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Check out the link below from Instagram.  This is from the Advocating Against Romance Scammers organization.  They are awesome.  Be sure to check out their website and follow them on Instagram. IS THE VIDEO REAL AARS WEBSITE

HERE WE GO... MARK CHRISTOPHER DAVID WILLIAMSON BEN DERICKSON WILLIAMS RICHARD ADAMS CHRISTOPHER NO NAME

This happened I think last year as well and now again.  Luckily a friend of mine caught it because one of these scoundrels started following her and she caught it.  (THANK YOU MY FRIEND) Now the one in the middle did have my picture on in but I guess I got the screen shot when it was removed. If this happens to you do this: Report the account Block them So do searches on your social media accounts to make sure this doesn't happen to you!!!

For several years I would get a phone call and this guy always asks for Amanda.  Same guy every time.  American.  But the number changes. In the past I either hung up on him or many times told him Amanda died. Well today I got the call again.  I said Amanda wasn't here so I can help you.  And he said maybe you can help me. So I think he was trying to collect for some police department thing.  I kept using my NO noisemaker and he kept talking.  Finally at the end he laughed and hung up. Well I tried to call it back and a recording said it was the Fundraising Center.  The number this time was 816.307.2693. I suspect this is a scam.  But unless you are sure of the organization, don't make donations over the phone. If he calls again, I will add the phone number here.

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I just got this from Tracey Berry who work for the Eastern District of Missouri.  THis is the press release that was put out. PRESS RELEASE Woman Who Lied About Romance Scam Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison Thursday, February 16, 2023 Share For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Sarah E, Pitlyk on Thursday sentenced a woman from Ohio who lied to U.S. Postal Inspectors to conceal her involvement with romance scammers to two years in prison. On April 29, 2020, U.S. Postal Inspectors found $50,000 that had fallen from an Express Mail package sent by Linda Matson, now 62, of Xenia, Ohio to a post office box being used in a romance fraud scheme. They later found a second package containing the same amount. The inspectors reached out to Matson, who acknowledged that she had been scammed by someone claiming to be a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army. On May 10, 2020, three days after admitting she had been duped in that romance scam, Matson began inducing her relatives to send her money on behalf of her fictitious military officer. In an effort to conceal her continued involvement in the romance fraud scam and to expedite the return of the seized funds, on May 18, 2020 she sent multiple text messages to a postal inspector falsely claiming that she needed the money to buy posters and T-shirts to help find her missing 18-year-old niece. Matson also sent links to news articles and Facebook stories about a missing Ohio teenager to deceive the inspector into acting quickly. Believing Matson’s statements to be true, between June 1, 2020 and August 3, 2020 relatives gave Matson $590,000 that was to be used to help the fictitious military officer obtain an imaginary portfolio containing cash and diamonds valued at $20,000,000. Instead of providing the funds to the United States Customs Service as she promised, Matson mailed the money to post office boxes controlled by the romance scammers. Matson pleaded guilty in August to a charge of making false statements to a federal agent and admitted she intended to use the money for reasons she was concealing from the postal inspector. She also admitted lying to the inspector and the FBI. In a related case, Bonmene Sibe and Ovuoke Frank Ofikoro pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a mail fraud and wire fraud scheme that used the same false claims about military officers to deceive women into mailing $844,070 to post office boxes in St. Louis. Judge Pitlyk sentenced Sibe, 43, to five years and three months in prison in May and Ofikoro, 43, to four years and two months in prison in June. Both men were also ordered to repay their victims. The U.S. Postal Inspection service and the FBI investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Berry is prosecuting the case. Updated February 16, 2023.

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I spoke to a man called Max, who wants to warn everyone about a new scam.  One of which I never heard of.  Like I said I learn new stuff all the time. Max went on Grindr to find a male partner.  Max and this man texted back and forth and then someone how the Grindr man got all this man’s personal info and sent it to him and threatened him and said to send him money.  Max said that when they were texting this man must have taken screen shots of their conversation and sent it to him saying he was going to share it.  Max didn’t send any money but was scared and feared for his family’s safety.  Max never responded back, and he never heard from the guy again. Another time Max went on Grindr to find a male partner again, and the same thing happened again. So, this seems to be a new scam.  They threatened you by having all your personal info and pictures and then demand money from you, but don’t ever follow up with you.  Is this someone just playing games or is it real.  I don’t know.   But it sounds scary. So please be careful with dating apps.

Please check out my interview on the "That's the Story" podcast.  Click on the link below to listen. THAT'S THE STORY

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to running a sophisticated romance fraud scheme from 2016 to 2020. Targeting mostly older people, the man created fake dating profiles and then gained the trust of targets before coming up with wild reasons to require money on short notice, bilking over $8 million out of targets of which $4 million went directly to him. One story was that he needed funds to get out of government custody after his oil rig exploded, which actually worked. At the very least, his time as a guest of the government will certainly add some verisimilitude to his tales should he hit the dating scene upon release.

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