Internet Fraudsters Steal Hearts and Cash

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Capacityprivate of 1:13AM December 11, 2009

I used to work for a Bank in East London, UK. Spotting scammers and fraudsters was a part of every day life..
Over the past year I started to use two different web-sites, Tallfriends.com and Parship.com. The first you can get free membership, the second is fee paying and not well known.
At Tallfriends, I was contacted by two people, apparently, women. One claiming to be English but living in the States and the other American. Their Grammar was terrible, evaded all my questions and then came the decider.... " please help me, I am in Nigeria, one for a funeral of her Nigerian born Father (but her picture was of a blonde Anglo Saxon) and the second was staying in a hotel because her boyfriend had "dumped her" (again a picture of a white woman) and can not pay the Hotel Bill......"!
I realised their deception immediately, strung them along, saying that I had sent the money to WU as they had asked. I really wasted their time. What better service to all genuine people than to scam a scammer!
It was worth all the abuse they gave me when I wrote to them saying how inept they were.
I even went as far as reporting their given telephone number and contact details to the Nigerian Police. They are just as inept as the scammers!
Keep up your good work.

Peter White 3:38PM September 16, 2008

Education is the key to fighting these scams! Learn the warning signs. NEVER wire money to anyone that you have never met in person, for any reason. Even if the bank tells you that the check is clear or that funds are available . . . it could still come back as counterfeit . . . that is what happened to me.

Shawn Mosch of MN 8:31PM April 29, 2008

Scammers used to be confined to Africa, now it's a world wide crime. In 2/2007 I received an email from a company, supposedly from Switzerland saying they saw my resume on Careerbuilder.com, they offered me a job as a re shipper. They said that my job entailed receiving orders from companies that didn't ship overseas initiated from overseas customers. I was to weigh the package, notify them, they would send me the required postage and a shipping label where to send the package. The scammer had duplicated the actual company's website in every detail except one, the actual company wasn't hiring overseas workers.
The phone number used in the phony website turned out to be Hertz Rent A Car at Zürich Airport, they said they had been getting numerous calls concerning this company and it wasn't there. I told them I'd call back, went to whois, checked out the domain, it came up as being registered in 1/2007, the real company had been in business for over 15 years. The phony site was based in China, I called back the rent a car company, told them what was going on, emailed the actual company and gave them the info that I found on whois plus the results of my tracking where the email came from. Don't be fooled by these online scam artists, no matter how bad you need a job, scrutinize everything you receive that you didn't initiate. There are services on the web where you can track an email's origin if you think it's suspicious, just view all headers, copy the IP number and use it to track the email.

F. Davis of CA 12:38AM April 23, 2008