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This message is written with tears, with humility and with the truth that hurts, but it's important that what happened to me doesn't happen to any other woman, this story that lasted two years and five months, in which he or they pretended to be someone else who had being widowed with a son, I fell prey to a scam in which I lost my inheritance and the little I had. I went into a lot of debt with bank loans totaling $33,000, which I am also aware that I have to pay for by starting over by getting up from this serious deception. In a very delicate stage of my life, on June 25th, 2021, a friend request on Facebook began, then with offers of a love that to date had come into my life, with gallant words and eternal promises, I ended up getting excited. The fragility in which I found myself after three months that my grandparents had just passed away, added to the last words of my grandma who said that she dreamed that I was marrying a great man. The psychological games of this fake person made me fall so low that I even asked permission to buy a dress or asked to bring candy for my nephews. I didn't care about making sacrifices, I was too stupid and naive and I believed in every word he told me. His daily messages, 3 audio calls and 2 video calls that I don't know how they did it, now I realize that he was wearing a mask and with so many traps that technology brings, very late I realized that everything was a lie. The way they or he communicated was through WhatsApp and during this time he or they changed his or their phone number 6 times, most of them belonging to the United States and one to Germany. +1 (239) 710-8142 +1 (559) 578-4082 +1 (318) 502-6523 +1 (425) 268-1264 +49 176 83843353 +1 (305) 563-7487 These were from the fake engineers: +1 (814) 408-0315 +1 (786) 681-0126 +1 (774) 322-1537 Supposedly he worked in an Oil Rig where the most crazy and unlikely things happened to him that a human being could barely endure. He asked me for money to preserve a valuable package that I supplied him every month with amounts that seemed like a salary. He requested money for a body preservation machine and another vital signs machine because he had serious pneumonia and almost died. When I no longer had money, He asked me for steam cards every month to be online and be able to communicate. Then a mechanical engineer communicated and then another chief engineer were bearers of the terrible news, they did not want to kill him because I was his money-making machine. When I no longer had anything to offer him, the conversation was reduced to email messages: [email protected] I must confess that I trusted this man blindly and I believed his promises of money back, I should have realized when my mom needed her surgery and this scammer didn't even care. In short, how much they must have mocked me is truly unimaginable. So I continued waiting for a message of relief, which would never come, my anxiety made me check my cell phone every second with true desperation, I couldn't sleep, crying from helplessness, losing even part of my vision. Until on Tuesday, December 26th, 2023, I started searching and discovered the truth already verifying the true identity and I closed my case, which fills me with shame. I failed my mom, my little nephews and my siblings who depend and need me and this makes me feel dirty, empty, emotionally damaged, broken but above all the worst person. Now I am very afraid because in fifteen days I will have to appear in court because I have not been able to pay the monthly payments on the loan. I'm afraid of losing the house where my family lives. It's something I have to take care of and get an extra job to the one I have. I have destroyed my own life, my dreams, my peace. I don't know how to speak English at an advanced level, but I understand it, I hope I have not written with spelling mistakes, for which I ask you my sincere apologies. It's difficult to rescue the money because apparently they are people from Nigeria and all the money sent was to different parts of the USA and the Philippines.

Dollars Lost

$33000

Targeted Person's Location

CT, USA- 06011

Scammer Information
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Houston, TX

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1(774) 322-1537

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Unknown URL

Scam Type

Romance

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Business name

Jones Clark

Date Reported

April 28, 2024

Scam ID

837050


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