Comments on: Military online dating for soldiers and their fans

By: kathleen

kathleen — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:40:09 +0000

to chris[ no 9] i agree with what you say; i would like contact with genuine american soldier as everyone ive spoke to have been scammers and feel so sorry for the real people who are in these pics;THEREshould be someone we can contact to hand these pics over to so at least the real soldiers are aware of someone using their id.maybe you can start up a penpal club yorself from yor base; you never know .Take care and bless you all for what you do out there.Kathy.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:26:53 +0000

I am a Soldier in the US Army and have been for 17 years. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that every single scenario previous posters here have asked about are scams. This just is not how the US military works.

I really liked the story above because I’m one of the Soldiers trying to find someone, but don’t know where to go. Seems like there are just as many scams out there trying to prey on the troops. I thought the forcespenpals site was an amazing idea. Verifying Soldiers by their military emails. Women looking for military men know they are getting the real deal and the military guys get a site that isn’t just sucking them in to make them pay more fees and get spammed more than hear from real women.
Alas, it is only set up for British military and will not accept US military addresses. I really with there was a similar site for American Soldiers.
The author was correct when he said that many Soldiers need sites like these to connect with a woman when we’re always so far away from everyone. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find love some day

Honestly though girls, be careful. EVERY single comment so far asking if something was a scam… was a scam.

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:08:26 +0000

I have had the American’s serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq come up with anything and everything. One wanted me to send money to Africa to build and orphange for kids – I sympathise, I have seen and heard everything!!!

By: audrey

audrey — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:07:02 +0000

I met a man on Badoo,who claimed he is US soldier in Iraq and has adopted son from Africa,who stays in Ghana while he is in Iraq.we chatted about two weeks then he said to me his son in hospital,and asked me to call his friend to find out.friend asked me for 800$,for some treatment.I was suspicious about scams already,that just was approval I was right.and believe emails he wroted me was something unbelievable,I thought im so lucky,I met my dreams man,and pictures was stuning..

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:40:16 +0000

I was contacted on Match.com by a scammer named Andrew Likierman Sanchez who claimed to be a US Navy soldier. We emailed for about a month before he asked me for $2500.00 in order for his sister Maria to have surgery. I was to send this money western union to his mum Ruth Likierman in London, UK. He sent me numerous photos of himself (someone anyway) which I intend to have posted on http://www.soldiersperspective.us/2010/05/13/the-wall-of-shame/
in order to hopeful slow down this scammer. He also sent me his phone number and we spoke over the phone several times. He removed his profile from Match.com to show me how commited he was to me. He was to return to the states on June 16th so we could begin our life together. He is very full of himself.

By: Shimrit

Shimrit — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:08:47 +0000

There are two big threads of comments about military dating scams happening in the other two posts I noted above. They’re worth checking, as there is a lot of very useful information on there.

It’s important to be able to tell the difference between genuine soldiers looking for love and scammers (often from abroad) trying to scam you.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:36:25 +0000

I was contacted by someone on Friends Reunited who said he was a captain in the US Army, in Afghanistan. He is very plausible even to me (ex RMP) but the crunch comes when he says you have to pay $350 to register your phone with the US military to enable him to call you…steer clear!

By: Shimrit

Shimrit — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:58:44 +0000

Ann, it sounds to me like you’ve given your friend very good advice. the TS2 line is a known scam. I’ve heard before that some of these scammers pass off love poems as their own that they get off the Internet. If this guy has been telling your friend that he’s written her poems, you could try looking at the text then putting whole lines of it into Google and seeing if it comes up as a famous poem. This can serve as yet another clue, although to be honest, it sounds to me like this is almost definitely a scam.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:24:55 +0000

Hi, My friend has joined a dating website and has been chatting with someone called John who is a Sgt in the US Army. He has been filling emails with long love poems, has asked her to email his colonel so she can pay for him to come home and also asked for money for the theTS2 line. I have told her not to part with money. He seems genuine and is even of Facebook but I assume this is part of the scam? It’s difficult to tell though??

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:34:18 +0000

I was contacted on mate1.com by a member passing herself off as Sgt Tracy Hayes. Did a pretty good job of it too until the request for help to get a TS2 service in Iraq, then the alarm bells went off.