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 Post subject: Voulez-vous mettre en garde les autres à travers le pays?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:29 am 
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Désolée, je suis française et ne parle pas bien l'anglais

Je ne voulais pas y croire mais en le trouvant sur ce site, je suis bien la victime d'une arnaque. Voici mon histoire

J'ai été en relation avec Mark Terriedee alias Mark L Smith via myspace.com en juin 2008 (depuis sa fiche est supprimée)
J'ai été surprise qu'il me contacte. Sur ses photos, "il est beau comme un dieu", limite mannequin (et pour cause, pour les articles que je viens de lire, il a pris l'identité d'un autre) et moi je suis loin d'en être une. Nous avons commencé ensuite une relation par yahoo messenger
J'ai été très méfiante au début. J'ai fait des recherches sur l'annuaire international, sur google (mais sur le nom de Smith et non de Terriedee) et tout ce qu'il me disait était vrai. J'étais également surprise qu'il soit amoureux si vite de moi mais avec des mots doux, on devient vite docile...Bref, le schéma est le même que celui de coco2007. Américain, travaillant dans la construction pétrolière, et partant au Nigéria pour un mois pour son travail. Après quelques semaines de relations romantiques, il m'a demandé de l'argent. Sur le coup, j'ai pensé tout de suite à une arnaque mais il sait très bien y faire et m'a remise en confiance. Je lui ai envoyé cet argent via westernunion. Une fois que j'ai commencé, ses demandes sont devenues incessantes et insistantes mais toujours ponctuées de véritables déclarations d'amours. Il voulait que je lui donne mon adresse personnelle, j'ai refusé mais...je lui ai communiqué celle de ma société. Par bétise, il connait mon nom (elle était dans mon adresse email) et a des photos de moi et a mon numéro de téléphone portable. J'avais l'impression parfois qu'il correspondait avec d'autres personnes car les temps de réponses étaient longs ou il ne répondait pas ou à coté de mes questions. Je lui ai souvent parlé de mes doutes à son sujet, il se mettait en colère et cela me redonnait confiance en lui.
Je lui ai envoyé pour 550 euros (en plusieurs fois) + les fees (bien sur qu'il doit me rembourser quand il viendra me voir en France)
Pour finir son travail au Nigéria, il a besoin de 1500 euros et m'a demandé de contracter un prêt (car je suis modeste et j'ai peu d'argent)...ce que j'ai fait...mais je ne lui ai pas encore envoyé car je n'ai pas encore la réponse de ma banque (et que je ne ferai pas puisque je sais maintenant que je suis arnaquée) et surtout je lui ai demandé, par précaution, une photocopie de son passeport (bien sûr ça lui pose problème).
Réellement mes doutes sur lui se sont arrêtés il y a environ deux semaines car nous sommes devenus très complices (je le croyais sincère) et je m'en rends compte maintenant, car il ne parlait plus d'argent.
Ma dernière conversation avec lui date...d'hier matin... toujours aussi amoureuse et sensuelle...il devait me recontacter hier soir... il ne l'a pas fait mais il sait que je dois avoir la réponse pour mon prêt la semaine prochaine...

et puis aujourd'hui, parce que je m'ennuyais, j'ai refait une recherche sur lui (j'avais surtout envie de ne rien trouver sur lui !!!) mais sur terriedee et non sur smith

Maintenant, quelles peuvent être les conséquences pour moi puisqu'il connait mon nom, mon téléphone, les coordonnées de ma société, des photos de moi... ? Ai-je une chance de récupérer mon argent ? Que dois-je faire ?

Je me sens idiote...pourtant beaucoup de warnings ont clignoté dans ma tête...mais j'avais tellement besoin de compter pour quelqu'un...et j'ai le coeur brisé...

Merci pour vos réponses


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 Post subject: Re: Voulez-vous mettre en garde les autres à travers le pays?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:32 am 
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For myself, and others who cannot speak French, I have translated the post above . . . the translation was done by through Babel Fish, so it will be broken English, but it will get the point across.

Afflicted, I am French and does not speak l' well; English I did not want to believe in it but by finding it on this site, I am well the victim d' one swindles. Here my history J' was in relation to Mark Terriedee alias Mark L Smith via myspace.com in June 2008 (since its card is removed) J' was surprised qu' he contacts me. On its photographs, " he is beautiful like a dieu" , limit mannequin (and due, for the articles which I have just read, it took l' identity d' another) and me I am far d' in being one. We then began a relation with yahoo messenger J' was very being wary at the beginning. J' made research on l' international directory, on google (but on the name of Smith and not of Terriedee) and all this qu' he said to me was true. J' stays also surprised qu' it is in love so quickly with me but with soft words, one quickly becomes flexible… Bref, the diagram is the same one as that of coco2007. American, working in the oil construction industry, and leaving to Nigeria for one month for its work. After a few weeks of romantic relations, it m' asked l' money. On the blow, j' thought immediately of one swindles but it can make very well there and m' gave in confidence. I sent this money via westernunion to him. Once j' started, its requests became ceaseless and insistent but always punctuated of true declarations d' loves. He wanted that I give him my personal address, j' refused but… I communicated that of my company to him. By bétise, he knows my name (it was in my address email) and has photographs of me and has my portable phone number. J' had l' impression sometimes qu' it corresponded with d' other people because the response times were long or he did not answer or beside my questions. I often spoke to him about my doubts about it, it was put in anger and that gave again me confidence in him. I sent to him for 550 euros (in several times) + the fairies (of course qu' he must refund me when he comes to see me in France) To finish its work in Nigeria, it has need for 1500 euros and m' asked to contract a loan (because I am modest and j' have d' little; money)… what j' made… but I did not send to him yet because I n' do not have yet the answer of my bank (and which I will not make since I now know that I am swindled) and especially I asked him, by precaution, a photocopy of his passport (of course that poses problem to him). Really my doubts about him stopped approximately two weeks ago because we became very accessory (I believed it sincere) and I m' in return account now, because he did not speak any more d' money. My last conversation with him dates… d' yesterday morning… always also in love and sensual… it was to recontact me yesterday evening… it l' did not make but it knows that I must have the answer for my loan the next week… and then aujourd' today, because I m' annoyed, j' remade a research on him (j' wanted especially nothing to find on him!!!) but on terriedee and not on smith Now, which can be the consequences for me puisqu' he knows my name, my telephone, the coordinates of my company, the photographs of me…? Am I likely to recover my money? What do I have to make? I however feel idiot… many warnings flickered in my head… but j' needed so much to count for quelqu' one… and j' have the broken heart… Thank you for your answers

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 Post subject: Re: Voulez-vous mettre en garde les autres à travers le pays?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:36 am 
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Tinou
I am so sorry to hear that you have become a victim to this scam. Yes, it does sound like a typical Romance scam, and no there is VERY little chance of you recovering any of the money.

If you first came in contact with this person on a dating site, report them to that site. You could also ask the site to put up a warning about these scams. If the person had a yahoo email address, contact yahoo about it also . . . if they get enough reports about the same email address they will shut it down.

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 Post subject: Re: Voulez-vous mettre en garde les autres à travers le pays?
PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:29 pm 
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Hello

Thanks for your translator and your answer.

Could you please change this topic and put it in potic nammed : Do you want to warn the others across the country?

Is normal that my message also is in google ? Could u make something for it was not ?

the others message on him are not in google.

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 Post subject: Re: Voulez-vous mettre en garde les autres à travers le pays?
PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:26 pm 
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Tinou wrote:
Is normal that my message also is in google ? Could u make something for it was not ?


Sorry . . . I cannot control the google search engines

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