The scammer wrote to me on messenger with the name FRANCIS OSCAR - first time on 23th July - in English and a translated text to my native language.
I can tell you I am from an Eastern European country, that's why I did not suspected very much a scam at first time, it's not considered a rich country here, so why somebody try to get money from here?
Hope you will understand my English writing and my reasons.
(at this moment I blocked and report him on Facebook, i stopped any contact with him).
His email is: francisoscar22@yahoo.com , X-Originating-IP: [74.6.129.123], Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO sonic309-13.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com) (74.6.129.123)
He pretended he is US military personnel, senior officer, high rank, 53 years old, deployed in Syria. Some of the pictures he sent to me were modified with Photoshop - I did not had experience with that kind of scams, at the time he wrote to me and I was extremely vulnerable because it was just five weeks after my mother died and I was very very upset about that. Now I can see much more clear everything.
We talked on messenger for a while and I was tempted two times to give up talking more to him because something doesn't seem right to me, but each time he convinced me again somehow.
I am an intelligent woman with a busy time schedule, I just don't understand what happened to me at that time, obviously emotional thinking, not rational.
He also called me on audio messenger and talked to me, he speaks good English with a British accent.
He also video called me. On the video call it was one of the photos he sent to me, a photo who can move somehow the face and lips similar with a movie where animals can talk, looks pretty real if you don't pay much attention to it, and, in not very good light condition or channel transmission, you can think is real.
After a while talking he asked me to receive his personal belongings from Syria to my home because he will come to me at the end of September to meet me and make a future together.
He did not asked money or something else at that point, just me to receive and keep his personal stuffs until he will arrive. Well, I said ok, I gave him my address, my phone, he already knew my email and that's it.
After a while, I received an email and a phone from Diplomat Agent David Morris that the package is stocked at Jakarta Airport Custom Office, with demands for taxes.
I talked to him on messenger and ask him why he did not pay all the taxes himself, he said he did not know about that, first time when he is sending something with that company, etc, etc. He promised me that he will give me back all money, just to help him with the taxes because in that box are very important documents, all his valuables, and some money he wanted me to have to buy ourselves a house to live when he will come here. I was stupid enough to pay three times taxes,
But, as I saw that after I paid one tax, after few days the box was still there and there was another tax, and another one, I became suspicious about all this.
So, in the same time I was talking to him on net, and on phone with Mr. Morris David - Diplomat Agent and with Mr. Abbulay Mose - "official" Custom Officer, trying to buy time, I asked an Import - Export Indonesian Company I found on internet to help me with an official information from Jakarta Airport Custom Office - I sent to them the Air Bill scammers gave me. This company was very kind and helped me but it took more than a week until I got an official answer from Jakarta Airport Custom Office. They said there is no such a delivery in their custody and mentioned they received a lot of complains with this kind of fake deliveries.
Meantime I looked for the real person behind the photos on internet, I learned how to do an image search and I found on https://www.tineye.com/ some of the photos were reported as scams on this website.
Than I looked for a Google image search and I found that the photos belong to the real Army soldier - sergeant first class Greg Byce - stolen identity. The real soldier Greg Byce is now much older than in those photos this scammer is using and probably retired from active duty, I found his real Facebook page and his wife's page. I didn't and i don't want to broke their happy life, but I am really angry that this abusive scammer is spoiling this good man image, a soldier who was honored in the US Army for bravery.
The scammer has alias on Facebook as Vincent Marlin and Richard Edward (I reported to Facebook this two accounts as fake accounts)
But he also has many accounts with the real soldier's name Greg Byce ! I did not report this accounts on Facebook. He also have three accounts on Instagram and I found one on Tender Singles. The big problem I see here is that this scammer is crazy enough to use the real soldier's name on many accounts, so, if somebody looks for the name she will find that his is the real one, this man really exists !!! There is something that can be done in this case?
I was scammed big time and I answered back only because of those photos who are showing a good and kind man. I have Facebook for ten years, never happened this to me before, but this man photos made me crazy, emotions ....
Some of the stolen pictures used:
Fake document used in scam (victim details removed before posting):
