Hello All, I too have been "almost" scammed by two men I have met on Match.com. The first mans name was David Jensen (he did send me two pictures of "some" man but only through Yahoo.com), he asked me get off match.com (close my account out) and to only talk to him, so I did...stupid I know. Then he asked that I open up a new Yahoo email account so we could talk on that and use chat too. He said he was a Master Sergeant in the US Army and in Afghanistan at the time on a mission. Said he couldn't call me because it was too dangerous for their mission, but he could only email through Yahoo.com and through Yahoo chat. We talked for almost two weeks, and his spelling was so poor that I couldn't understand it and he started to not get his stories straight, so I realized that he probably was a scammer and would soon be asking me for something. His match.com name was sgt_jensen2020 and his yahoo.com address was
[email protected]. I thought we had grown close to, It upset me when I realized and really let him have it through an email I sent back to him and I never heard from him again, but I do see him on yahoo chat still but I'm invisible.
The next guy I met (he too asked me to close out my match.com account, which i did, and open up a yahoo.com address, and do Yahoo chat too), he said he was an Italian man from Avenel (but had only lived in NJ for the past three years, before that he was living in Turin, Italy), NJ but was in Northern Africa as a contractor building a bridge, and he would be coming home in two weeks. His name was Michael Anderson, told me his parents died in Italy when he was young, raised by his uncle, he had a wife but she died five years ago in a car accident, and he had a 10 year old son named Frankie that was in Africa with him. I was drawn in by him with all the "love your beautiful picture, you are the one for me, I've never met anyone in the world like you, and all that hoopla...". I feel so foolish that once again I was conned. We had only been talking for about a week, when I pretty much almost fell in love with him with all the wonderful emails he would write to me in perfect english too. Told me he'd be there for me forever, told me he told his son about us and his son wanted to already call me "Mom" (that weirded me out, what young kid would call a stranger Mom right away..??), and he couldn't wait for us to be a family and all that...I did wind up giving him my phone number and he gave me his in Africa. I told him I didn't have any money to pay for the calls but he said he would pay for them when he returned from Africa and I believed him at the time... So, this is where it now changes... it's a little more than a week later and we're talking on Yahoo chat when all of a sudden he says "oh my god, I hear Frankie, loud sound" and then goes offliine... About ten minutes later he calls me on the phone and says his son Frankie "fell down the steps" coming out of the bathroom..??(they were in a hotel room supposedly)... He's like "oh my god i go to the hospital Frankie bleeding so bad".. then hangs up. I sound concerned back to him but my "somethings up radar" goes up so far after hearing all this... He calls me back again about 15 minutes later and he's at the hospital (there were no sounds in the background...dead silence..), Says to me that "Frankie's" head was bleeding with cuts through it and that he broke his leg too and that they would have to operate on his son first thing in the morning. Then hear comes the "con", he says "I'm in trouble, doctor says operation will cost $6000 dollars and I only have $3000 of the $6000, I just paid my workers all my money and I have no more left. I said "oh that's too bad", "what are you going to do" he then said "can you call my friend in Georgia in the US to get money from him to send", because he couldn't get ahold of him. I just laughed and kind of blew up right there and then called him a scammer/con artist and was looking for a way to get money out of the US. I called him a f***ing leech and hung up on him. He texted me back that I had no faith in him.... Duh, no I don't. Just everything he had been saying to me during that week had my radar up but at times I did want to believe it was all true but in the end it wasn't.
So please be aware of these two people and protect yourselves. Especially if they're saying they "love you" after one day of talking to you..