Morning.
"For the second time, some guy has contacted me wanting to chat and etc. Starts off rather innocent but then he escalates. Says he really liked my profile and he's in the military stationed overseas. He sends a couple of pics and askes for some of mine and talk about likes and dislikes and life in general. Suddenly he professes undying love and goes on and on about how we have a future together. He says he will be coming back to the US soon and wants to meet. After what he thinks is sufficient time, he says that he has requested leave and it was granted. Now he says that he has the funds to get to NYC or wherever and could I send some $$$ for him to fly for the meeting. Right now. I stringing the current soldier along and waiting for the big question.
Anytime some internet connection begins asking for money, it's a red flag. Granted, the military doesn't get paid the best, but still.... The only thing you can do is report him to the Fed and State Fraud units. If he really is serving in the U.S. armed forces and doing this as a scam, he'll be in some deep, deep shit if he's caught.
But, let's see what readers have to say.
Readers?
34 comments:
I'ts very catfishy.
I can understand the guy being short of money, honey. That's what Greyhound is there for.
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I don't get it. If someone you don't know....never met..and you only met on line for a briefly short time and ask for money already??? That should send a MAJOR RED FLAG. There is nothing to ponder over.
Definitely a long distance scam. Block him.
Many years ago on Gay411 a nice US military man messaged me to say he would like to begin a love story with me saying he was frrom NYC but now was deployed in Afghanistan.
We even sent some text messages on cellphone and many photos too.
Until he told me a special story about him having lot of money given to him by a wealthy man there and that he would send it to me in Montreal and asked me to get this parcel at the airport.
What happened after is that on Gay411 I talk to another man, from Montreal who was in love with the same guy.
After talking to him on telephone we discovered that this army guy had stolen the photos of another military man living in Michigan.
Also that his phone number was located in L.A.
You must be very careful on internet because many are trying to get you and ask for money using a love story.
I had several others too from Africa mainly from the Benin erea mostly young guys swearing love to me but after some message by email are asking money to be able to get an heritance they say etc..
So you have to be very very careful on those internet lovers..
To me, if you cannot come and meet me in real, no way I will pay a dime to those.
Whenever someone is serving overseas they dont need money to get back home. Military takes care of that. I for one had the same issue,i didnt fall victim to the person, they really try hard to charm us
I sooner spend the money to travel to him in NYC than send him money.
XOXO
Yeah, red flags.
Mark his mail as spam, don't answer any more messages is what I would do.
Wow! That's true catfishing as they call it in the U.S. Glad you managed to get free without losing anything.
Uncle Sam will pay to move him back to the states, but not for a leave. But this doesn't sound like that --- this sounds like he's saying he'd be back in the states and then asking for money to travel. These people can charm the pants off a snake.
My mom's friend gave a 'military man' $ 5,000 she couldn't get the money back. He used stolen photos of a known gay man.
For sure a scam, it should make you wonder about the sites where you are getting these kinds of connections. And worrisome if you’ve compromised your own computer, by downloading anything these folks have sent you.
Now that you figured out the game, you should stay far away.
I suspect you fit a profile that they are looking for. Unfortunately there have been folks like this since the beginning of time. Hugs and bisous.
Its sad that our would has gotten to this stage where people prey on others for personal gain. Agree its a scam and this kind of stuff is horrible and many innocent victims have lost plenty of money in these scams. On a positive note, thanks for the delicious I candy.
Aren't soldiers good at tagging along on armed forces transport?
Scan it is, fall for it don't.
I must agree with others that this definitely sounds like a scam who is out to try to get money from anybody that they can. Hopefully it really isn't an actual serviceman but rather somebody just trying to use that to gain sympathy.
It’s definitely a scam and probably from Africa or some Asian country like India where these scams are an industry.
Being former military I can assure you that any active duty military can catch an Air Force cargo plane or commercial jet (for free) if there isn’t an Air Base nearby. Soldiers get 30 days paid leave to travel anywhere when they make work arrangements.
The last time I got one of these scams, I played along for for awhile. These guys can “spoof” phone numbers and everything else on the internet to look legitimate. They aren’t. Anyway I went along with this guy’s crap for a while speaking to him on the phone. I told him I was reticent to send him money because I heard about all of the scams on the internet. The reassurances of love and devotion were overwhelming until I said I needed something in return. I told him I had a 10 inch dick that he needed to suck first, as soon as he got off the plane (on his dime) before I’d reimburse him.
He broke my heart by telling me to fuck myself and hung up on me. So much for long distance love!
It’s a foreign scam. The military provides free travel to all their active duty soldiers to anywhere in the world.
I am in South Africa and got the same crap some years ago...just ignore him and block him.
I had a similar experience during the covid outbreak. A scammer (I think a whole scam operation) befrended me. Again similar MO as a military deployed oversees, impersonating a real soldier. In this instance, he wanted me to perform banking functions for him as his internet was blocked while depoloyed. I will say, recognized as a scam from the get go, but played along to see how it would end up. The fake banking site they created was amazing as to its detail. Of course I would always have to wait to see the new transactions I'd entered refledct in the activity on the "site" as they had to update it based upon my reporting. Long story short, transformed into asking me for quite a large sum of money. When I said I didn't have that kind of money, the amount kept getting smaller and smaller until they figured out I was not a sucker. Glad I kept them busy for about 3 months. At least during that time they couldn't be scamming anyone else.
Ugh! Hijacking people's photos is typical of this scam. Though, sometimes even video calls can end up the same way.
I think you're right about the way these people find their victims. It's the profiles on the sites they belong to. One can never be too careful these days.
Hugs and bisous.
P.S. Still no word on Patrick.
I think humans have done this since the beginning of time --- taking, or trying to take, what belongs to others. It's sad....
When it's available to them, yeah.
Precisely.
Most likely a total imposter.
It is so easy to spoof phone numbers and email accounts and websites and they use them all.
When I was in the military, we could get cargo transport if it was available, but none of the airlines offered free flights to active duty - in uniform or not.
I did the same - but only for 3 days. the dude was truly pissed. Isn't that rich??? They get caught trying to scam and get mad.
Not at the very beginning of time, but Jacob stole Esau's birthright by wearing a hairsuit.
Sound advice.
I must be strange: after interacting with someone new online for a while, including progressing to Skype video, I'm not sure if I even like them, let alone profess undying love for them.
If you haven't met in person, at most the other person is simply infatuated with their fantasy of you, but more likely it's a scam: undying love at that point is waving all kinds of red flags including "Basic Instinct".
Whilst not someone professing undying love or asking for money, I did receive a phone call once from the police, informing me a relative had been seriously injured and was in hospital, but the way it was said triggered a discrepancy warning in my brain and I tried to clarify which relative it was. After a short pause, the caller said "Fuck You!" and hung up. I was emotionally devastated, going from fear and anxiety to shock. I still can't imagine the sort of person who would play that kind of trick on someone. It wasn't the police: I phoned the local branch asking to speak to the "officer" who phoned and they had never heard of them, but I kind of already knew that in my head.
That particular scam has been happening in the US for the last 10 years. It's very upsetting --- especially because here they target grandparents saying the grandkids are in trouble or hurt!
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