The victim met the scammer on Facebook. He claimed to be the General John William Nicholson, living on 1000 Avenue J South Houston, 77587 Texas.
Contact details used:
Email address: lieut.genjohnwnicholson@gmail.com
Phone number used: (318) 392-2557
+13183922557 - Google VoIP number.
After few months of romantic conversation, "the general" asked for financial help, saying that he can not access his bank account while being in a war field. As a sign of faith, he gave the victim his login details for his bank account. She checked and that's what she saw on her screen:
Not feeling confident about the entire matter, the victim decided to think before sending the money. Two days later, checking again "the general" bank account, she noticed on the page an email address with a different domain name as the one of the "bank". She copied that email address in Google and searched. She found another login page of a "bank" using the same email address, onlinebanking.aktf-online.com / Westfield Bank - no longer active. And she found a second login page of a 3rd bank - westfield-llc.com. From that last one, she moved ahead and landed on a 4th login page of another "bank" - aktf-tr.com. She decided to use the credentials given by "the general" on this last one. That's what she saw on her screen.
In that moment she knew exactly what is going on. She decided to check "the general" pictures online and she found those pictures reported for being used in romance scams. One of the links she found was viewtopic.php?f=11&t=44850.
All the banks she found are fake. And there are more.
