Oil Rig Scammer

by Valerie Armstrong Roberts
(Houston,Texas, U.S.)

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Mar 20, 2024
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David Jihoon Chung from Coffee Meets Bagel
by: Anonymous

They’ve become even more sophisticated now. His story is he’s an underwater welder (very niche). Said he was in the UK and then got a contract in the Philippines. Once he "arrived" he started dropping hints by talking about his mobilization fee.

He always mentions having a bad connection and not being able to use his phone but he receives messages right away (2 checks on Viber instead of 1 check if it was only sent but not received).

The story has switched to wanting to give his account logins so I guess their next step would either be needing me to do some transfers for them or they’d tell me they got locked out.

I still haven’t blocked him because I’m hoping (perhaps naively) to get some more information I can use for a police report but if I get bored I might just block them already hahaha

Nov 04, 2023
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I have spoken to this guy
by: Tracey

So we met on fb dating and we chatted and moved to a phone. He says he is British living in Tampa but working in St Louis. Very fun guy and sent tons of pics.

Something it didn’t sit right. Googled his pic and number. It’s the face of Chris Salem who is a professional speaker.

Obviously when I said hey baby let’s video chat because you seem to have a twin, he told me he can explain lol. Now he is silent of course

Feb 14, 2023
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Oil Rig Scammer
by: Anonymous

Has anyone been involved with a Robert Dominick?
He claims to be from Cleveland,TN and works on a oil rig.

Feb 28, 2022
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Henry Schindler
by: Anonymous

I recognize some many small points in other testimonies here that i "cut short" my talk with retiring handsome rig engineer Henry Schindler. He told me he lives in Aberdeen and has a 10 year old son in a boarding school in London.

On request after seeing this forum I asked his last name and address in Aberdeen and he bluntly stated he forgot but has it on his iPhone which he was not allowed to take on the rig.

I kindly said goodbye to him. I did send him partial details of my birthday not the year and also my height. And other details I guess are not so important although I am realizing now how naïve this was of me !

Thank you all from sharing here… it kept me from real disappointment ! Xx

Jul 29, 2021
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David Benhas Oilrig Scammer
by: Anonymous

I almost got scammed! I met him on an online dating site. His profile picture matched his videos he would send me so I felt comfortable. Early on he called me his wife. His Queen. Honey.
Showed a lot of interests in my kids. Called them his babies and my children. Professed his love early on and that he wanted a future with me and he was crazy in love with me.

He couldn’t talk on the phone because the rig was so dangerous and he could get in trouble.

After 3 months of texting he said he was stuck on the rig and he invested millions in gold and the company was shutting down and he needed to ship me 5 million in gold bricks. It was a very elaborate story.

Obviously I knew I was being scammed. Then I found he had two Facebooks and one of the accounts he had Nigerian friends. So makes me wonder what kind of ring were they running. The company that was shutting down with his investment reached out to me per his request via email. That I was the person of contact per David and that I would be accepting his gold investment. The website looked so fake where he had "invested" his millions. I believe he was behind the website as well along with the emails from the company.

I knew I was being scammed. I called him out and he got defensive and cussing. I blocked him and I’m so happy I never sent him a dime.

Jul 12, 2021
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I met a oil rig scammer named Maurice Norman
by: Anonymous

Very nice looking man. Professional dress. Claims to be on a oil rig as a contractor. He started liking all my pictures then he sent me a D M and I responded. He sent me more pictures and we continued to chat. Then he says that the connection is not good and could we go to Whatsapp and I told him no, so he asked me to go to Hang-outs so I did.

We chatted that whole night and the next day he texts me in the morning. We have been having good conversation then he tells me he loves me. He makes all theses promises and I get this feeling that this was a scam. I tell him flat out I am not going to send him any gift card or money and he acts like he is upset that I would say that to him. He assures me he would never do that as he has his own money and lives in Tennesee, but I still dont feel right, so he texts but I dont respond.

He told me he could not video call because it was their policy and he could only text and not call so the next time he texted I did not respond so today I get a phone call. He asked me if I was okay. I was okay and I said I was. He said he needed to hear my voice but he could not talk that long and he was going to have to go to the UK.

He would make sure he would call me when he got there, but I just deleted him from Hangout and uninstalled my account.

Oh yeah the picture was of a black man in a red velvet suit and tie and a blue suit. A picture in his bed with a stuffed animal but all you could see was his face and said he was 58 yrs old.

Jun 11, 2021
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Goes by Jason George
by: Anonymous

Goes by Jason George via whats app and tinder and maybe others. Claims to be an engineer with three children needing a mother to help etc. From Santa Monica ca. Has accent and text in odd ways. Asking "Did you eat?" a lot.

Bad phone connection and lots of garbled sounds in the background. Sends poetry and calls at inappropriate hours. Beware

Numbers
174-730-14752 claims personal but obviously from another app tracked to santa monica
191-035-66701 whatsapp

Beware Good Luck

Feb 23, 2021
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David Jorgen/Jorgensen
by: Anonymous

Oil rig scam. Using Christian Mingle. Claims to be an engineer from Norway living in Virginia. Fell in love quickly. Asked to get off dating site immediately. Romantic emails beyond belief. Then asked for a google play card. Gone to oil rig for 4 weeks then promises of coming to see.

Says his cell service is spotty on the rig so can't video chat and limited communication other than email. Phone number and name don't show up anywhere. Have searched his image for scammers but didn't find his pic anywhere.

Sep 08, 2020
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Adam Robertson
by: Anonymous

This man has been scamming my mother for the last 5 months saying he needs money to get his car and driver license and would come get her. She has sent this man over a $1,000 and he never shows and my mother believes this man really loves her and she is still sending him.

She is the one playing his games and supporting him and his ability to keep scamming

Aug 31, 2020
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Moses Ben
by: Anonymous

Hi, I just wanted to say 'Thank you' to everyone who has been brave enough to share their stories here. It made me realise that I was being scammed by this guy. While I feel stupid, I realise that this is what they do, there is a definite format and my story is very similar to many other people's. This guy even wanted his 'son' to email me, and then they both put pressure on me to give money.

Why don't they just get a job like the rest of us?

Aug 05, 2020
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Baldpate Platform
by: Anonymous

Has anyone had dealings with a Michael Cole?

May 27, 2020
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David Baldwin romance scammer oil rigs
by: Anonymous

His emails address are davidbaldein1298@gmail.com and Davidbaldein198@gmail.com

Romance scammer stuck on offshore oil rig and all his money is stuck in customs in the UK and needs $109,000 to $1,000,000 to get it through customs.

Don’t be fooled as a total scam

May 25, 2020
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HELP
by: Anonymous

I forgot to mention John Williams is STILL on WWF. Been playing for at least a year or more. Someone out there must be playing with him ?????

May 25, 2020
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HELP
by: Anonymous

Does ANYONE know who the REAL John Williams is. Met up with him on WWF.

May 08, 2020
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Oil rig scammer in Turkey
by: Anonymous

I almost fell, but I stopped communications after 1 month and a half of sweet-talking, and didn't see the warning signs until I read all about the oil rig scams.

He goes by the name Terry C Ralston, he is supposedly an engineer.

Be careful!

Apr 10, 2020
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Oliver Frankie - oil rig scammer
by: Anonymous

Anyone knows this guy who is called Oliver Frankie ?
Sweet talking with bad English

Feb 23, 2020
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Believe im being Scammed
by: Anonymous

I believe I was scammed. His name is David Oliver with grey hair, mustache with goatee. Very charming and sweet talking. He said he needed money to get his financial savings from a security company in order to get home. Told me he had a sick child in boarding school. I never sent him money but he did get very angry when I told him I said No. Clamied he loves me. That he never loved any woman like he never loved like this before.

He would make me a very happy woman. He can buy me a new car and a beautiful home. I praised him and told him I loved him until he finally realized I was not sending him any money. He eventually changed his tune and said I never loved him and that I used him him. He deleted me off of Hangout so yes I believe I was scammed.

When I saw his photo on the list of scammers I saw his face with the name of Kelvin.

Jan 15, 2020
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My case
by: Queen

I have been writing with one guy supposedly from Dallas for a short while. My alarm bells went off after reading romance scam stories. There is so many similarities in this case than in other cases I found. I'm recently divorced so I'm in extremely vulnerable state after been cheated by ex-husband. So I guess I lost the common sense but I got it back before it's too late.

In my case there is various red flags very similar to the other stories here.

He contacted me via IG but soon asked for my phone number to be in contact via whatsapp and he also deleted his account from IG rapidly. There was only few photos of him: car, he with "mom, he and his dog and few photos with sunglasses and very decent looking clothes.

All of a sudden I had plenty of handsome men (with two first names) trying to contact me via IG and it also made me suspicious. He asked me to leave from the dating sites for him to "get my full attention".

He is a handsome engineer, who was born in USA, but been living in many countries and travelling a lot because of the work. He told that his life has been all about work and now he wants to settle down. He has such a funny accent that it got me cautious because it was difficult to understand him talking on the phone. There is lot's of typing and grammar errors (and I'm not even a native English speaker and noticed that LOL).

He didn't want to make a video call for various reasons. Phone fell and crashed, poor internet blah blah blah. I was asked to make a video call in Hangouts though, I never did. His wife deceased in a car accident 5 years ago and his mother suffering from cancer and father passed last year. He has a daughter with two kids but this grandpa looks too young to be her father and the kids look to big for the ages he told me.

He works for a big oil company somehow independently as a some kind of consultant and won a huge contract with loads of money involved. Then he had to go overseas to supervise oil drilling on an oil rig because of that contract. He sent me the picture of the contract (which could be little better photoshopped) and started to speak about marriage very soon. He also asked about my savings and my economical situation.

I heard noises in the background when he sent me them and was speaking on the phone in the middle of the night (children playing and other noises). In the middle of the night I mean that the location he was in was suppose to be the time was really in the middle of the night and there were noises like he was outside.

He certainly is a sweet talker and uses exactly the same phrases I've found from here. I bought some of the sweet talk, but got cautious about that too. Phrases were borrowed from quotes and poems. "You are my Queen" and "You deserve the best" and "Put your past behind". He also told me that he is religious and was raised in a Godly home.

All of my alarm bells went off when he wanted me to send ITunes card for work purposes because the credit card won't function (yeah right). We were planning to meet each other, but when he asked me to send money to get to meet me, I finally knew I've been scammed. That was it. I stopped texting with him. I've learned that if something seems to be too good to be true it isn't.

I really am in a vulnerable state at the moment after divorce but it's really a good thing that I read all these stories and saw the similarities so nothing too bad didn't happen (like sending money to him).

I will not get fooled again.

Jan 13, 2020
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Jack2gary
by: Anonymous

Gary Jackson jack2gary on Ig

Oil rig scammer beware

Dec 15, 2019
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Derrick delcham
by: Anonymous

Derrick delcham has a son Devin in medical school. We have been talking for several months now. Said he loved me. Always sending love songs from utube. Things were fine until he asked for money. I knew then it was a scam. He gets angry when told no and calls you useless and not worthy. I told him he was a scammer and not to talk to me any more. I didn't block him yet.

He didn't get in touch for a week then texted me like nothing happened. Just seeing how far he will take this. Then I will block him. It's actually funny when he gets mad. His English gets terrible and funny.

Nov 14, 2019
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Derrick Delcham
by: Anonymous

Derrick delcham. Oil rig engineer. Contacted me on wwf game. He was handsome and I fell for all the lovely things he said. Scammed me out of $500. He didn't stop there as always something coming up and needed money. Has a son named Devin in medical school.

Gets angry when he doesn't get his way and calls you useless. This went on for several months. Finally told him goodbye.

Nov 03, 2019
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Oil rig scammer
by: Buddyboy

Met a man, friended me on facebook. I corresponded for months, asked me for itunes cards, then for cash to help buy equipment on rig. There was a bad fire and one man was killed. Needed money for lawyer, now needs money to get off the rig. Lives in Philadelphia, has a daughter and mother at home.

Curious about this, goes my the name of Michael Caraway.

Anyone else have info on this man.

Sep 19, 2019
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Words with friends scammer
by: Anonymous

Met a fellow by the name of James Eugene. He seemed nice, wanted me to talk in hang outs. He told me of how he was from Germany but had lived in the US since he was 10. Said he was 56. He had 2 children and was no longer living with his wife.

He told me he had fallen in love with me and wanted to marry me. I was now his wife. This started a few bells ringing obviously not enough.
He fed me all these stories and I believed him.
He told me he had a contract on an oil rig in the Mediterranean Sea. Sent me pics of him and his children at the airport. Also pictures of when he arrived in Greece.

We spoke a lot once he was on the "oil rig". Then one day he asked me to get him a steam card as he was on roaming and hang ups would not update without the steam credit. I got $120 worth of steam.

Now one week later, I have realised that this guy is a scammer as he sent me an email stating he wanted me to be his beneficiary to obtain funds through Lloyds bank in London. This time the alarm bells went off big time. I told him I did not believe he was who he was portraying to be, so he sent me a pic of the worst ever photo shopped passport.

Please be aware of this man, I would say he has a lot of profiles

Sep 08, 2019
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Scott Maxwell, or Maxwell Scott on WWF
by: Anonymous

This guy is on WWF, don't believe a word he says!
He is very nice looking and a sweet talker.

Aug 23, 2019
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Alexis pennymoon
by: Anonymous

My mother is being scammed by the same guy as stated above on the date 3/19/19. Alan Dixon or Alexis penny moon on ig. We found more info on him by another alias of alan69dixon on another site. He has multiple profiles on different apps with ages between 32-40. He says his wife lives in hopkinsville with his kids. And he lives in Nashville TN. He also claims to be a oil rig worker. And showed my mother a fake contract with a out of date Exxon Logo.

Beware of this guy. He speaks with a European accent. Drives a white Mercedes Benz. And is a huge scammer. I was able to stop it before it got any further with this site. With someone elses experience. We also did a reverse look up of his number and it's a Google voice number. Beware this scam artist

Jul 30, 2019
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Oil rig scammer
by: Anonymous

I met someone on POF. He says he lives in pleasant valley ny. He goes by gregory russell. Robin gregory russell. Robin russell. He states he just got a 39 million dollar contact for the Falkland Islands. His address is an empty house and phone disconnected.

Just got a weird feeling and then nothing matched up. States hes 57. Widowed from Canada. Wife died in child birth.

Jul 15, 2019
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Frank Brooks, David Max
by: Anonymous

I like playing Words with Friends. But now it's getting to be annoying when you have men trying to scam somebody. Ugh. Frank Brooks & David Max. Oil rigs/engineering I can think of other words to call them...but that's not in my vocabulary.

Jun 24, 2019
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Jason William
by: Anonymous

I met Jason on Jdate, his pictures were very professional ( black & white ) and he was very handsome and had an Australian/ Texan accent.
His wife died 5 years ago, his son ETHAN 16 yrs old lived in Santa Monica (alone) with someone who was occasionally helping when Jason was working on the rig for 2 month at a time. He said I was the woman he waited for, he hadn’t dated anyone for all this time and was now ready.

He texted me or called me almost everyday from the rig. He was very positive and pleasant although lots of what he was saying didn’t make sense. When I asked questions he was very vague and changed the subject. I sent him the link for this website ( watchforscams) he was very offended by my accusations.

I did a reverse google search and found one of his pictures in a model agency site. I sighed a little further and found out the guy was a real model/ artist/ photographer from Australia named Mark Getty.

I contacted him and told him his pictures were used on online dating sites. I confronted the scammer who accused me of lacking trust but still pretending he was the real guy. He never asked me for money because I told him from the beginning I didn’t have any. I think he just enjoyed taking me for a ride . I blocked him. Watch out ladies!!!!

Jun 04, 2019
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Charming scammer ?
by: Anonymous

Has anyone heard of Kelvin Moore. He has a 14 year old daughter called Diana in boarding school in Ireland. He has only asked me for 300 to fix his daughters phone but alarm bells start ringing.

May 19, 2019
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Armand?
by: Anonymous

My mother-in-law who is 86 got pulled into a "relationship" by this guy claiming to work on an oil rig. Said he was from California and was calling/texting from 213-674-0469. He had an Indian accent. We don’t have much info because we only found out when she was visiting and I overheard her conversation with him. He was obviously trying to get money out of her to ship a package from Germany to 225 South El Camino Dr, Beverly Hills CA, 90212.

At that point I grabbed my husband and told him I thought she was being scammed. He took the phone and tried to get information out of the guy while inventing new swear words.

I ended up blocking his number from her phone and I hope that’s the end of it. There’s no telling how much he’s taken from her since they started talking in December.

May 02, 2019
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Jimmy Wells or Jim Wells
by: Anonymous

Has anyone comes across Jimmy Wells? Also goes by Jim or James. He's supposedly a Civil Engineer on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He said he is 51. His wife died of a brain aneurysm 4 years ago. He has twin girls who are 12 and is in boarding school in Connecticut which is where he is from.

He is supposed to be originally from Florida. An only child and both parents passed away several years ago. He friended me on Instagram them asked to move to hangouts. He has asked for iTunes cards which I wouldn't send. Then he wanted to buy the twins a new laptop but supposedly dropped his wallet, credit cards and all in the water. So he asked if I could use my credit or bank card to purchase it and he would pay me back. Again, I said I couldn't do it. Then he wanted me to open an account for him at my bank so his pay check could be deposited in it. Again I refused.

He's told me he loves me. Calls me baby and his Queen. But I haven't heard from him in two days. I've searched his name and email address on Truth Finder only to come Back with no information on him.

If anyone has encountered this person, please let me know.

Apr 25, 2019
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North Sea Chevron
by: Anonymous

Does anyone else talk to a guy by the name of Paul Lambert. Works on the north sea for chevron?

Apr 20, 2019
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Caught one in the scam
by: Anonymous

I chatted on and off with a pleasant person named Bryan Phillip on words with friends. He said he was divorced with a 15 year old daughter and worked on an oil rig currently in Alaska. He asked for me to go to viber to talk privately but I waited about 6 months and finally gave him my cell number. We talked for about a week and he started saying that he thinks about me all day long.

I told him I had been scammed by someone on wwfs and he said to be very careful online. He said it was so nice to finally have a lady to talk to. He said he was from Houston and I ran his pictures through an image reverse and all the photos of him were not flagged. However, he sent me one of the oil rig which came up as a magazine picture so then I was very suspicious. The last time I texted with him he started calling me by the name Barbara. I texted "Who is Barbara?' and he said "oops". I told him he was a scumbag and don't every try to contact me again.

I can't believe he was that careless and I told him he might want to try getting a real job.

Apr 12, 2019
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Possible Scammer
by: Jane

Does anyone know an Oil Rig Engineer by the name of Frank Donnie Muller? Currently working on an oil rig off shore of Los Angeles? Says he is from Ireland but his accent does not sound Irish. Sends pictures with his little doxie.

Apr 11, 2019
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Oil rig summer
by: Anonymous

I met my scammer on Words with friends, got chatting, and unfortunately fell for the charm of a Smooth talker, and after a while he asked for Itunes card, which can’t be bought over the counter here in this part of Asia, so he didn’t get one which he accepted, and around 6 weeks later, he has a security box that needs to be delivered, but he doesn’t trust anyone in the States only me, but needs £5000 for safe delivery, which he never got by the way!

I have screen shot of all important documents and addresses of bank details and also have email and phone numbers. This guy goes by the name of Lewis Armstrong or Armstrong Lewis but has many a name and I have some of those as well.

When I asked him about this it was because the computer data had been hacked at the company.
I decided to phone him unexpectedly and he had no American accent, children crying in the background and so he is now blocked on everything so please beware!

Mar 12, 2019
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Alexis Orten
by: Anonymous

Oil rig scam through Instagram. Goes by Alexis Orten IG name is Alex_pennymoon. Says daughter is Parveen 11, Curtis 14. He lives in Nashville TN, children live with his mother in Hopkinsville KY. Their mother has brain neurological disorder. When he supposedly got to the rig he sent a video clip of him being lowered from the helicopter.

He asked for an amazon gift card for his daughters birthday. I did a reverse search on his phone, it's a non-fixed VOIP, and he doesn't come up on Skopeo, and reverse image searches didnt have any matches. I would like to alert the man whose pictures are being used as his kids are in them. I dont know how to do find him. I have all the pictures to post but dont see how to do it here.

I used advice from this site to do all these reverse searches and asked him for a selfie with the date written on his hand and ocean behind him. He answered with "ok, thanks".

Can anyone help me find the real person so he can report this to IG and protect his kids identity?

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Mar 12, 2019
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Jeff Harrison
by: Anonymous

I would like to report a Jeff Harrison
607-218-7093. Claims he’s in the Arctic sea digging for oil and used professional photos from what I am assuming as a model. Very beautiful photos and claims he’s widowed, wife died during childbirth. This man is a con artist so ladies stay away.

Also his email is Jeffharrison0147@gmail.com.

Please respond to me as I’d love to hear if you’ve had a similar interaction with him. I met him on OkCupid. I have reported him to the website and they have taken his profile down

Mar 05, 2019
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Oil Rig Scammer
by: Anonymous

I met "Matt Wood" on Facebook, he was supposed to be from Milan Italy living in Houston Texas, in his 60s, living with his daughter and granddaughters, we spoke on the phone and on the internet. I had his phone number so I thought he must be legit, I fell for him hard and fast and of course no mention of money of any kind and he told me he was falling in love with me and like a fool I believed him. I am 71 yrs old but I never gave him money. I dont have money to give so he wanted ITunes gift cards, at first $300 worth, and he at one point asked me to sell my house and come be with him. I refused & told him you will never get one red cent out of me, and I thought that was the end but he still talked to me for a while, then started ghosting me on FB

I got so stressed out by it all I ended up in ICU in the hospital, I was just heartbroke as oh he was supposed to be going to a oil rig job to finish out a contract in Scotland, showed pics of his passport, on the plane and pics of him on site, all fake and when he was done with this job he was going to come meet me and then thats when he asked for Itune cards.

Today is March 5th 2019 and he still ghosts me occasionally but no communication for months so why he still ghosts me I cant figure out unless he just likes to torment me. I am slowly getting over it and just glad I didnt give him money cause all I have is my social security but I still love him but I will survive

Mar 04, 2019
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Rayone Honest/Honest Rayone
by: Chris B

Contacted on Instagram by DM by one of 5 different names I later came across using what turns out to be Grant Cardone's image of him & family. One of 50 most scammed images used. Did some basic checking, but clearly not enough. Oil rig supervisor retiring & moving to Spokane, WA from Atlanta w/two little girls 7 & 5 (who has a congenital heart defect). Widower married 15 years. Parents died when he was toddler (lung disease/cancer), raised by grandmother in France.

Very thick accent when speaking on the phone which was only a couple of times (due to poor reception on rig). Planned to move to Spokane to invest in a hotel. Knew the area (mentioned new apartments in our downtown area) which added to credibility. Talked for about 3 weeks. Concerned friend alerted me to a possible scam, did more research & found more. Confronted him by text late at night. Received frantic text/voicemail not understanding what I was talking about & wanted to video conference next day.

This is the part I still can't figure out. I got a video call (arranged through Hangouts) & although cutting in and out, I could see video of this man with an ocean in the background. I also asked him to send me a picture of him blowing me a kiss, which he did using this man's image. After this, I continued conversation until this Mar. 2nd, when he texted saying his little girl was running low on her heart meds. Nanny had raised some money, but needed $3330 for remainder. Trying to get off rig, but chopper is needing repairs & not available for days.

Bank also has contacted him regarding fraud attempts & wants him to personally take care of problem in the states. Attempts to suggest solutions were met with excuses & lies. Only I could save his little girl. When I refused to send any money, he became angry & accused me of being inhuman and insane for thinking he was a liar. His texting became even more broken English & he continued to beg me for money, promising to pay back double when he got to states.

I told him to stop & would be reporting him to authorities. He then became even angrier, hoping my mother & I would die a horrible death. Fortunately, my self-esteem & bank accounts are in tact. I've contacted the FBI, Instagram, & Grant Cardone directly to alert them to this scam.

Feb 21, 2019
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David
by: Anonymous

I’m thinking a man who contacted me is a scammer too. His name is David and has a similar story of working on an oil rig. Seems to want to get serious fast, and the way he is acting has a lot of red flags.

Feb 19, 2019
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Oil rig scammer david billi
by: Anonymous

He put $5000 counterfeit wired in my account. He wanted me to buy iTunes cards quickly but the bank told me it was a fraud. He showered me with love and promises of a life of luxury if I could send money so he could get off the rig with a helicopter.

Talked me into iTunes card to keep his phone on to talk to me. When I refused to send more money the conversation turned nasty.

Feb 09, 2019
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Philip Smith
by: Anonymous

His name is Philip Smith and he has scammed my nana out of 2500 and says he works on an oil rig. He needs iTunes cards and wants to come home to her but needs money for a chopper! And then money for a pilot. Hes very demanding and we told her hes not real but she doesn't believe us.

Dec 13, 2018
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Edwin-Eekhof
by: Anonymous

I would like to report one that just recently happened to me. His name is Edwin-Eekhof - an engineer. Went to Turkey on a job and got stuck there. Huge explosion at the site where he was working. A worker is seriously injured. Then he has to get a lawyer. Then his passport is taken away. Then he needs money to get equipment to the job site. His Bank of America account is closed because of a foreign transfer.

Then the family of the injured worker wants money from him. Then he tries and leaves Turkey but his VISA has expired and need $4K to pay the fine. Then he tries to leave Turkey and no flights are available for business class. He leaves Turkey and winds up in Dubai and then headed to NY but had to get on a different plane and go to Calgary where the company resides who contracted with him for 6 million dollars once the job was done.

But wait.... a few more weeks go by and he is waiting for the shipment of stones to arrive via a boat. Then he starts having bad headaches which result in a brain tumor. Benign of course. All along he is in love with me. I opened up my personal life to him. Gave him money here and there with the promise he will be back in Dallas any day to repay me. Then last Wednesday he is having brain surgery.

A fictitious Dr calls me to give me an update. The next day he is in a coma. Then Sunday I get a text saying he went into cardiac arrest then died. This Dr needs me to go to Western Canada to claim the body and return him to the states. He was gorgeous. He tugged at my heart strings. I checked the hospitals in the entire country of Canada and nothing.

I called the morgue a few days after his "death " and there is more to this story.

I am emotionally done.

Dec 11, 2018
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Steven James or James Stevens scammer
by: Anonymous

Tries to scam women on Words with Friends. Lives in Houston, on a oil rig in Tblisi, Georgia, claims he works for ExxonMobil. Called him out on his scam.

Stay away.

Nov 15, 2018
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Anyone know this guy
by: Anonymous

My roommate has been talking to a man by the name of Fred Preston for several months. Similar story as I have read on this page and the hint of money just recently happened. No money was sent, but now he is not talking to her anymore.

I thought from the beginning NIGERIAN CON MAN but here is my hang up. She has face timed with this man so she literally has seen this mans face and it matches the profile. So what is the gimmick here because on his friend list is a ton of Nigerians but yet he presents as an American man that is an engineer.

Nov 14, 2018
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Frank Gibson
by: Anonymous

Frank Gibson, Petroleum Engineer from Belgium living in LA tried to scam my 75 year old mother.

Nov 13, 2018
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Is he a scammer
by: Anonymous

He is working on a rig in Vancouver Canada and he wants me to send him a iTunes card and he is a engineer. He says they use them to buy food. From Italy and I don’t know if he scamming or not.

He kept saying he needed me to get him 25,ooo then anything I can.

Nov 13, 2018
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Edward Noble Sanchez
by: Anonymous

Edward Noble Sanchez Engineer Scam. I have read through the reports from others and have a similar story to report. After about 8 weeks of texting and phone calls, my spidey senses were peaked after he asked me to sign into HIS bank account and transfer money for him - he was on an oil rig, working on a Shell project in New Zealand.

He messaged me at appropriate times based on the time zone yada yada - same details others are reporting. He had all the right answers - I am a smart women and fell for the story but not the scam - so watch yourselves ladies because this guy is really good at what he does!

Nov 06, 2018
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Ip address
by: Anonymous

How do i look up the IP address

Oct 07, 2018
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Guillaume Baudouin
by: Anonymous

Guillaume Baudouin from Our Time. He is French. He is a petroleum engineer from CA. He is in CA on a rig. He said that he would move to Arizona to open a restaurant and wine store. We texted for a month. Then he needed money to get his crew on land. His account in France was frozen. He needed to get his money back and could I help him arrange for an application to get his assets back.

We skyped once, and he was the same person on the pictures. There was no sound. He said that he only communicated with one person at a time, but I would see him once in a while on the dating site.

This week, I checked his profile, and he had made some changes. I knew that the moment was coming when it was the last week when he was supposed to leave the rig. When he finally asked for the money, I was relieved that he confirmed that this romance was too good to be true.

It was!

Oct 07, 2018
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John Mark
by: Anonymous

My wife has had a oil rig scammer and his name is John Mark. On the North Sea oil rig and his son is in America. John is divorced and he sends pictures of himself on a beach underwater on a oil rig and he needs iTunes cards so he can talk as the whole rig computer system is getting shut down.

He is very demanding and loves her and wants her to move to America, like yesterday. He sends emojis to her and he wants her to send her location.

She did not send anything only a picture of her face

Oct 01, 2018
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Mom doesn’t know she is being scammed
by: Anonymous

Same story as many here. Mom was contacted by a guy saying he was on a rig and couldn’t get cash to take care of his daughter. He started asking for gift cards. The family intervened trying to help but she won’t listen.

The guy says he loves her and his "daughter". Told her she just wants somebody to call "Mom". He keeps asking for more money for help while he is gone on the rig. Not sure how to convince her this is a scam.

I’ve sent links to this site, found images of this guy on scammer sites etc to convince here.

Just need to stop this before it gets worse!

Sep 30, 2018
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Scammers
by: Anonymous

Rodney Maxwell has been scamming my mother for months.

Ladies beware of RODNEY MAXWELL.

Aug 08, 2018
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Instagram scammer
by: Anonymous

I received a "hello, thanks for liking my pic", and a few days later he was professing his love to me. Widower, 17 y.o. Daughter in a boarding school in LA, looking for a wife/ mother for daughter, wife died of cancer, blah, blah, blah. Works on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, needs $2,000 to pay for trouble with a crane ($23,000 total, but he had $21,000).

Simon William, from Greece, lives in LA. I unfortunately felt lonely enough to believe him and sent the $$. He then came back in a few days and needed $10,000 to grease the crane! No matter how much I said I didnt have it, he treated me terrible and told me to get a loan!!! That was it - done!!!

Fascinatingly scary!!! Please be warned and wary!!!

Aug 07, 2018
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Instagram scammer
by: Anonymous

I received a "hello, thanks for liking my pic", and a few days later he was professing his love to me. Widower, 17 y.o. Daughter in a boarding school in LA, looking for a wife/ mother for daughter, wife died of cancer, blah, blah, blah.

Works on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, needs $2,000 to pay for trouble with a crane ($23,000 total, but he had $21,000).

Simon William, from Greece, lives in LA. I unfortunately felt lonely enough to believe him and sent the $$. He then came back in a few days and needed $10,000 to grease the crane!

No matter how much I said I didn't have it, he treated me terribly and told me to get a loan!!! That was it - done!!!

Fascinatingly scary!!! Please be warned and wary!!!

Jul 27, 2018
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Scammed thrugh dating site
by: Margaret

I guess there are legitimate people just looking for someone on dating sites, but I ran afoul of a scammer my first day of signing up on an over-55 site.

First red flag should have been that within a couple of minutes of joining the site, I got a message from someone saying that his friend who wasn't on the site would like to meet me. He sent me said friend's name, Richard Townsend. I sent "Richard" an email and I soon got a message back along with three pictures allegedly of himself, a good-looking but not drop-dead handsome man, shown in one of the pictures with his dog and in one with a young man he said was his son. The real Richard Townsend may very well have been the victim of identity theft.

The picture of me on the dating site isn't especially flattering - I didn't want to deceive anyone - but Richard kept telling me how beautiful I am. He was also 18 years younger than me but that didn't matter either, he said.
I sent him my phone number after the first day and he explained his accent by saying he was born in Portugal but was a naturalized citizen. The picture he sent didn't look at all Hispanic and the voice sounded younger than the picture.

The third day he called me and told me he was on his way to the airport to fly to his job on an oil rig. He wanted me to visit him there; I was supposed to go to a certain site and make arrangements - it cost $6500 for a helicopter to the oil rig. He explained the high cost by saying it was a specially arranged flight. We were going to share the cost, he would give me $4000 when I got to the rig. This was supposedly a round trip.

I called the bank where I was supposed to transfer the money for the helicopter and gave them the number and routing number of the account. The woman I talked to told me that the account was a scam, specifically a romance scam, so I didn't deposit any money.

He called me that night and I told him what the woman from the bank had said. He was of course highly indignant, that wasn't at all true. He also said that he couldn't get off the rig until his stint was finished. He was supposedly committed to being there for two months. He just couldn't wait for two months for us to meet. He offered to send $4000, which was all the cash he had, to the bank by a fellow worker who was able to get ashore. He even sent me a copy of the transfer confirmation, which I could have worked up in 30 minutes with Pagemaker. So now he was asking me for only $2500 which I would have to pay before I could come to the rig to see him.

He also sent me a copy of his passport which if it was a fake was an excellent one. This was to confirm that he was the person whose picture he had sent me. The picture on the passport and those he had sent earlier were of the same person, but I don't think they were of the person who was calling and talking to me.

At first I was supposed to be going there on a Wednesday. I went to the extent of making plane reservations but then got cold feet and backed off; he talked me into rescheduling for Friday. All this time he is calling me or emailing me ten or twelve times a day, calling me "Sweetie" and "Honey" and telling me how beautiful I am. I kept proposing that we wait until the two month stint was up; then I would fly to New Orleans and meet him at the airport when he arrived back. He kept saying he just couldn't wait that long to meet.

I finally said I wouldn't put out any money, that it was either meet at the end of the two month stint or bag it. Needless to say, he chose to bag it. FWIW, he did sign off with "I wish you the best, really."

Could have been much, much worse. I didn't actually deposit any money, and I wasn't sufficiently involved that I felt much emotional loss. I was mostly annoyed. Since then I've gotten a couple of other feelers from men who are actually members of the site that are grammatically inferior - these from men who claim to be college graduates. I haven't talked to any of them yet, so I don't know if they have accents. I'm beginning to wonder if there's any chance I'll meet someone here; I'm about ready to hang it up and not take any more chances. But it seems that when you hear the words "oil rig," you'd better run, not walk, away.

Apr 19, 2018
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Scammed from Texas
by: Patricia

I met Fred on Tinder in February 2018, and he was the sweetest thing i ever met. He loved me practically from the first time we spoke. When you are a lonely widow you take any kind of affection even if its from someone in a picture.

He sent me all the documentation of his contract, parts ordered, money spent on the contract and the amount paid after the job was done, going all into my bank account. Then when the job was almost done that's when he started telling me he was in over his head and needed money to pay taxes owed on the supplies.

I ended up giving him 60,000 dollars american (im canadian), apparently he ended up in jail and needed 10,000 more to get out of jail. He called me from 'jail' for about 10 days, from private numbers and then stopped when I couldn't supply him with anymore money. I am very angry with myself to be so gullible that I let this happen.

I have gone to the local police to report my situation pretty much knowing I have been scammed. These people are professionals that ruin peoples lves. They have no morals, and I dont know how they sleep at night. Praying God works in mysterious ways and these people are eventually caught

Sep 28, 2017
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Neil Hansen, DC-MeetUp Site
by: Anonymous

I have a man contact me on MeetUp. The same kind of thing. He said he was a 50 year old structural engineer that designed and maintained oil rigs in the gulf of Mexico. He supposedly lived in DC but was on his way for a 2-week stay in the gulf. He said a chopper would take him and his crew to the oil refinery landing.

His story was that his American mother from CT married a Dutch engineer and lived in the Netherlands until he was 15 years old (thus the accent)and then moved back to America with his mother. He was a widower with a 9 year old daughter that lived in CT with him mother that has lung cancer.

I was suspicious at the start of a handsome and religious man was not finding a woman to date in his area, even if he worked all the time. His favorite lines were, "The world is your oyster" and "knowing someone and believing in someone are two different things."

After 3 months of calls and texting, he was calling me darling, honey and sunshine as pet names. I asked for the company he worked with, Pustola & Associates. I called. There wasn't an employee by his name employed there. He then said he was a contractor that worked with Pustola & Associates. I asked for another picture and the one he sent I did a reverse lookup on google.com.

He came up on other MeetUp sites in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Houston. The same picture except there were groups for German speaking, Irish Speaking and under different assumed names. I also noticed that each time he called his voice sounded different. At first it sounded like an African male with an accent.

As I became suspicious and asked more questions, it sounded more like a Australian accent of a white man. He never mentioned the word love or asked for money, but I'm sure he would have in time. He was saying that I was the woman he'd been looking for. He would have never gotten money from me.

I was suspicious from the start and wanted to see where the calls and texts would lead. We never did exchange emails. I think it was because he know I could look up the IP address. The similarities are too much alike. Be weary of scammers.

If they can't meet you in person within 2 weeks, block them.

Jun 11, 2017
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Good for you
by: Anonymous

That is exactly why I set up this page... These pictures are nothing but someone that is not real.. Cute guy but a class act scammer. I fell in love with a picture, and I was so naive with his smooth talking charm. I'm so glad to post these scamming pictures, I told FB he was a fake and get him off this site!!

Well he is still on there. Be safe my friends, he did not hold a gun to me for money, but he did shoot my heart & took my money.

6 months of charm(RAT)

Jun 10, 2017
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Ray and Fred
by: Anonymous

I have had request from them both on Facebook. I did not accept them because I do not need to be scammed again. This is why I like seeing names and pictures as it has saved me many times on Facebook. Sorry but sure hope you're careful. They are scammers as my friend told me she talked to Fred I believe it was. Told her to get him off that he is a scammer.

So she did also block him.

Be careful

Jun 10, 2017
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Ray / Fred Hansen
by: Anonymous

I'm a little confused on the comment. These pictures on my site have contacted you on FB? Or is this guy in my pictures the real person commenting someone is using their picture?

Jun 08, 2017
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Ray and Fred
by: Anonymous

I have a request from them also on my Facebook Page, geez they get around hey? No I did not accept, no more of that for me. One guy's picture is on here and I wrote him saying sorry you're a scammer and he said oh no.

I reported him to Facebook as someone is using my picture. Funny he left all of a sudden. He is standing on a platform doing windows on a high rise.

Be Careful.

Jun 05, 2017
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So sorry
by: linda Mason

Been there done that but thank God mine was only $50,000. compared to yours. I wish you the best of luck.

Jun 04, 2017
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Ray Donald / Fred Hansen
by: Anonymous

Ray Donald / Fred Hansen are the same person, with a different picture of the same guy. He wanted me as a FB friend. Very smooth talker. He sent me flowers, teddy bear and candy. We were on Facebook, messenger, e-mail, home phone and cell phone. He said he was 50, with a son Charles 10 years old. His wife died of brain cancer 3 years ago.

Had an accent and he used "am" instead of "I'm". He said he lived in Houston, was born in Poland his parents died in a car crash and he moved to New York to live with his grand parents, he was a petroleum engineer contractor for BP Oil.

Ray said he designed a rig out in the Gulf of Mexico. Things went well, then he had a problem at the rig and had to go fix it or he was going to get sued. While on the rig this is when the needing money for the dermurage for the supplies he ordered from Mexico. Next was for the international taxes. Ray was on the Rig for around 4 months. Needed more for money for a chopper with his crew to Mexico. I took money out of my 401k to help him out, said he would pay me back at 30% plus the 10% charge for taking out 401k.

Said he would return the loan when he Received 10 million dollars for the work, also sending me a fake lawyers agreement. Well in Mexico he fell down the stairs and broke his pelvis because he was being stalked by a company called Hale Logistics he owed money to. Needed money for hospital bills and he was a diabetic and always complained about his high blood pressure.

Said he was released from the hospital and would be home that weekend and wanted to meet me at the airport. This was a 6 month relationship with never meeting him. We did skype for a few seconds and he was the guy in the profile pictures. His last words were "Am in Florida now". Never heard from him again, then he came thru 2 months later under Fred Hansen.... all together he scammed me out of $126 thousand dollors that I will never see.

Ladies these creatures are smooth talkers, and are ready for a serious relationship very fast. Told me he loved me for 6 months. He not only took my money also my heart. Lets get these scum bag Nigerians/ yahoo boys off these sites.

Please be careful out there, they prey on widows and single women. I too was nice till I found this site.

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