If you think real people don’t get caught in dating scams, think again. Lovefraud heard from a woman who thought she met the soldier pictured above online. Actually, she met a group of scammers from Ghana. Here’s what she wrote:
According to a USAA Fraud Investigator 15 women scattered across the US (I was one of them) were recently scammed by a group from Ghana. I am not trying to get my money back, etc. In fact, I am being forced to file for bankruptcy.
What I am trying to do is help the Active Duty Army Master Sergeant who is in ALL the pictures these scammers still use! I saw a recent one posted under two i had added to one scam website. In fact, it could have been his recent retirement party. I just feel horrible that they continue to steal this same soldier’s pictures and want to know how I can get on some sites so these scammers can not CONTINUE.
Ox Drover
Nice looking guy, I can see why she fell for him.
lindar
Yes, but he’s retired now and those pictures are probably 15 years old.
lindar
He is General Stuart James, retired
panther
I don’t know him, but he’s cute!
On a more serious note, I think if these photos were forwarded to the military, they would have a better shot of finding the man in the photo. Lemmie run through my head who my military friends are….I have a network on Facebook. Maybe I could post this there with an inquiry and get a thread going to find this man.
What do you think about that idea?
lindar
He is General Stuart James who has been retired, so those pictures are very outdated. His pictures are used by many scammers. My scammer used the name Daniel Oldenquist to go with the General’s picture.
panther
Okay. Done. Hopefully someone will see it who knows him.
sistersister
I hope you find this person.
My own online dating experience deteriorated fast last summer when, as is my usual custom, I posted a “just-a-date” kind of thing on Craigslist.
I was not prepared for the barrage of horrible e-mails, but even worse, having my ad deleted repeatedly as against “community standards.”
When I went to the “community” about it, they mocked me, endlessly. I had to unsubscribe to their e-mails because at one point I received several full screens of abusive e-mails almost at once.
Is it possible that Craigslist is being taken over by these gangs?
one/joy_step_at_a_time
I applaud the woman who is trying to find out who this fellow is. the spath of my aquaint has stolen the pictures of dozens of people and used them in her stories. I am sure she is using mine now, also. I remember doing some really nice photos for her and on of the sockpuppets being angry when i posted them on the community site we were one – no doubt they became less valuable to her.
when i figured out whose photos she stole – the fake boy and all his friends and family photos had come from one person’s blog – my heart just broke. i wanted to protect him so much, but i was so afraid of the spath. I gave the info to the asst. DA, but never could finish sending him everything in hardcopy; i was too triggered by it all.
it was so weird to so the fake boy in his real life…it took me two hours to go through his blog and track down each and every picture and the REAL relationship and catalogue those with the fake ones that she had created. there he was, the supposedly dead/ risen boy – not at all who he supposedly was. it still makes me sad to think of it.
i hope she finds this man. it is not safe to post pics of ourselves anywhere online at anytime – we never know who is going to steal them and possibly ruin our lives or reputations in the course of defrauding people. i can imagine what it must feel like to have someone think they cared for you – when you were just the face for the mask.
Donna Andersen
Another case:
Online Dating Scam leaves widow Esther Ortiz-Rodeghero heartbroken, foreclosed, bankrupt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/online-dating-scam-leaves_n_1084143.html?1320859246&ncid=webmail2
Link supplied by two Lovefraud readers.
kimberlynmw
has anyone found this man I have been scammed with his pictures and i have 7 more then the ones posted here.
Truthspeak
ACK…………….this is an awful story!
However, after having “met” the exspath online, I would never involve myself in ANY online dating.
Technology has it’s good points, but it can so easily be used to ruin the lives of well-meaning and good-hearted human beings. Nope………nope, nope.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
why can’t this guy be tracked through the military? his surname and number are on his uniform.
Truthspeak
OneJoy, that’s a farking GOOD QUESTION!!!! Why wouldn’t the military want to intervene on this?
And….he certainly IS attractive…..oy