Nigerian online romance scams: Australian victim manages to recover some of her money after police investigation
Police have helped a Perth woman recover some of her money after she sent a scammer hundreds of thousands of dollars in a Nigerian romance scam online according to a report from ABC Australia.
It is understood she has recovered about $100,000, which equates to about 40% of the money she sent to the overseas scammer. The woman is the first known Western Australia romance fraud victim to get any money back from an overseas scammer.
The victim (51) told a local radio that she started a relationship with a man she met on the internet calling himself Gary in 2013 on the online dating website RSVP.
Unknown to her the photo had been stolen off of the internet website and the scammers (from Nigeria) had created a fake profile for Gary. The scammers sent her messages of love and romance followed by requests for money for a business-related crisis.
The victim said "We developed a relationship online fairly rapidly, and soon he started requesting money and I sent those sums of money after about six weeks," she said.
"I was simply looking for companionship after my divorce and never thought there would be such cruel con artists looking to capitalize on loneliness”.
"When he was wanting me to send his money back via me, I realized there was something really wrong here and asked some questions, I ended up seeking advice from the police, who confirmed it was a scam."
Detectives said that they were working with Nigerian police authorities, who arrested a suspect and later charged him with obtaining money under false pretences. Australian police said the scammers often worked in syndicates and it was their fourth arrest working with the Nigerian police and that there was an ongoing good relationship between them.
Police said they had a breakthrough in the case when they found fingerprints on a document the Nigerian scammer sent to Jenny, which matched a person known to the Nigerian police.
Online Romance Scam victim feels 'lucky' and overjoyed!
The scam victim said she had already resigned herself to the fact that she would never see the money again and was overjoyed when the bank agreed to refund some of the money she sent to the conman. Now the victim can’t believe she fell for the scam.
FCOL anti romance scam expert said today “This lady has been very lucky to get money back. We can only restate our previous advice, never send money to somebody you have met on a dating or social media site and never met in person, more advice can be found on our blogs.
Typically, but not exclusively, romance scammers claim to their victims that they are westerners rather than Nigerian and working abroad as engineers or military personnel. Often when grooming their victims they will tell them very early in the relationship that they are in love with them and have met their ‘soul mate’.
If you register the person you have met on a dating site FCOL can tell you if they are in a relationship with another of our many clients and a potential romance scammer
Wednesday 17 September 2014
Friday 5 September 2014
Scammers target Christian Dating Sites
Popular Christian Dating Sites are being targeted by overseas scammers who see Christians as easy targets.
Scammers are creating false profiles on Christian dating sites like CatholicDatingForFree.com and ChristianConection.co.uk meeting members and then asking for money or personal information that they then use to their financial gain.
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These scammers are usually based in Eastern Europe or West Africa, the information and photographs these scammers put on their Christian Dating site profile is usually stolen from other parts of the internet without the permission or knowledge of the victims.
Scammers sometimes target particular individuals on sites like Catholic Dating For Free and use
psychiatrists to produce profiles and conversations that will be most likely to put their victims at
ease and persuade them to send them the money or information they request.
Often the scammers create false emergencies to ask for money, some examples are as follows;
• Problems at the airport while trying to visit you.
• Money for airline tickets.
• Children in hospital and money needed for bills.
• If they claim they are running a business, money needed because of money flow problems.
The list is inexhaustible and new fake excuses are being invented every day to con you out of your money.
Scammers will often tell their potential victims that they ‘love them’ very early in the relationship,
this is in order that they can move the relationship on quickly so that they can ask for money to be
sent to them.
These scammers target Christian dating sites such as Catholic Dating for Free because Christians
believe in God, ‘Love’ and ‘Faith’. It is no coincidence; they think Catholics are an easy target.
Never send money to somebody you have met on the internet on sites like Catholic Dating for Free
and have never met in person. Catholic dating For Free is a great site for Catholics to meet for friendship and romance and please do not let this warning discourage you from joining but be aware the site and similar dating sites are being targeted by heartless scammers who might break your heart and steal your money.
There intent is to romance you ad then take your money when your defenses are down.
Read more about Internet Romance Scams at FidelityCheckOnline.com blog.
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Why use Fidelity Check Online
What are the benefits of using FidelityCheckOnline.com?
We are often asked "what are the benefits of joining our site and becoming one of our members" to give you an insight into our services that we offer we have highlighted, what we consider to be some of the main advantages of registering a suspected cheater with us.
• The site is operated by professional, qualified, experienced private investigators.
• The largest and only site of its kind in the world.
• Informative and Insightful newsletters and blogs.
• A worldwide client base (wherever you live in the world you can register your girlfriend and the site works exactly the same).
• Inexpensive and far less expensive than hiring a private detective.
• Find out if your girlfriend is cheating with another member within 24 hours.
• As long as you remain a client of the site there are daily checks to tell you if your girlfriend has been newly registered by another client.
• All clients will receive a weekly update on the status of the person they have registered and can check at any time themselves by logging onto the site.
• The site works even if the girlfriend has changed her name or details to avoid detection.
• Although FidelityCheckOnline.com is the biggest site of its kind in the world our clients still get the individual attention of an experienced private detective allocated to their case who double checks the facts and any matching identification.
• If there is a possible match and evidence of infidelity and both of the clients agree, we can put them in touch with each other to exchange experiences and confirm the identification.
Is your Russian or Ukrainian girlfriend cheating?
Check if your Russian or Ukrainian girlfriend is being faithful with Fidelity Check Online, it is easy quick, inexpensive and strictly confidential.
Private Detective’s using the latest computer software specializing in uncovering infidelity and unfaithfulness. We can tell you whether your girlfriend or potential bride is behaving dishonestly and with insincerity.
FidelityCheckOnline.com is a unique website that can check if your Ukrainian or Russian girlfriend is being faithful and not meeting or corresponding with other men behind your back. Just register your girlfriend and leave the rest to us, we will warn you if we think she is a cheater.
• The site is operated by qualified, professional, experienced private investigators.
Once you have registered your girlfriend our detectives can tell you within 24 hours if she is also in a relationship with another of our thousands of clients.
As long as you remain a member of the site we will carry on checking every day to see if she is registered by somebody else who considers to her to be in a relationship with them.
Unfortunately some unscrupulous internet dating sites that specialize in finding Russian and Ukrainian brides and girlfriends have used the opportunity to scam men out of their money. Some sites even employ girls to make contact with as many men as possible and ‘lead them on’ so that they spend money on the site and even encourage men to travel to meet them.
Although the men might travel thousands of miles at great expense in reality the girls have no intention of leaving Russia or the Ukraine. They do not want to get married or involved in any kind of romantic relationship with the man they have met on the dating site.
They just want the men they are in contact with to stay on the site and spend their hard earned money.
Although FidelityCheckOnline.com is the biggest site of its kind in the world our clients still get an individual detective allocated to their case who double checks the facts and any matching identification.
Thousands of western men are looking for beautiful Russian or Ukrainian women who want to live in the west and follow traditional family values.
But long distance relationships can be problematic and the opportunity for deception and scams become easier. More and more men who are either looking for a bride or in a long distance relationship with a Russian or Ukrainian girl are turning to our service to register the girl they have met on a dating site check if she is in a relationship with anybody else is and is honest and truthful about her intentions.
FidelityCheckOnline.com works even if the girlfriend has changed her details to avoid detection
The site is operated by experienced ex Scotland Yard detectives who specialize in identifying Russian and Ukrainian girlfriends and brides who are engaged in romantic or financial fraud. We are repeatedly asked by our male clients about how they can protect themselves from dating, marriage and relationship scams when they live thousands of miles away from the person they are in a relationship with – in other words, foreign girlfriends who cheat with multiple boyfriends, and/or encourage them to part with their money for their own personal gain.
FidelitycheckOnline.com is totally confidential, we guarantee the person you have registered and the person we are investigating will never find out from us that they are being monitored or have been registered.
As an investigator specializing in Russian and Ukrainian dating and marriage site frauds, it appears fraud is becoming more prevalent and honesty is in short supply and men who visit the sites must be constantly on their guard against fraud, confidence tricks and insincerity.
For less than US$1 a day we will monitor your Russian or Ukrainian girlfriend for you and warn you
of infidelity or deception. FidelityCheckOnline.com is far less expensive than hiring a local private detective to check on your girlfriends fidelity!
Private Detective’s using the latest computer software specializing in uncovering infidelity and unfaithfulness. We can tell you whether your girlfriend or potential bride is behaving dishonestly and with insincerity.
FidelityCheckOnline.com is a unique website that can check if your Ukrainian or Russian girlfriend is being faithful and not meeting or corresponding with other men behind your back. Just register your girlfriend and leave the rest to us, we will warn you if we think she is a cheater.
• The site is operated by qualified, professional, experienced private investigators.
Once you have registered your girlfriend our detectives can tell you within 24 hours if she is also in a relationship with another of our thousands of clients.
As long as you remain a member of the site we will carry on checking every day to see if she is registered by somebody else who considers to her to be in a relationship with them.
Unfortunately some unscrupulous internet dating sites that specialize in finding Russian and Ukrainian brides and girlfriends have used the opportunity to scam men out of their money. Some sites even employ girls to make contact with as many men as possible and ‘lead them on’ so that they spend money on the site and even encourage men to travel to meet them.
Although the men might travel thousands of miles at great expense in reality the girls have no intention of leaving Russia or the Ukraine. They do not want to get married or involved in any kind of romantic relationship with the man they have met on the dating site.
They just want the men they are in contact with to stay on the site and spend their hard earned money.
Although FidelityCheckOnline.com is the biggest site of its kind in the world our clients still get an individual detective allocated to their case who double checks the facts and any matching identification.
Thousands of western men are looking for beautiful Russian or Ukrainian women who want to live in the west and follow traditional family values.
But long distance relationships can be problematic and the opportunity for deception and scams become easier. More and more men who are either looking for a bride or in a long distance relationship with a Russian or Ukrainian girl are turning to our service to register the girl they have met on a dating site check if she is in a relationship with anybody else is and is honest and truthful about her intentions.
FidelityCheckOnline.com works even if the girlfriend has changed her details to avoid detection
The site is operated by experienced ex Scotland Yard detectives who specialize in identifying Russian and Ukrainian girlfriends and brides who are engaged in romantic or financial fraud. We are repeatedly asked by our male clients about how they can protect themselves from dating, marriage and relationship scams when they live thousands of miles away from the person they are in a relationship with – in other words, foreign girlfriends who cheat with multiple boyfriends, and/or encourage them to part with their money for their own personal gain.
FidelitycheckOnline.com is totally confidential, we guarantee the person you have registered and the person we are investigating will never find out from us that they are being monitored or have been registered.
As an investigator specializing in Russian and Ukrainian dating and marriage site frauds, it appears fraud is becoming more prevalent and honesty is in short supply and men who visit the sites must be constantly on their guard against fraud, confidence tricks and insincerity.
For less than US$1 a day we will monitor your Russian or Ukrainian girlfriend for you and warn you
of infidelity or deception. FidelityCheckOnline.com is far less expensive than hiring a local private detective to check on your girlfriends fidelity!
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