Michael Rizzo
Complaint 235113 Details
- Date Occurred: 04/07/2013
- Reported Damages: $10,900.00
- Username: Michael Rizzo
- Email: [email protected]
- Location: Beacon Falls, CT
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The complaint is against an online dating profile
The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity
The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity
The company or person contact no longer exists
International boundaries
Was contacted through the Christian Mingle on-line dating site by this man using the profile name Softcoolheart. He claimed to be a civil engineer, 48 years old, who is self employed. As we corresponded via the site for a while he was very polite, well versed in Christian language and lifestyle. He said his wife died 5 years ago of cancer and had a daughter, Lisa who lived with his wife's sister in Florida. He claimed the be born in Italy on May 17. 1965 and moved to the US to live with his uncle when he was a young boy after his parents died. He speaks with a foreign accent but was rather articulate and sent me daily emails which were very poetic. I'm sure that they are the same emails he has sent to other women he has been scamming simultaneously. He seemed to be a very gentle, considerate Christian man so our friendship moved from the site to personal email, text and phone calls. We "fell in love" and every week he would tell me that he was coming to see me soon. He began to talk to me about a big project that he was bidding on and needed to fund. We talked in detail about the project, the project specs and potential of him getting the job. It all sounded very legitimate since I have family members in similar professions. As he read the requirements for the project he detailed that he was responsible showing initial funding to get the bid. So the story of how he scammed me out of over $10,000 begins. The cell phone number he used with me is (203) 632-9064 which is based in Beacon Falls, CT. His voice is recorded on the message. The reception during our telephone conversations was usually poor. I looked on-line today (4/29) and there is a new cell number for Michael Rizzo who now lives in Springfield, IL and has the same description...civil engineer, 45-49 self-employed. The cell number is (814) 299-5163. Beware...it's probably the same guy. I hope that this helps anyone else who this guy is trying to scam. I feel big time but you don't have to. Women, we need guard our hearts from these predators. They are NOT good people. They are professional con artists. Beware of Michael Rizzo!
- Ruth SBID #3360a3eec1
- Posted 04/29/2013
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- Nancy SBID #2f6f6cd049
- Posted 08/02/2013
- I have a very similar thing just happen to me on Christian Mingle as well. The name he is using now is Michael Prandelli from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and amazingly enough the phone # is the same as the 814 # above. I saw into his scam when he was "negotiating a contract" in New York, thankfully, before I gave him any money. Sorry for those of you that didn't. This is just absolutely wrong.
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- Nancy SBID #2f6f6cd049
- Posted 08/02/2013
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Also, his username is now HopeLivesonNow. Don't talk to him!
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- Alisa SBID #58d14e6cb1
- Posted 09/25/2017
- Nearly 4.5 years later, and he is now pulling this exact same scam under the name of Matthew Rizzo, and gave me an address in Plantation, FL. I checked tax records and there is a Matthew Rizzo there, but he told me he lived in a 4 bedroom, 2 bath house, and property is listed as a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, so I'm pretty sure there's some identity theft going on. A few weeks after we started talking via Match.com (his user name is vines1963), he started calling me his "girlfriend" (soon to be wife), saying I should quit my job, move in with him, and work with him. Early on, he started talking about an opportunity for a very lucrative contract, but he had to come up with 70% of the capital base upfront, and he was ONLY $15,000 short. I told him I didn't have any money, and he somehow miraculously found other people to borrow it from. Then, the "agency" supposedly extended the road maintenance project another 2 miles, and a week into the project, he suddenly realizes that he is going to be $25,000 short to purchase materials for it. We had been speaking on the phone several times a day and texted throughout the day/night for about 6 weeks, and from that point forward, EVERY conversation quickly went to how stressed he was over coming up with this $25,000, because if he didn't finish the entire project he couldn't get paid for any of it (nearly $1 million)! He pleaded with me to take out money on my credit cards (no, I just canceled all of them), take out a personal loan from the bank (no, my credit sucks), try to borrow money from my family and friends (no, they all have less money than I do), and then, as a desperate last attempt, went so far as to ask me when do I get paid again, so he could "borrow" just a couple thousand (no, I don't even net that much, plus have bills to pay), suggesting if he showed them that he had come up with some money, then maybe they'd front him the rest. I then ceased all communication, and he stopped calling/texting after the second day.
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- Complaint Against Michael Rizzo
- Complaints Filed: 2
- Reported Damages: $12,500.00
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