Welcome to Romance Scams
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
romancescams on Pictures of Scammers RS V… Yanira Chavez on Pictures of Scammers RS V… Peggy on Pictures of Scammers RS V… Jean Verlander on Pictures of Scammers RS V… LIsa on Pictures of Scammers RS V… RS Calendar
RS Archives
-
Blog Stats
- 20,184 hits
Meta
Hi,
I would like to know if anyone has been communicating with someone by the name of Richard Muniz. I met him online at Match.com. I transferred a lot of money to him via western union and would appreciate information anyone could give me. Thank you.
Karin,
can you post a pic of this guy?
I have from him just within the last week. he tried a scamming game on me as well. his current cell # is +447759757588. and the # he game me for home is 323-345-2259 his email is munizrichard66@yahoo.com…. he sent me pictures, but the way i see it is a scam artist wouldn’t use his true identify. if anyone needs copies, email me at hemene77777@yahoo.com. hope this helps. good luck. And now he’s saying he has a daughter named kelly. she’s 16. still using the construction comp story. he was sending me a b/d gift that wasn’t declared properly and the so called shipping comp wanted me to send them a western union $$ order for over $1000. I basically told them to send it back. did a little research and found out even the shipping comp is a farce.
Roxanne, you did right by refusing to accept anything from this criminal. It was all purchased with stolen credit cards and once the charges came back, you would have been held responsible for paying the debt. Please report all this information to scam_data@yahoo.com. That way it will be input into the RomanceScams.org database so others may find it. Thank you so much for sharing.
what country?
Hi Sandy, I wired money to Richard in England and Nigeria but he is in Nigeria. DON’T SEND HIM ANY MONEY!!! HE GOT $4,000 FROM ME!! I AM A SINGLE MOM OF 5 KIDS. I AM DISGUSTED. I met him on Match last year in Jan 2010. He claimed he owned a construction company and was having trouble leaving the country with his son “Christian”. I had my local police department investigate him and he is a fraud! He made up so many stories and I feel for them b/c he would mention how his son was sick in a hospital in Canada….all lies
Hi Karin,
I met him on Chemistry.com.
Yes I fell for him, his story is he was in Malaysia and he ” is” a civil engineer, and the stories to leave the country were ridiculous, (taxes to free up the ‘money’ in the bank there, an arrest at the boarder with the ‘money’ then more requests for money to free his money. He also claimed to have a son ‘Christian” who at the time was in Australia with his mother. He claimed to be Spanish/Australian. The money I sent him was always to Malaysia…but interestingly enough never to his name to other people. So I really cannot figure this out?
I stopped, but he just wont stop harrassing me for more…he even skyped me a photo lol.
I never gave him my address and do not have a webcam so he cannot see me.
What a liar and a scammer, I cannot understand why people waste their time. He is really good, sweet, smooth, I should have been smarter.
But no its over…I wish someone could make him stop,
What were his pic like…he sent me pics of a white man, black hair and greenish eyes, stubble beard…very attractive. and A pic with his son…I feel for the real guy whose Photos he is using.
I have been communicating with a richard muniz he claims to be an engineer who found himself in all kinds of trouble in malaysia?
Sandy, please tell me you are not in contact with him. I told Match.com about him and they got rid of his profile ASAP but these dating sites are known to hire scammers to keep their sites in business. He could be under so many sites…every piece of info he gave me was fraudulent…phone numbers, photos, emails, and he even had the gall to send me roses!!!! Please don’t try to meet someone online. I have a wonderful man in my life who lives in my town and was going thru a divorce when I was…he has saved my life and filled my soul. I will never go online again.
Hi Karin,
No I will never go online again either.
He contacted me last September… claims he is now in Florida, I never sent money to Nigeria, so he has prob moved his operation to Malaysia. He is pure total scum.
Like you I believed so I send a lot of money to him.
Now that he realizes that I will not send any more…. he has backed off.
Thank God you have met someone.
It makes me wonder if the guy I was writing is the same guy? He is having all kinds of problems in Malaysia. Only he claims to have a daughter. He claims his name is Henry Norton and his daughter is 7 (Rosabel). He also claims to be a construction engineer from Scotland. He says he is Italian..lost his parents when he was young. Was raised by an aunt and uncle who lives in Scotland. He is an older guy, not really great looking, but it attracted me. He doesn’t look Italian–when I called him on it, he said his mother was part German and that many people said he must have taken that trait…yeah right! How could I have been so stupid?
pls post a pic of this guy
sandy or karin:
this guy is total scammer he told me the same story of having problelms with his company because one of his workers died and they were suing him for $20.00 and they had frozen all of his assets he only got 650.00 out of me until he came up with another story of an inheritance of 9.5 m left by his dad that died 14 years ago, and until now he was finding out about the inheritance. He wanted my account no. so he can deposit the money because he did not have one and could not deposited into the working account. This guy is good knows how to write and be sweet, and romantic, he also send me flowers white at that. according to him his mother is 87 years old taking care of this 6 year old, which I found odd, also he has been a widower for 3 years he became bankrupt when his wife came ill, and had to sell everything to save her. He forgets what he tells people, and after the lawyer contacting me is when I realized that all was a scam. I have worked as a paralegal for 5 years and everysthing the lawyer kept telling me did not make any sense, that is when I put two and two together. He is not working alone other people are working with him, He is in Maylasia right now, I know this because he calls my cell all the time and I had the phone check and it is in Maylasia and the money I sent was also to Maylasia under someone elses name because his documents were taken by the hotel until he paid the money. I really think the picture he is using is not him, I personally think he is a foreigner from where can detect too much his accent, he has one. I even have come to think that he is asian. Well ladies lets stick together and get this bastard, I reported him to the FBI they have a chapter on scam and fraud, sent his pictures and copies of his emails. Lets hope he gets caught. I met him on Wayn.com
Hi Ladies
This mongrel is at it again!!! He is now on zoosk.com as well as many other sites throughout the world mainly Australia and USA. I have alerted as many sites as I can
Sue (and all who read this),
The chance the scammer who took advantage of you is the same using the name/photo on zoosk.com is little to none. There are over 100,000 scammers in West Africa alone. All share photos and profile scripts. Most are organized. Several scammers share the victims using one existing profile. That is why if one has been in contact with a scammer, it seems at times like talking/chatting to several different people. The reality is each scammer is working several dozen victims at a time using different profiles set up at dating and/or social networking sites. They work shifts — when one gets up to go home, another slides into the seat and picks up where the last one left off.
Hope this helps,
DianeG
RS Webmistress
Hi ladies, I am sobbing right now knowing this person has not been caught and has hurt other loving and kind people such as yourselves. Richard Muniz was always in”Nigeria or Canada when he chatted w me…I always looked up his IP address and started putting the pieces together after I found out this info. He is part of a network out of Nigeria when all happened to me and I have heard that Match.com is corrupt in letting stammers do this for a monetary benefit of course. I have been afraid to check the blogs b c of shame and b c of I let down my children. He will get caught….or die a miserable person….KM
Has any lady been confronted on messenger from facebook from a guy who claims he’s from Scotland? His name is Henry Norton. He says he is 55 years old, widowed with a daughter name Rosabel. After writing a month and him declaring his love for me, he claims he is a construction engineer that is being sent to Malaysia. After he got to Malaysia, he claimed his billfold got stolen or lost (with all his credit cards and money–he claimed to be very wealthy). He asked if I could send him $5,000 U.S. money and I did. Now he is claiming that he cannot fly back to Scotland to his bank so he can pay me back (which he promised with extra for being so kind). He now wants $1400 for a plane ticket. Has anyone heard of him? I am just realizing how stupid I was and that I will probably never get it from him although he promised he would send it no later than August 1 (next Monday). I don’t make a lot of money and I borrowed money from a bank to send this. I am crushed over this. How could I have been so naive and gullible?
Hello & welcome, Karla,
I am sorry to hear all this and even sorrier to have to tell you this is a scammer. Your $5,000 is gone. Please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/. It is an open group so you can read messages. To respond and access the files, you will need to join the group but please create an email address/identity that is totally anonymous to join. Also feel free to contact me directly if I can be of more help to you. The first thing you need to do to make yourself and your computer safe is to block and delete all ways you have contact with this criminal. DO NOT send anymore money. Do not share with this scammer that you are seeking help. He will do his best to convince you that everyone is against the two of you being together.
Our group has been in existence for over 6 years and we have never seen an instance where the “alleged” friend ever arrives. He will keep telling you stories until he can drain you dry and no matter what name and/or story he tells, it is all a lie. He may be using a made up name/story or he may have stolen another individual’s identity. Either way, please follow my suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you and/or seeing you at the group.
DianeG
DianeG@romancescams.org
Thanks, so much for your response. I did invent a new yahoo account and went on there like you said. It does help a little to know I am not the only one that got sucked into something like this. I hope this criminal gets punished and soon…and I wish so much to get my money back…OMG I was so foolish! I am so embarrassed!
Again, Karla, I am so very sorry for the loss of trust you are experiencing as well as the loss of money. You are a victim of a crime in this instance. Embarrassment is natural, however, if you were mugged and your purse stolen, would you feel embarrassed? Because this is exactly what happened. You thought you were helping someone you cared about and who cared about you. Instead you were manipulated into thinking and feeling this way while the scammer knew all along he was using you. I am very sorry that you lost this money. The reality is that no matter who contacts you to tell you they can get it back for you, it is gone and if this happens, the person who contacts you is also a scammer. Stay with the group. Read and learn and when you feel you are ready, share your experience. It will help you and will help others as well. I wish you healing and health.
Diane
Thanks it is helping to post these messages-to know that someone out there understands and doesn’t judge. What really makes me upset with myself is, I mentioned to some friends that I was writing a guy online and they warned me. I thought this was different and that I knew what I was doing. How could anyone be so dumb? I am not normally a moody person. I am usually a happy-go-lucky type. But since this happened, I go from okay to depressed and I cry at the drop of a hat. I want to get back to normal again. I have a great job and a really good life..but this has really messed my thinking up. If my colleagues knew what I have done, I would probably lose my position. It is bad enough that part of my family knows. And they are all going to wonder why, in a few weeks when I have to sell my car (I bought it brand-new with cash when I inherited a little money from my father who died a few years back). All this is weighing heavy on my mind..and shoulders. Thanks for having this group to ‘air’ our thoughts and read advice. I am determine to get over this…even though right now I am really having a difficult time. Thanks…and please anyone I need all the kind words right now. Thanks so much!
Karla,this scam-mers already took our money and trust,we have to be strong,we should not let them take our spirit also,they are not worth a drop of tears and with this experienced we can help others by spreading the words to every one and find other ways to at least slow them down if we can not stopped those evil doers.It is natural to question ourselves,but remember we are human who is compassionate,caring and loving and those scam-mers used that to get us.God has the vengeance for those people who used His name in vain.Don’t worry their day well come.Take care!
I currently am in contact with a guy who claims he is in the UK and his Dad worked for a company called PETRONAS…which actually is a real company…now we have just emailed and he says he is supposed to come into some money…He does have my phone number and I have his…it is the same person I talk to whether I call him or he calls me…okay, I want to believe him so much, but his name is Kelvin Frankling and I met him thru Myspace…I have tried to check his email and phone(reverse check on spokeo) but it comes back as his email is “genuine” I just want to know if he is for real. I don’t know how to post his pic right now other wise I would…he can be found also on FB and Netlog….please tell me he is for real….or help me get rid of him….I need to know….thanks in advance for any help you can give
Hello Cynthia,
I’m sorry but it sounds like you are involved with a scammer. To view our Photo Album or submit a photo to be placed in our album, go to http://www.romancescams.org. For help and support while going through this, please visit our support group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/. Even though this person’s email address checks out, if a scammer has stolen someone’s identity and using it, everything about that person will check out. It doesn’t mean it verifies that the man you are involved with is for real. I am very sorry you find yourself in this position and hope you will join the group (make sure you read the introductory material first) and seek the support and assistance you need. We look forward to supporting you through this.
well I am hoping not…..he hasn’t asked for any money nor will I send any….he hasn’t given me any sad story about his life….he offered his number and told me to call if I wanted to…the only thing I found fishy is that when he calls me, is that it says unavailable….but yet the person I call and the person who calls is the same voice…you say “it sounds” like a scammer…I would like to research this…I looked at pictures and did reverse email and pics and nothing came back…
I hope you are right
but if you find out you aren’t, please visit our group or contact one of the Peer Counselors via email directly. All of our email addresses are available from this page:
http://romancescams.org/ContactUs.html.
Hi – I was just scammed by someone on Chemistry. I thought I was being careful. I ran Spokeo to see if there was someone with his name in the city he claimed to live in. Yes, there was and he was the right age too. He claimed to be Carlos Parker, living in Daly City, CA. I also live in CA but not the same city. I thought he lived too far and this wouldn’t go anywhere, but talked to him through IM (conveniently his webcam didn’t work) and by cell phone. He started using terms of endearment too fast for me, but eventually his romantic emails got to me. One week before we were to meet he had to go on a business trip. First, to the east coast. Then, he got a huge new business contract. He was to go to Ghana to purchase gold for a company in Australia this was for ‘our future’. The first problem, his laptop got lost on the airplane or in the airport or something. He said Dell wouldn’t ship out of the US. I checked and that was true. I foolishly sent him money to help purchase a replacement in Ghana. Then, he invested everything he had ($2.1 million) in the gold because it was such a good deal. But, oops he didn’t have the money to ship it and could I wire him $55,500. He emailed what were suppose to be official documents supporting his purchase. My family doesn’t know I sent some money for the laptop. But, this large purchase I showed to my brother who is a geologist. He found the scam on the Ghana Embassy website. When I refused to send the money somehow he managed to raise it on his own. But, oops now he needed money for something else so that he could return home. I cut off all communication.
I alerted Chemistry and they removed him. Then two days later I saw him there using the last name Parker as his first name. I alerted Chemistry and he was removed again. I know he continues to scam people. I had no idea this kind of thing happened and now see it is a prevalent problem. This was my first experience with online dating. It is heart breaking and I hate knowing that he is continuing to suck women into his lies.
Has anyone ever let the person who’s identity is being used know? I located his home address on Spokeo. I have thought about writing him a letter just as a heads up. He may want to take precuations to better protect his personal information. I have went to the online white pages to remove what information I could and tightened up my banking access.
Thanks for advice and I hope if this scenario sounds familiar it stops someone else.
Lisa,
Thank you for sharing your story. I am very sorry you find yourself in this position and have lost not only time but money as well. I am glad you shared the information you had with your brother. Many people keep the relationship to themselves and end up losing so much more. Our Yahoo group is full of members who have experience this same violation. I invite you to visit and join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/. It is unfortunate the dating sites don’t do more to monitor the location of those who join and put up profiles. Feel free to contact me directly if I can be of further support and/or help.
Hi i was scammed by a guy who seemed so real i believed what he said i researched on my own and found nothing on this guy and i understand why many of his victims were afraid to put anytrhing out there about this guy he is a demented scammer many of the women he victimized probably had shown there selves on cam like i did partial in the nude when i cut him off from wiring money he threaten to post my pictures on line where the whole world could see them for a few days i cried and wondered how could i have gotten in to such a bad place with a stranger i felt like i had been raped my scammer stalked me so much i had to contact the authorities this scammer is really good at what he does he tried to get more money out of me but i told him no if he wanted to post the pictures no one knows me anyways and that it would make me more popular. After filing all the reports i needed to file with authoirties i was able to get some help and on some of the sites where his profile were the pictures and profiles were taken down from the sites he was on. I know he will come back again with other names and other profiles. I realized the grestest lessons in life we must learn are some of the painful one that shows us who we are. By telling my story it may help someone who feels like there is no hope after what a scammer does to you you feel violated and rape. I have learned not to trust just anyone and this is the lesson my mother taught me about a stranger this scammer was a stranger be aware. I have moved on with my life and will not let this guy take anymore from me then he already has and now that i know what to look for i will not compremise myself again.
This guy is dangerous and my hope is that he will be found and prosecuted for the crimes he committs against women i truly understand now the dangers that are out there now i have decided not to be online that when the time is right God will send the right man my way. I believe that something needs to be done these man are predators online and think they are untouchable to any laws something has to be done.
Charity, I hope you will share the details about this criminal by submitting his data and the photos he is using to our website. The link is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/.
We have live chat also available. Even if a peer counselor/moderator is not available, you can leave an offline message and one of us will contact you shortly.
hi my name is marcy and i believe i have been scammed his name is leonard bruce of irish and scottish decent i have been in contact with him for 2 mo. and he told me about being a project manager from fredericksburg va. he also asked for my # which i gave to him he was calling me all the time from va. with a va. # that i checked out was coming from salem va. then he sends me an email that he has gotten a contract for a job in malaysia for 1.5 million then he calls me all the time then one day he calls asking for 10,000$ for equipment and tells me how depressed he is supposedly his son is also there he tells me to wire him the money under his sons name and the address of course i said no way i have no money and when he emailed me he says about how much he loves me and cherishes me and that he is going to treat me like a queen i emailed him some of my most inner thoughts and today is the first day that i come to believe he is the scammer that my family was telling me about he also wants you to keep everthing a secret he also told me he was an only child and his parents had passed away he also sent me pictures of him and his son and grandson and 2 wks into our internet relationship he starts to call me his wife and he also writes the most beautiful emails i have ever read i really fell in love with this scammer and i have just come to terms he is not for real please ladies watch out sometimes we can not trust men that we meet in person why one on the internet oh and the first time i talked to him he sounded nigerian but i dont know what i thought about that he contacted me on ourtime .com
Please block, delete & ignore this scammer and have no further contact with him. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/ and read the front page, join and ask for help. We are here for you. I am sorry this has happened but you can recover and learn how to spot a scammer instantly so you can enjoy your web surfing experience and be able to use the wonderful sites out there to network us with others.
I do not feel so foolish after reading how we are all susceptible to a scammer. I recently “fell” for one. He never asked me for money, yet he claimed all the other routine criteria such as the contractor for oil and having been a widow for 7 years as well as having a son. He is currently supposedly out of the country getting his big contract. I started reading other women’s stories and looked at this website and saw a picture that I had always been suspicious of but he told me he didn’t know anything about. His name is John King aka Jose Miguel. As I said, I didn’t lose any money, just emotional feelings and time.
Welcome, Yvonne, if you’d like to share your story with others, please join the support group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/romancescams/.
I am very glad you didn’t lose money but the toll a dating scam takes goes beyond that and support while healing can be helpful.
Diane G
Peer Counselor/Moderator
I just got scammed by Rajmund Timotez. Email is rtimotez@aol.com
It’s another Nigerian based lie. Look out for him on Match.com
Wow, I am sorry but I was a victim to by Rajmund Timotez.. I try to look him up but had found nothing until today… he started with me 3 weeks ago, I guess by the same time with you Margie.. I just had a red flag when he said he was taking him 8yr old daughter with him on business trip to Nigiria…
I hope you didnt lose to much time and money…
Meet him on Match.com
hello, Can you give me a pic of your Rajmund ?
What was the story he gave you Margie and JW?
Does anybody know of Abid Khalil, of Peshawar,Pakistan, maybe Dubai, on Skype, New York. I have known him since 2008 and over 3 and half years he has conned me out of £1,000. I trusted him because of the length of time I have known him. I have just found out that everything he told me was a lie. Although the fool did give me his correct name and address and copy of his Passport plus his Pakistan ID No. This Guy can charm the pants off of you be very careful if he has approached you. I am fighting him like mad to get my money back, through is Parents who now know the whole story.
Has anyone heard of a man calling himself Paul Brown? Lives in Colorado, but goes to Dubai to work because he won a contract there.
Hello, I just started emailing to a guy that claims is from the UK, widower,and a father of a daughter name Kimmy. What I don’t understand is how can this scammers get pictures,I have close to10 pictures of this guy and his daughter and him ,at different ages. He sounds very suspicious , and I was wonderingif anybody has run into a Tony Quinn. From POF.com. I haven’t lost any money,but I wanted to know if anybody has run into him anywhere else.thanks for all the testimonies. This website is very helpful.
Hello Yanira, Sounds like a scammer. The photos come from previous victims or are stolen from FaceBook or other social networking sites where people have photos uploaded and not protected from strangers. Please protect yourself and your computer by stopping all communication with this criminal immediately. Visit us at either http://www.romancescams.org or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/ for more information and help.
DianeG