Lisa Morales
Complaint 124385 Details

I met this person on disableddatingusa.com- a dating website. This person sent a message to my mailbox on January 18, 2012 on that site. They told me that they liked my profile, and that they wanted to get to know me better. They gave me their e-mail address, and their Yahoo username so I could put it into Yahoo Messenger immediately after I installed it on my computer. So that's what I did. We started talking on that program. The person told me that they were down in Nigeria buying antiques to be shipped up here to the US for selling. I told them some things about me as well, and they seemed impressed. Honestly, I thought I was going to like this person. Then a month later, they told me that they were running out of food, their hotel lease was to expire on February 20. They said, they needed to send me a check in the mail, but that it was going to cost them forty-five US dollars to send it up to me. They wanted me to send them forty-five US dollars via a Western Union transaction so that they could pay the post office down there to get it sent up to me, so that I could get it put into my bank account, so that I could do a Western Union transaction of the check amount back to them in cash so they could pay for food, and pay the customs officer down there to have their antique goods shipped up here to the US for selling. The forty-five dollar transaction went through, but the check I received was fraudulent. Then they told me that they had been evicted from their hotel room and had to sleep on the floor outside and that they had mosquitos biting them and that they needed six hundred twenty dollars to pay for a surgery to stop the swelling in their stomach. I sent them an additional three hundred dollars. Two hundred was to buy food, and the other one hundred was to pay for a cab fair back to the airport so they could get out of there. But it didn't work out that way. I had to sever my connection with them over the web and end my communication with them because I had already overwithdrawn from my checking account from my bank account. Just last week I became throughly convinced that this person was only scamming me. They weren't looking for love from me. During that time when I wasn't talking to them or sending e-mails back and forth between us, they had gotten out of Nigeria some other way and went to the United Kingdom to visit with their late father's lawyer regarding a large sum of money that was meant for the person who was to be married and loyal to her, but she said she needed eight hundred dollars to pay the lawyer for this and I told her, "No way!" "That's" when I became thoroughly convinced that Lisa Morales was scamming me, but in addition, I received an e-mail from Interpol telling me that they had noticed that I was in contact with the scammers again and that's when I decided that I needed to permenantly end my communication and sever my connection to them. Ever since the end of March, Interpol has known about this. They have the evidence of this person scamming me and they've been investigating the matter. The investigation has been put on hold until I pay the lawyer in Nigeria five hundred US dollars- which I don't have at the moment, which is why I have come to you. I'm hoping that you'll be able to help me resolve this matter so I can get on with my life. Interpol told me that there's a law in Nigeria that requires con artists who are caught and arrested down there to turn over all of their money to their victim(s). They told me that the person who scammed me has $250,000 in their bank account down there, but I only want back what was stolen from me. One thousand one hundred thirty-one dollars. That's it. I'm not asking for a quarter million dollars.