.

A week ago I was contacted, through a fitness app called Fitbit, by a guy who pretended to be an american working as a military doctor and now deployed in Syria for 8 months. He said he is a widower and his wife died in a car accident. He sais he has 2 daughters. I didn't continue chatting too much.

After a few days I got a message from another guy, also on Fitbit, saying he is an american soldier deployed in Syria as well. That's when I started to smell something fishy. So he sent me "his" pictures. I searched the internet for those pictures and it turns out that those pictures belong to an actor and a soldier, with a totally different name and information.

What I wanna say is please be carefull. They take advantage of lonely women who maybe feel the need of being loved. They take advantage of women who search for a good guy. Ladies, I don't really think that the guy you look for is on the internet. I know there are happy stories in this world, but please be carefull!

I too am a single mom, divorced, maybe looking for a good guy and I almost got hurt in the process. So please be carefull!

Watch out for guys named Dave Willson and Jimmy McIntosh.

These scammers usually have multiple accounts on various social media sites. This is to target innocent women.

Watch out for @robersean20 on Twitter as he also uses the name Mark Robert. This is a Nigerian man called Paul Akhere.

I know what you dealt with. I had my credit ruined and lost more than 50k. He was believable. I may have been targeted. The pictures he presented as himself belonged to an American businessman, who legitimately worked out of the country a lot.

He stole that gentleman’s identity and ruined my credit and had my personal identity and financial credit hacked, abused and ruined.

Funny thing, I ran into another scammer and told him that he was too late that someone else took everything . He educated me and told me he purchased my information off a dark web site. He didn’t try to con me, but educated me and explained how it happens and disappeared. I learned a lot. Now I see the American business man’s pictures on many dating sites in many different countries using many different names.

Every time I see the pictures, I report them as fraud and provide proof. A site I paid to join Elite Singles refused to take it down. In fact, several persons I talked to on that site were foreign scammers. Many doctors, investors and various business men. Amazing how they get away with it and how gullible we are.

Protect yourself. Be careful.

Met a man on the POF site, long story short he ruined my credit, stole my identity, opened up numerous accounts. 28 months of wheeling and dealing.

email address is: joyfrombeyond@gmail.com and goes by Charles M.G.

I’ve just gotten contacted by Travis Robert a UN Trauma Surgeon in Syria, widower, wife died giving birth to there second child, adopted a boy, who is 11 years old and is in school in the UK. Early in our conversation he wanted to chat through Hangout, because of security reasons and when I said I don’t have Hangout, then he suggested WhatsApp.

I don’t have that either. I suggested that we write through Messenger, but he doesn’t have that, so he wrote that we could write here (Instagram) and see what the future holds for us. I’m petty sure that he is a scammer, so watch out Ladies.

I’m gonna keep writing with him, just to see how far and how soon before he asks for money, but he ain’t getting a penny out of me !!

His username is travisrobert8899.

6 months ago I met this man on Facebook. Being lonely all these years, I knew I was taking risks meeting people online. My sons warned me about it but I just wanted to be with someone who could replace my husband I was married to for 35 years. I’m not a naive woman. I’ve worked in the business sector as a Vice President of a local bank. I saw scams all the time. But since my retirement and my children are now off married with their own families, I wanted to have a partner.

So after chatting online via dating sites and Facebook for three years, I met this "Marc Williams". He claimed to be working as a government contractor in the oil services business off the coast of Norway (I mean in hindsight, Norway – really??). We weren’t allowed to chat directly via Facebook because of the security issues of his job, so we would text only. I wanted to talk directly to him but always it was the job restrictions that prevented hearing his voice.

He said all the right things. I was beautiful and despite our age difference, I’m 78 while he claimed he was 68 years old, he wanted to share the rest of lives together. He was coming home soon and wanted to be anywhere I was. At first he said he was from Nevada but then it changed to Texas, claiming he was "born" in Nevada but grew up in "Texas". He wanted to come to Vermont to be with me.

But then there was the issue with his son Reilly who was in a boarding school in Ireland (but that changed to Manchester later on). The boy apparently had lost his mother to cancer 3 years prior and was lonely. Reilly was turning 13 and was eager to meet me and Marc assured me Reilly would want to call me "Mom".

Being a loving mother, that tugged at my heartstrings!! He agreed that our faith, both Lutheran (what are the chances?!) would be a grounding force in our relationship. At first, he was telling me that he wanted to take care of me and wanted to buy me things. When my TV broke, he said he was going to buy me a new one, but never followed through on his constant offerings.

He told me to order the biggest TV on Amazon and he would reimburse me when he came home. That was the thing, he never exactly knew when he would be done. Always there was another issue that made him extend his contract. Then it was the talk of marriage. He assured me that he wanted to marry me and to get ready because he wanted to marry me as soon as he arrived.

I’ve never heard this man’s voice, and other than getting some pictures texted to me of a middle-aged man with salt and pepper hair, I had no idea who this man was. He kept asking where I lived, what I owned and how would our lives be. Then he asked me to forward some gift cards to Reilly, first for his birthday, then to help with the tuition.

Then my radar was fully up. The strong, professional woman I am came back and I realized I was being scammed. When I found this site, I couldn’t believe the similarities – names like Frank Williams, and Dr Frank Mark Williams; children in boarding schools in Europe whose mother died from cancer. My husband died of cancer!

So please, if it sounds to good to be true, you’re being scammed!

Thank you for your answer

Please don’t fall victim to a scammer like I did 2 years ago. He is fake. He is preying on you from all the angles.

I met a man 2 years ago online. He seemed so believable. He had a foreign accent, but I work in a career that I hear lots of accents. He was very intelligent, handsome and had perfect English and writing skills. We made plans to meet and something always came up like another business trip. He sent me lavish gifts that I learned some other person’s credit card paid for.

We talked for 8 months before he asked me for anything. After a year loosing 50k and my identity stolen as well as hacking my credit card info. I found out too late whose pictures I was sent was not him, but an American business man who a friend of mine knew through his business. At the time I was recently widowed and vulnerable.

I lost a lot of money, my great credit score and the trust of ever believing some one to date. I wised up after finding this site and several other YouTube stories.

Scammers are out there. All they want is our money. Doctors don’t need your money, solders don’t need your money nor do financial investors. Provide them no information about yourself. I understand the attention feels good, but run away from him, block him and save yourself heartache and your financial well being destroyed.

Read and listen to all of our stories. Please don’t become one of us who have been scammed. Be well.

Be safe.

Regarding is he a scammer. If you met him online, he fell in love with you immediately and he wants to talk on hangouts. Then YES he’s likely to be a scammer.

Block him, you’re better than that.

You’ll soon fall for all the romance if you don’t, and this will be followed by a request to help him financially. These scammers are very good at romance and psychological pressure.

Avoid

Please help me. Is he a scammer? He wrote to me on Hangouts

He wrote me on instagram so is the man fake? His pictures are very good and he didnt call me with camera as he said the camera was bad

I have been contacted via Facebook by a man who says he is an orthopedic surgeon with NATO currently in Iraq. Says he is from Alabama and has been widowed for 5 years and has a 10 year old daughter.

He says he has 6 months left on a 12 million dollar contract and has a large home in Alabama plus two other homes in other states.

Says he wants to find true love. He wants to come home and open a medical hospital, then went on to say he is thinking a grocery store or baby department store.

I think say what??

Any of this sound familiar?

Beware of Chris Morgan who is claiming to be an Orthopedic Surgeon from the US Army from Chicago. He tried to connect with me on Linked In. Thought it was quite weird since he does not have MD behind his name and when I googled him different pictures came up and it was not him.

Then a different man also wanted to connect on Linked In who I have never heard of and had no connections with.

Just beware of these fake accounts.

Beware of this man if he appears on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram. Anywhere. He is not who he says he is. He says he is Brazilian American, has sole custody of a daughter, lives in Chicago but actually seemed to have spent most of his time in Turkey.

Goes from one mishap to another, always asking for money.

Do not touch with a barge pole. Run for the hills as he’s very convincing......

Don't know if he's the same scammer but its very similar to my friend's experience. He went by the name Mike Chang Mihn from S. Korea, head UN doctor and Orthopedic surgeon. Claims to be in love with you and then asks you to be a business partner. Apparently he was quite believable at first but then it became fishy.

Anyway according to my friend his IG disappeared after she mistakenly vid-called him and ended it. I guess he was threatened by the call? Anyway good thing she never agreed to be his lover and be business partners. Damn I'll tell her about this so be careful y'all

How about Alvin Ferdinand?? Widower, car crush, neurosurgeon. I managed to get to the point straight away, so he had no chance.

Be aware of this guy, he approached me via LinkedIN. Claims he has a 15 year old son, single parent. Asked me to give him my address to send me the money for his clinic he is trying to open. Scammer!

Playing War on Words Game like Scrabble. One guy started chatting who is Widowed, Orthopedic Surgeon working with United Nations in Kabul with 1 14 yr old son in boarding school in UK. At first he said he was from Germany, then California. I've been single for a long time and details alert me. He didnt want to continue 'chatting' so why not do gmail. I only use outlook but did figure out how to get to my gmail. Then he suggests hangout that I never heard of and did not install.

I told him I was old enough to be his mother. He was ok with that and just enjoyed talking. Haven't got much past there as its only been about a week. I think I should cut this person off. Not worth the risk. I'm not going anywhere nor giving anyone money.

He used Raymond Robertson. Also noted the photo on gmail was different from War on Words.

Yes he’s a scammer. Tried to scam me about 1 year ago. He uses a photo of a Russian cardiologist.
He also called me using a fake video. He’s still around on Twitter even though I reported him. He also uses the name Anthoni Mathias again on Twitter but this time claimed to be a vet from LA stuck in China after he went to do animal vaccinations there !!

The stories are slowly getting a little different, but if they message you via social media and then move to hangouts it’s a scam. Stay away from these 2 (maybe the same person) as they can become very nasty and aggressive.

Just block him. You’re worth more.
Stay safe.

Another scam. He claims to be divorced, 3 years ago with a 20 year old daughter, is a UN doctor in the Army for 37 years. Was sent to Yemen in a warzone. Will ask for iTunes cards and then for you to give him your address to receive important documents to retire and get out of Yemen.

This is a trap to send money. Do not fall for it, get rid of him fast!!

Nigerian Dating SCAM!!! Calls you My Queen, My Love, Babe!!! And wants you to send him Thousands of US Dollars in Bitcoins, Google Play Cards, Itune Cards. That his UN Contract will finish in 7 months and then money will not be a problem.

He proposed to me within 3 days, sent me pics of a Diamond Ring and Flowers!!! He almost had me! He is very believable, but never sent him any money!!!

BEWARE, BEWARE, BEWARE!!!

Both of above names are scammers sweet talker and eventually want a picture, love you, queen etc

Stay away. In Germany working on a Sea oil rig. Just do not fall for them as they are total sweet talking jerks and scammers

I met a guy on Hinge who told me after 2 weeks of texting that he loved me and has found the one. He would not do a video call as he has video phobia. He was travelling to Germany and stuck there for work and will return to the US in a few months. We did phone call after I said I will not continue to text unless we speak on phone.

But he has accent. I asked and he said its Israeli because he lived there in his childhood. Asked me for money to pay rent for his daughter's apartment so that she is not embarrassed. He told me he will return me the money in one week.

Started with $2000.00, then $1300, then $700, then any amount I can help him with. No I did not send any money and ended the conversation that we will meet in person whenever he is back in US.

I dont know if he is Nigerian, but he still fits the criteria of a scammer from dating site.

Anybody heard of Alfred Roland, orthopedic surgeon in Kabul Afghanistan, UN contractor? Claims wife and unborn son died of pancreatic cancer. States he lives in Reno Nevada and went to Duke University.

Grammar not great. Only following women on Instagram. Goes by alfredroland 153 on Instagram and claims to be 51. Pictures look younger. Email address is alfredroland67@gmail.com.

Hello, did anyone get a message from dr Darren Gibson, working as an orthopedic surgeon doctor in Sudan. He is a widower and has a child named Eric age 13. He is on a contract basis in Sudan. He uses Instagram then later he insisted to use hangouts as he said there is poor signal in Sudan and hangout is better.

He is very convincing by saying he has big houses in California near the beach and has a BMW. Later after three days, he asks for money to be transferred via bitcoin or blackcoin application as his son needs to get a mobile. He is not able to send the same to the USA.

I received another message on LinkedIn from a "Jackson Williams". His message:

"Hello cutie you look so beautiful and unique in fact I don't know how to express your beauty well my name is Jackson Williams, am from United States but am based in Texas am a business man, am a widower with a son, I lost my wife some years back in a plane crash now am single"

I just reported his profile, but lookout for the same type of story that's been reported here.

Has anyone ever heard of a Professional Orthopedic Surgeon that works for the UN in Alaska named Davis Gomes Franklin and has a 10yr old Daughter in Texas at a Boarding School and his Wife passed away 4yrs ago from Breast Cancer!

Beware Of JASON FRANCISCO DIAMOND, Orthopedic Surgeon who lives in Los Angeles, CA. He works under the UN Army and has been deployed to Yemen. He told me that he was born in Brazil, but then his parents moved to the states (Red flag, if he's a doctor?) and he grew up in LA. He was widowed 5 years ago when his wife died in a car accident. He has a son, Michael, who is 8.

Michael thinks Jason should start to date and find someone who can make him smile again. This was all too good to be true, so I started checking out this FB account.

Now the real guy, was a white guy in his 30-40's and looked like a young doc or therapist of some sort. When I looked through his friends, they were ALL black. Nothing against that, but I would think he would have friends of rainbow colors. Isn't that what the United Nations is? I also looked at one of the videos that the real guy made. He was very American with no accent.

As I read through the comments, I started to notice that the words, spellings, etc, isn't what Americans would use. There were 6 things that I counted, that Americans wouldn't do.

So I called him. NO RESPONSE. 5 Seconds later, he called me. I said, "Hello?" He said,"Hey, how are you?" Remember I mentioned above, that I listened to a video that the real guy made? Well, this caller was African-American. That's all I needed to hear. I said, "I knew it!" He said, "You knew what?"

The more he talked, the more I could tell, he wasn't white. I said, "I knew you weren't the guy on the FB account!" "What? Why do you say that?" I said, " Because this is NOT THE VOICE ON THE VIDEO that he made!"

Click...he hung up on me!! Then, he had the nerve to message me and say, "I don't know what's wrong with you!" I reported him 2 times. Two hours later, that FB account was taken down. Thank goodness, this only lasted 1 day!

Beware! They like using 2 first names. Some are very proficient in this scamming game! I was also almost a victim once until I kept researching. Then come to find out he stole photos of a Brazilian Doctor!

Anyone spoken to a Dr. Christopher Walter? Supposedly an United Nations orthopedic surgeon in Iraq? Has a daughter and lives in NYC? Just started talking to him but like someone said it seems too good to be true.

He would first contact you on Instagram with an account like "Instagrammer". Would start chatting every day a little bit more. His wife died 4 years ago and he has 2 kids (6 and 10). He is from an hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a doctor working in Syria. We would then ask (without making it a formal request) to help a family that needs help and because you like him, you would be blind and send him money (too bad for him, the account he gave was wrong...).

Then he would ask you to buy 100$ iTunes to be able to call him (while it works perfectly fine on WhatsApp). When asking for pictures: he would send you some very neutral voice message in Portuguese and some videos of him doing sport and then, like me, you would know a friend that can use internet and find out that the pictures he sent me were the one of a real person, Doctor Diego Silva and that a scammer is using his identity to trap some fragile ladies, in need of attention.

Be aware, watch out !

I received a friend request today from a Thomas Mitchell with the exact same story. I reported the profile to Facebook but could not find any other information about him. Obviously the picture he had was stolen.

New account and only 2 pictures, one of his Young "daughter" in a Swimsuit.

I recently started to play words with friends when Chris Tunis Wells messaged me. He asked me how everything in my area was going with covid-19 and how I was dealing with it financially. I immediately thought that was odd, because no one had ever messaged me before besides my close friends or relatives. He would ask me random questions and when I would ask him the same question back he would never answer me.

Red flag. He told me he was a soldier on a special recovery mission in Afghanistan. Whenever he would message me I would look up the time where he was supposedly at, and it would always be at hours when he should have been sleeping. When the game ended he said he wanted to keep communicating with me on Hangouts. I lied to him and told him I didn't have access to my email. He gave me his email and practically begged me to download the app.

He asked me for my email three times within 5 minutes. I looked him up through Facebook and found that the real Chris had been hacked and not to fall for any scams, he said he was still married and not on any social dating apps or games. I even went to his wife's page and she had the same post. I went back on words with Friends and blocked him and reported the page as an impersonation.

Not even 10 minutes later Kennedy Owens Wells decides to play a game with me and instantly he messages me. I blocked him immediately and reported him.

Ladies please don't fall for any scams and never give your email out to anyone you don't know, it's basically an invitation to get scammed.

If I did not add previous information he goes by Dexter Hansen on Instagram @Dexhansmiles
Email dexterhansen710@gmail, he may give on hangouts Dexterhansen435@Gmail.com.

His number is+90 533 832 3145. Also later that day after blocking him from IG he trolls me and sends me an email. Saying have a good life. I responded I reported him to all authorities then he tried to troll and degrade me. "whatever", just a heads up!

Anyone contacted by a person named Stefan Murphy?
I was writing on tinder, he wrote and sounds charming but after he placed a response of his wife being dead in a car accident the whole conversation got wiped. And he was a UN doctor in Yemen ready to retire to go back to Houston

He slipped in my DM Instagram about a week ago. Very nice, and complimented me. He apologized for approaching me, but said he was scrolling and saw my profile. He was impressed and had to reach-out. He asked if I was married. I immediately thanked him for the compliment, but was very curt and blew him off, saying I have zero time for games. He was agreeable through the process.

He reached again the next day to say hello and how was my day. I was short, and told him I'm not interested, I don't do penpals, and I don't need more friends. So he tried on the third day and explained himself and asked if we could talk to get to know each other a bit better. He only has good intentions. Since he kept coming back, and I have run into critters with the obvious BS I said ok, that's fair we can start with a conversation.

He was very polite, and kept his respectable space. We were messaging for the first couple days. I told him I don't do messaging, let talk. He resisted by saying he wasn't comfortable as yet, and suggested we go on Hangouts because he is in N.Cyprus on a contract and he speaks to his 24 year old daughter in Med school in Canada.

He did share a lot, anything I asked he was immediately forth coming. We had great conversations,and I continued to tell him I am extremely cautious, and careful of who I let in my personal space. He adamantly agreed. I resisted switching to hangouts, but I asked my kids was it ok, they said yes. So I finally got on Hangout. I saw that it was still a messaging options for phone and facetime.

Yesterday morning I asked him to send me a quick selfie, because I wanted to see who I was talking to, and laughed about avoiding catfishing. He immediately sent me a selfie. I was shocked the selfie was so perfect, he sent it immediately then a call came in from Turkey a minute later. I said wow, ok! He may be legit, and he is passing the litmus tests.

Its the same number that was in his contact on Instagram. Ok, he called, but why cant we continue talking daily on the phone. I am always suspect of these damn men. My kids told me to be nice, so I was trying to chill. We connected later that evening. He wrote this long message about he is retiring after this project, hes divorced 4 years ago. His daughter is grown, and he has worked extremely hard all his life and he is looking for balance, and to check off his bucket list, with a great lifetime companion.

He said that's why he reached out and messaged me because I was initially attractive, but when he looked through my page he was impressed with my character. He was constantly very attentive and asked me if he could send flowers to start and cement our friendship and start on working on a relationship.

I said that was cool, he never asked me for anything. He would check in about 2-3 times a day asking about my day and telling about his. It seemed for the most part legit!

BUT he was sooooo Fine! I asked why me out of all of the millions of women. He said I caught his eye. So I think with these scams, they are very sophisticated now. I was probably his project or file. I did my research, I googled him, his residence in NY(SOHO). I did also do a internal phone and photo check, but nothing suspicious came up. I had hoped I was wrong. I checked his Instagram, he had more followers than folks he was following. I even reached to someone that was following him to act like I was inquiring about if they had done business with him. They said no, but knew of him, not personally.

So there were no overt signs. I google everything and checked all social media. A couple of days after we started talking he stopped following a couple of women on his page. I was the only woman he was following. Everything seemed like a deserved dream come true, but the woman gut, just did not sit right.

"Why are we talking on the phone, if he is sending followers and he is still out of the country!" He said he found a florist online that would send me flowers. Some other red flags were that he would reach out specific times of the day or night, but we would be in the middle of a conversation and he would go MIA for a couple of hours. He would send a message saying sorry I fell asleep, I am so worn out after a day of work.

But then I questioned his timing because initially he said he walks and meditates about 4am before going into work. He said was a overseas director for some Mines in N. Cyprus. He said earlier that day he was coming from work to the hotel and would lay down and sleep. Sounded all fine. When I did question a couple of things he would try to spin it, and say I need to understand the time difference and he cant call me every hour of the day!

AhhhhKay!, I'm not 20 anymore, and have been played by enough narcissists to know the reverse Psychology game. So today I flat told him I don't do penpal as I originally said and we both agreed, and what is the issue with talking or face timing, that when he tries to divert and says I can't call you every hour of the day.

I told him the internet is flooded with Date Scammers, and I hope I am wrong. I have not heard back!

UNFN-BELIVEABLE! I'm glad I do not waiver from my core values, and not get sucked in by a mans BS! I have blocked and reported his page to Instagram. I also thought it was odd that as a professional, he did not have a Linkedin, and for his age, 60, he was not on Facebook.

Thats how my week went! #self-worth

Yes it’s a scam. The typical story, UN Doctor, widow, child in boarding school. Wants to talk on hangouts.

Block and delete him. He’ll be some young Nigeria boy.

John maur, met on tinder. Says he is a gemologist but he is a Scammer!!

This guy hooked up with me on FB then he said if we could use Hangout app. He asked me for my email address. His name is Mario Dominic living in Oakland California as a surgeon working for the UN.
He said he is Italian born American. He said he went to Harvard university widow and 56 years old

Help is he a scam
UK

I accepted a request to play with someone calling himself Chandler Ethan on Scrabble Go. His photo right away raised a red flag with me. Sure enough, he started trying to chat with me. I wrote him that my name is Lois Lane and I live in Gotham, New York (Superman's girlfriend and a reporter).

He didn't say anything about that, which told me he probably wasn't an American, though he said he lived in Miami, Florida. He asked me how the weather was "over there." Why would they say "over there?" I've had two guys (both scammers) ask the same thing, though they claimed to be in the US. Sounds like they were actually overseas! "Chandler" claimed he was on an oil rig "with his men 4,000 miles in the north sea of the Gulf of the Mexico."

The Gulf of Mexico is less than 2,000 miles in length and less than 1,000 in width, so that didn't ring true. Maybe he got the North Sea mixed up with the Gulf of Mexico? Anyway, the oil rig story was a dead giveaway of a scammer, as so many of them say they are on an oil rig if they aren't an "orthopedic surgeon" or an "engineer." His English was poor, too.

I deleted him after only a few chats. You can almost tell by the photos of themselves they post that they are probably a scammer--usually a photo of someone very good looking (and stolen from someone else's profile).

Don't fall for their lies, ladies! They usually start almost right away with questions like: "How are you today? What's your name? Are you married (or single)? Where are you playing from? Do you have kids? I just want to make friends. I hope you don't mind."

The real players on Scrabble or Words With Friends don't ask you these questions right away, and usually never!

Be aware and keep your radar up, ladies.

Peace to you all.

Scammer on UK Tinder, used name Morris, surgeon works in Turkey.

His number: 1 (701) 566-5165

George Russell has just contacted me today on Twitter, says he is an orthopedic surgeon working for the UN in Nicosia, Cyprus.

I know he is a scammer and have no intention of falling for his 'charm' and will delete him tonight

I have been contacted by someone on Twitter named Dr William Navarro. He says he is 59 years old, an Orthopedic Plastic Surgeon with home in at least 3 states in the US. He allegedly has a 15 year old son, Alvin who allegedly attends boarding school in Texas.

This person followed me on Twitter & soon suggested that we move the chat to Google Hangouts.

Almost immediately he began to ask for gift cards and soon money. I am ashamed to admit that I did send cards and some money. My bank finally contacted me about a transaction as being a scam and I was mortified.

I dug a bit deeper and found two Twitter accounts with the same name and a YouTube account. I am ashamed and humiliated that an educated woman such as myself fell for this scam.

Please Please Please do not do as I have done. I would like to know if there are others who have been contacted by Dr William Navarro.

Yes your mom is being scammed. I have had that guy contact me in the past. I ended up losing money before I realized he was a scammer.

Tell you mom to cut all communications with him
and run!

Hi there, my mom is talking to a guy named stephen thiago who says he’s a surgeon with the UN in Yemen and just want to know if anyone has heard of him or anything. She seems pretty convinced he’s real but i just want to make sure. He says he’s a widow and has a 15 yr old son in boarding school in Italy

Name: Brian Hilton from USA, psychotherapist approx 46 years old, handsome man. Stated he was on a secret mission right around the time air traffic ceased due to covid 19. All his pictures look model like or he’s in a lab coat like a doctor. He asked to move to hangouts and started calling me baby and I love you blah blah.

Stated he was hacked on Facebook. His profile of Brian Hilton is gone from Facebook but he has an Instagram account still. His picture can also be found inactive profile on Facebook under Augustine Connal an orthopaedic for UN from Germany living in Washington.

Brian has asked for cards and money but when I said no I am poor and lost my job to covid he wanted my credit card info or banking info so he could send me money. Went on to say he loves me etc.

He’s been deleted and blocked so beware of this handsome man.

Stay safe

Powell Sara Smith has a lot of pics from facebook
and im still looking for more info

I was talking to a man from Somalia and said that he is a doctor. He said that he has a 9 year old son at a boarding school in Italy. He was really pushy about me being his wife after only knowing him for 5 days. He would always say "Dear" and "What are you doing now".

Hello! Beware also of an andreawalker4455 in Instagram. And also this phone number: +1-210-806-3961. We were chatting there and in Whatsapp till he disappeared, after I made a joke about being "clingy".

Sent him photos of me and my husband and my parents. I also noticed that he was following all the people in my followers' list. I should have been more careful.

Also, he poses as working as a contracted orthopedic surgeon for the UN's military in Somalia, have widowed 4 years ago. And his parents died when he was young, has a 14 year's old son that doesn't live with him, calls you "dear". And is always asking "what are you doing right now?".

I was scammed by this name. I have just realised that this scammer asked me for money starting at $850, $2650 and the last was $5000. What can I do to report this person.

Dr Austin Brown profile barely has a thing and says he’s an orthopedic surgeon working In Afghanistan. Calls you "dearie" right off the bat. Tells you he has a 12 year old son in boarding school that the UN takes care of.

I let him message me a few times because I knew it was a scam as my profile is fairly new too. His profile looks odd and he asks to start talking on "hangout".

No thank you - block and delete. Don’t trust these liars ladies - please if they can’t even spell their occupation correctly and use full sentences they are not lonely surgeons looking for companionship in a far away county.

Trust your gut and love yourself!

This guy private messaged me on ig. I started to chat. The next day he wants a relationship. Ok buddy you're a Plastic surgeon working for NATO organization? Ok oh and he's recently divorced with a kid IN BOARDING SCHOOL and calls me baby and queen and was laying it on soooooo thick.

I google search this so called surgeon and big surprise, nothing! His grammar did not match his background. Oh and i forgot to mention he was FINE!!!

Anyway he begged me to use WhatsApp. I did, then thats when I realized he was full of BS.

OK Ladies, I am the latest victim of an online romance scam, and thankfully managed to save my skin in the nick of time. I was contacted on LinkedIn by a man going by the name of Dr. Lucas Fischer, currently doing volunteer work in Yemen for International Medical Corps.

He is passing himself off as a widower with a 12-year old son in boarding school in London and a mother in a home for the elderly. He has stolen the images and identity of Dr. Jason Diamond, the REAL and verified Dr. Diamond in Los Angeles, CA. But I only discovered this a couple of weeks later.

He has also been flagged on other sites under the name Franklin Göbel, passing himself off as being of German descent but born and raised in the UK.

BEWARE!

You can report him to twitter or you can also report him to the FBI at www.ic3.gov this is so disgusting that these men are still claiming to be doctors working in a war zone. I had one tell me he was working in Syria only to find out he was actually in Ghana and one more thing check the United Nation list of doctors to see if his name is on there which I bet it is not so stay safe.

I was just "friended" by a Dr. Stephen Welsh on Twitter. He then private messaged me and since I've worked as a medic in war and conflict zones, I was interested in his work. He however started asking me about my private life and wanted a photograph from me.

His conversation was curt and short. As soon as he realized that I had no interest in a personal relationship, he quickly posted: "thank you, speaks later"

The bad English and quality of interaction shows me that this is a scam.

How does one report someone like this?

Yup, recently got one, Frank Meyer, UN ortho surgeon. Stated he loves me after a few chats. Finally, I turned on him and shocked the hell out of him by asking him questions an ortho surgeons would know right off the bat. His lame excuse was he is with the general and will have to get back to me. Of all the free time he had to text, that time he was with the general. Loser. Delete & Block!

No one in their right mind can fall head over heels for someone without actually meeting them in person, please be cautious.

Hi. Regarding the UN romancer comment. You said "you were going along with this" even though you suspect he’s a scammer. By doing this you are helping him to improve his English and knowledge, therefore giving him the ability to scam someone who maybe less suspecting.

These scammers are criminals and to do what they do to people must have some mental health issues too.

This can be dangerous, please be careful

Hi everyone. I am chatting to a guy in hangout and his name is Sebastian Dennis who is working for the UN war zone in Yemen and yes you guessed right an orthopaedic surgeon treating so many a day and so tired and weary and no access to money as the UN won’t allow them any.

Bless him anyway yes he’s asked for some money, and given me an e- mail address for his English uni boys where they are being taught at, and the head of the schools name but yeah as you guessed this is another e - mail that goes direct to him and also gives confirmation he is genuine hahahha yeah right. And he also gives some sob Story about his wife dying and another ex conned him of his money, but he’s loaded. He retires at the end of this 10 month period in Yemen.

Yes BEWARE I am going along with all this at the moment and I’m just having a little fun but eventually I will get bored lol.

Ladies don’t be so naive. That’s how they reel you all in. They find it so easy and prey on the naive. NO ONE ever told me if doing love would be that easy !!!!!!!especially tall, dark, handsome and rich.

New name. Profile picture on FB is Shuhal Ram (something) Message he sent said, surgeon, in Syria etc, name he gave was Louis Rogers.

I met Doctor Alvin Lorenzo on POF. He isn't registered on the medical boards. Widowed, has 10 yr old son. His name doesn't come up anywhere. I've looked on beenvarified.com. His profile is quite long. He is under Alvin_Lorenzo2020 for his handle. I can't post pic on here although I tried. He said he is from Waterville MN. ??? Oh, and he wants me to go to hangouts, but he's not on there either. At least not under Alvin Lorenzo.

ED: you can post pictures when you start a new submission [but not when you are adding a comment to an existing submission] - use the page below and you can see photos there and you can also post your own story and photos there:

https://www.watchforscams.com/nigerian-dating-scams.html

I've been off this site for a while but I see the same thing is still going on with men claiming to be doctors working in war zones. His wife died, has a child in boarding school, needs money or itune cards etc. Ladies I've been through this and what ever you do please research these men as they are truly not who they say they are.

Go to the United Nations list of doctors to check to see if their names are on the list. Do reverse images to see if the photos they send are stolen and what ever you do, do not send them anything or give out any of your information and if you have been scammed report these men to FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov

So with that said stay safe and be smart and just so you know Hangouts is a scammer site take care of yourself.

Yes!! It’s a typical scammer. Please don’t waste your time on this person who is probably a very young Nigerian boy. Delete and block this loser as you’re worth more than this.

I’ve been there.

I met this man saying his name is Anthony and he is a orthopedic surgeon with the UN and has a 14 yr old son. His wife died in a car accident and he hasn't asked for money yet.

I need to know if anyone else out there has been chatting with him.<