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• 1. Pat  |  June 7th, 2009 at 10:22 am

  i have been a victim to this scammer saying they are a captain in the american army but have not lost as much as the other lady but we need to make people aware alot more than before about these scammers and what they can do to us vunerable ladies .

• 2. Louise  |  June 19th, 2009 at 8:33 am

  I would like to know more about these scams. I am worried about my mother who is chatting/emailing with a man who claims to be a high rank american soldier, now in iraq, and who has a son, who she also has been chatting with. So far they dont want any money but I got a gut feeling that this is a scam.

  I would love it if someone could post more info on how they do these scams, with examples if you can, so I can show my mom, she will not believe me otherwise..

• 3. Shimrit  |  June 19th, 2009 at 9:06 am

  Different scammers work differently but the most common one seems to be asking for money so that they can use some kind of special phone service to contact the women from the field. See my related post about the Iraq soldier scam. Tell your mother to be wary of any attempts to get money out of her, though. Scammers are always coming up with different stories to get money out of kind, generous people and sometimes they spend a few months “working” the victim before making a move. If this guy is indeed a scammer as you suspect, sooner or later he or his son will ask for money. It could be anything – phone service, sudden operation needing funds, a car accident involving them or a close family member, etc.

  I don’t know what dating site she is on, obviously, but if she is on a reputable dating site that has a customer service team in place, then you should advise her to contact the customer service team if the guy ever asks for money and ask whether they think it’s genuine. Dating site companies don’t like admitting they have scammers dating on their sites, but they can instantly check whether someone has been corresponding with more than one woman with the same sob story (which is what scammers usually do).
  Customer service teams generally remove the scammer and, often, would warn the person affected (though sometimes just giving generic advice such as “never send money to anyone”, which you should view as a sign the guy was indeed a scammer).

  Unfortunately, a lot of scammers try to get people off the dating site ASAP so there is no record of their “work”. In such a case it might be harder to prove. Also, some dating sites, especially the free ones, have very poor moderation in place, meaning you cannot rely on them for support.

  The key element here is the request for money. If the guy asks for money, he is a scammer, or at the very least, a gold digger to be avoided.

• 4. C  |  July 16th, 2009 at 11:10 pm

  All a woman (or man) needs to keep in mind is when a virtual stranger asks you for money he/she only sees you as a walking wallet. No person who is legitimately interested in a relationship with another would ask for money so soon – they’d be worried about what that person would think and that they might blow it with them. The only time you should give/lend monies is when you’re in an actual committed relationship.

• 5. Sarah  |  August 30th, 2009 at 9:29 am

  I hope you publish this , i was e-mail a guy who procalimed to be a Sgt Jeff Miller from the us army , he wanted me to send him money so he could come home on voccational leave but lucky i know the military and they told me to keep well away , there is a lot of this at the moment , always Iraq , always American soldiers , always pictures , then the sting . Beware and they lady whose mum was e-mailing the american ? ….they are rednecks apparently the americans are aware but dont seem to be doing a thing . If any ohne has heard from Sgt Miller beware !

• 6. Christina  |  September 5th, 2009 at 11:39 am

  I want to know where to report them, I always know immediately. I have been contacted by one. And I chatting to him…even made him call me, cause I don’t call men…He has african accent, told me his name was Major Lindo, I am sarcastic person….hehehe hard to hid the contempt in my voice…Asked him is that your first name or rank…No one introduces themselves, but their rank…even has picture of soldier (not major) in uniform..I have forwarded to army email…but want to send the police to his house…tells me he station at Washington DC no base and the number is for Georgia.

  Oh btw, wants to take me to the world cup….hehehe

  And where can I report this person, he hasnt asked me for money yet (and pretends to have loads himself) Cant wait until he does, will pretend I am going too…hehehehe

• 7. Sarah  |  September 21st, 2009 at 7:37 pm

  I also got scammed by SGT Jeff Miller.

• 8. Latest Victim  |  September 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

  Just spent thousands of hard-earned dollars on this scam, supposedly on a leave request for a widowed officer, with a young son, serving in Afghanistan on a tour of duty. Just wanted to warn all those out there that the moment you are asked to spend any money whatsoever, run!! Forget the charming comments, poems, raw emotional output, and endless appeals to your heart, etc. They have been honing their acts for quite awhile. Let them finish their tour of duty; they signed up for it.

• 9. Penny  |  October 23rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm

  I am feeling a little confused as I am involved with an American soldier who is in Afghanistan and he asked me to pay the money for his leave but i did not know about this until i got the forms to sign. I then told him i couldnt pay that money which he was upset about first of all then he was fine and we have continued contact. Does anyone know if the phone company “TL5 CONNECTION” exists? I have had correspondences from them but don’t know what to think?

• 10. Lisa  |  October 27th, 2009 at 1:37 am

  Sarah please contact me regarding sgt jeff miller please put name in subject line (stcmom11@aol.com)

• 11. Alison  |  November 1st, 2009 at 9:07 am

  I am being scammed by a Jeff Miller at this very moment also but luckily realised from the start as i saw the warning in Take A Break magazine, i am just playing him at the moment and have no intention of sending money , gifts or anything else he has requested.

• 12. Lisa  |  November 9th, 2009 at 1:20 am

  I am chatting with a widowed soldier serving in Afghanistan, he has 2 children living now alone in the States. Hard to believe. He did not aska for money yet.

• 13. Janet  |  November 10th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

  The Sgt. Jeff Miller hoax continues. Received an email from “him” today. You can always tell the liars and cheaters. They are so ignorant they show their hand immediately. Aside from blocking them from contact with you on a site, is there somewhere to turn their sorry sick butts in?

• 14. Alison  |  December 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pm

  Hi Janet , I really wish there was , but no one seems very interested.
  We just need to get the warning out there as they try every trick in the book to make you feel sorry for them with the aim of catching vulnerable women.
  Alison

• 15. Marge  |  December 13th, 2009 at 4:25 am

  A friend of mine joined facebook and got to know Sgt. John Russel, a US soldier based in Iraq. From what I know she had given all her savings to him (stupidly). Anyone else happen to know this person?

• 16. Lorraine Walker  |  December 13th, 2009 at 10:09 am

  no this is very real unfortunately

• 17. shirly  |  December 14th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

  i was talking to a sgt mark miller, for a while saying he was a amercian in iraq had a daughter aaged 11 and lost his wife through child birth.. he sent me pics of him which were red hot but ther was some think about the way he spoked in his emails they did not sound amercian, and then he ask me to get a militry phone so we could talk, but i would not saying that too near to xmans and ca nnot afford it, then emails stopped dead si i think he was a scammer also i have photos is there any where we can put the photos up to ward other people to stear clear.

  shirls

• 18. Alison  |  January 13th, 2010 at 10:27 pm

  I am more than happy to forward my pics of this scammer if anyone wishes to email me alison2_99@yahoo.com

• 19. jen  |  January 16th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

  my sis was scammed also at the beg of 2010. she me phoned on the thurs and asked if we could lend her 4 thou pounds!we said no, it sounded like a scam..but she was adamant said it wasnt , she had his picture (told her anyone can send a picture of another person.she had his commanders name/e mail/all this paperwork .. etc etc. longstory short she sent the money by bank transfer ..(well my mom sent it)she had to get a loan. they wouldnt listen to us.we live in the uk.and if i ever get my hands on him, well ??? we contacted american embassy in london to see if they could give any advice..not alot they could to trace it..bet he had a lovely xmas…i hope others learn from some of the things being talked about on here..jenn

• 20. Margaret R  |  January 17th, 2010 at 10:29 pm

  I have been chatting to American soldier to work out what the scam is. He is having a ‘diplomat’ deliver me a parcel tomorrow (4.7m US Dollars – anyone like a share). He has NOT asked for money. Flight is on time. What is the scam? Only contact details he has is an old PAYG Mobile. Urgent help!
  Margaret

• 21. Shimrit  |  January 18th, 2010 at 10:01 am

  Margaret: How long have you been chatting to him? Sooner or later the requests for money do come, but they have been getting better at working people slowly.

• 22. Margaret R  |  January 18th, 2010 at 10:24 pm

  Hi 8 months since first contact but had 4 or 5 months without contact. Today the courier (Diplomat)asked for £2500 to get the package out of Customs or Diplomatic something. I rang police and after speaking to 7 or 8 one confirmed they would arrest him if I went down to London (from Gtr Manchester) and handed him the money. Also had to report it first to local police station. Decided to block messenger and e-mails. Sim taken out of mobile and my fingers crossed. Margaret

• 23. Kate  |  January 27th, 2010 at 6:25 pm

  Hello All, I had a similar experience talking to a Sgt. Benson Martins on a dating site. He wanted me to join yahoo to do chatting (in the controlroom when the general wasn’t there!!!). He was dead keen to marry me straight away and wanted me to help him desert the army and fill some leave forms in. And he was even more keen to speak on the phone to me. I have a sim-only phone anyway, so I thought it won’t do any harm to give him my number. I received a sms today from the alleged “US ARMY Military Telephone Service”. That chat would have cost me 115.40 whatever currency, it didn’t specify. I couldn’t resist going online again to chat to my brave soldier today and confronted the scammers. They kind of admitted that they have tried to convince me.
  Unfortunately there is no way to get our hands onto these people. There should be some way of tracing them, but they are very clever. So please, all of you out there, listen to your inner voice and if something sounds strange or slightly odd, report it to this site, which I think is great.
  Fortunately the scammer didn’t scam any money out of me and he had to work really hard to no avail.
  I have saved the picture of the gorgeous American serviceman I have been sent though! Never give too much personal information out to somebody you don’t know. Don’t give them your bank or credit card details. And never send them money for leave or anything else.

  Kate

• 24. stephen  |  February 4th, 2010 at 12:26 am

  Hi, I have got a 61 year old friend called Jane, she has falled for this guy who calls himself ‘kelly’ says he is in the US army serving in Irag. He claims to have a 11 year old son. Jane has not seen a moving picture of either of them. She started this online ‘relationship’ almost a year ago. She has already sent £5,000 to a diplomatt recieve a parcel from kelly last August, which ofcourse did not arrive becasue the diplomatt was in an accident with internal bleeding. Kelly also claims to own a 5 bed house in Alaska and a farm in Ghana. I have just found out that Jane foolishly sends him £50.00 a week , as part of her share of the farm when he gets married to her! He has been promising to visit the UK to get married since June 2009, but never appeared. He has told her all kinds of stories such as, a bomb has gone off and left him in hospital in New York. The planes could not fly to UK due to the ice on the run way. He cannot send her any money because his bank and branch is in Alaska! But he claims he loves her and won’t let her down “honey”. Jane is still convinced he is genuine!! I do not want to see her financially ruined and heart broken. But she won’t listen. If anyone knows of this cheater or have heard similar tales please get in touch. By the way kelly says the parcel is still at Heathrow Airport, but cannot be claimed until he signs for it. He has totally brainwashed her and before long it could be Jane in hospital with a mental breakdown. Please help as I don’t want to see other vulnerable people abused like this. Thanks stephen

• 25. Shimrit  |  February 4th, 2010 at 9:51 am

  Hi Stephen.

  Unfortunately, there is not much anyone can do while your friend is so brainwashed by this guy. You could try going to the police, but you would probably need copies of the emails they exchanged. Maybe someone in the fraud department can help. I assume they are no longer communicating on the dating site where they met? If you can get her to have even the smallest doubt that this man is genuine, you may be able to get her to contact her dating site and ask about this guy. They will usually have access to his account so should be able to tell her he’s dodgy by looking at his behaviour pattern on the site. Usually, though, dating site companies don’t like to admit they have scammers dating on their site, so they may just remove his account from there without confirming or denying in any other way.

  Have you tried showing her this page and the related pages on my site? It’s full of similar stories of women who got conned or got away before being conned.

• 26. Sarah  |  February 7th, 2010 at 2:43 pm

  I have been speaking to a so called US soldier in Iraq – Sgt. Johnson Miller. I was doubtful from the first contact as he was clearly copying stuff off the internet and trying to pass off song lyrics as his own thoughts. The best bit was he had idea about the time difference between the UK and Iraq! When i challenged him he went all sulky and claimed I had hurt HIS feelings. I kept him interested because I wanted to see how far he would go. When he told me he had been awarded $5 million dollars that he wanted me to look after, I told him I had reported him to the dating site – Parship and would do all i could to tell others of his scam. Surprise surprise he disappeared immediately.

• 27. Barbara  |  February 8th, 2010 at 10:51 am

  I was contacted by a David Burgess who said he was a Colnel in thw US Armey, the photos he sent had been tampered with (spotted by my police offer son) my whole family started to delve into who the photos where, They where not of a David Burgess, they where of a very famous US General called John Abizaid, so if any one is chstting with a David Burgess, check out the photo

• 28. Chez  |  February 10th, 2010 at 2:58 pm

  Hi I am right in the middle of what I beleive is now a scam. Similar story US military man staioned in Afghanistan, widowed, 2 kids, wife killed in car crash. He says he is German and a Chief Warrant Office and Orthopedic surgeon. Sent a package via Diplomat, it got to Ghana, requests came for money to help to clear it – which I stupidly sent. the package then went to London and got stopped again. Another request for money, which I sent. Next thing call to say he is on route to Glasow with said package. I went to meet him and he supposedly did not get through customs as when the package was scanned it contained a huge amount of US dollars. It got sent back. The guy I have been chatting to on IM asked me to finance the required documents to get it out of customs in London and I said no. I told him to do it himself when he came back to the UK on 30th Jan. He came back and the next thing he is on route to Ghana to get the documents ( dont know why he had to go there ) he arrives back in the UK last Saturday and has a meeting with the customs folks and lo & behold yet more money is needed and he asks me to help and I say I cannot. Up until yesterday -9th Feb – he was on the IM, sending txt messages and calling me. Now nothing. For the last 24hrs all has gone silent and the mobile is supposedly switched of. No idea what has gone on but would seem like its a major and complicated scam involving a supposed officer, a supposed diplomat and a supposed shipping company……I dont know how to check out the ID he sent me – its a US military ID, nor do I know how to check out his address in the UK. I do have lots of pics of him so if anyone would like to see them please email me at chezis21@gmail.com

• 29. Chez  |  February 11th, 2010 at 1:48 pm

  Update….well turns out he is genunine. Got his package out of London himself got his doucments and paid the money into the bank and now he is heading here to see me this weekend to pay me back the money I already sent.

  Who would have thought that there are actualy genuine people doing this!

• 30. Shimrit  |  February 11th, 2010 at 3:08 pm

  Chez – I’m still not convinced… Be careful.

• 31. chez  |  February 12th, 2010 at 7:39 pm

  Hi Shimrit, I am now pretty certain that he is genuine. He had to pay out 1000s to get his documents for his package and the shipping company helped him to do it. He is flying to Glasgow tomorrow morning to meet me and to pay me what I laid out…..will post an update soon.

• 32. gillian  |  February 16th, 2010 at 2:30 pm

  have been chatted to by a colonel david burgess (sam) of usa army for two weeks. He asked for money for his suitcase which is in Accra airport – i was told he was retiring end of month to london. I have loads of pictures to prove this.didnt realise it till today that its a scam. i sent no money. First time on the dating internet and could be the last.!!!!

• 33. gillian  |  February 16th, 2010 at 2:36 pm

  it should read after colonel david burgess name (scam) not `sam` – sorry typing error. thanks.

• 34. chez  |  February 20th, 2010 at 5:31 am

  Here is an update to my story. The man I met online is who he says he is and is not a scammer. I met him last weekend as planned and he is genuine and real. He has paid me back the money and we are now seeing each other. I am so relieved that things have turned out so positive and realise that I am one of the lucky ones when I read the hundreds of stories on the net of woman and men been scammed.

• 35. Renee  |  February 21st, 2010 at 7:21 pm

  hi,

  I’m currently in a scam at the moment with an american solider who is based in Iraq. His name is

  Sgt Douglas Milner

  He is chasing me for 50 pounds to start off with to establish phone communication with him.

  This is a copy of the email I received from his solicitor

  Hello Renee,

  I arrived safely in Africa, Nigeria.

  PAYMENT DETAIL (Western union transfer)

  Name: Blessing Owolabi
  State: Lagos
  Country: Nigeria
  Zip Code
  State: 01
  Country: 234
  Security Question: To establish contact with.
  Security Answer: Douglas

  Please send the mtcn number details after payment as to confirm your payment and your telephone number details as to complete all necessary processing within 24hours.

  Best regards.

  Yours Faithfully,

  Barrister Roberts Collins ESQ.

  This person is starting to become demanding as he has being asking for money for a while and I have not paid up. His emails are crap for someones who’s first language is English.

  He also sends me poems – but when you search you can find them on the internet.

  Just wanted to share… please be careful!

  Renee

• 36. myriam  |  February 25th, 2010 at 2:22 pm

  Please, if someone is asking any money or any other sort of thing (like diplomats and parcels) RUN!!! tell them you will take legal advice before you say anything and tell them tou´ll return…They will disappear..It hurts but only for a while…

• 37. Kendra  |  March 8th, 2010 at 4:21 am

  I have also been contacted by:
  Sgt. Benson Martins,

  I started to notice something was strange when his answers werent matching his previous statements. Then he told me a sad story about being a windower and having a 13 year old daughter. It never got to the point where he asked for money b/c I have a friend in army intel—and I had her run the name. Of course it didn’t show anything….and neither did googling his name. I lucked onto this site, and I am so glad that I did.
  I’m kind of scared b/c he knows my name and my state. I didn’t realize my yahoo IM posted my full name until he typed it earlier. I hope he can not get into my accounts. I’ll be watching things just in case and waring the other women on the site.

• 38. Kendra  |  March 8th, 2010 at 4:24 am

  Oh and this is the e-mail that he asked me to e-mail asking or his leave. He asked me to include my adress, name, occupation, work adress, and let him know everything b/c he would need it for the interview to request leave.
  I was lucky enough to notice the strange ending and contacted my friend.
  usarmydeptofdefense@usa.com

  Military e-mails and websites don’t end in usa.com

• 39. Shimrit  |  March 8th, 2010 at 9:14 am

  Kendra, I’m glad you found my site and also that the alarm bells went off in your heard to go looking and asking questions in the first place!
  Thank you for sharing this useful information with us.

  It might be worth contacting your bank and telling them to watch out for unusual activity on the account. They may be able to help you with more security measure on your accounts.

• 40. christine  |  March 9th, 2010 at 7:45 pm

  hi i have been chatting to a jerry moore a colonel in afgan for 6 weeks, i felt so good with his emails and endless love. but then came the luggage was stuck in Accra and could i send 5500 pound and he will give to me when he came home as he due to retire. i fell broken inside. but this is the only time i was happy i was skint and had not money to help. i went back on the date line yesterday for the first time and was not on there 5 min before a Colonel Robert Burgess was chatting to me. same story widowed with a son, i wish we could stop this so no more people get hurt.

• 41. Vivienne  |  March 16th, 2010 at 1:11 pm

  I am in talks with a american soldier in iraq thats sending me a parcel via a diplomat i want to report this but dont know how i still have the emails trouble is i gave him my address will i be ok i live alone what happens when this guy knocks on my door

• 42. debbie l pigeau  |  March 18th, 2010 at 1:21 am

  My sister is being scammed by Sgt. Jeff Miller. I need more information and pictures, so I can prove it to her. Is there anyone that still has pictures or stories about him?

• 43. Alison  |  March 20th, 2010 at 12:47 am

  Hi Debbie ,
  email me at alison2_99@yahoo.com , i will be more than happy to share my emails and pics of the guy that tried to scam me calling himself sgt jeff miller.

• 44. Jan  |  March 27th, 2010 at 7:31 pm

  Has anyone heard of Johnson Smith johnson.smith55@hotmail.com he has asked me for money to buy him a flight out of afgan £800

• 45. Heidi  |  March 28th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

  Hi Girls,

  Jeff Miller is same guy as Richard/Philip/Jeff and Mark Miller. I have been tracking him since Dec 2009 when he tried to scam me. Email me at heidi.lynn1@gmail.com and we can swop info and photos.
  Heidi

• 46. Janette  |  April 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm

  Hi Christine…No 41…

  I too have been communicating with a colonel Jerry Moore Burgess, widower with 1 son, in the british army who is about to retire next week…

  He has made me feel special, with all his poems, emails, dreams, dedicated songs…etc…

  Sounds like the same person…

  Sent me a picture of himself with his son. 1 with his brother!!!!

  I haven’t been asked for money as yet and had thought he may be genuine until tonight…..

  I became suspicious after i asked him what was the time and he rattled off a time that didn’t match previous conversations or my other clock set for Kabul, Afghanistan…

  So I started really searching and came across here…

  I will keep the convo going to see where he goes with it….

  Would love to here from you Christine or others who have been in contact with this person….

  regards Janette

• 47. teresa  |  April 4th, 2010 at 3:40 pm

  Hi everyone ihave had same experience as christine with a jerry moore colonel in afghanistan same story widower with one son and declaring undying love for me and marriage and he is very clever i do beleive him when he said he had defense intelligence training he definately knew how to get inside my brain and manipulate me but i did see sense when the warning signs came with the money request for lost baggages and his friend who phone from ghana asking for the money for the stamp on his luggage which was held up in customs and excise. I have phone the army and they were helpful they will tell you if the name exists i do have photos too so will look at some of the suggestions to see whose photo he is using it is terrible i really fell for him and was living afghanistan two months with him.

• 48. teresa  |  April 4th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

  Hi janette

  just seen your post too yes i had all the love letters dreams poems and music too and the photos thank goodness christine posted her experience. I confronted him with it the scam and posted all his love letters back to him which were considerable and when i asked him who he was he cut me off on the ichat. The army are helpful. I began to realise he has so many women he is doing this to that he started to get confused too as another alarm bell went off when he next sent email asking me if i had something for a barrister felix and wondered who he was talking about. So it seems he is doing this to a lot of women.

• 49. Rosemary  |  April 8th, 2010 at 8:03 pm

  Hello Janette, Theresa and anyone else that has been communicating with Jerry Moore Burgess.
  I too have been in communication with this person for about 6 weeks now he has not yet asked for any money but the fact that he has ben sending you the same messages as me tells me everything.
  I too have had the poems the dedicated songs, the dreams and the same photos of him with his son and his brother and undying love, I too became suspicious regarding the time difference which wasn’t always consistent and he asked odd questions about my childhood and what my tastes are with food and clothes etc.,he also at one time got me confused with someone else.
  He really got into my head as well,he knows how to push the buttons.

• 50. Melissa  |  April 8th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

  Colonel Jerry Moore is still at it. He has declared undying love for me with poems and music. He says he is a widower with a 16 year old son and is retiring from the Army and flying into Heathrow Airport on the 16 March. He would like me to meet him at the airport. He has not to date asked for any money but he ought to be stopped from fleecing other vulnerable women as he is quite good at what he does.

• 51. liz barnard  |  April 9th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

  I was approached via dating website by a man (Loveheals) who claimed to be a colonel in a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan and a recent widower. His profile wasn’t altogether convincing but his English was reasonable. Subsequent emails weren’t and contained factual errors and strange claims. He reckoned he graduated from Sandhurst as a Sergeant Major, but Sandhurst is an officer training college from which you pass out as a lieutenant so I knew that couldn’t be true.

  He then claimed to have done officer training in the USA but when I looked up the college on line it trained veterinary technicians. We have plenty of Vet training courses over here – no need to send someone to the US to train.

  There were all sorts of other anomalies to do with a polish mother and a father called Burgess but his name was Jerry Moore, so that didn’t hang together. I decided this guy must be in a psychiatric institution and terminated the correspondence before he had a chance to ask for any money. He sent me photos of shrines to American soldiers in Gan and one of him with his son. It never occurred to me it might be a potential scam. I just thought he had an identity disorder!

  Liz

• 52. liz barnard  |  April 9th, 2010 at 9:07 pm

  I’ve read most of the postings and have just noticed that Jerry Moore appears to have several aliases, all variations on J and M!

  This man really got to me with his emotional warmth and his sad personal life. I must be more emotionally needy than I realised because I was prepared to drop the other men I was corresponding with and was really looking forward to him finishing his tour of duty (which he described as ‘retirement’) and falling into his arms! I am 68 and ought to know better! But I’m not totally daft and there were too many holes in his logic even for someone as soppy as me! So, girls, beware men with first names beginning with J and last names beginning with M!

• 53. Lesley  |  April 9th, 2010 at 10:31 pm

  Heres another one who’s been taken in by Colonel Jerry Moore, same story widowed with one son, soon to be retiring. It was all too good to be true and I suppose I was a little suspicious, but he was very convincing and made me feel very special. Its a hard lesson to learn but thanks L and F and everyone for the warning!

• 54. Sandra  |  April 12th, 2010 at 7:11 pm

  Hello everyone, Iam currently in communication/relationship with Jerry Moore Burgess. I have been since the end of January, and met through the love and friends website (which he has now put himself on hold with). I have had everything promised to me, as have you all and I have stupidly, to help him sent a money gram for £200 to a Mr Ibrahim Basasu at Accra International airport Ghana, where the poor mans luggage is stuck and the luggage contains gold bars given to him by the president of Afghanistan as a gift! (I know, what an idiot I am but, when you are feeling low and someone gives you all the right attention you do stupid things.) So anyone out there don’t fall for it, I am about to report him to love and friends, especially as today he asked me for £1000!! To “Prove my love to him” A friend told me to google armed forces online dating scams. Thank god I did. I have really been sucked in. If anyone does find out who’s photos he is using then let me know. My e-mail is woopahsndra@hotmail.com take care everyone, guess I won’t be buying a wedding dress this year, HA!

• 55. Sandra  |  April 13th, 2010 at 12:44 am

  Hello everyone, Iam currently in communication/relationship with Jerry Moore Burgess. I have been since the end of January, and met through the love and friends website (which he has now put himself on hold with). I have had everything promised to me, as have you all and I have stupidly, to help him sent a money gram for a small amount to a Mr Ibrahim Basasu at Accra International airport Ghana, where the poor mans luggage is stuck and the luggage contains gold bars given to him by the president of Afghanistan as a gift! (I know, what an idiot I am but, when you are feeling low and someone gives you all the right attention you do stupid things.) So anyone out there don’t fall for it, I am about to report him to love and friends, especially as today he asked me for £1000!! To “Prove my love to him” A friend told me to google armed forces online dating scams. Thank god I did. I have really been sucked in. If anyone does find out who’s photos he is using then let me know. My e-mail is woopahsndra@hotmail.com take care everyone, guess I won’t be buying a wedding dress this year, HA!

• 56. Jen  |  April 16th, 2010 at 8:29 pm

  Sandra

  Trying to contact you…could you check your e mail address please. Like you, I was asked for money from this guy…what a scam.

• 57. teresa  |  April 17th, 2010 at 5:58 pm

  Hello everyone who has had to deal with jerry moore please be careful he tries to come back again he has been following me around on other sites and tries other identities including one of james ruddock anyway the name is on this site again and i am suspicious of him somehow gaining information from these sites. You can detect him though he uses same language so you should suss him out but be aware he tries it on again. sorry for the person who gave money he is very clever the way he presses all the buttonsthank goodness it was only £200 and not more. Hope you all find decent chaps on the sites there must be a lot of nice ones out there. kind regards teresa

• 58. Sandra  |  April 17th, 2010 at 11:06 pm

  Hi Jen, sorry I messed up with my e-mail address it’s as follows
  woopahsandra@hotmail.com
  would be good to talk, I cant believe we have fallen for this guy,I just hope that someone can stop all this, it’s really cruel. Sandra

• 59. Lesley  |  April 18th, 2010 at 3:17 pm

  Jerry Burgess, or whatever he calls himself now seems to be operating on match.com as I have just seen his “photograph” in my search. I have told the site and hopefully they can do something about it. I’m still so angry and upset about this!!!

• 60. Sandra Weiss  |  April 19th, 2010 at 9:26 pm

  He goes by Sargent first class Joe Galvin…braveheart 70 @yahoo.com..Lucky for me I saw the red flags before he got my money!

• 61. Jen  |  April 21st, 2010 at 12:59 pm

  I think he is on smooch.com too…a masters/widowed/military/…be aware.

• 62. Jen  |  April 21st, 2010 at 1:02 pm

  Going under happyman58…sounds like him at least.

• 63. Jen  |  April 21st, 2010 at 1:12 pm

  He has been reported to smooch.com, may I add

• 64. Janette  |  April 22nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm

  Hi Girls,,

  Well isn’t there quite a few of us now that have identified that rat Jerry Moore…

  I really would love to hear any ideas anyone has in trying to get this guy caught…

  Sham he really did look cute..lol

  How do we find out who the photo really is???

  regards

  Janette

• 65. teresa  |  April 22nd, 2010 at 5:19 pm

  Well done ladies everyone who has had to deal with jerry moore and all his aliases be warned he is out of afghanistan now and trying civilian aliases but you will be able to suss him out still uses same story. I am finding such a sense of humour about it now and have been laughing over what jen said about reporting him to smooch.com we must be chasing him off every dating site Never underestimate the power of women!!

• 66. Carey  |  April 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 pm

  Hello ladies

  I have been talking to James Ruddock for 3 months, he is very clever and at first I believed him. He hasn’t asked for any money yet but then I haven’t declared my love for him and told him it was daft to promise to marry someone you haven’t met so he is still working on me. He said he is retiring in the next few weeks from the army in Iraq and will be coming to the uk to a house he owns in Oxford. He is a widower with 2 young daughters and no other family, his English is almost perfect but he makes the odd mistake. I found him out by checking the iP address of his emails and found that some are from Washington US and some are from Accra in Ghanna – I think sometimes I am speaking to more than one person, I think there is a group of them all operating together. If you want to check ip addresses of the people who email you just google it and you will get instructions or I can tell you on here, the IP addresses give you a lot of information. I have already reported him to Dateline where I met him but I suspect he never uses the same name twice on any site. I also have loads of pictures of him but I have never spoken to him other than on MSN and he commits a lot of time on there. If anyone wants any more info please let me know as I would like to stop as many people being scammed by these idiots as I can.

• 67. Rhona  |  April 23rd, 2010 at 8:14 pm

  I have also had dealings with these lot on match.com. – Master Sergeant Steve Jordan.. 6ft 2 widower, what a hunk.., 2 childern being cared for by mother-in -law who suddenly develops cancer.Sent photos of the kids too, which had me thinking he was the real deal. How sick really. Tried the ts2 telecom scam and the military $1580 to get leave out of Afganistan.
  Alarm bells were ringing when ‘THE PENTAGON’ couldn’t spell Sergeant…. come to think of it neither could he!!
  Luckily I didn’t part with any money.
  We need to report these to the police.. these people need to be stopped.

• 68. german  |  April 24th, 2010 at 10:29 am

  This scam is insane! It even expanded to german dating services… A few weeks ago, my mother was contacted on friendscout24.de by an US army officer named DAVID MILLER. Soon his profile was gone, so he continued by e-mail.

  Luckily she became immensely suspicious as soon as he tried to relief her of an awful lot of money for some kind of package he wanted to send her. She told me of her suspicion and after some research I found another victim and eventually this site.

  The idea that this asshole of a fraud scammed so many people unpunished drives me crazy…

  I can only sympathize with the victims and hope that other women spot the scam before they lose their savings.

• 69. Janette  |  April 25th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

  Hi Carey,

  Thankyou for the idea of checking IP addresses,,, Great idea…

  It’s great girls how we are banding together from around the world to knock out the rats from the net and squashing our dreams of happiness.

  Keep it happening and we will make a difference…I am so wary now and after reading any suspicious profiles I report them STRAIGHT AWAY…As I think it’s important to try and get them off before someone falls prey like we all did.

  Take care
  Janette

• 70. Jess  |  April 26th, 2010 at 9:52 am

  Please note Ladies none of the Photo,s are for real.
  Jerry Moore its seems is useing other peoples identity also the names he uses ARE Real Famous people .
  He,s certainly still doing the rounds too.
  Take care everyone.
  Jess .

• 71. teresa  |  April 26th, 2010 at 11:34 pm

  Hi ladies i am still having to deal with jerry moore and his aliases four times over this weekend. I love this site though it really makes me laugh so much the whole thing the way we are chasing him off the sites we are probably doing a better job than the authorities. I have taken the positive out of it and i hope i find the love of my life if anything he made me aware of how i can love a man and its good to think positive of it, maybe i have found him already who knows but its definately not jerry moore and his aliases so all those women tricked by him take out the positive from it and kick him off the sites and warn other women, and its good to find a sense of humour about it you have all really made me laugh so i am sitting here in hysterics well done.

• 72. Lesley  |  May 2nd, 2010 at 10:49 pm

  Havent seen dear Jerry on plentyoffish yet but I’m betting one or two of him are on there somewhere!

  So pleased I found this site, feel so much better about things now.

  Thanks

  Lx

• 73. Carol  |  May 5th, 2010 at 4:35 pm

  I am writing this after last night finding this site and realising I too have been ‘wooed’ for the past 3 months by Staff Sergeant James Ruddock. He contacted me via the seniordatingagency site and sent me photos of himself in uniform with his name and rank for me to see and said his unit was attached to the CIA at present!. He has since sent me further photos of him with Afgan locals and again in uniform with the date and time on each photo. I have even had one photo of him stood with a gun on a sentry post with a sign saying I love you Carol. He has declared his love for me on numerous occasions despite me not reciprocating this affection. He also told me a close friend had died in Afgan and asked me to ring his son Bill who is supposed to be 21 yrs old in USA and check he was ok as he hadnt heard from him for a while. I did this for him and rang the number he gave me – a young man did answer and confirm he was Bill. Not so genuine it all seems now. He has since told me also that a package with $450000 was being sent via Diplomat Evans to uk to me for him to collect when he retires and flies to the UK to see me which has now been cancelled twice in the past two weeks. The package got stuck in Ghana customs as another lady has said and the dilpomat emailed me and asked me for money – he did not get it and then emailed me later that week to say he was in London and needed paying £120000 as agreed by Mr James! Needless to say he received no money from me and no reply and I forwarded his emails on to James Ruddock. The last thing I have heard from James is that he was flying to UK to meet Dip Evans to sort the package and paying the man. He told me he was intending to live in Peterborough where he has a house with swimming pool and has another house in Baltimore USA which is will be selling. He talked of taking me to the Bahamas, watch the world cup in south africa and taking me to the US to meet his army colleagues. He said he had had his house in the uk for three years. He also told me he was born in Germany, had an american mum and german dad. His dad left his mum and has never seen him since. He got married and they adopted a 4 yr old german boy and lived in USA. His wife apparently had an affair with another army soldier and they then divorced.
  I thought I had given him a hard time over all of this as it was just “too good to be true” yet hes kept on coming back for more! – until now. Havent heard from him for over a week and suspect he has now gone. I want to contact the US Army and at least report this to them and send a photo to see who the man in the photos is but I dont know who to contact – does anyone know who I should contact and how? and if anyone has photos or wants to compare the ones they have with mine then please email me on chengelo1@aol.com.

  many thanks for taking the time to read this. Please dont be taken in with this man – he is too good to be true and is just a fantasy of all that we women would want in a man! but its not real.

• 74. Carey  |  May 6th, 2010 at 7:16 pm

  Carol

  I’m going to send you an email and attach some of the photos i have of James Ruddock. I only had one of him in uniform but couldn’t read the name but he send me others including ones of him and his daughters but as he has told you a different story I think he will have given you different photos. There is a site called 101.dating and he is mentioned on there too and also using the name of Steve Ruddock – what is so funny is that he has been wooing us both at the same time and didn’t get a penny from either of us. I told him the game was up about 10 days ago and I haven’t heard from him since then. Have you checked th IP address of his emails? I reported him to http://www.ic3.com which is part of the FBI who investigate internet fraud and as I believe he lives in Washington they may be able to find him if you also send them he ip address.

• 75. teresa  |  May 6th, 2010 at 7:45 pm

  One important thing keeps coming through for me is poverty and i am looking at real ways of helping people in africa there are some sites on google that you can do small things like giving glasses apparently people in ghana going blind, my neighbour goes there and she collects glasses that people can no longer wear. Also babies clothes and underwear for women which makes them safer apparently from men. These things can make the real differences not the dreadful scam this man tries to do.

• 76. teresa  |  May 6th, 2010 at 8:24 pm

  Just wanted to say also there are really nice men out there and hope you all meet someone nice. i hope i find the love of my life if i have not found him already! Good luck and remember we can give to people in africa in small ways and help kind regards teresa

• 77. carole j west  |  May 10th, 2010 at 10:16 am

  I ve a couple of american soldiers romancing me, one a major sargeant Wilson Larry Bryant and the second is a Sgt Ralph Edwards suppossidly serving in Al Kut camp delta Iraq. The first gent got £200 for a parcel that was seized by US customs in Accra, Ghana and the second has asked for money for a radio phone connection, he has nt had a penny yet, thank goodness.
  All connections with these men have been severed. be very careful on Smooch.com, thats where i met these two.
  Please take care

• 78. teresa  |  May 12th, 2010 at 12:33 pm

  Just wanted to say there are good charities for the real soldiers men who are wounded that return from afghanistan too, whilst dealing with this experience i remembered my own father who was caught in bomb blast in 2nd world war and his recovery from that. My mother too in the RAF. So this is another of the good things i took from the experience.

• 79. carole j west  |  May 15th, 2010 at 10:02 am

  just an update on my last email. The e mail addresses used are Wilson_camp@yahoo.com and sgt_ralphedwards09@yahoo.com. I confronted sgt ralph with my findings on this site and i ve heard from him once saying that he is real and that he would not do anything to hurt me. But surprise surprise havent heard from him again,
  I hope this information helps someone else as this site helped me.

• 80. Carol  |  May 15th, 2010 at 7:46 pm

  Just to let you know that “James Ruddock” or whoever he is calling himself now is back online tnight using the online chat email address jrdd@aol.comn

• 81. jean  |  May 17th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

  Hi I see a lady called Rhona has had contact from a scammer called Steve Jordan. Well I have had a chap contact me calling himself Nicholas Carson Jordon who is in the us army in afghan. He gave me a simular story as Rhona if its the same guy. But with this his wife died of cancer and the 2 kids are with his mother in law in scotland as both his parents have died. No money has exchanged and neither will it but I am not sure if this guy is ok or not. I sent him a copy of a piece about all of this and thought if he was a scammer I would not hear anything back from him. I then got a text saying he had passed it to his lieu as he said it gave a bad image to the military and they new nothing about this scam. I have only had the one text so far since so time will tell. If Rhona thinks it could be the same person can she email any pics she has on jeansparks94@yahoo.co.uk

• 82. Susan  |  May 21st, 2010 at 2:38 pm

  I have been corresponding with Jerry Moore Burgess for about a month. But my intuition told me to keep my radar switched on. Then the surprise came today when he asked for money to clear his luggage out of customs in Ghana on transit to the UK as his diplomatic stamp had expired. Always polite and a real smooth talker he was on ISM for about 2hours with me H’mm and I thought I was worldly wise, at least I was wise enough not to send him any money and wise enough to wave him goodbye.
  After which I decided to do some checking, I just wish that I had thought to Google his name earlier and found this site.
  Keep up the good work girls

• 83. Jane  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 1:44 am

  I too have been scammed bya guy saying he was a US soldier, he was in iraq when we first started talking then got sent to Nigeria! I sent money for the phone so he could call me when ever he wanted, he is using the name Daniel Cole and I have traced his IP address to washington, and checked him out on buddy finder and there is a Sgt Daniel Cole on active duty, but when he was supposed to fly to Australia to see me, he was taken ill at heathrow airport and I had this Doctor ring me to tell me what was going on. Well long story but when he said he needed an operation and the Army would only pay 60% I knew straight away it was all crap. I have since sent him emails telling him I knew what he was up to and that I had reported him to the CID and had rung the US consulate in London, but he still rings me lol I have pics of him in uniform and out, and pics of him with his girls. Since then I have had 4 other people try to scam me, but I have my eyes wide open and wont fall for any of it. Girls it is so easy to be drawn in with the nice words and poems, dont feel ashamed, it happens to the best of us!

• 84. teresa  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 3:24 pm

  Hi everyone this site still has me in hysterics you would think the FBI and the CID would have caught him by now with the IP address in washington being given to them. I am still having to deal with him as well i cannot beleive he still tries to reach me on the sites i also suspect he gets access to facebook and i hope not emails but be very wary of this guy and his flock he keeps trying time and time again lots of different aliases.

• 85. Jen  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 8:15 pm

  Be aware girls…on Love and Friends the same pic as Jerry Moore…this time under life2gether…he (they) must think we are stupid. Trying to report him to site.

• 86. teresa  |  May 27th, 2010 at 9:35 am

  I dont know why this master brain in washington has not been caught he is behind all the others probably based in ghana but he is definately the one they need. I do beleive he is ex army and had training in defense intelligence thats what he said and the way he gets into your mind its almost hypnotic, i hope the authorities dont ignore all the experineces of us on this site, i still keep having to deal with him trying to get to me two times last. week

• 87. Lisa  |  May 29th, 2010 at 1:43 am

  HI. I KNEW SGT MARK MILLER FROM IRAQ. HE NEVER TALK ABOUT MONEY, JUST SAY ABOUT YOUR SURFFER AND HOW WANT GO HOME. HE SAID LOVE ME AND WANT COME TO BRAZIL MARRY WITH ME. HE IS SURGEON DENTIST. I SENT PICTURES HIM FOR ANY MAILS HERE. PLEASE CONFIRM OR NOT. HE´S VERY SWEET AND NEVER TALK ABOUT FINANCIAL PROBLEMS

• 88. Helen  |  May 29th, 2010 at 11:34 pm

  I have been scammed by a Sgt Mark Donnelly was serving in Iraq now in Afghanastan, widowed with a daughter Laura. I sent £ 200 for ts2 phone connection and he called 3 times, he had south african accent, when i asked about accent he went all huffy, 6 months later he needs me to send money so he can visit me for a vacation, I stupidly sent £1,150 through western union to Lisa Collins who was supposed to be arranging the flight. He never arrived and e-mailed claiming flight had been diverted due to swine flu. we have been talking for a year now and i believed him. joined facebook on thurs, searched his name and it came up with lisa collins as a friend, he came on-line and i asked him about it, he told me to go and kill myself, Who does he think he is Romeo and i’m Juliet, not heard from him since but mailed Lisa Collins and asked her what her relationship with Mark Donnelly is, she replied that he’s her boyfriend, i asked for my money back but she said she sent it to Mark’s uncle in Nigeria, I have pics if anyone wants to see them. helen1367@live.co.uk

• 89. Alyssa  |  May 31st, 2010 at 7:23 pm

  Hi ladies- I am the wife of an American soldier and one of these scammers is actually using my husband’s information and pictures. It is absolutely maddening. We would have had no idea about this, but two of the ladies he has tried to scam have been able to track me down, and contact me to let us know. My guess is that he took the pictures and basic information from my hubby’s Myspace (which he has promptly deleted). The worst part is that he is using pictures of my son as well. If anybody has any idea of how to report these people please let me know!

• 90. Helen  |  May 31st, 2010 at 9:34 pm

  just looked on my space for Mark Donnelly and low and behold he’s there as well

• 91. teresa  |  May 31st, 2010 at 10:50 pm

  Hi Alyssa that must be annoying but most of the people on here see the wider picture and its annoyed most of us all the innocent mens images that have been used. If you read through some people have reported to the FBI and CID here. The army here were helpful and i know its not anyones fault here or there in the US. One person traced the Ip address to washington and its my take on dealing with this man that he is the brains behind it he has had some kind of traning the way he gets in to your brain almost hypnotic. Its a shame your husband has had to remove his Myspace that is not fair why should everyone remove their details on the net because of this scammer and his accomplices. Hope this helps you alyssa kind regards teresa

• 92. Helen  |  June 2nd, 2010 at 8:51 am

  Sgt Mark Donnelly also using the names

  Col Troy Gilson

  Col Colin Millar

• 93. Janette  |  June 4th, 2010 at 11:29 am

  Hi Alyssa,

  I would think of reporting your findings to the police to start with, as this is fraud. maybe when they catch the person your information will help.

  Good work girls

  Janette

• 94. teresa  |  June 4th, 2010 at 1:48 pm

  Hi everyone i contacted the action fraud people above that shimrit on this site suggests and its the ladies who have given money that can do more apparently because they have given money and i suppose thats good evidence. I thought i would pass that on and also there is another site called the IC3.gov based in america so its worth talking to them too they deal with this sort of thing. I still am not sure sometimes that i am still dealing with this guy i just dont click onto anything that looks slightly suspicious.

• 95. Carol  |  June 5th, 2010 at 6:15 pm

  Please be aware I have just had several emails today from Rick who is on the site seniordatingagency – he calls you angel on his first contact and now he has just let on that he is an american soldier fighting the Taliban! His English grammar is also not good. I have told him I know he is a scammer but that doesnt seem to have put him off and I have reported him to the site so hopefully he will not be on it soon.

• 96. Suzy  |  June 8th, 2010 at 6:29 am

  has anyone been picked up by Cpt Mathew Anderson asking for money to be sent to the USA so he can have a calling card to use from IraQ?

• 97. Raine  |  June 11th, 2010 at 11:06 pm

  Ive been chatting for the last month to a Sgt Markuus miller.A widowed Us soldier of dutch descent serving in Iraq. He asked me first to take delivery of his son Amar from a US diplomat and travel with him to US to meet him.Thereafter he asked for money to help his son Amar who was in a hospital Africa. I told him to get lost.. and that he wassnt going to get money or a ‘green card’ out of me.I sent him packing when i saw him on U tube tonight as a scammer called Philip Miller. The photos on there are the same ones as the ones he sent me.Wandering what the scam is and if he is the same person as Jeff and Johnson Miller that other ladies have been chatting to ?? can anyone out there throw any light on this.

• 98. Tina  |  June 12th, 2010 at 9:53 am

  Carey 66… Can you please contact me. I think i am i contact with the same guy as you…..

  Tina
  Tina_baumgarten@hotmail.com

• 99. Raine  |  June 12th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

  just a final note….girls just watch out for a soldier called miller, Im not absolutely sure but he could be Markuus,Richard,jeff,johnson,mark or David from what I have gathered from other ladies who have been scammed. The photographs he uses has the surname only on his uniform so theoretically he could use any first name… so beware

• 100. Raine  |  June 12th, 2010 at 12:44 pm

  Thanks Alison for sending photographs…I can now confirm that Jeff miller is using the same pictures as Markuus Miller

• 101. ALISON  |  June 12th, 2010 at 2:50 pm

  Hi Ladies ,
  Our Jeff Miller was briefly on facebook but soon disappeared when he knew we were on to him , he found me on smooch.com but quickly got me to msn instead as he cannot be monitored that way. His ip address came up Ghana not where he said he was.
  Anyone else wants pics of the creep that tried to scam me please email alison2_99@yahoo.com

• 102. Tina  |  June 12th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

  Dear Girls…

  How can we nail thise guys. Repport them to the FBI, Military? I would like to get into contact with the women who has been talking to the Ruddock guy. I have a lot of pictures, and the “I Love you Carol” I got too… only wiht MY name. Smiling. Come on girls. Let us DO something about this problem, so that no other will suffer the same.

  Tina
  Tina_baumgarten@hotmail.com

• 103. lisa  |  June 14th, 2010 at 12:12 pm

  I’ve been chatting to a edwards Ralph, who is in Afganistan. He has sent me pics, but I cannot send him post because of his position. an SFO!!! Has anyone heard of him.He seems nice and friendly, of course. Is there anywhey I can catch him out, met though dating for parents.

  Lisa

• 104. teresa  |  June 15th, 2010 at 3:16 pm

  Lisa you can check with the army if this person exists at least i found them very helpful. I also have to say that there are some men similiar to this in academic world not after money but using mirror image tactics and hypnotic effects to try and get their way so beware. I feel sorry the way the army has been targeted for this scam they have enough to deal with. As usual you all make me laugh so much well done everyone keep informing the sites when you find them its nothing for them to check and be observant.

• 105. Debbie  |  June 19th, 2010 at 11:58 pm

  Hi Lisa I had been chatting with this guy Ralph Edwards…A.K.A. Rapheal Lon Edwards… Yes stay away.. I learned the hard way… I have pictures I even had him post a picture of him with a sign that said I Love You Debbie on it.. I even had him take a picture of him with the date also.. We have to stop this guy and all others.. If you need to contact me use my email address… debbiesinclair719@hotmail.com I even saw him on facebook trying to chum up with another lady don’t worry i warned her… LETS STOP THESE PEOPLE

• 106. Debbie  |  June 20th, 2010 at 12:01 am

  If we have to or if I have to go on every dateing site and report them… I need help… can you ladies and gents help out…

• 107. Kelly  |  June 20th, 2010 at 12:28 am

  Reading through the blog, and many aspects ring a bell with my “Major General”. However, he is in the English Army and I have not read any stories with an English Major just American serving soldiers. We talk regularly, via phone, texts, emails, and webcam. Poems, lyrics and romantic songs, declared his love for me and sadly I think I have fallen for him too. Do I need help and do any of you know of any stories similar to mine?

• 108. Sue Bell  |  June 21st, 2010 at 4:07 pm

  I was contacted by a Guy from Parship.com who pertained to be from Scotland. He then turns out to be a US Soldier based in Kabul, Afgan (So he says) ALARM BELLS!!!. He says he hails from a small town called Moline, IL, USA. He is widowed with a 10yr old daughter who is living with grand parents. The IP address he is using is from within the USA. He sent photos then send he had to go on patrol with his Men. I then asked for a photo of him in Uniform, he tells me he is in ‘Intelligence’ so doesn’t have to wear uniform!!! So what does he wear when he goes on Patrol!!
  He answers with ‘Ya’ instead of ‘Yes’ and ‘Okay’ instead of OK!! Lol. Think this one has changed his name to Sgt James Burks!! I have photos so if anyone wants to compare them then please email me at R1_sue@hotmail.com
  Don’t part with a single penny!! If he was genuine then he would move ‘Heaven & Earth’ to pursue a genuine relationship!! I have been promised ‘Undying Love’ If its sounds to good to be true then it probably is!! Trust your ‘Gut Feeling’ I did! May play him along a bit more. So glad I Googled and found this site!! Luckily I live in a Uk Army Town and know that the majority of Soldiers in Afgan use ‘Public’ Internet that is available, not that he uses the Armie’s Laptop because he is the ‘Boss’

  Sue Bell

• 109. Jessi  |  June 21st, 2010 at 6:09 pm

  Hi Kelly,
  Sound,s similar.. significant too, many ID names have never been in the Military.
  If it sound,s too good to be true …

  Jessi.

• 110. Raine  |  June 21st, 2010 at 7:18 pm

  Alyssa No 89. ….Me and another lady have also been trying to track down ‘the real soldier’ do you know how the other girls tracked you and your husband down ? Its really difficult ,she has been trying for some months.I think its only right that the real soldier is made aware of this abuse. Would you be able to confirm whether the photo on You tube ‘Philip Miller dating scam ‘is one of your husband. or alternatvely could you email me at lorrainecindy@talktalk.net to let me know ?

• 111. Jessi  |  June 22nd, 2010 at 7:09 pm

  Hi Kelly,
  Your email reminds me of a Jerry Moore ,who made contact with me via LOVE AND FRIENDS ,yes so charming too , so please read NO 55 on this site.
  Take care.
  Jessi.

• 112. teresa  |  June 25th, 2010 at 9:35 am

  just to let everyone know if you put into google army dating site scam lots of sites come up and i am posting one that i looked at and lots of entries like ours on here and a lot of the same names (aliases) below is the link

  http://101date.com/internet-dating-scam-fake-soldiers/

• 113. Janette  |  June 28th, 2010 at 11:03 am

  Hi Kelly

  Sounds so like all our stories about Jerry Moore..

  Please read from mine (46)down…Maybe that will enlighten you..

  What photo’s did he send to you?

  Cheers

  Janette

• 114. Raine  |  June 28th, 2010 at 7:28 pm

  Hi Girls
  Just to let you all know that our sgt Miller has been posing as a sudent in USA on Smooch.com. as Miller 45gg .Ive complained and he has now been removed … I wonder where he’ll pop up next ?

• 115. Tiia  |  June 29th, 2010 at 2:29 pm

  sgt Miller was on be2 dating site just recently but was deleted by the operator, I believe he´s still there but under different names (might be many I´m afraid!)so girls, please don´t fall for this man for your own good !

• 116. Tiia  |  June 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm

  Has anyone heard about “Larry Morgan”. (says he´s Dutch but lives in USA) He uses the same type of words as our famous Jeff Miller, and he also contacted me via Be2-pages, and I´m afraid he´s from the same gang. I haven´t answered him yet and propably won´t. This may be some new name he hasn´t been using before. By the way, I live in Skandinavia, so it seems they are everywhere allready !

• 117. jeanette ainscough  |  July 2nd, 2010 at 5:08 pm

  i have been a victum of this to i meet this guy claiming to be in the us army i was lucky enough to have a great girl from the states who he also contacted inform me of this and i end all contat well i have tried to i was unfortunat to send him a old mobile /a digital camera /ring and neck chain yes they were cheep but mine and a little teddy with a rose and a letter poring my heart out to him /a and i topped the phone up for him and he even has photos of me also a we amount of money but i guess that that was stupid of me to do that the thing is i as all you ladies on here thought i could trust him a army solider who would not trust that well i am here to say this guty went all out he even had the neck of a garraff to send me pictures of what he looks like only it is not him the real guy is not the age he is and does not have children and has a brother and i cant tell you this is not happy about this guy using his identity i just wish he would leave me alone but he wont this guy is harassing me by phone and facebook but i wonnt let him get me down i am stronger than that

• 118. Tiia  |  July 5th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

  I know for a fact now; “Larry Morgan” is fake too ! He has been deleted from Be2-pages allready but I guess that he had enough time to get someone in his hook… Anyway, when I refused to send money to mr.”Jeff Miller” he shouted at me: now you´ll see the man you´re dealing with !!! I had the courage to tell the police what happened and I haven´t heard from mr.Jeff Miller since.
  (I think I`ll never have to hear from him again !) He doesn´t come after you, he´s too busy trying to get new targets ! Just remember to stand up for yourselves girls and be strong when dealing with these guys !!! I felt like raped when I found out he´s fake, but I´m getting over it. From now on I´ll be much wiser
  Take care all of you !!!

• 119. teresa  |  July 5th, 2010 at 2:46 pm

  Hi everyone just to say i am still dealing with this guy trying to contact me so remember

  He and his accomplices are probably on every dating site.
  The photos used do not tie up with the age given
  Always some kind of sad story of being left with child a lone parent often a widower
  The master mind of this operation has had some kind of pyschological training he is very hypnotic and clever they way he gets into your brain
  You will suss him out though uses similiar language and techniques and always get the site admin to check its a problem for them too so they dont mind or check with the army at least the name and they can let you know if this man exsists.
  He declares undying love very quickly
  Asks for money for lost baggage or any other excuse

  Dont forget lots and lots of nice men out there too!! and never underestimate the power of women!! by keep reporting this guy you are helping all other women.

• 120. Dawn  |  July 5th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

  Hi ladies, well interesting reading. Anyone heard of wesly moore from seniordating agency.? I wish i hadn’t, he was so clever he scammed me out of 3,900.I was besotted with him as he sent me lovely card songs, told me he wanted to marry me.This very morning he had cheek to ask me for another 1000 pounds for injections before he could leave ghana. His bag was stuck there with 500,000 dollars plus 2 gold bars.

• 121. Dawn  |  July 5th, 2010 at 7:03 pm

  This wesly moore told me he was a colonel in usa army in afghanistan, due for retirement.He was such a smoothy i fell for his patter hook line and sinker.Also he had a 6 bedroomed house in Michigan. What a fool iv’e been, i kept it to myself until my married kids sussed me out and him.I now feel so stupid for ever believeing i would find love with him. The last few months have been nothing but a worry but now its out in the open. Good luck to you all.

• 122. Lorraine  |  July 13th, 2010 at 9:37 pm

  Hello, Just wanted to add to the list of names on hear. Im on datethe Uk and have been in contact with a supposedly US soldier going by the name of Michael Gross. Im also getting the poems and undying love and wants to marry me. He approached me two days ago about get a phone card. If anyone has heard about him would appreciate any info thanks.

• 123. Gillian  |  July 15th, 2010 at 10:54 am

  I also was contacted by a Sgt Jeff Miller,station ed in Bagdad, falling in love with me in 5 mins, photos etc. The he had a secret for me to keep, he had $2million US in his room he had to get rid of and he wanted to send it to me so I could look after it until he arrived over here, via a diplomat and im sure that would have just be the start of the scame for me t give him all sorts of personal details. Im a firm believer in Karma and those people will eventually be dealt with.

• 124. cheryl  |  July 17th, 2010 at 6:10 am

  Is there a way of finding a list of serving members in iraq.
  I have had contact with a soldier who i know was honest thenmy computer was hacked and the language changed.
  I had to reformat it it and lost contact.
  also afghanistan would be helpful

• 125. Karen  |  July 17th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

  Dear Rhona,
  I too have had dealings with Msgt Steve Jordan in Afghanistan. I met him on Chemistry.com and I am sure that you and I have the same set of pictures. I only wish that I could fiqure out how to get in contact with the real Jordan to let him know that his pictures are being used to scam women. I have a friend whose husband is in the Air Force and she told me to contact Senator Kerry’s office in Boston and to speak to someone there who deals with military and veteran affairs. The most amazing thing about Steve Jordan is how very American he sounds. What part of the country did he tell you he was from? Please feel free to email if you would like-karen_gottlieb@yahoo.com
  I hate to say this but I’m glad I’ve found someone else who has had contact with him. I didn’t lose any money. Hopefully you’ll respond.
  Karen

• 126. Tammy  |  July 18th, 2010 at 4:52 am

  claims and is in need of help so hHello Ladies, I too think i am being played into a scam on smooch.com by a man going under the name honeywell 45yrs old, he’s using the name Leutenant Patrick corcoron, he’s a solder in Irag claiming he has already fallen in love with me. He’s vaction has come up and he is having problems getting he’s funds out because of the strictions there he e can get out of Iraq or he will loose place of his holiday’s. He hasn’t come out and asked me for money yet, but i’m sure he’s working up to it slowly. should i let him know i’m on to him or who should i report this to so he doesn’t try to scam anyone else on there, and i hope he gets cought so he doesn’t do this again. Please if anyone know please contact me and let me know what i should do, thanks. From Tammy

• 127. Shimrit  |  July 18th, 2010 at 9:22 am

  I’ve now started a forum as well so you can discuss scammers more easily. If you want to carry on this discussion you can head over to http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/forum where you can sign up and then post new topics and send each other private messages. At some point I will close comments on this post, as I think it’s getting a bit too long.

• 128. Monica  |  July 20th, 2010 at 7:24 pm

  Has anyone ever heard of a Sar. Maj. Balame Lee? I just sent him over 600 dollars and now I’ve heard from multiple people it could be a scam. I don’t even know what to do now.

• 129. Shimrit  |  July 20th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

  Monica: it could well be a scam, but without knowing more details I can’t assess whether this is the case. I can confirm that this is usually the sort of sums they go for. Can you tell me (and my readers, if you like, otherwise you can send me a message through the contact form) exactly what happened?
  If this is indeed fraud, you can report it to the police (there is a special service set up for people in the UK), but apart from emotional support, there is not much they can do I’m afraid…

• 130. Steph  |  July 21st, 2010 at 5:25 pm

  I am currently talking to a Raymond M Klose who is staioned in Baghdad.
  I have a photo of him in a 101st Airbourne Div uniform and also one at a Red Sox baseball game.
  He is Dutch/English but brought up in Texas by his grandad.
  No requests for money have been made and I would never ever send any.
  Have had telephone conv with him.
  Has anyone else been contacted by him.
  My e-mail is Tintern15@hotmail.com

• 131. magy  |  July 22nd, 2010 at 4:45 pm

  Hi! This man named Colonel Joe Monroy.
  This morning he got very upset when I asked him if
  He knew his name was on the web as a scammer.
  he hasn’t e-mailed or I’m me back.he wrote me from Tagged.com.
  He sent me pictures and sent him some.
  to be safe I wanted to tell someone. You know it would have been
  If he was the real Joe Momroy, but the chance of
  That is zero. It a shame that people have to
  Use a soldier’s name. A shame that people lifes
  Have to be mess up by these scammers.I feel sorry for the Joe Monroy’s
  Of the world. So ladies beware. This man could very well
  Be the scammer called the Iraq Soldier.

• 132. Ryan  |  July 28th, 2010 at 9:53 pm

  Just found out about one of these idiots through my mums emails, she’s just got out of a marriage so she is pretty vulnerable so I am keeping an eye on what she’s doing so she doesn’t get hurt again. The guy is called SGT.Carlos, Carlos Amando apparently. ccarlosamando@hotmail.com . I contacted him off my email address warning him that I was onto him. Just watch out for this one guys.

• 133. teresa  |  July 30th, 2010 at 4:37 pm

  Well done Ryan your mum will appreciate what you have done and you are one of the nice guys we all hope to meet on this site. Well done

• 134. jayne eaton  |  August 1st, 2010 at 10:47 pm

  Hi all ive been chatting to a guy supposedly named Boers J Lennox for the past two weeks i was suspicious over some of the details so far he hasnt asked me for any money, is currenly serving in Afghan as a Sgt, want to come to uk on leave, asked me to fill in form i wasnt until the form was e mailsed that i had concerns i didnt appear offical had stars and stripes on it, this guy spends about 4 -5 hours every night chatting to me he apprently comes from allentwon hes 50 i have pictures of him i can clearly see his name on his army shirt but reading all you guys have put that prob means nothing anyone been scammed by this guy can you please e mail many thanks my e mail is janieeaton@hotmail.co.uk

• 135. Mandi66  |  August 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 pm

  Hi. I’m in the UK, met a US soldier serving in Afghanistan through MatchAffinity.com. Everything has checked out so far and, if he is real, he can make all my dreams come true. However, I found a link yesterday to a website about Nigerian scammers and his name and hotmail address were on it. I confronted him last night on IM and he was furious – says someone is trying to exploit him. He’s widowed (wife died in car crash) and got two kids 16 & 18. He hasn’t asked for money but I have bought him a mobile top up. I get emails and texts all days and I so want to believe him. Does this ring a bell with anyone else ? Obviously some spanish/hispanic background but a polish/baltic sounding surname. Love to hear from anyone.

• 136. Sharon  |  August 4th, 2010 at 10:21 am

  Jeff Miller beware. I too was caught up in this scam back in March this year. He was trying to bring in $4 million US into Australia. The diplomat got stuck leaving iraq and contacted me via email and phone for 3 weeks constantly asking for a sum of $US8,000. I told them no and got the police involved. It didnt go down well but you need to stand up for yourself, be brave but firm. A friend of my helped me trace their IP address back to Ghana.

• 137. Lynne  |  August 4th, 2010 at 5:57 pm

  I was scammed last July I think or round about there. Colonel Briscoe Roberts based in the Pattika Province of Afghanistan was his name and title. God when I think I was very vulnerable as I had split with my hubby in Feb that year, had 3 very young kids and ended up very angry, soul destroyed mum with not a penny left after he and his transit company which doesnt exist took my money. If it wasnt for my best friend and another friend who was a policeman I wouldnt be here now as I would have ended it as it was the final nail in the coffin so to speak. Reported it to the police but apart from all details and email addresses they cant seem to do anything. This year Briscoe Roberts turned up on facebook. I was disgusted and angry to see him and yet he still comes back with another little story. If I could nail this persons balls to the floor and set him on fire I would. No one has an excuse to do what he did if he is a he or whatever to another human being. Maybe we should start to somehow find this scum and do something about them!

• 138. janice  |  August 5th, 2010 at 8:10 pm

  i have been scammed by george ruddock for 3 weeks, i fell for his charm!! what an idiot ive been, i feel sorry for the poor man who’s identiy his used, he was very good looking aswell, a widow, 2 daughters, lives in new york, been in the army for 28 yrs. then asked for $45000 for a private jet, to come and see me in england.i think this the man posing as james ruddock, and steve ruddock. please be aware.

• 139. Barbara  |  August 10th, 2010 at 11:07 am

  Have been in contact since 8th July wih a man who calls himself General Paul Knocks with the American forces.Number20 Margaret R, my case is exactly the same but this a.m. have received phone call from Jeff Perry, diplomat, for £3,700 to release luggage from Spain THat belongs to Paul Knocks who is at present supposeably in Iraq. Told Jeff Perry to go away as I know this is a scam. These two names are probably new to the scam

• 140. Gary  |  August 10th, 2010 at 11:59 am

  Anyone come across a Jason Jordan, supposedly a captain in the US army?

• 141. Chezza  |  August 17th, 2010 at 10:38 am

  Hi
  Think i have someone trying to scam me at present?
  An american guy in Iraq, widow with 5 yr old boy, wants me to sign for a phone? met him on a dating site Friends Reunited and fell in love with me after a day!! cant prove it yet but am VERY suspicious???

• 142. Shimrit  |  August 17th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  Chezza: It certainly does sound like a scam. Be very careful. This sounds like the classic scam scenario!

• 143. Mary Ann  |  August 21st, 2010 at 4:28 pm

  Hello,

  I just met this certain US Army Soldier in FB . His name is Col. Mike Patrol. Just recently, were already chatting in YM and had given me an email address to request for a satellite phone so we can communicate anytime. But im also suspicious because i have already read
  warnings about the satelite scams.

• 144. LillyRose  |  August 22nd, 2010 at 12:28 am

  Ladies,

  I spent 9 years in the U.S. Navy and I can assure you these so-called American soliders are fake and it makes my blood boil that some skanky foriegner is impersonating a soldier!

  Listen up! Any soldier over in Iraq, which the way, we pulled our forces out of there last thursday. Only 50,0000 soldiers remain over in Iraq to train the people over there. So, there are no more “combat” soldiers in Iraq.
  A real soldier can not have a civilian request leave on his behalf. A real soldier has a military email address that ends in .Gov

  A real soldier can use his own cell phone in Iraq or Kuwait or any other country that will get a signal. They do not need a specail phone. They do not need your money. On top of their own military pay, they also get combat pay. There is really nowhere over there for them to spend their money so they are not broke. Do not let these fake african wannabe soldiers fool you and take your money.

• 145. Mawonei  |  August 22nd, 2010 at 9:33 pm

  Hie ladies I’ve read all these sad stories about some women who’ve been scammed and I was just wondering if anyone has tried to be scammed by some supposedly sgt called Wayne Sheen who’s supposedly a soldier based in afghanistan because he’s trying to scam me, be careful ladies….

• 146. Julie  |  August 23rd, 2010 at 5:51 pm

  I was contacted by SGT CARLOS AMANDO through dating for parents, he sent me six messages and photo’s said his parents were dead, had a daughter who is nearly seventeen, who lives with her tutor who is her guardian and his wife died too. I got suspicious when he asked for my mobile number to contact me in the day (he’s in Afghanistan) on patrol. I put his name on google and found this website, I sent him a message on msn asking him if he had access to a web cam and haven’t heard from him since.

• 147. Mawonei  |  August 23rd, 2010 at 9:36 pm

  LADIES, LILLYROSE’S POST EXPLAINS LOUD AND CLEAR ALL THAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THESE SCAMMERS SO PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEYS AND TAKE YOURSELVES FOR A HOLIDAY OR GO SHOPPING AND DON’T SEND ANY MONEY TO THESE STUPID CONMEN WHO CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO GO OUT AND GET PROPER JOBS I’M GLAD I WAS CLEVER ENOUGH TO SPOT THE SCAMMER AND REPORTED HIM, THESE SCAMMERS HAVE GOT NO SHAME AND WHY WOULD A MAN THAT DOES NOT EVEN KNOW YOU ASK FOR MONEY FROM YOU, THAT GOES TO SHOW THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY PRIDE AT ALL, THEY WERE NOT BROUGHT UP PROPERLY…..ONCE AGAIN BE CAREFUL AND CUT ALL COMMUNICATION WITH ANYONE WHO STARTS TALKING ABOUT MONEY….

• 148. Lynne  |  August 24th, 2010 at 2:12 am

  Sgt.monroy123@yahoo.com might be a new one from Carson City, NV. I was suspicious the first time he wanted have my email address and sent me emails immediately that he wants to marry me. “i am an Honesty man who is really seeking for long time relationship that will end up in marriage I can feel it in my heart also that you will be the right woman to be with for the rest of my life cause you sound so interesting”. What kind of b.s. is that? The grammar is really bad for anyone who is slightly educated too.
  Sgt Monroy Howard Zezzena, daughter 16 in a boarding school that went bankrupt in 2000 and no longer exists (I asked him where she was staying while he was in Iraq for Operation Freedom – the school is in California but the address for the school is in Boonville, MO). I’m still waiting for the request for money. I made up a new email address just for our conversations so it will be easy to delete it. I’ll give it another day.
  It has got to be a scam – he sounds phony to me and I haven’t found this name online yet. Be careful ladies.

• 149. Lynne  |  August 24th, 2010 at 3:08 am

  Just found Sgt Monroy Howard Zezzena’s ip address – he is in Sunnyvale, CA

• 150. denise blanks  |  August 27th, 2010 at 8:08 pm

  i too was contacted by carlos amando. we have spoken for a month now. He told me the same story about wife, child and parents. I would love to compare pictures that i have.please contact me julie and ryan

• 151. barbara  |  August 29th, 2010 at 7:31 pm

  I have been scammed by Carlos Amando.Please can Ryan Julie and Denise contact me.I have photos and many emails from him

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